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

"For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for  necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel." - I Cor inthians 9:16 [KJV] The most humbling and challenging thing I face, the great concern of my heart is that my generation experience a return to the preaching of the gospel of God's glory. We are plagued today with a gospel of works, a religion of form and ceremony, a zeal for God but not according to knowledge (Rom ans 10:2). I pray for a return to the message God was pleased to use in other days to awaken sinners to their need for mercy; that message that reveals the redemptive glory of God in Christ; that message that humbles the proud Pharisee and gives hope to the chief of sinners. If God is pleased to restore that message men will once again sense the awesome Holy presence of the Living God. Gone will be the voice of the proud sinner who inwardly debates whether he will "accept Jesus" or reject Him. Gone...

"He shall glorify M e; for H e shall receive of M ine, and shall shew it unto you." -John 16:14 [KJV] Some precious souls are at a loss to apprehend how the Holy Ghost makes application of Jesus and His benefits to His people. Hence they ask, how am I to know that the righteousness of Jesus, and the blood of Jesus, are applied to me. But be not thou, my soul, ignorant of so important a matter, on the clear apprehension of which thy daily comfort depends. Attend, my soul, to what thy Jesus saith in those precious words; and, under the blessed Spirit's teaching, the matter will appear abundantly plain. He shall glorify Me, saith Jesus. And doth not the Holy Ghost do this in every believer's view, when He gives the soul to see that all that vast extent of redemption-blessings which the Father treasured up in His dear Son for poor sinners, flow immediately from Jesus? And observe, the Holy Ghost doth not at first shew the sinner that all result from the everlasting lov...

"And they said one to another, D id not our heart burn within us, while H e talked with us by the way, and while H e opened to us the scriptures ?" -Luke 24:32 [KJV]   Ought not the disciples of Jesus to do now, as the disciples of Jesus did then? What but of Jesus should we speak of by the way? Methinks the Lord's people, and especially when coming from the Lord's house, should be distinguished from the frothy conversation of mere carnal worshippers. I would, by talking of Jesus, invite Him to mingle with us, and open to our understandings the scriptures. I would therefore sometimes ask one and another, when returning from the house or the table of the Lord, how went the matter with your soul to-day? I pray you tell me; was the King at court? Did He receive petitions? Did He answer prayers? Were you refreshed? were any healed? any comforted? any made joyful in His house of prayer? Surely we might hope, by such edifying inquiries, each would help his fellow. And he...

  "And they said one to another, did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the scriptures ?"  -Luke 24:32 [KJV]   Ought not the disciples of Jesus to do now, as the disciples of Jesus did then? What but of Jesus should we speak of by the way? Methinks the Lord's people, and especially when coming from the Lord's house, should be distinguished from the frothy conversation of mere carnal worshippers. I would, by talking of Jesus, invite him to mingle with us, and open to our understandings the scriptures. I would therefore sometimes ask one and another, when returning from the house or the table of the Lord, how went the matter with your soul to-day? I pray you tell me; was the King at court? Did he receive petitions? Did he answer prayers? Were you refreshed? were any healed? any comforted? any made joyful in his house of prayer?  Surely we might hope, by such edifying inquiries, each would help his fellow. And he ...

  "Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death. The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness." -Proverbs 11:4-6 [KJV] "Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely, shall one say, In the LORD have I righteousness and strength ." -Isaiah 45:22-24a [KJV]

" It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because H is compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is T hy faithfulness.” -Lamentations 3:22-23 [KJV] Each Christian may find in his own case, some peculiar token of God's providential kindness to him. It is in the details of each man's personal history that we find the most touching manifestations of God's providential care. None of us can refuse to acknowledge that we have been the objects of a watchfulness which has  never slumbered, and of a benevolence which has never been weary in doing us good. Were we to attempt an enumeration of all the . . .  blessings which we have received at God's hand, deliverance's which He has wrought out for us, snares from which He has preserved us, manifestations of His long-suffering patience, and tender mercy, of which we ourselves have been the objects — were we to begin with the years of infancy and helplessness, and to trace our progress thr...

"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that C HRIST JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE SINNERS ...” - I Timothy 1:15 [KJV] Hearken, my soul, to the proclamation from heaven! Is this the faithful saying of a faithful God? Surely, then, thou mayest well regard it, for it is for thy life. And if it be worthy of all acceptation, it must be eminently so of thine; for thou hast been a transgressor from the womb. But did Jesus indeed come to save sinners? Yes, so the proclamation runs. Sinners, enemies to God. Jesus, it is said, "received gifts for the rebellious, that the Lord God might dwell among them;" and with that tenderness which distinguished His character, He said Himself, that He "came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Well, then, my soul, upon this warrant of the faithful word of a faithful God, wilt thou not so fully rely as to believe unto salvation? If any inquiries arise contrary to this belief, let this be t...