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

“ He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things ?” -ROMANS 8:32 [KJV] Look at the cross! Behold His precious Gift transfixed to it, and that by His own hand, and for your sins. Then look at your present circumstances, survey . . .your needs, your trials, your chastisements, your bereavements, your heart sickening, heartbreaking tribulations, and know that God still is love. If He had love strong enough, deep enough, to give you Jesus; to tear Him, as it were, from His bosom, and to transfix Him on yonder accursed tree for your iniquities; has He not love enough to bow His ear to your cry, and His heart to your sorrow? Will He not . . . rescue you from this difficulty, deliver you out of this trouble, shield you in this temptation, supply this need, support and comfort you in this grief? Oh yes, He will! doubt it not! The cross of Calvary is a standing pledge; standing until sin ...

“ Be Not Dismayed; For I Am Thy God .”   -ISAIAH 41:10 [KJV] Poor fearful saint, be not dismayed, Nor dread the dangers of the night; Thy God will ever be thy aid, And put the hosts of hell to flight. * Nor sin, nor Satan, can o'ercome The arm that vindicates thy cause; God, thy own God, will lead you home, In spite of all that may oppose. * In every sore and deep distress, “I am thy God” shall be thy stay; Thy God shall all thy woes redress, And drive thy guilty fears away. * This soul-supporting truth contains All blessings that our God can give; In sorrows, sicknesses, or pains, Thy God will every need relieve. Author: William Gadsby Tune: Just as I am (Wm. Bradbury)

"As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing." - II CORINTHIANS 6:10 [KJV] Though the Christian in himself is sorrowful, and has reason to be so all the day long, yet so far as he has any views by faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, any good hope through grace, or any manifestation of His Person, work, blood, and love, he may be always rejoicing. Nay, his very sorrow opens up a way for joy. There is no room in a worldly heart for spiritual joy, for the Lord gives joy in sorrow. When the heart is sunk in gloom and fear, and doubt and distress take possession of the mind, when family afflictions, or painful bereavements, or trying circumstances fill the heart with grief and dismay, that is the very time for the Lord to pour joy into the soul. As afflictions abound, so do consolations. Sorrow and joy are linked together as night and day, as sun and moon, as heaven and earth. Without sorrow there can be no joy, for joy is its counterpoise. If you had everything your...

"He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure." - II SAMUEL 23:5 [KJV]   O the blessedness of having a manifest interest in the blood of the covenant, and thus to have a testimony that God has made a covenant with His dear Son upon our behalf; that our names are written in the book of life; and that Christ is our Mediator at the right hand of the Father! What are all earthly blessings compared with this? What are health and strength and riches and all the goods of this life; what is everything that the carnal heart can desire or the covetous mind grasp; what is all compared with an interest in the everlasting covenant, and in the love and blood and righteousness of the Lord the Lamb? What is earth, with all its attractions, compared with an interest in the precious, precious blood of a dying Jesus?   You will find it so when you come to lie upon a bed of languishing and pain; when the cold drops of sweat stand upon your f...

"Who loved me, and gave H imself for me." -GALATIANS 2:20 [KJV] Many of the saints of God may not be so highly favoured as to take up into their lips Paul's language of strong, personal assurance. They may hope, and at times may rise beyond a hope, into a sweet confidence, by the shining in of the Sun of righteousness, that the Son of God has loved them, and given Himself for them. But the strength of Paul's persuasion and the full expression of his confidence so far outstrip both their assurance and their language, that many real saints of God confess they come short both in heart and tongue. Yet their coming short of this blessed certainty as an enjoyed reality in the heart, and as a declared confidence by the mouth—for conscience and tongue must move together where God works— does not affect the fact. Clouds and mists sometimes obscure the sun, but they do not blot him out of the sky. So the mists and fogs of unbelief may obscure the Sun of ri...

“ Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with W hom we have to do.” -HEBREWS 4:13 [KJV] God is omniscient. His knowledge is infinite in kind and extent. It is eternal. He knows all things past, present, and future; all things that ever have been, are, or ever shall be. In heaven, earth, and hell, nothing is hid from His all-seeing eye. God knows the hearts of all His creatures. God also knows all things which ever could have been, could now be, or could hereafter be on any conceivable supposition. His knowledge embraces all plans, all truths, all systems. God can neither learn nor forget anything. “Great is our Lord, and of great power: His understanding is infinite.” -PSALM 147:5 - Gospel report by preacher William Swan Plume r (1802 – 1880 A.D.)

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (21-23FEB20) 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 our sins and from Hell. WHO IS THE GOSPEL FOR? "The gospel is a salvation appointed for those who are ready to perish, and is not designed to put them in a way to save themselves by their own works. It speaks to us as condemned already, and calls upon us to believe in a crucified Savior, that we may receive redemption through the blood, even the forgiveness of our sins. And the Spirit of God, by the Gospel, first convinces us of unbelief, sin and misery; and then, by revealing the things of Jesus to our minds, enables us, as helpless sinners, to come to Christ, to receive Him, to behold Him, or, in other words, to believe in Him."   -preacher John Newton (1725–1807 A....