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

" In all spiritual things all your temptations, all your darkness, all you wanderings God will overrule. It shall be well with you. There shall never be a night, but that morning shall come; there shall never be a day of trouble, but a day of prosperity shall follow; there shall never be an emptying, but there shall be a filling; there shall never be a bringing down, but that He will raise you up again. Let it be either darkness or light, sorrow or grief, night or day, life or death, time or eternity, “It shall be well with the righteous.”                                  -preacher  Scott Richardson https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Scott_Richardson

"My Father is the husbandman." -John 15:1 [KJV ] Blessed truth, and blessed assurance, to the true followers of Jesus. Yes, Almighty Father! I would pray for Thy continual teaching, to behold Thee as the husbandman of Thy vineyard, the church, in which Thou hast raised up the Plant of Renown, the Man whose name is the Branch, the true Vine, in whom, and upon whom, and through whom, all Thy redeemed, taken from the olive-tree that is wild by nature, are grafted, and bring forth fruit unto God. Yes, Almighty Father! I would desire grace to behold Thee, and while I behold, to love, to praise, to adore Thee, that from everlasting Thou hast graciously been the husbandman of Thy church. It was in Thee, and from Thee, as the contriver and appointer of all that concerned redemption, we trace the fountain and source of all that grace, mercy, peace, and favour here, with all the unknown treasures of glory hereafter, which Thou hast placed in His most blessed hands, who ...

"In Thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in Thy righteousness shall they be exalted." - Psalm 89:16  [KJV] See, my soul, what a blessed cause is again before thee to begin the month, and to carry it on through every day, and all the day, and in every part of the day, for joy in the name and righteousness of Jesus. And mark it with peculiar emphasis, that it is Jesus, as Jesus, the Christ of God, and His righteousness as the righteousness of God, in which all thy rejoicing is, and not in the finest frames, or spiritual exercises of thine own.    A daily sense of a need of Christ, and as constant a sense of acting faith upon Christ; these form the foundation of every true believer's joy, and make the savour of Christ's name like ointment poured forth; And whence is it, my soul, that all the redeemed are said to rejoice in the name of the Lord all the day, but because the Lord hath saved them and redeemed them for His name's sake? And whence is it said, that...

"Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" - Isaiah 21:11  [KJV] While this solemn inquiry may be supposed to have peculiar reference, as addressed to the servants of the Lord, whom He hath set as watchmen upon the walls of Zion, may it not be made personally to every man's bosom also, as it refers to himself? And the repeating of it twice should seem to imply the importance and earnestness with which it should be followed up. My soul, what is the night with thee? Art thou watching in it more than they that watch for the morning: yea, I say, more than they which watch for the morning? How art thou exercising this watchfulness? Is all safe respecting thine everlasting welfare? Art thou watching the approaches of the enemy? Art thou watchful in prayer; watchful for the gracious moment of the Spirit's helping thee in prayer; watchful in guiding thee in the exercise of it; watchful of the Lord's gracious answers to prayer; and, like the prophet on th...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (30JUL-01AUG21) 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 to save us-  from  our  sins and from Hell: THE CONDITIONS FOR SALVATION  The conditions of fallen man's salvation are two, namely, Perfect Atonement for sin, and Perfect Obedience to the law. Both of these conditions Christ has completely fulfilled in the stead, and for the infallible salvation of every soul that comes to His blood for cleansing, and to His righteousness for clothing. "To what end, then serves faith?" To let you into the knowledge, possession, and enjoyment of this free and finished redemption!  —preacher Augustus Toplady (1740-1778 A.D) ------------------------------------------ Please be advised that each Friday evening there'l...

"We, being many, are one body in Christ."   -Romans 12:5  [KJV] One of the most delightful of all thoughts, and which when fully enjoyed under the influence of the Holy Ghost, gives an unspeakable felicity in the heart, is that union and fellowship of Christ with His church. Ponder it, my soul, this morning. All the members of Christ's body are but one body. the apostle saith, in Christ; "and He is the Head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all." I would never, if possible, lose sight of this, because in the perfect conviction and assurance of it must be found all our security and joy. And the way by which this blessed truth, under divine teaching, will be kept alive in the soul, is this: I would behold myself, what I am by nature and practice in Adam, and connect with this view what I am by grace and faith in Christ.     Now, as Adam was the common head of all his seed in nature, equally so is Christ the c...

"Try me, O God, and search the ground of my heart. Prove me and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any wickedness in me, any root of bitterness yet undiscovered; and lead me in The Way Everlasting. Show me the true state of my soul. Bring me out from every false refuge. Strip off every deceitful covering, every covering that is not of Thy Spirit.  Forbid that the anchor of my hope should be cast, or the house of my dependence built, on any but Christ, the Rock of Ages. Forbid that I should rest short of that repentance which is Thy gift, and is connected with life eternal, and forbid, O forbid, that I should sit down without aspiring to that conformity unto Thee in righteousness and true holiness, abstracted from which repentance is false and faith is dead."  -preacher Augustus Toplady (1740-1778 A.D.)