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

Blest are the souls that hear and know The Gospel's joyful sound; Peace shall attend the path they go, And light their steps surround. Their joy shall bear their spirits up, Through their Redeemer's name; His righteousness exalts their hope, Nor Satan dares condemn. The Lord, our glory and defence, Strength and salvation gives; Israel, thy King forever reigns, Thy God for ever lives. Hymn : "The Lord Is My Shepherd"

Have you been called to minister?  Whether you know it or not, you have, all believers have.  We´re here to extend the claims and fame of Jesus.  We’re here to help non-believers and believers alike to see how wonderful Jesus is. As God´s servants, may we continually show each another that Christ is precious. May we be helped to know that our sins have been cast behind God's back (Isaiah 38:17). May we continually remind one another that the Lord´s sacrifice at Calvary was so powerful that, although He is all-seeing, the Father will never again catch sight of our sins. Consider this, God said that He beheld no iniquity in Jacob (Numbers 23:21). But there was iniquity in Jacob, lots of it!  Was God lying? No, that would be impossible!(Numbers 23:19). But, here´s the thing, because Jacob´s sin was put away at Calvary, the Father could say I find no iniquity in Him. And He says the same about us. Calvary! What a powerful sacrifice! Eternal glory is due t...

"I cried unto T hee; save me, and I shall keep T hy testimonies." -P SALM 119:146 [KJV] If you know anything for yourself inwardly and experimentally of the evils of your heart, the power of sin, the strength of temptation, the subtlety of your unwearied foe, and that daily conflict betwixt nature and grace, the flesh and the spirit, which is the peculiar mark of the living family of heaven, you will find and feel your need of salvation as a daily reality. Think not that the only salvation to be felt and known is salvation past —salvation accomplished by the bloodshedding and death of the Son of God. There is salvation present — an inward, experimental, and continual salvation communicated out of the fulness of Christ as a risen Mediator. Don't you want to be daily and almost hourly saved? But from what? Why, from everything in you that fights against the will and word of God. Sin is not dead in you. If you are reconciled and brought near to ...

There is a good picture of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as it is in this world to be found in the “inn” to which the Good Samaritan (a picture of Christ) took the man he found by the wayside, beaten and bruised. He “went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee” [LUKE 10:34-35 ] . That inn became a hospital for this wounded man. This is what the Church is, a hospital for sinners! It is where sinners who have been saved by Christ (sojourners, pilgrims, not of this world) find more care from Christ through those He has also saved by His infinite grace and mercy. There, with others of like precious faith, they worship and praise the One who rescued them and delivered them from...

Think upon me, my God, for good. Neh emiah 5:19. Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after Me in the wilderness. Jer emiah 2:2. I will remember My covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. Eze kiel 16:60. I will visit you, and perform My good word toward you. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jer emiah 29:10, 11.   As the heavens are higher than the earth so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isa iah 55:9. I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number. Job 5:8, 9. Many, O LORD my God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done, and Thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in or...

"To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." - R OMANS 8:6 [KJV] Just in proportion as our heart and affections are engaged on heavenly objects, shall we feel a sweet savour of heaven resting upon our spirit; and as we can only give back what we receive, every going forth of divine life from the soul below is but the fruit and effect of the incoming of that life from above. Christ is our life above [COLOSSIANS 3:4 ] ; and as He by His Spirit and grace maintains the life of faith in the soul, it manifests itself in gracious actings upon himself.   Without this spirituality of mind, religion is but a mere name, an empty mask, a delusion, and a snare. God does not take into heaven, into the fulness of His own eternal bliss, those whom He does not love, and who do not love Him. It is a prepared people for prepared mansions. And this preparedness for heaven, as an inward grace, much consists in that sweet spirituali...

"But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ." - EPHESIANS 4:15 [KJV] I wonder, if when we preach to others or witness, does the love of God come through? I wonder if when we write of the glorious doctrines of God's grace, does the love, compassion, and heart of God show forth, or harshness, vengeance, and judgment? I wonder, if in our preaching and witnessing, do those to whom we witness detect not only a belief in what we are saying, but a love for what we believe, and a love for Him whom we believe, and a love for them who do not understand what we say. It was His love that chose us! It was His love that gave us repentance! It was His love that gave us faith! I do not suggest in any way, that we compromise our principles, or our message, or our doctrine, but that our message be tempered with the love and compassion of our Saviour! Are sinners blind? Dead? Deaf? In darkness? Were we not als...