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

“ Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved .” -John 13:23 [KJV] The bosom of Jesus still pillows the head of the weary, loving disciple of the Lord. There is no real rest for the soul, but in Jesus. Where should the Christ-loved, the Christ-loving disciple lean, with his sins and sorrows, with his weariness and want but upon the bosom of his Lord? It is the place of repose, of faith, and of love. There is room for you there amid the countless ones who fly to it for consolation, safety, and repose. Go and lean with your burden, your grief, and your sin where the beloved disciple reclined; and you shall realize the blessedness of the oneness, confidence, and affection which exist between Jesus and all the disciples whom He loves. -Gospel report by preacher Octavius Winslow

Now may the God of power and grace Attend the people’s humble cry! Lord, you will hear Your children pray, And bring deliverance from on high. You well remember all our sighs; Such love exceeds our deepest hurts; Your love accepts the sacrifice Of humble sighs and broken hearts. Some trust in horses trained for war, And some of chariots make their boasts; Our surest expectations are From you, the Lord of heavenly hosts. You save us, Lord, from helpless fear; Now let our hope be firm and strong, For your salvation will appear, And joy and triumph fill our song! -Author: Isaac Watts -Tune: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." - II CORINTHIANS 4:17 [KJV]   The Hebrew word "glory" literally signifies "weight;" and the Apostle seems to have some allusion to that circumstance by connecting, as he does, the two words together. There is indeed a natural connection between what is weighty and what is solid and substantial. He would thus represent future glory as something solid, lasting, and durable, and therefore utterly distinct from the light, vain trifles of time, and even the passing afflictions of the day or hour. But he seems chiefly to be alluding to the exceeding greatness of that glory which is to be revealed as compared with our present faculties of body and mind and all our present conceptions. It is as though he should say, "In our present imperfect state, with our limited faculties of mind, and our weak, frail tabernacle, we could not b...

“ T HOU ART MY KING , O God: command deliverances for Jacob. Through T hee will we push down our enemies: through T hy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.  For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But T hou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. In God we boast all the day long, and praise T hy name for ever .” -P SALM 44:4-8 [KJV]

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (13-15DEC19) Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in SO GREAT SALVATION by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace - God's unmerited favor - from their sins and from Hell: “ In all spiritual things all your temptations, all your darkness, all your wanderings, God will overrule. It shall be well with you. There shall never be a night, but that morning shall come; there shall never be a day of trouble, but a day of prosperity shall follow; there shall never be an emptying, but there shall be a filling; there shall never be a bringing down, but that He will raise you up again. Let it be either darkness or light, sorrow or grief, night or day, life or death, time or eternity, It shall be well with the righteous [ see I SAIAH 3:10 ] .” - Gospel report by preacher Scott Richardson

"For a godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation…for behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge" -II C ORINTHIANS 7:10-11 [KJV] Now Paul gives us seven evidences of true, sincere and genuine-godly repentance; that is the gift of God [ACTS 11:18 ] . 1). What carefulness ( eagerness, diligence and haste ) it wrought in you; to correct our behavior before God and to avoid future offences, diligence and carefulness; as opposed to our past negligence in the gospel and in spiritual matters [I THESSALONIANS 1:4-9 ] . 2). What clearing of yourself; not by denying our sin ( what we are before God ) and our guilt (b ecause of our transgressions against God ), but rather by confessing and owning them and seeking forgiveness for them only through Christ [I JOHN 1:7-9; H ...

"And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the L ORD , and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him." -Z ECHARIAH 3:1 [KJV]   It is the object of Satan to keep those secure who are safe in his hands; nor does God see fit to disturb their quiet. But on the other hand, where Satan perceives a work of grace going on, where he sees the eyes sometimes filled with tears, where he hears the sobs heaving from the contrite heart, where he observes the knees often bent in secret prayer, where his listening ear often hears the poor penitent confess his sins, weaknesses, and backslidings before God, (for by these observations we have reason to believe Satan gains his intelligence,) wherever he sees this secret work going on in the soul, mad with wrath and filled with malice, he vents his hellish spleen against the objects of God's love. Sometimes he tries to ensnare them into sin, sometimes to harass them with temptation, sometimes to...