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

  "Yea, all kings shall fall down before Him: all nations shall serve Him. For He shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in His sight." -Psalm 72:11-14 [KJV]

"He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack." - II Corinthians 8:15 [KJV]   My soul! here is a delightful morsel for thee to feed upon this morning. Thou art come out to gather thy daily food, as Israel did in the wilderness. Faith had no hoards. Thou wantest Jesus now as much as thou didst yesterday. Well then, look at what is here said of Israel. They went out to gather—what? Why, in the morning bread—God's gift. Such is Jesus, the bread of God, the bread of life. And as Israel would have been satisfied with nothing short of this, so neither be thou. And as Israel was never disappointed, so neither wilt thou, if thou seek it in faith, as Israel did. And observe, "they that gathered most had nothing over;" so "he that gathered least had no lack." Yea, my soul, no follower of Jesus can have too much of Jesus; nothing more than he wants—nothing to spare. So the poorest child of God, that hath the least ...

The Gospel and Faith: Part 5 by D.G. Miles McKee   As the gospel is preached, the Holy Spirit will generate faith (Romans 10:17) … and faith will cause the believer to see that God became a man. Not only did He become man, but faith also sees that He became our man.  Faith receives that this God-Man, Christ Jesus, became our representative.  Now, just to stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance the first representative man was Adam. His fall was our fall.  He represented us.  But God in His grace and mercy gave us a Second Man, the Last Adam, who would regain all that was lost in the first (see 1 Corinthians 15:45-47). Because the Second Man represented us, we can say, “When He lived, I lived, when He died I died and when He rose again I rose again.” When the gospel is proclaimed and applied, faith sees many things. Among them it grasps that we were in Christ when redemption was accomplished. By faith, the believer can now say I have lived...