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

" And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." —Romans 13:11 [KJV] It is an affecting case, but a real truth, that wise virgins are apt to slumber and sleep as well as the foolish. Through the pressures of a body of sin and death, and the opiates of worldly ease and self-indulgence, they sometimes fall into a drowsy state, and a sleepy frame of soul. Hence, they lose their former delight in religious duties and spiritual exercises. Their love to God and their brethren in Christ grows cold; their zeal for the glory of Jesus and His precious truths decline.  The enemy takes great advantages against them, and would triumph in their entire destruction. But that can never be, for the Lord prevents it. "He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps." Will the loving father suffer his dear children to sleep in their beds till devoured by raging flames? If we being ev...

" Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." —I Corinthians 16:13 [KJV] Believers in the Lord Jesus now partake of an everlasting salvation. No enemy can deprive them of the full enjoyment of it in glory; because "they are kept by the mighty power of God." But we are daily to consider, it is "through faith," —1 Peter 1:5 . Do we believe in the atonement of Jesus' blood; do we rely on the perfection of His righteousness? Why so? Because the word of the Lord is the warrant for our faith.   Hence, O soul, the exhortations from the same word to duty are equally binding on thy belief and practice. The same Lord Who has saved us from our enemies, calls us to watch against them. Jesus, Who is gone to prepare a place for us in glory, directs us how to demean ourselves in the way to it. Shall the Christian soldier neglect the command of the Captain of his salvation, when the glory of God and the peace and comfort of his own...

" Ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price." —I Corinthians 6:19, 20 [KJV] O, how dear is every believer to God the Father, to Jesus the Saviour, and to the Spirit the Comforter? Each divine Person claims propriety in them. The Father by election: the Son by redemption: the Holy Spirit by inhabitation. How should this, O soul, call forth love, excite gratitude, inflame with affection, and quicken thee to glorify thy Lord! Consider daily, thou art not thine own, but a ransomed captive of Jesus. Reflect on the price Jesus paid for thy redemption.  Thou art bought with blood: with blood divine: blood, spilt on the accursed tree, in direful agony and shameful death, was the price of thy purchase. So thy Saviour bought thee, at the hands of justice. He paid the utmost farthing of thy debt to law. He redeemed thee from the power of Satan; and snatched thee as a brand from the jaws of death and hell. And canst thou ever think thy redeeming Lord will leave the pu...

  The Gospel and the Believer- Part 4 by D.G. Miles McKee   To grow in our Christian life, we must practice looking unto Jesus.  He is the sovereign and exalted One who lived, died and rose again for us.  There is no other way to successfully live the Christian life than by looking unto Him (Hebrews 12:1-2). But how do we look unto Jesus?   That’s a great question.    The first thing that looking to Jesus means is that we must stop continually examining ourselves and our condition.  There’s room for a little of that but being absorbed with ourselves is not the road that leads to spiritual health. Dedicated believer-centered believers find it difficult to follow the instruction of Hebrews 12:1-2 for they are too busy looking at themselves. To look, therefore, unto Jesus, we must take our spiritual eyes off ourselves and place them firmly on the One who has bought and paid for us with His blood!  But the truth is, believer-centred ...

" Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: Thou hast the dew of Thy youth." —Psalm 110:3 [KJV] When sovereign grace reacheth the heart, it casts out that son of the bond-woman, natural free-will. This had long usurped the throne, and subjected the poor sinner to nothing but pride and evil. Yet all the while the sinner vainly boasted of his liberty; though he was a servile slave to the worst of drudgery. Free indeed to do evil; but to do good without power. Such is the natural will of every sinner, that it is as averse to turn to Jesus as the will of the devil is.  But because of the free-will offering of Jesus His members are made willing, by the Spirit, to come to Him as their only hope. To HIM they bring free-will offerings, with holy worship. Thus Jehovah the Father speaks to the Son of His love, and gives a glorious display of the effects of everlasting election and covenant love, under ...

"No flesh, nor sin: No death, nor sting; Hail to KING JESUS, Hail to KING JESUS, Hail to KING JESUS!"

" By the grace of God, I am what I am." —I Corinthians 15:10 [KJV] It would be one great means of preventing complaints and murmurings, if Christians' hearts were more in meditation upon what they once were, still are, and what they deserve. Such was the conduct of the once Jesus-persecuting, but afterwards Jesus-exalting Paul. The same grace that reached his heart, has continued to run through the many revolving periods down to this day, and effects the same blessed work on poor sinners now. Thou therefore, O disciple of Jesus, hast the same cause as Paul had, daily to sing of rich, free, sovereign, distinguishing grace; the eternal love, free favor, and unmerited good-will of God to thy soul in Christ Jesus.  Grace shines with resplendent lustre, in the person of Jesus. Grace operates with sovereign, irresistible power, in the hearts of His members. Hence, it triumphs over all the resisting powers, rebellious motives, carnal workings, and perverse obstina...