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

THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL "The Gospel of God gloriously declares the Father to have eternally purposed, in Christ, to show mercy to His people in electing grace.  It gloriously declares the Lord Jesus to have procured, by His precious life and death, the redemption and salvation of all that the Father gave Him in that electing grace, and gloriously reveals the Surety and application of all Christ procured, for His people, by the Holy Spirit."                                                                             -preacher Marvin Stalnaker

"For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." - II Corinthians 8:12 [KJV]   Sweet thought this to comfort the soul under small attainments, "If there be first a willing mind." Surely, Lord, Thou hast given me this; for Thou hast made me willing in the day of Thy power. I feel as such, my soul going forth in desires after Thee, as my chief and only good; though, alas! how continually do I fall short of the enjoyment of Thee. I can truly say, "whom is there in heaven, or upon earth, that I desire in comparison of Thee?" When Thou art present, I am at once in heaven; it makes a very heaven in my soul: Thou art the God of my exceeding joy. When Thou art absent my soul pines after Thee? And truly, "I count all things but dung and dross to win Thee;" for whatever gifts Thou hast graciously bestowed upon me, in the kindness of friends, in the affections and charities of ...