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

“ O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise Him, all ye people.  For His merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth forever.   Praise ye the LORD.  O give thanks unto the LORD; for He is good: because His mercy endureth forever .”    -Psalm 117:1–118:1 [KJV]      -------O-------     CHRIST GLORIFIED       The head that once was crowned with thorns   Is crowned with glory now:   A royal diadem adorns,   The mighty Victor’s brow.     The highest place that heav’n affords,   Is His, is His by right;   The King of kings and Lord of lords,   And heaven’s eternal light.     The joy of all who dwell above,   The joy of all below;   To whom He manifests His love,   And grants His Name to know.     We suffer with our Lord below,   We re...

 Someone said, “If I knew I were one of God’s elect, I would come to Christ; but I fear I am not.”   To you I answer - Nobody ever came to Christ because he knew himself to be of the elect.   It is quite true that God has of His good pleasure elected some to everlasting life, but they never knew it until they believed on Christ.   Christ nowhere commands the elect to come to Him.     He commands all men everywhere to repent and believe the Gospel. The question for you is not, “Am I one of the elect?” but, “Am I a sinner?”   Am I in need of Christ to wash away my sins?   Am I in need of His righteousness to clothe my nakedness?   Is He my one and only hope for salvation?”   Christ came to save sinners.               -preacher Robert M. McCheyne

  LAST WORDS OF SCOTTISH PREACHER,  MR. JAMES GUTHRIE, June 1, 1661 A.D.   (From the scaffold where he was beheaded for preaching the Gospel)   "I am come hither to lay down my life this day, and I bless God, I die not as a fool; not that I have anything wherein to glory in myself: I acknowledge that I am a sinner, yea, one of the greatest and vilest that has owned a profession of religion, and one of the most unworthy that has preached the Gospel.   My corruptions have been strong and many, and have made me a sinner in all things, yea, even in following my duty; and therefore, righteousness have I none of my own, all is vile.    But I do believe, “That Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinner, whereof I am chief” ; through faith in His righteousness and blood have I obtained mercy; and through Him, and in Him alone, have I the hope of a blessed conquest and victory over sin and Satan, and hell and death, and that I shall attain...

“A meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.” -I Peter 3:4 [KJV]       The very fact that God is said to highly value this spirit is enough to show us how important it is.   Meekness is that attitude or temper of spirit that sees that God is in control, whatever He does is right, therefore His dealings with us are good, and to be accepted without complaint.   Meekness believes that God is God.   Always with meekness there will be quietness. This word means tranquil.     It is not stressed out or anxious, because it really believes the God of Glory, who is too wise to err and too kind to be cruel, is in absolute sovereign control.   It is impossible to believe He is in control and not be tranquil, and it is impossible to be tranquil and not really believe He is in control.   A meek and quiet spirit glorifies God!  -copied 

  A mind at perfect peace with God Oh! What a word is this! A sinner reconciled through blood This, this indeed is bliss! By nature and by practice far So very far from God Yet now by grace brought nigh to Him Through faith in Jesus’ blood. So near, so very near to God I cannot nearer be For in the person of His Son I am as near as He. So dear, so very dear to God More dear I cannot be The love wherewith He loves the Son Such is His love to me! Why should I ever anxious be Since such a God is mine He watches o’er me night and day And tells me Mine is thine!      -Hymn, “Am I a Soldier of the Cross?   ***** Initiated Into The Mystery     Paul said in Philippians 4:11, “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” Satisfied!   In verse 12 he says,   “I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am   instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer ne...

"My meditation of Him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD."   -Psalm 104:34 [KJV] Sweet meditation of the Lord causes gladness in the Lord, inspires us with the love of the Lord, and inclines us to ascribe the glory of all we enjoy to the Lord. It is said of Constantine the Great, that, after God had honoured him with many victories, as the effigies of other emperors were set up in a triumphant manner, with their victories engraven upon their loins, he desired that his might be set in a posture of prayer, kneeling, that he might manifest to the world, that he attributed all his victories more to his prayers than his sword. This was the result of sweet meditation. What great gain do souls reap by spiritual meditation! Strangers to this delightful exercise, know not what others gain, nor their own loss. A day spent without some meditation of the sinner’s Redeemer and Saviour, is a day lost. For Jesus gets no glory from our hearts. We get no comfort from His ...

"...and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive."   -Acts 25:19 [KJV] And well might Paul affirm it; for Jesus, after His resurrection, had spoken to Paul from heaven! Well might John, the beloved apostle, give the church his repeated evidence to it; for Jesus not only made His appearance to John, in common with the other apostles, but in the island of Patmos appeared to him alone, and proclaimed Himself under those glorious distinctions of character: "Fear not; I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore!"   -Revelation 1:17, 18 . And well might Peter testify to the same, as he did in the family of Cornelius, when he had such indisputable proofs for himself and the rest of his brethren, the apostles, who were "the chosen witnesses of His resurrection: we did eat and drink with Him (saith Peter)  after He arose from. the dead ; "   -Acts 10:41. But, my soul! mark, in the contempt with which this ...

"But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: He is their strength in the time of trouble."   -Psalm 37:39 [KJV] Times of trouble try the saint of God, and they are meant to do so; that is the very purpose why they are sent, for "the LORD trieth the righteous."  Still the promise holds good: "He is their strength in the time of trouble."  When He breaks up the fountains of the great deep of sin and iniquity, He strengthens His people that they may not be carried away by the flood. When He hides His face, He strengthens them to say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him."  When temptation besets them sore, when they are put into the furnace, the Lord is with them there, as He was with the three men whom Nebuchadnezzar cast in. The Son of God is there with them, so that not a hair of their head is singed, nor does the smell of fire pass upon them (Daniel 3:27) . In all their afflictions He is afflicted, and by sharing it with ...