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

" Can there be a time or season,  When our thanks must silent lie? Times when saints can find no reason,  To lift up their praise on high? No, there’s always blessing flowing,  Even when our tears flow too! For His mercy is ongoing,  Grace is given each day, anew. Oft, we find our tongue is ready,  To sing out our grateful song; When the pantry, filled with plenty,  Speaks of food for days to come. Then we must not trust the blessing,  For ‘tis but the Blesser’s store. Our dependence still confessing,  Let us thank Him all the more!   When the stall and store are empty,  And it seems there’ll be no more; When, with doubting, Satan tempts thee,  Loudly sounds His frightening roar, With still louder thanks and praises,  List those everlasting goods: He our sin fore’er erases,  Fills our souls with heav’nly food. Are we stunned with grief expressless,  For the Lord has taken away, One our heart held close and precious- O...

The Gospel and the Believer. Part 1 by D. G. Miles McKee   "Christian, should your eye ever be withdrawn from the cross, you will be sure to go backwards, to grow cold, and to forget that you were purged from your old sins (see II Peter 1:9) . That cross is life, health, holiness, consolation, strength, joy; let nothing come between it and you.” -preacher Horatius Bonar: ‘Follow The Lamb’ Paul knew that the knowledge of Christ crucified was the highest knowledge we could obtain.  Indeed, Christ, His person, work and offices, are the hub and center of all gospel truth.  We believers have the privilege, therefore, to ‘Look unto Jesus’ and to occupy ourselves with Him.   The message we are to share is about a Person … Jesus Christ. And yes of course we include His benefits but our message is to be centred on Him. Our message is about who the Lord Jesus is, His doing, dying, rising, ascension and session (sitting down) at the place of cosmic authority. No...

" Wait on the L ORD : be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the L ORD ." —Psalm 27:14 [KJV] "Be of good courage!" Alas, how can one be so, when all sense and feeling tend to dishearten the mind and deject the soul. Lively frames in duty, sweet enlargements of heart, heavenly transports of joy, delightful ecstasies of faith, ravishing tastes of love, all, all, like Noah's dove, have taken their flight; and I fear, says the drooping soul, never, never more to return.  Truly, like Hezekiah, "I mourn as a dove, mine eyes fail with looking upward, O L ORD I am oppressed, undertake for me." —Isaiah 38:14 . Still, saith the Comforter (the Holy Ghost) by His word, "Be of good courage." Remember thy calling: It is to live by faith, to honor thy Lord, and be obedient to His word. Thou hast the sentence of death in thyself, that thou shouldst not trust in thyself, lest thine heart depart from thy Lo...