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

BELIEVE GOD! “Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me” -Acts 27:25 [KJV]  Like the apostle Paul, my peace in every storm is in what God has said! Whether it is in the storm of realizing and feeling the danger of my sins or in one of the many stormy circumstances of life, it is the same, I rest in what God has said. If I am in doubt of what God says in His word in one place, what is to keep me from not believing what He says in another? Faith is believing what God says concerning what He has done and will do AND what He says that I am! If I were Noah and had lived in his day, could I have believed that I was what God called me? Would I have been what God said he was? Was it a future thing He spoke of when he said to Noah, “for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation” (Genesis 7:1)? Did God the judge of all the earth do right when He destroyed all the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah? Yes, they were...

  "The LORD said unto my Lord." -Psalm. 110:1 [KJV]   Some have called this Psalm, David's creed. Certain it is, that there is scarce an article of a true believer's faith, but what is in it. My soul, look through it this morning, if thou hast time, and see whether it is thy creed. If not, look at this precious portion of it, and ask of the Holy Ghost to teach thee the blessed things contained in it.  "The LORD said unto my Lord:" that is, Jehovah said unto my Adonai. Observe, my soul, that here, as in many other parts of the bible, one of these words Load is in capital letters, the other in small characters. This no doubt was done by the translators, by way of telling the English reader that the two words in the original Hebrew are not the same. They had no better method of explaining the difference. But by using different sized letters, they meant to say that there is a difference, and the difference seems to be this: the word LORD, whenever ...

  "And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth ." - Matthew 28:18  [KJV] Hail, then, Thou Sovereign Lord of all! I have lately been following Thee in sweet and solemn meditation through the seasons of Thy humiliation; now let me behold Thee on Thy throne. And here am I called upon to contemplate my Lord and my God as possessing universal dominion. Ponder, my soul, the vast extent. Thy Jesus, as God, as one with the Father, possesseth in common with Him all power from everlasting. This is His, as God, essentially so; not given to Him, for by nature it is His, being "one with the Father, over all, God blessed for ever. Amen," said Paul; so let it be; so shall it be. And so say I, and so saith all the church; amen, amen.     But what thy Jesus saith here, in these blessed words, is of a power given to Him; and that is a power as the Head of His church and people. And although had He not been God, one with the Father, ...

  "...renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour." - Titus 3:5, 6  [KJV] Precious office of the Spirit! Condescend, great God, to grant it me this morning. Oh, renew my soul with all Thy sweet revivals, after a night of sleep, as Thou renewest the face of the earth. Oh send forth, I beseech Thee, Lord, all Thy graces, as suited to my necessities, and the Redeemer's glory, and let it be most abundantly shed abroad, through all the faculties of my soul, through Jesus Christ my Saviour. Pause, my soul, over the blessed prospect, and having now pleaded in Jesus's name for the mercy, act faith upon thy God in His promises.     Is not every morning a renewing of the Holy Ghost? Is it not said concerning the productions of the earth, that God "sendeth forth His Spirit, and they are created, and Thou renewest the face of the earth?" See what an evidence the earth gives in this lovely season, in the fruits, and plant...

  "As by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so, by the righteousness of One, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." - Romans 5:18  [KJV] Concerning the ruin in which thou art involved in Adam, surely, my soul, thou knowest and feelest it from day to day. No one can persuade thee out of this. Thou art as much concerned in the sin, and consequently implicated in the punishment, of the first man's transgression, as if thou hadst been, and which indeed as thy root and head thou really wert, in the garden with him when he did it. And thou feelest the same disposition to sin the same rebellion in thy very nature. So that most fully and freely dost thou subscribe to the rights of God's judgment, that condemnation cometh upon all men, because all have sinned.     Now then see, my soul, whether, through the same Almighty Teacher who convinced thee of sin, thou art convinced also of the righteousness of Jesus, and art as...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (28-30MAY21) 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: DELIVERANCE FROM ETERNAL RUIN "The voice said,  Cry . And he said, What shall I cry?  All flesh is grass, and all the  goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass."  -Isaiah 40:6-7 [KJV] Unless the Lord is pleased to teach us and reveal to us what we are by nature (Ephesians 2:1-3), we will never see our need for Christ and the gospel of His free grace (Romans 3:24). We will never understand our need of Jesus Christ and His great salvation, unless the Holy Spirit is pleased to move upon our heart (Joh...

  "Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." - Isaiah 30:21  [KJV] My soul, who is this Almighty Teacher, out of sight, but the Holy Ghost? And to what way doth He point but to Jesus, who is both the way, and the truth, and the life? Art thou ever at a stand? Listen to this voice. Art thou about to turn to the right or left? See how seasonably He is promised to come to direct thee. Condescend, Thou gracious, matchless Instructor, to guide me. I shall not fail then to know the wholesomeness of Thy teaching, when Thou hast opened mine eyes, to see the wondrous things of Thy law. I shall indeed know that Thou art my Director, because Thou hast said, "I the Lord teacheth thee to profit." And when Thy word comes not in word only, but in power, and in Thee, the Holy Ghost, surely I shall know it, in that it not only reaches my ear, but will influence my heart: not only...