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

"My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise ." -Psalm 57:7 [KJV] My soul! Here is a delightful subject proposed for thine evening meditation, in the fixedness of the heart. The only possible way of really "singing and giving praise to the Lord" with the heart, is when the Lord hath fixed thine heart to the service. Many rush to ordinances, as the unthinking horse rusheth to the battle: not so, my soul, be thy practice. See to it, that He who alone can give a fixedness to the heart, hath fixed thine; for then, when the view of a God in Christ is brought home by the Holy Ghost to thy warmest and most devout affections, then, and not before, will there be a going forth of those affections, awakened and led by the same Almighty Spirit, upon the glorious person of thy Lord, and faith will be in lively exercise, in a way of praise, and love, and obedience, and joy. Then thou wilt sing and give praise "with the spirit, and with the unde...

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  "For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul."   - Psalm 109:31 [KJV] How cheering, how comforting it is, to have a friend to stand by us when we are in trouble. Such a friend is Jesus. In the hour of necessity, He comes as a friend to stand by the right hand of the poor creature, whose soul is condemned by guilt and accusations. But He stands in a far higher relation than that of a friend; He stands too as a  Surety and a Deliverer . He goes, as it were, into the court; and when the prisoner stands at the bar, He comes forward and stands at his right hand as his surety and bondsman; He brings out of His own bosom the acquittance of the debt signed and sealed with His own blood, He produces it before the eyes of the court, and claims and demands the acquittal and absolution of the prisoner at whose right hand He stands. He stands there, then, that the prisoner may be freely pardoned, and completely justified from those ...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (17-19JUN22) 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 - Almighty God's unmerited favor - from our sins and from Hell: “ That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” -Romans 5:21 KJV The fact that no part of our salvation is by our works but only by the grace of God through Christ does not make godliness and obedience an option for us. Grace does not give believers the choice as to whether or not to obey the Lord. Grace that reigns through the righteousness of Christ imputed to us is the power that gives us spiritual life and faith, and the greatest motivator of obedience.  Realizing that our obedience to Christ and our struggles against the flesh do not save us, make us righteous, ...

"For we which have believed do enter into rest."   - Hebrews 4:3 [KJV] We enter into rest by ceasing from our own works, and resting on Christ's ; according to the words, "For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His." Now when you can fully rest upon the finished work of the Son of God, and believe by a living faith that your sins were laid upon His head; that He bore them in His body on the tree; that He has washed you in His precious blood, clothed you with His righteousness, and is sanctifying you by His Spirit and grace, then you can rest. There is something here firm and solid for the conscience to rest on.  Whilst the law thunders, whilst Satan accuses, whilst conscience condemns there is no rest. But you can rest where God rests. God rests in His love; in the finished work of His dear Son; in the perfection of Christ's humanity; in His fulfilment of all His covenant engagements; in the glorificati...

  "Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming: but My people know not the judgment of the L ORD ." -Jeremiah 8:7 [KJV] When the Lord would expostulate with His people, what methods He graciously adopts! There are no creatures in nature so dull, so senseless, and stupid, as God's people are, by reason of the fall. Every animal hath an instinct, prompting to self-preservation. Are they exposed to danger? How speedily do they endeavour to remove! Are they apprehensive of a storm? they flee to some covering to hide them! The birds of passage, when the first symptoms of winter appear, gather together, to depart to a warmer climate. But man, poor blind improvident man, no winter of death can admonish him; no approach of the departing day of life can prevail, to induce him to flee from the wrath to come.   My soul! look round on human life, and mark this, by way of admiring, more and...

"Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations."   -I Peter 1:6 [KJV] As everything by nature in us is contrary to the life of God, there is a needs be for manifold trials and temptations to bring us out of those things which are opposed to the grace of God, and to conform us to the image of His dear Son. Thus we need trial after trial, and temptation upon temptation, to cure us of that worldly spirit, that carnality and carelessness, that light, trifling, and empty profession, that outside form of godliness, that spirit of pride and self-righteousness, that resting short of divine teachings, heavenly blessings, and spiritual manifestations, that settling on our lees and being at ease in Zion, that being mixed up with all sorts of professors, that ignorance of the secret of the Lord which is with them that fear Him—all which marks of death we see so visibly stamped upon the profession of the day.   There is a...