Category Archives: Morning’s With Spurgeon

Friday March 05, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let us not sleep, as do others.” ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:6 ~ There are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness. Among the rest, let me strongly advise Christians to converse together concerning the ways of the Lord. Christian and Hopeful, as they journeyed towards the Celestial City, said to themselves,… (more…)

Thursday March 04, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My grace is sufficient for thee.”  ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ If none of God’s saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wanderer who has not where to lay his head, who yet can say, “Still… (more…)

Wednesday March 03, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” ~ Isaiah 48.10 ~ Comfort thyself, tried believer, with this thought: God saith, “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yea, is it not… (more…)

Tuesday, March 02, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.” ~ Genesis 49:24 ~ That strength which God gives to His Josephs is real strength; it is not a boasted valour, a fiction, a thing of which… (more…)

Monday, March 01, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.” ~ Song of Solomon 4:16 ~ Anything is better than the dead calm of indifference. Our souls may wisely desire the north wind of trouble if that alone can be sanctified… (more…)

Sunday, February 28, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My expectation is from Him.” ~ Psalm 62:5 ~ It is the believer’s privilege to use this language. If he is looking for aught from the world, it is a poor “expectation” indeed. But if he looks to God for the supply of his wants, whether in temporal or spiritual… (more…)

Saturday, February 27, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation.” ~ Psalm 91:9 ~ The  Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change. Whenever the pillar stayed its motion, the tents were pitched; but tomorrow, ere the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded,… (more…)

Friday, February 26, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Salvation is of the Lord.” ~ Jonah 2:9 ~ Salvation  is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul “dead in trespasses and sins,” and it is He also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both “Alpha and Omega.” “Salvation is of… (more…)

Thursday, February 25, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The wrath to come.” ~ Matthew 3:7 ~ It is pleasant to pass over a country after a storm has spent itself; to smell the freshness of the herbs after the rain has passed away, and to note the drops while they glisten like purest diamonds in the sunlight. That… (more…)

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.” ~ Ezekiel 34:26 ~ Here is sovereign mercy—”I will give them the shower in its season.” Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?—for who can say, “I will give them showers,” except God? There… (more…)

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will never leave thee.” ~ Hebrews 13:5 ~ No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one saint, He has said to all. When He opens a well for one, it is that all may drink. When He openeth a granary-door to give out food,… (more…)

Monday, February 22, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.” ~ Genesis 49:24. ~ That strength which God gives to His Josephs is real strength; it is not a boasted valour, a fiction, a thing of which… (more…)

Friday, February 21, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He hath said.” ~ Hebrews 13:5 ~ If we can only grasp these words by faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt will not be slain by this two-edged sword? What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before this arrow… (more…)

Saturday, February 20, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “God, that comforteth those that are cast down.”      ~ 2 Corinthians 7:6 ~ And who comforteth like Him? Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed child of God; tell him sweet promises, and whisper in his ear choice words of comfort; he is like the deaf adder, he listens not to… (more…)

Friday, February 19, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them.”   ~ Ezekiel 36:37 ~ Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to… (more…)

Thursday, February 18, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.”  ~ Job 10:2 ~ Perhaps, O tried soul, the Lord is doing this to develop thy graces. There are some of thy graces which would never be discovered if it were not for thy trials. Dost thou not know that thy faith never… (more…)

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.” ~ Genesis 25:11 ~ Hagar had once found deliverance there and Ishmael had drank from the water so graciously revealed by the God who liveth and seeth the sons of men; but this was a merely casual visit, such as worldlings pay to the… (more…)

Tuesday, February 16, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.” ~ Philippians 4:11 ~ These words show us that contentment is not a natural propensity of man. “Ill weeds grow apace.” Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. We need… (more…)

Monday, February 15, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “To Him be glory both now and forever.” ~ 2 Peter 3:18 ~ Heaven will be full of the ceaseless praises of Jesus. Eternity! thine unnumbered years shall speed their everlasting course, but forever and for ever, “to Him be glory.” Is He not a “Priest for ever after the… (more…)

Sunday, February 14, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. ~ 2 Kings 25:30 ~ Jehoiachin was not sent away from the king’s palace with a store to last him for months, but his provision was… (more…)

Saturday, February 13, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God.” ~ 1 John 3:1,2 ~ Behold, what manner of love the… (more…)

Friday, February 12, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.” ~ 2 Corinthians 1:5 ~ There is a blessed proportion. The Ruler of Providence bears a pair of scales—in this side He puts His people’s trials, and in that He puts their consolations. When… (more…)

Thursday, February 11, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.” ~ Acts 4:13 ~ A christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written, but the best life of Christ is His living biography, written out in the… (more…)

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I know how to abound.” ~ Philippians 4:12 ~ There are many who know “how to be abased” who have not learned “how to abound.” When they are set upon the top of a pinnacle their heads grow dizzy, and they are ready to fall. The Christian far oftener disgraces… (more…)

Tuesday, February 09, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And David enquired of the Lord.” ~ 2 Samuel 5:23 ~ When David made this enquiry he had just fought the Philistines, and gained a signal victory. The Philistines came up in great hosts, but, by the help of God, David had easily put them to flight. Note, however, that… (more…)

Monday, February 08, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou shalt call his name Jesus.” Matthew 1:21 ~ When a person is dear, everything connected with him becomes dear for his sake. Thus, so precious is the person of the Lord Jesus in the estimation of all true believers, that everything about Him they consider to be inestimable beyond… (more…)

Sunday, February 07, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Arise, and depart.” ~ Micah 2:10 ~ The hour is approaching when the message will come to us, as it comes to all—”Arise, and go forth from the home in which thou hast dwelt, from the city in which thou hast done thy business, from thy family, from thy friends.… (more…)

Saturday, February 06, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Praying always.” ~ Ephesians 6:18 ~ What multitudes of prayers we have put up from the first moment when we learned to pray. Our first prayer was a prayer for ourselves; we asked that God would have mercy upon us, and blot out our sin. He heard us. But when… (more…)

Friday, February 05, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.” ~ 1 John 4:14 ~ It is a sweet thought that Jesus Christ did not come forth without His Father’s permission, authority, consent, and assistance. He was sent of the Father, that He might be the Saviour of… (more…)

Thurday, February 04, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The love of the Lord.” ~ Hosea 3:1 ~ Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way whereby the Lord thy God has led thee in the wilderness, and how He hath fed and clothed thee every day—how He hath borne with thine ill manners—how He… (more…)

Wednesday, February 03, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Therefore, brethren, we are debtors.”  ~ Romans 8:12 ~ As God’s creatures, we are all debtors to Him: to obey Him with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken His commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to His justice, and we owe to Him a vast… (more…)

Tuesday, February 02, 2021 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Without the shedding of blood is no remission.” ~ Hebrews 9:22 ~ This is the voice of unalterable truth. In none of the Jewish ceremonies were sins, even typically, removed without blood-shedding. In no case, by no means can sin be pardoned without atonement. It is clear, then, that there… (more…)

Monday, February 01, 2021 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… (more…)

Sunday, January 31, 2021 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… (more…)

Saturday, January 30, 2021 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… (more…)