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

"In His favour is life." Psalm 30:5    Oh for grace to keep this always in view, for then, Thou dear Lord, I should never consider my dead frames, or dead feelings, since I well-know that Thou ever bearest favour and good-will towards Thy people. For if Thy providences frown, or seem to frown, do I not know that behind that aspect Thy countenance is the same, always gracious, always favourable, and that Thou art invariably pursuing the everlasting happiness of Thy people? Let it please Thee, my Lord, to grant me this morning such views of Thy favour, that I may henceforth trace it in every thing.       Was it not this favour that first opened a source of salvation? Was it not this favour that brought me into a participation of it? Was it not this favour that begat me to the knowledge of it—that quickened me to an enjoyment of it—that opened the communication of it, by which Thy grace became imparted to my soul? And was it not the same favour that kept alive the...

  "Living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be." - Zechariah 14:8 [KJV] My soul, was not this fulfilled in part when the gospel went forth from Jerusalem? And is it not now fulfilling, while the same blessed gospel is going forth from sea to sea, and from the river even unto the ends of the earth? Surely neither the summer's drought, nor the winter's frost, shall dry up or congeal those living waters. But, my soul, hast thou asked of Jesus, as the woman of Samaria did in the moment of Jesus's promise, for those living waters? Oh if thou knowest, my soul, this gift of God, and wilt daily, hourly, ask of Him both in summer and in winter, He will give thee these living waters. Oh contemplate their property, and then, my soul, ask and receive, that thy joy may be full. Jesus Himself is this well of living waters; and wherever He comes, like the waters in Eze...

  HOW GOD GETS US TO HEAVEN! Part 1 D.G. Miles McKee Today, let’s consider the grand truth of Justification. Luther called it – ‘ the truth by which the church stands or falls .’  If this is true, it means it is also the truth by which you and I stand or fall. What a vital doctrine!  If we think that we can be truly saved and lost, we have no understanding of Justification.  Likewise, if we think that getting to heaven depends upon whether or not we die in a state of grace then, again, we have no understanding of Justification. Here’s a good definition of Justification, ‘ God out of His mercy and grace for Christ’s sake acquits us of sin and declares us righteous.’ So, let’s consider this truth of Justification.  May we, in doing so, profit in our understanding and come to appreciate and love the Lord Jesus even more. The first thing we notice is, We are justified by God. Romans 8:33  “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect?  It is God th...

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...