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

“He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; He led him about, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.” -DEUTERONOMY 32:10 [KJV] Christian! see here an emblem of yourself. Where did God find you? He found you in “a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness.” Yes, earth with all its loveliness and beauty is a desert place, until the sinner has been found by God. There is much, it is true, to attract the eye and to gratify the sense; but fair and lovely though it be, in a moral and spiritual view it is “ a desert land .” The soul can find in it no sustenance, and no refuge in this desert. In this “ waste howling wilderness ,” he is surrounded, on every side, by dangers; and exposed to countless perils. But, oh! it is a blessed thing to know, that God seeks out, and finds the wanderer, in the desert; and, when He has found him, “ He leads him ,” not always by a direct path, to the promised land, but by a circuitous route, and in the ...

"I am the L ORD that healeth thee." -E XODUS 15:26 [KJV] How does God heal the diseases of His people? He heals them chiefly by subduing them; for in this life they are never thoroughly healed. The promise runs: "He will subdue our iniquities" [MICAH 7:19 ] . To subdue them is to restrain their power. Thus he sees one suffering under the power of unbelief. He gives him faith: this subdues his unbelief. Here is another poor languid patient, dying of exhaustion: he gives him strength. Here is a third mourning under his corruptions: he gives a drop of His blood to purge his conscience, and a taste of His love to warm his heart. He sees a fourth crying under the strong assaults of Satan: with one look Satan flies and the soul is set free. Thus with infinite wisdom blended with infinite love and power, He passes on from bed to bed of every sick patient, administering health wherever He goes. This blessed Physician has a remedy for every dis...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands ( 20-22 MAR20) 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:   A NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST "If any person is in Christ , " not in religion, in the church, or in moral reformation, but in Christ, by faith in Christ, by a new birth wrought in the soul by the Spirit of God, in Christ through electing love, redeeming grace and a living union, he is "a new creature" [GALATIANS 6:15 ] . This new creation describes a creation work, not of man but of God [ E PHESIANS 2:8-10; C OLOSSIANS 3:10 ] . It is a new nature, a new man and a new principle of grace and holiness, which was not there before and is distinct from the old nature, the old man, with which we are born in the flesh [JOHN 3:5, 6; 1:12,...

"I will walk before the L ORD in the land of the living." -P SALM 116:9 [KJV]   There is a distinction between walking before God and walking with God. To walk before God is to walk with an abiding sense of God's eye being upon us; to walk with a desire to do those things which are pleasing in H is sight; to walk in H is ordinances blameless; to walk before H is people with our garments unspotted by the world; in a word, to walk before H im in private as in public, alone and in company, before the Church and the world, by day and by night, as we should walk if we had a personal view of H is glorious majesty in heaven before our eyes.   Now if you carried about with you a deep and daily sense that God saw every thought, marked every movement, heard every word, and observed every action, this sense of H is presence would put a restraint upon your light, trifling, and foolish spirit. You would watch your thoughts, your words, yo...

“… Ch rist in you the hope of glory” -Colossians 1:27 [KJV] What is a true Christian hope? 1. A firm expectation of all promised good things as long as they give God His glory. Most especially it is the hope of salvation and happiness in heaven where we shall be completely conformed to Christ the Son of the Living God. 2. This hope is founded on the grace, blood, righteousness and intercession of Christ alone, and the earnest of the Holy Spirit, and unchangeable truth, and Almighty power of God, which always agree with the Word.   3. This hope is different than worldly hope. Its object ( Christ ) is Excellent, True, Faithful, Steadfast and Sure. The God who cannot lie will never deceive or disappoint our hopes. He does all things to prove Himself as a living hope to each of His own. Paul wrote in II TIMOTHY 1:12 - ‘I know WHOM I have believed.’ 4. This hope which is in the living Lord has a cleansing effect- I J OHN 3:3 . - Gospel report by preacher...

"Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." -I PETER 1:13 [KJV] Hope chiefly regards  "the end;" — for that is "better than the beginning," the crowning consummation of all that faith believes, hope expects, and love enjoys. But through what dark and gloomy seasons has hope often to look before this end comes, being sometimes sunk so low as almost to despair even of life! How it has in these low spots to muster all its evidences, look back to this and that Ebenezer, this and that hill Mizar, this and that deliverance, manifestation, and blessing; how it has to hang upon the word of promise, cry out for help, and that mightily, as if at its last breath, and hope against hope in the very face of unbelief, infidelity, and despair. An end must come to all our struggles, trials, exercises, afflictions, and conflicts. We shall ...

“ Trust in the L ORD , and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thyself also in the L ORD ; and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the L ORD ; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. And He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noon day. Rest in the L ORD , and wait patiently for Him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. ...The L ORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.” -Psalm 37:3-8 & 18-19 [KJV]