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

"That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD ." -Deuteronomy 28:58 [KJV] My soul! Thy morning meditation, in the opening of a new month, was directed to that soul-reviving subject, the contemplation of the name of Jesus. Oh! what rich stores of unknown, unexplored treasures of mercies are folded in that one name of thy Lord! It will serve to heighten thy study yet more, and tend to endear Jesus as increasingly precious, by pondering over what the man of God taught Israel in the solemn words here proposed to thine evening meditation.  Every thing in Jehovah is solemn. His sweetest mercies come to us with great sacredness. It is impossible to receive them but with the lowliest reverence, even when the soul is made blessed in divine favours. We rejoice indeed, but we rejoice with trembling. And the greater the mercies are, the more will the conscious sense of our undeservings humble the soul to the dust before God. The Israelites were taught by this s...

"I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you ." - Luke 11:9 [KJV] Wherever there is true prayer, there is importunity. Wherever the Lord brings trials upon the soul, He pours out upon it the spirit of grace and supplications. He thus encourages and enables the soul to be importunate with Him. The blessings and benefits of perseverance and importunity in prayer the Lord has brought prominently before us in two parables—one, of    the man in bed with his children, who would not get up and relieve his friend, but yet was overcome by his importunity; and the other, of the woman, who had a cause at issue, and went before the judge, who feared not God, neither regarded man; yet by her continual going to him, overcame him at last by her importunity (Luke 11:5-8; 18:1-7).   Thus importunity and perseverance form the very feature of true prayer. If the child of God has a burden—if he is labouring under a strong t...