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

"WHEREFORE  DOTH A LIVING MAN COMPLAIN?" - Lamentations 3:39 [KJV] I do not know who wrote this but here are twelve good reasons not to murmur or complain. 1. God commands me never to complain (Philippians 2:14). 2. God commands me to give thanks in every circumstance (1 Thessalonians 5:18). 3. God commands me to rejoice always, especially in trials (1 Thessalonians 5:16; James 1:2). 4. I always deserve much worse than what I am suffering now, in fact, I deserve hell (Lamentations 3:39; Luke 13:2-3). 5. In light of the eternal happiness and glory I will experience in heaven, this present trial is brief and insignificant, even if it were to last a lifetime (Romans 8:18; 2 Corinthians 5:19). 6. My suffering is far less than that which Christ suffered, and He did not complain (1 Peter 2:23). 7. To complain is to say God is not just (Genesis 18:25). 8. Faith and prayer exclude complaining (Psalm 34:4). 9. This difficulty is being used by God for my good, and it is ...

"The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree."   - Psalm 92:12  [KJV] It forms a beautiful illustration, which the Holy Ghost condescends to give of a true believer's state, as it stands before God, in the allusion not unfrequently made in scripture to that of the palm-tree. The direct tendency of the palm-tree is upward: it lifts its head, in defiance of all impediments, towards the clouds. Now a true believer in Jesus is always looking upward, and directing all his pursuits after Jesus. His person, blood and righteousness are the objects of his desire. And as the palm-tree is said to flourish the more when trodden upon and attempted to be crushed; so the believer most oppressed for Jesus's sake, will flourish in the graces of the Spirit more abundantly. How fruitful also is the palm-tree: and how much the people of God bring forth fruit in their old age, when, after long experience, they have found that in Jesus alone their fruit is found. How much the palm-tree...

  Good News for Believers : Part 2 by D.G. Miles McKee   Romans 5: 38-39,   “ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Notice the ‘ US.’   Nothing shall separate ‘ us.’   Who are the ‘Us he’s talking about?’ Last time we discovered that they were the foreloved, the predestinated, the called,the justified and the glorified ones. Here, therefore, is good news for believers … we can never be separated from the love of God.  There will never be a moment in history when God will cease to love us. Paul says, I am persuaded that  death  cannot separate us from Christ’s love. The long icy finger of death could grip any of us at any time …  no one is immune. But the cold clammy hand of death cannot separate us from the love...