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

"Without Me ye can do nothing." -John 15:5 [KJV] Dearest Jesus, I know this in theory, from Thy gracious teachings, as well as I know that I am by nature a sinner; but I am for ever failing in this knowledge, when I come to put it into practice. Teach me, Lord, how to preserve the constant remembrance of it upon my mind, that I may never go forth to the holy warfare to subdue a single foe but in Thy strength, and never make mention of any thing but Thy righteousness, and Thine only. Be convinced, my soul, every day, more and more, of this most precious truth, and behold it proved from all the circumstances around thee. See and remark the total inability either of God's judgments or God's mercies to induce the least alteration upon the heart of man, without His grace.     Behold the prosperous sinner bathing in a full river of blessings, himself in health, his circumstances flourishing, his children like olive-branches round his table, wealth pouring in...

"Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes." - Song of Solomon 2:15  [KJV] My soul, mark the sweetness and tenderness of this precept. Foxes no doubt resemble, in this scripture, the subtle, less open, less discovered sins and corruptions which lurk in us, like these cunning creatures, under a covering, and perhaps sometimes under a fair covering. Moreover, they may mean also false but fair teachers. "Oh Israel," said the Lord, "thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts;" crafty, designing, malignant, and filthy. And in proportion as they put on a more fair and specious appearance, the more are they to be dreaded. Satan never more artfully, nor perhaps more effectually deceives, than when he is transformed into an angel of light. Moreover, the precept is enforced by that important consideration, that vines, by which no doubt are meant believers, have tender grapes. What more tender than a weak consci...

  "I am persuaded..." -Romans 8:38 [KJV] https://www.spreaker.com/user/gospelmilesmckee/i-am-persuaded

"I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also ." - John 14:2, 3  [KJV] How shall I ever sufficiently enter into an apprehension of the love of Jesus? Much less, how shall I ever sufficiently love Thee, and adore Thee, Thou unequalled pattern of excelling love, blessed, precious Jesus? Was it not enough to have given such palpable evidences of Thy love in dying for poor sinners; but must Thou tell them also before Thy departure the cause for which Thou art gone away, and to give them an assurance, at the same time, that Thou wouldest come again, and take them home with Thee to glory? Oh help me, Lord, to love Thee, to live to Thee, to be always on the look out for Thee, and to rejoice with a joy unspeakable in the promise of Thy coming.    And, my soul, while thou art taking all the sweetness of those precious words of thy Jesus to thyself, in the prospect of ...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (16-18JUL21) 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: PARDONED SIN   It is true that I have sin in me, but it is pardoned. God has forgiven me all trespasses. I stand before Him in my Redeemer, Who undertook for me, and I am perfect in Him. The Father chose me in His Son: He looks upon the face of His beloved, and sees me in Him. In Christ He is well pleased, so He is with me! As He loves Christ, He loves me!  This is the glorious privilege which by faith I now enjoy. I deny sight and sense, and I believe the Word of God! I adhere strictly to the Word of God concerning me, believing myself to be dead indeed unto sin in Christ, and in Him absolutely freed from guilt and condemnation....

"Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not Thy law." - Psalm 119:136  [KJV] Who is there of whom this may be said? Jesus, and Jesus only. He wept indeed over His beloved Jerusalem, for He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And the love He had to His redeemed, induced a bloody sweat through all the pores of His sacred body. But of every other may it not be said, "All seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's." Did we truly love Zion, would not rivers of tears run down at the present languishing state of Zion? Did we feel the full sense of distinguishing grace, would not every heart mourn over the ruins of our common nature?     Think, my soul, what a mass of sin ascends as a cloud before the view of the Lord every day from a single heart of the desperately wicked transgressor? Think what an accumulation in a town, a province, an empire, the world! Might not rivers of waters run down at the contemplation? And worse, if...

"And I only am escaped alone to tell thee." -Job 1:19 [KJV] My soul, is there nothing in this account which the messenger to Job gave concerning himself which suits thy case and circumstances? Nay, mayest thou not in a great variety of ways, both in providence and grace, adopt similar language, in which thou art escaped alone to tell?     Pause! look back to thy boyish days. Nay, look further back, even to the birth, and to the womb; for had not the Lord carried thee from thence, surely from the womb wouldest thou have died and given up the ghost. And what was thy childhood, but years of perils and dangers, in which multitudes dropped all around thee, so that thou mightest say, while contemplating them, "and I only am escaped alone to tell thee?" And where are numbers with whom the stages of thy youth, and years at school were spent? Where are they? May it not here again be said, "And I only am escaped alone to tell thee?" Go on, and trace the wonderful...