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

"Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart." -Psalm 97:11 [KJV]   My soul! mark how blessedly the Holy Ghost speaks of the stores in Jesus laid up for His people. Light, in which is included all blessings in Christ Jesus, is sown, not reaped. This is not the harvest, but the seed-time of a believer. It is a life of faith, a life of trust, a life of dependence. Hence the apostle saith: "Let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not ; " Galatians 6:9 . Now this light is sown for the righteous; for the true believer in the righteousness of Jesus; and there shall be gladness in thee, and for truly regenerated in heart.    My soul! it were exceedingly to be desired, that thou wouldest seek grace from the Holy Ghost to have a right apprehension of the promises. It is to the want of this, very frequently, that thy comforts are broken, and that thou walkest in darkness. Thy Lord Jesus doth ind...

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." - Hebrews 11:1 [KJV]   Wherever there is faith, there is desire; and as faith embraces heavenly realities, desire embraces that of which faith testifies. Now as the soul is wrought upon by a divine power, and faith is drawn forth into blessed exercise upon the promises of which it is persuaded and which it embraces, desire is kindled for their enjoyment. Religion is not a burdensome, painful, melancholy, wearisome, and toilsome task or employment as many think. It has indeed its trials, temptations, afflictions, cutting griefs, and depressing sorrows; but it has its sweetness, its peace, its delights, and its enjoyments.    And it is the sweetness that we feel, the enjoyment that we have, and the delighting ourselves in the things of God, which hold our head up and encourage us still to persevere and travel on through the wilderness. It is not all bondage, nor distress of mind, no...

 Message by preacher Wayne Boyd (20 minutes)   https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/730262245101293?autoplay=1

     "Here is a sure resting-place for the heart. Our lives are neither the product of blind fate nor the result of capricious    , but every detail of them was ordained from all eternity and is now ordered by the living and reigning God. Not a hair of our heads can be touched without His permission. "A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps" (Proverbs 16:9) . What assurance, what strength, what comfort should this give the real Christian! "My times are in Thy hand" (Psalm 31:15) . Then let me "Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7) . -preacher Arthur W. Pink, "The Attributes of God" (The Supremacy of God)