Category Archives: Evening’s With Spurgeon

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.07.15

Saturday, November 07, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And ye shall be witnesses unto Me.”—Acts 1:8. IN order to learn how to discharge your duty as a witness for Christ, look at His example. He is always witnessing: by the well of Samaria, or in the Temple of Jerusalem: by the lake of Gennesaret, or on the mountain’s… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.06.15

Friday, November 06, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.” ~Hebrews 9:20~ THERE is a strange power about the very name of blood, and the sight of it is always affecting. A kind heart cannot bear to see a sparrow bleed, and unless familiarized by use,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.05.15

Thursday, November 05, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.”—Psalm 100:4. OUR Lord would have all His people rich in high and happy thoughts concerning His blessed person. Jesus is not content that His brethren should think meanly of Him; it is His pleasure that His espoused ones should be delighted with… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.04.15

Wednesday, November 04, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “In Thy light shall we see light.”—Psalm 36:9. NO lips can tell the love of Christ to the heart till Jesus Himself shall speak within. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power; till our Immanuel reveals Himself within, the soul sees… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.03.15

Tuesday, November 03, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.”—2 Chronicles 30:27. PRAYER is the never-failing resort of the Christian in any case, in every plight. When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-prayer. Your powder may be damp, your bow-string may… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.02.15

Monday, November 02, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation “Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.” ~ Psalms 119:53 ~ My soul, feelest thou this holy shuddering at the sins of others? for otherwise thou lackest inward holiness. David’s cheeks were wet with rivers of waters because of prevailing unholiness, Jeremiah desired eyes like fountains that… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 11.01.15

Sunday, November 01, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation “And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away: so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” ~ Matthew 24.39 ~ Universal was the doom, neither rich nor poor escaped: the learned and the illiterate, the admired and the abhorred, the religious and the profane, the old and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.31.15

Saturday, October 31, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation “Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.” Song of Solomon 8:13 My sweet Lord Jesus remembers well the garden of Gethsemane, and although he has left that garden, he now dwells in the garden of his church: there he unbosoms himself to those… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.30.15

Friday, October 30, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation   But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.” Luke 24:16 The disciples ought to have known Jesus, they had heard his voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is wonderful they did not discover him. Yet is it not so with you also?… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.29.15

Thursday, October 29, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But their eyes were holden that they should not know Him.”—Luke 24:16. THE disciples ought to have known Jesus, they had heard His voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is wonderful they did not discover Him. Yet is it not so with you… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.28.15

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “His head is as the most fine gold, His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.”—Song of Solomon 5:11. COMPARISONS all fail to set forth the Lord Jesus, but the spouse uses the best within her reach. By the head of Jesus we may understand His deity, “for the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.27.15

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “We are all as an unclean thing.”—Isaiah 64:6. THE believer is a new creature, he belongs to a holy generation and a peculiar people—the Spirit of God is in him, and in all respects he is far removed from the natural man; but for all that the Christian is a… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.26.15

Monday, October 26, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”—Ecclesiastes 1:7. EVERYTHING sublunary is on the move, time knows nothing of rest. The solid earth is a rolling ball, and the great sun himself a… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.25.15

Sunday, October 25, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “She gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.”—Ruth 2:3. HER hap was. Yes, it seemed nothing but an accident, but how divinely was it overruled! Ruth had gone… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.24.15

Saturday, October 24, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He began to wash the disciples’ feet.”—John 13:5. THE Lord Jesus loves His people so much, that every day He is still doing for them much that is analogous to washing their soiled feet. Their poorest actions He accepts; their deepest sorrow He feels; their slenderest wish He hears, and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.23.15

Friday, October 23, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.” ~ Luke 22:46 ~ WHEN is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.22.15

Thursday, October 22, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you.”—John 16:15. THERE are times when all the promises and a doctrines of the Bible are of no avail, unless a gracious hand shall apply them to us. We are thirsty, but too faint to crawl to the water-brook. When… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.21.15

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?”—Luke 24:38. WHY sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?” The Lord cares for all things, and the meanest creatures share in… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.20.15

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Keep not back.”—Isaiah 43:6. ALTHOUGH this message was sent to the south, and referred to the seed of Israel, it may profitably be a summons to ourselves. Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.19.15

Monday, October 19, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “God, my Maker, who giveth songs in the night.”—Job 35:10. ANY man can sing in the day. When the cup is full, man draws inspiration from it. When wealth rolls in abundance around him, any man can praise the God who gives a plenteous harvest or sends home a loaded… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.18.15

Sunday, October 18, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.”—1 Samuel 15:22. SAUL had been commanded to slay utterly all the Amalekites and their cattle. Instead of doing so, he preserved the king, and suffered his people to take the best of the oxen and of the sheep. When called to account for… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.17.15

Saturday, October 17, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He shall gather the lambs with His arm.”—Isaiah 40:11. OUR good Shepherd has in His flock a variety of experiences, some are strong in the Lord, and others are weak in faith, but He is impartial in His care for all His sheep, and the weakest lamb is as dear… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.16.15

Friday, October 16, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “With Thee is the fountain of life.”—Psalm 36:9. THERE are times in our spiritual experience when human counsel or sympathy, or religious ordinances, fail to comfort or help us. Why does our gracious God permit this? Perhaps it is because we have been living too much without Him, and He… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.15.15

Thursday, October 15, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck.”—Exodus 34:20. EVERY firstborn creature must be the Lord’s, but since the ass was unclean, it could not be presented in sacrifice. What then? Should it be… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.14.15

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And be not conformed to this world.”—Romans 12:2. IF a Christian can by possibility be saved while he conforms to this world, at any rate it must be so as by fire. Such a bare salvation is almost as much to be dreaded as desired. Reader, would you wish to… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.13.15

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Love is strong as death.”—Song of Solomon 8:6. WHOSE love can this be which is as mighty as the conqueror of monarchs, the destroyer of the human race? Would it not sound like satire if it were applied to my poor, weak, and scarcely living love to Jesus my Lord?… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.12.15

Monday, October 12, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost.”—John 14:26. THIS age is peculiarly the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in which Jesus cheers us, not by His personal presence, as He shall do by-and-by, but by the indwelling and constant abiding of the Holy Ghost, who is evermore the Comforter of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.11.15

Sunday, October 11, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whom He did predestinate, them He also called.”—Romans 8:30. IN the second epistle to Timothy, first chapter, and ninth verse, are these words—”Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling.” Now, here is a touchstone by which we may try our calling. It is “an holy calling,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.10.15

Saturday, October 10, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.”—Jeremiah 15:21. NOTE the glorious personality of the promise. I will, I will. The Lord Jehovah Himself interposes to deliver and redeem His people. He pledges Himself… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.09.15

Friday, October 09, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But He answered her not a word.”—Matthew 15:23. GENUINE seekers who as yet have not obtained the blessing, may take comfort from the story before us. The Saviour did not at once bestow the blessing, even though the woman had great faith in Him. He intended to give it, but… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.08.15

Thursday, October 08, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Praying in the Holy Ghost.”—Jude 20. MARK the grand characteristic of true prayer—“In the Holy Ghost.” The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven’s storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. We must shoot the Lord’s arrows back to Him. That desire which He… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.07.15

Wednesday, October 07, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Now on whom dost thou trust?”—Isaiah 36:5. READER, this is an important question. Listen to the Christian’s answer, and see if it is yours. “On whom dost thou trust?” “I trust,” says the Christian, “in a triune God. I trust the Father, believing that He has chosen me from before… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.06.15

Tuesday, October 06, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He had married an Ethiopian woman.”—Numbers 12:1. STRANGE choice of Moses, but how much more strange the choice of Him who is a prophet like unto Moses, and greater than he! Our Lord, who is fair as the lily, has entered into marriage union with one who confesses herself to… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.05.15

Monday, October 05, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.”—Mark 16:16. MR. MacDonald asked the inhabitants of the island of St. Kilda how a man must be saved. An old man replied, “We shall be saved if we repent, and forsake our sins, and turn to God.” “Yes,” said a middle-aged… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.04.15

Sunday, October 04, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”—1 John 2:1. IF any man sin, we have an advocate.” Yes, though we sin, we have Him still. John does not say, “If any man sin he has forfeited his advocate,” but “we have an… (more…)

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