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

"I am my B eloved's, and His desire is toward me." - Song of Solomon 7:10 [KJV]   Yes, dearest Jesus! I am truly Thine, by every tie which can make me Thine. I am Thine by the gift of GOD the FATHER; by Thine own betrothing me to Thyself; by the HOLY GHOST anointing me in Thee, and making me one with Thee, and in Thee, before the world. And I am thine in the recovery of the church from Adam's fall and transgression by the sacrifice of Thyself: for Thou hast bought me with Thy blood, and made me thereby the conquest of Thine HOLY SPIRIT. And now through Thy divine teaching I can and do discover, that from everlasting Thy desire was towards Thy redeemed ones, and even when dead in trespasses and sins, it was Thy desire to quicken them into life, and bring them to Thyself. And even now, notwithstanding all my backwardness to Thee, Thou restest in Thy love, and Thou art calling me by Thy grace, and seeking continual fellowship in ordinances, and by Thy word and provi...

    "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before M e, and be thou perfect ." -Genesis 17:1 [KJV]   Our old bibles, in their margin, have retained the original El Shaddai, which we now read God Almighty, and marked it also God All-sufficient, meaning that Jehovah in covenant with Jesus, as the head of His people, is all-sufficient in Himself, and all-sufficient for all their need in time and to eternity. He is God All-sufficient, or of many paps, many breasts of consolation, (as some derive the word) for His faithful ones to suck at and draw from, in an endless supply. Here then, my soul, take this sweet title of thy covenant God and Father in Christ Jesus for thy daily meditation, both at the opening, and through all the periods of the coming year. And as even at old age the Lord still opened to Abraham this precious source for his comfort, so look up in Jesus and behold it as thine...

"The year of M y redeemed is come." -Isaiah 63:4 [KJV] Yes! from everlasting the precise period of redemption was determined, and the appointed time of the vision could not tarry. Every intermediate event ministered to this one glorious area- redemption by Jesus. The church was in Egypt four hundred and thirty years, and in Babylon seventy. But we are told in the former instance, 'the self-same night' the Lord brought, them forth with their armies; and the latter did not out stay the hour of their promised deliverance. So when the fulness of time was come, the Son of God came for the redemption of His people. And observe how graciously Jesus speaks of them; He calls them His redeemed. They were so in the covenant from everlasting; and when the time arrives for calling them by His grace, He claims them as the gift of His Father, and the purchase of His blood. My soul, is this thy jubilee year? Art thou living as the redeemed of the Lord? If so, plead with thy Red...

  "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom." -Luke 12:32 [KJV]   While some are disquieted and cavil at a God who does all His pleasure, for those who are the LORD’S, it is their delight and peace. It is with this very truth that the LORD Jesus calms the fears of His disciples, reminding them that they are His sheep, according to the Father’s good pleasure, and that irrespective of the trials and tribulations of this life, that the Father also brings them through, that these are but temporary troubles compared to the eternal kingdom that He has purposed to give them, because of Christ and His finished work at Calvary. Although but a ‘little flock’ [a double diminutive in the original, designed to point out their weakness and insignificance as sinners] , yet Christ being their Redeemer and Justifier, they have no reason to fear, knowing that they are Christ’s by the Father’s eternal love and covenant of grace, and the...

    "Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well; and if not, then after that T hou shalt cut it down." -Luke 13:8, 9 [KJV] Do I not behold the Lord Jesus here represented in His glorious office of our High Priest and Intercessor? And is it thus that He so mercifully pleads for the awakened and unprofitable among His people? Pause, my soul! Was it not from the effects of His intercession, that the world itself was spared from instant destruction, when Adam first brake through the fence of God's law? Is it not now by the same rich grace that thousands are spared from year to year in Christ Jesus, before that they are called to the knowledge of Christ Jesus? Nay my soul! pause once more, over the view of this wonderful subject, and ask thyself was it not from the same almighty interposition that thou was kept from going down to the pit during the long, long period of thy unregeneracy, while thou wert wholly unconsc...

  "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom." -Luke 12:32 [KJV]   While some are disquieted and cavil at a God who does all His pleasure, for those who are the LORD’S, it is their delight and peace. It is with this very truth that the LORD Jesus calms the fears of His disciples, reminding them that they are His sheep, according to the Father’s good pleasure, and that irrespective of the trials and tribulations of this life, that the Father also brings them through, that these are but temporary troubles compared to the eternal kingdom that He has purposed to give them, because of Christ and His finished work at Calvary. Although but a ‘little flock’ (a double diminutive in the original, designed to point out their weakness and insignificance as sinners), yet Christ being their Redeemer and Justifier, they have no reason to fear, knowing that they are Christ’s by the Father’s eternal love and covenant of grace, and ther...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands(01-03JAN21) 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: "There is nothing that will make a NEEDY SINNER look to Christ alone or a BELIEVER cling to, and rest in, Christ alone more than to realize that everything God is, everything that God requires, and everything that a sinner needs or will ever need is IN JESUS CHRIST (1 Cor inthians 1:30) . We are perfect in Him (Col ossians 1:21-22; Jude 1:24 ) ! He is perfect, and our being in Him makes us perfect (John 1:16-17; Col ossians 2:9-10) . This is not speaking of what we shall be, but what we are right now in Christ before God." -preacher Henry Mahan