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

  Please pray Abba (Father) for our black brother-in-Christ named Sanrico Prinsloo and his family. He lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. The whole country has gone crazy with rioting, shootings, burning buildings, looting, etc. It's a total societal melt-down and watching the videos is heart breaking.  Please pray our Mighty God for Sanrico and the rest of God's people in Suid Afrika.

"This year thou shalt die. " -Jeremiah 28:16  [KJV] I have often thought this passage, pronounced on the lying prophet, a most suitable sermon for a birthday portion, to be sounded in the ears of the sinner: and if qualified with the possibility and probability which arise out of our dying circumstances, it might, when commissioned by the Lord, have a blessed effect. My soul, take it for the meditation of thy birth-day. It may be fulfilled this year; it must be fulfilled some year; it cannot be a very distant year; and there is a birth-day when it shall be passed upon thee in the year. And why not the present? Pause, my soul, and meditate upon it, as if this were the very year. And what though carnal men celebrate the anniversary of their birth-day, as best suited to their carnal minds, let thine be wholly spiritual. If indeed a man came into the world laughing, there might be a suitable correspondence in commemorating the annual return of such a birth with laughing. But if c...

"And they began to pray Him to depart out of their coasts." - Mark 5:17  [KJV] And was this Jesus whom they desired to depart? Yes: and what had the Redeemer done to merit this treatment? He had dispossessed the evil spirit from the mind of a poor creature, and caused the whole country to be freed from the fury of one whom no chains could bind: was this the cause? Yes. And is it possible that so divine an act could have had such an effect upon the minds of a whole body of people? What, would these Gadarenes rather have the devil ranging among them, in the person of this poor creature, than the Son of God in the kindness of our nature?     Pause, my soul: is it not the same now? Do not men still prefer the raging uncontrolled lusts of their own hearts, the dominion of Satan, and the customs, pursuits, and follies, of the world; to the grace, mercy, and sweet dominion of Jesus? Do they not indeed, if not in words, say, "Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of Thy w...

  "And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist." - Colossians 1:17  [KJV] How doth the apostle mean that Jesus is before all things? Not as God only, for then the observation would have been needless; and not as man only, for then how could all things consist by Him? What is it then, my soul? Is it not as Mediator, both God and man? And was not Christ thus set up from everlasting? Not openly revealed indeed, neither openly manifested in a body of flesh, until the fulness of time; but secretly, and in the divine counsels.     What a blessed thought for the redeemed to exercise their rapturous meditations upon! And is it not this which the apostle hath said; "He is the image of the invisible God?"   [Colossians 1:15] . The image! Yes, that representation of what is in itself invisible; that identical image concerning which Jehovah when calling Adam into existence, said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness." So then Adam was the...

  "If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water." - John 4:10  [KJV] Amidst a thousand precious things concerning Jesus, there are two views of Him which are peculiarly so, and which those words of His to the woman of Samaria bring home to the heart in the plainest and most blessed manner. The One is, who, and what, Christ is in Himself; and the other is, the Father's authority in Him, so as to give faith in Him a divine warrant to act by, when a poor sinner comes to make use of Christ. It is our ignorance in those two grand points concerning salvation, which is the sad cause of all our miseries and the little enjoyment even gracious souls, for the most part, have in Jesus. Now, my soul, do thou meditate upon both these things this morning, and from these sweet words of thy Saviour see if thou dost not prove what He so graciously saith to be true.     F...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (09-11JUL21) 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: SALVATION IS TO KNOW CHRIST “And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent.”   -The Master, as per John 17:3 [KJV]   Unbelieving people have always denied or devalued right knowledge of God in their attempts, usually, to hide under a cloak of a false profession of salvation under false gospels. Many times, they will raise up “straw men” claiming that, “Knowledge does not save us, Christ does.” Yes, Christ does save us! But, rest assured, the Bible tells us that CHRIST SAVES US BY HIS GRACE in bringing us by the revelation of the Gospel wherein His righteousness i...

"Ye are My witnesses, saith the L ORD , and My servant whom I have chosen." - Isaiah 43:10  [KJV] Doth God indeed appeal to the souls of His people for the truth of His covenant love! Oh the gracious condescension! It is sweet, it is blessed, and a testimony enough to make the heart of every child of God that possesseth it to leap for joy, when the Spirit witnesseth to our spirits that we are the children of God. But it is still carrying on that blessedness with increasing delight, when the people of God themselves become witnesses of covenant love and faithfulness; and, from numberless experiences in themselves, can, and do set to their seals that God is true.     See then, my soul, this morning, whether thou art one of thy God's witnesses, and thy Redeemer, as the servant of Jehovah, witnesseth for thee, and by His sweet influences in thee, all that thine heart can wish concerning the word of His grace, and thy fellowship and communion with Him. Run over a few leading...