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

"And I only am escaped alone to tell thee." -Job 1:19 [KJV] My soul, is there nothing in this account which the messenger to Job gave concerning himself which suits thy case and circumstances? Nay, mayest thou not in a great variety of ways, both in providence and grace, adopt similar language, in which thou art escaped alone to tell?     Pause! look back to thy boyish days. Nay, look further back, even to the birth, and to the womb; for had not the Lord carried thee from thence, surely from the womb wouldest thou have died and given up the ghost. And what was thy childhood, but years of perils and dangers, in which multitudes dropped all around thee, so that thou mightest say, while contemplating them, "and I only am escaped alone to tell thee?" And where are numbers with whom the stages of thy youth, and years at school were spent? Where are they? May it not here again be said, "And I only am escaped alone to tell thee?" Go on, and trace the wonderful

  GOOD NEWS FOR BELIEVERS (Part 1) Romans 8: 29-39 (Read) God loves the believer – not the religionist – Did you know there’s a big difference between a religionist and a true believer?  Religionists trust that they are members of what they think is the true church and assume that if they follow their church teaching to the best of their ability, they will get to heaven. The true believer, on the other hand, trusts and rests on the Lord Jesus Christ alone. God loves the believer, and nothing can stop Him doing so. Do you know why I say that? It’s because of the scriptures we’ve just read … Romans 8:29-39. In Romans 8:29 we read about a people God foreknew… Quite literally they were a people He foreloved.  That’s us … the believers. We were loved before time. Then again in verse 29 we read that these believers were predestined.  Predestination also took place before time.  Spurgeon quipped, “I’m so glad that God chose me before He saw me because if He’d waited ‘till He saw me He might