Category Archives: Devotional

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.01.15

Sunday, February 01, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thy love to me was wonderful.”—2 Samuel 1:26. COME, dear readers, let each one of us speak for himself of the wonderful love, not of Jonathan, but of Jesus. We will not relate what we have been told, but the things which we have tasted and handled-of the love of… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.01.15

Sunday, February 01, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They shall sing in the ways of the Lord.”—Psalm 138:5. THE time when Christians begin to sing in the ways of the Lord is when they first lose their burden at the foot of the Cross. Not even the songs of the angels seem so sweet as the first song… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.31.15

Saturday, January 31, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.”—2 Samuel 18:23. RUNNING is not everything, there is much in the way which we select: a swift foot over hill and down dale will not keep pace with a slower traveller upon level ground. How is it with… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.31.15

Saturday, January 31, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord our Righteousness.”—Jeremiah 23:6. IT will always give a Christian the greatest calm, quiet, ease, and peace, to think of the perfect righteousness of Christ. How often are the saints of God downcast and sad! I do not think they ought to be. I do not think they would… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.30.15

Friday, January 30, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance.”—Ephesians 1:11. WHEN Jesus gave Himself for us, He gave us all the rights and privileges which went with Himself; so that now, although as eternal God, He has essential rights to which no creature may venture to pretend, yet as Jesus, the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.30.15

Friday, January 30, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “When thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, then thou shalt bestir thyself.”—2 Samuel 5:24. THE members of Christ’s Church should be very prayerful, always seeking the unction of the Holy One to rest upon their hearts, that the kingdom of Christ may… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.29.15

Thursday, January 29, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The dove came in to him in the evening.”—Genesis 8:11. BLESSED be the Lord for another day of mercy, even though I am now weary with its toils. Unto the preserver of men lift I my song of gratitude. The dove found no rest out of the ark, and therefore… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.29.15

Thursday, January 29, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The things which are not seen.”—2 Corinthians 4:18. IN our Christian pilgrimage it is well, for the most part, to be looking forward. Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal. Whether it be for hope, for joy, for consolation, or for the inspiring of our love, the future… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.28.15

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.”—Luke 2:20. WHAT was the subject of their praise? They praised God for what they had heard—for the good tidings of great joy that a Saviour was… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.28.15

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Perfect in Christ Jesus.”—Colossians 1:28. DO you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you? Does not every day teach you that? Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps “imperfection”; every harsh word which proceeds from your lip, mutters “imperfection.” You have too frequently had… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.27.15

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.”—Luke 2:19. THERE was an exercise, on the part of this blessed woman, of three powers of her being: her memory—she kept all these things; her affections—she kept them in her heart; her intellect—she pondered them; so that memory,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.27.15

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And of his fulness have all we received.”—John 1:16. THESE words tell us that there is a fulness in Christ. There is a fulness of essential Deity, for “in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead.” There is a fulness of perfect manhood, for in Him, bodily, that Godhead… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.26.15

Monday, January 26, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “All they that heard it wondered at those things.”—Luke 2:18. WE must not cease to wonder at the great marvels of our God. It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God’s glory,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.26.15

Monday, January 26, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Your heavenly Father.”—Matthew 6:26. GOD’S people are doubly His children, they are His offspring by creation, and they are His sons by adoption in Christ. Hence they are privileged to call Him, “Our Father which art in heaven.” Father! Oh, what precious word is that. Here isauthority: “If I be… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.25.15

Sunday, January 25, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”—Romans 3:31. WHEN the believer is adopted into the Lord’s family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once; but then he is under a new rule, and a new covenant. Believer,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.25.15

Sunday, January 25, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us.”—Isaiah 63:7. AND canst thou not do this? Are there no mercies which thou hast experienced? What though thou art gloomy now, canst thou forget that blessed… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.24.15

Saturday, January 24, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Martha was cumbered about much serving.”—Luke 10:40. HER fault was not that she served: the condition of a servant well becomes every Christian. “I serve,” should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven. Nor was it her fault that she had “much serving.” We… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.24.15

Saturday, January 24, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler.”—Psalm 91:3. GOD delivers His people from the snare of the fowler in two senses. From, and out of. First, He delivers them from the snare—does not let them enter it; and secondly, if they should be caught therein, He… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.23.15

Friday, January 23, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have exalted one chosen out of the people.”—Psalm 89:19. WHY was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart, for heart-thoughts are best. Was it not that He might be able to be our brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood? Oh, what relationship there is between… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.23.15

Saturday, January 23, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “We will remember Thy love more than wine.”—Song of Solomon 1:4. JESUS will not let His people forget His love. If all the love they have enjoyed should be forgotten, He will visit them with fresh love. “Do you forget my cross?” says He, “I will cause you to remember… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.22.15

Thursday, January 22, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Doth Job fear God for nought?”—Job 1:9. THIS was the wicked question of Satan concerning that upright man of old, but there are many in the present day concerning whom it might be asked with justice, for they love God after a fashion because He prospers them; but if things… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.22.15

Thursday, January 22, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?”—Ezekiel 15:2. THESE words are for the humbling of God’s people; they are called God’s vine, but what are they by nature more than others? They, by… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.21.15

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of Thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst?”—Judges 15:18. SAMSON was thirsty and ready to die. The difficulty was totally different from any which the hero had met… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.21.15

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And so all Israel shall be saved.”—Romans 11:26. THEN Moses sang at the Red Sea, it was his joy to know that all Israel were safe. Not a drop of spray fell from that solid wall until the last of God’s Israel had safely planted his foot on the other… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.20.15

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken Thou me in Thy way.”—Psalm 119:37. THERE are divers kinds of vanity. The cap and bells of the fool, the mirth of the world, the dance, the lyre, and the cup of the dissolute, all these men know to be vanities;… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.20.15

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Abel was a keeper of sheep.”—Genesis 4:2. AS a shepherd Abel sanctified his work to the glory of God, and offered a sacrifice of blood upon his altar, and the Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering. This early type of our Lord is exceedingly clear and distinct. Like… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.19.15

Monday, January 19, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.”—Luke 24:45. HE whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive opening the understanding. In the first work He has many fellow-labourers, but in the second He stands alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the mind,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.19.15

Monday, January 19, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I sought him, but I found him not.”—Song of Solomon 3:1.         TELL me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most likely place to find Him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Sunday, January 18, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.”—Luke 24:27. THE two disciples on the road to Emmaus had a most profitable journey. Their companion and teacher was the best of tutors; the interpreter one of a thousand, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Sunday, January 18, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.”—Hebrews 4:9. HOW different will be the state of the believer in heaven from what it is here! Here he is born to toil and suffer weariness, but in the land of the immortal, fatigue is never known. Anxious to serve… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Saturday, January 17, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And it came to pass in an evening-tide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house.”—2 Samuel 11:2. At that hour David saw Bathsheba. We are never out of the reach of temptation. Both at home and abroad we are liable to… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Saturday, January 17, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion.”—Revelation 14:1. The apostle John was privileged to look within the gates of heaven, and in describing what he saw, he begins by saying, “I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!” This teaches us that the chief object of contemplation… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Friday, January 16, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself.”—Daniel 9:26. LESSED be His name, there was no cause of death in Him. Neither original nor actual sin had defiled Him, and therefore death had no claim upon Him. No man could have taken His life from Him justly, for… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Friday, January 16, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will help thee, saith the Lord.”—Isaiah 41:14. HIS morning let us hear the Lord Jesus speak to each one of us: “I will help thee.” “It is but a small thing for Me, thy God, to help thee. Consider what I have done already. What! not help thee? Why,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Thursday, January 15, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But I give myself unto prayer.”—Psalm 109:4. YING tongues were busy against the reputation of David, but he did not defend himself; he moved the case into a higher court, and pleaded before the great King Himself. Prayer is the safest method of replying to words of hatred. The Psalmist… (more…)

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