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

" And He said unto them, Why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in your hearts?" -Luke 24:38 [KJV] Help, O help us, Thou dear Lord, Who spake these words to Thy affrighted disciples, to gather some sweet consolation from them to our hearts this night. We know Thou prayest for us, when Thou prayest for all who should believe on Thee. (John 17:20.) O speak in life and power these words to our troubled hearts, and for the rising thoughts of distress. Thine is the power: Thine shall be the glory.  (1st.) We here see, though their dear Lord was present, yet his beloved disciples were troubled. Yea, and though he had but that moment pronounced peace unto you, yet fears again rose in their hearts. They were as we are, flesh, as well as spirit: men of like passions with us. The frights, fears and troubles which nature is subject to, discompose the spiritual frames of disciples.  But, (2d.) They do not alter our state, nor separate us from the love of Christ. Th...

" Thus saith thy L ORD , the L ORD , and thy GOD Who pleadeth the cause of His people" -Isaiah 51:22 [KJV] Thou poor soul, who art almost at thy wits’ end, drunk with trouble, and intoxicated with affliction, over thee do men insult, and Satan triumph? Are they saying to thee, “Bow down, thou poor, insignificant wretch! that we may go over thee.” You a Christian! you are not what you profess. In the lowliness of thy mind, and in the meekness of thy heart, dost thou take all this? And, as it were, hast thou laid thy body on the ground, and suffered thyself to be walked over? All this cannot satisfy the fury of thine enemies. Wherein art thou to take comfort under all this? Verily, from, thus saith thy Lord. Thy Lord: mind that.  However men treat thee, they cannot take thy Lord, nor His love from thee: nor should they at any time disturb thy peace, or destroy thy comfort in Him. For the Lord Is thy God. Thy is again repeated. Why? that thou shouldest take special ...

"O that I knew where I might find Him! that I might come even to His seat! I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments." -Job 23:3, 4 [KJV] Was not Job in the same spot where we often are? If this aged patriarch had not known what it was to be shut up in his mind, harassed and distressed, and well-nigh overwhelmed with the attacks of the wicked one, he would not have said, "O that I knew where I might find Him! that I might come even to His seat! I would order my cause before Him, and fill my mouth with arguments." Has that ever been, is it now, the genuine feeling, the real experience of your soul?  Do look into your heart, you that fear God. Do look for a moment, if you have never looked before, at the work of grace (and where are you, if you have never looked at it?) and consider if you know any of these matters. Did you ever, in a feeling of darkness, gloom, bondage, and distress of soul, cry (I do not say the words, it i...

"Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, Thou shalt purge them away." -Psalm 65:3 [KJV] My soul, ponder over this important verse. I t is but short, but it is full of precious things. Blessed the man that can, from his heart, make use of what is here said as his own experience! He hath learned much of Christ, that can do so. In a time when a sense of sin abounds, when comforts run low, and the rebellion of the remains of indwelling corruptions riseth high; when the enemy cometh in like a flood, and no answers return from the sanctuary; yea, when the very spirit of prayer fails, and the heaven that is over the head, is as brass, and the earth that is under the feet, is as iron; then to rest simply upon Christ, and to say, "Iniquities prevail against me!" I feel the dreadful consequences of a fallen state; but all those transgressions Jesus will purge them away; though the Canaanites are yet in the land, my almighty Joshua will, by l...

Justification of God’s Elect The elect of God all fell in Adam. They must be restored to a right standing before God. So, first in the order of justification is Christ’s death for them. In this way He restored all of the elect of God to a right standing before God by one act at the cross (Romans 3.23-24; 8.33; Titus.3.7) Then is justification by faith.   This is the time when faith corrects the state of the believer so that he begins to walk right before God (Romans 3.28; 5.1; James 2.21-25) So, there are two parts to justification.   First it restores the standing of the elect, and then the state; the position, then the condition.   First He sets our feet upon the Rock, and then He establishes our goings.   Psalm 40:2   "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock , and established my goings ."

Who is He? by D.G. Miles McKee There’s a grand old hymn which, in reference to the Lord Jesus, asks the question “Who is He?” Let´s ask and answer a little about that question. Who is He?  ... He’s the One  at whose birth the sky was filled with singing angels (Luke 2:13). Who is He ? He’s the One at whose infant feet wise men bowed in adoration and worship (Matthew 2:11). Who is He?   He’s the One who, when seen, caused John the Baptist to proclaim, “Behold the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). Who is He?  He’s the One  at whose baptism the heavens were opened and on whom the Spirit of God descended in the form of a dove (Matthew 3: 16). Who is He?   He’s the One at whose word the storm became still, and there was a great calm (Mark 4:39).   Who is He?   He’s the One that healed the sick with a word. He said to the man with a withered hand, “Stretch forth your hand,” and it was completely restored ...

" Trust in providence, and keep your powder dry." -maxim from the Plymouth Brethren