"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

     “ Commit thy way unto the L ORD ; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.” -Psalm 37:5 [KJV] Some of you are having great trouble and are walking a rough way. It may seem to you right now that these sorrows are more than you can bear. Indeed, they ARE more than you can bear; but you do not have to bear them alone. David said, “Commit thy way unto the L ORD ” , and Peter wrote, “Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you” (1 Peter 5:7) . You have committed your soul to Him; then you can surely trust Him with your home, children, and business. These things are far inferior to your immortal soul. He has promised us troubles in this world, but not without HIS SUFFICIENT GRACE to carry us through them. -preacher Henry Mahan http://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=mahan

"It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn T hy statutes." -Psalm 119:71 [KJV] We may have everything naturally that the carnal heart desires, and only be hardened thereby into worldliness and ungodliness. But to be brought down in body and soul, to be weaned and separated from an ungodly world by affliction sanctified and made spiritually profitable, to be brought to feel our need of Christ, and that without an interest in His precious blood our soul must be for ever lost—how much better it is really and truly, to be laid on a bed of affliction, with a hope in God's mercy, than to be left to our own carnality and thoughtlessness.   Affliction of any kind is very hard to bear, and especially so when we begin to murmur and fret under the weight of the cross; but when the Lord afflicts it is in good earnest; He means to make us feel. Strong measures are required to bring us down; and affliction would not be affliction, unless it were full of grie...