Category Archives: ~ To God Be the Glory ~

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.08.25

“He shall save His people from their sins.”~ Matthew 1:21 ~ Many persons, if they are asked what they understand by salvation, will reply, “Being saved from hell and taken to heaven.” This is one result of salvation, but it is not one tithe of what is contained in that boon. It is true our Lord Jesus Christ does redeem… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 02.08.25

Joyful Security “I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”~ Isaiah 41:10 ~ Fear of falling is wholesome. To be venturesome is no sign of wisdom. Times come to us when we feel that we must go down unless we have a very special support. Here we have it. God’s right hand is a grand thing to… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.08.25

“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 all price. “All Thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.07.25

“And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.”~ Revelation 11:12 ~ Without considering these words in their prophetical connection, let us regard them D as the invitation of our great Forerunner to His sanctified people. In due time there shall be heard “a great voice from heaven” to every believer, saying, “Come up hither.”… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 02.07.25

Return from Backsliding “If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up.”~ Job 22:23 ~ Eliphaz, in this utterance, spoke a great truth, which is the summary of many an inspired Scripture. Reader, has sin pulled you down? Have you become like a ruin? Has the hand of the Lord gone out against you so that in estate… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.07.25

“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. Arise, and take thy last journey.” And what know we… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.06.25

“Pray one for another.”~ James 5:16 ~ As an encouragement cheerfully to offer intercessory prayer, remember that such prayer is the sweetest God ever hears, for the prayer of Christ is of this character. In all the incense which our Great High Priest now puts into the golden censer, there is not a single grain for Himself. His intercession must… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 02.06.25

Blessing in the City “If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, blessed shalt thou be in the city.”~ Deuteronomy 28:2-3 ~ The city is full of care, and he who has to go there from day to day finds it to be a place of great wear and tear. It is full of noise, and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.06.25

“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 He had blotted out our sins like a cloud, then we… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.05.25

“At that time Jesus answered.”~ Matthew 11:25 ~ This is a singular way in which to commence a verse At that time Jesus answered.” If you will look at the context you will not perceive that any person had asked Him a question, or that He was in conversation with any human being. Yet it is written, “Jesus answered and… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 02.05.25

Justice Satisfied “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.”~ Exodus 12:13 ~ My own sight of the precious blood is for my comfort; but it is the Lord’s sight of it which secures my safety. Even when I am unable to behold it, the Lord looks at it and passes over me because of it. If I… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.05.25

“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 men. We are too apt to forget that, while there are… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.04.25

“Your refuge from the avenger of blood.”~ Joshua 20:3 ~ It is said that in the land of Canaan, cities of refuge were so arranged, that any man might reach one of them within half a day at the utmost. Even so the word of our salvation is near to us; Jesus is a present Saviour, and the way to… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 02.04.25

He Will Return “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”~ John 14:18 ~ He left us, and yet we are not left orphans. He is our comfort, and He is gone; but we are not comfortless. Our comfort is that He will come to us, and this is consolation enough to sustain us through His prolonged… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.04.25

“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 hath put up with all thy murmurings, and all… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.03.25

“Tell me . . . where Thou feedest, where Thou makest Thy flock to rest at noon.”~ Song of Solomon 1:7 ~ These words express the desire of the believer after Christ, and his longing for present communion with Him. Where doest Thou feed Thy flock? In Thy house? I will go, if I may find Thee there. In private… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 02.03.25

He Freely Gives “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”~ Romans 8:32 ~ If this is not a promise in form, it is in fact. Indeed, it is more than one promise, it is a conglomerate of promises. It is a… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.03.25

“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 amount which we are not able to pay. But of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.02.25

“And these are ancient things.”~ 1 Chronicles 4:22 ~ Yet not so ancient as those precious things which are the delight of our souls. Let us for a moment recount them, telling them over as misers count their gold. The sovereign choice of the Father, by which He elected us unto eternal life, or ever the earth was, is a… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 02.02.25

Grow Up “And ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.”~ Malachi 4:2 ~ Yes, when the sun shines, the sick quit their chambers and walk abroad to breathe the fresh air. When the sun brings spring and summer, the cattle quit their stalls and seek pasture on the higher Alps. Even thus, when we have… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.02.25

“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 is no hope for me out of Christ; for there is… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.01.25

“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 Christ. Thy love to me, O Jesus, was… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 02.01.25

“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.”~ Malachi 4.2 ~ Fulfilled once in the first advent of our glorious Lord, and yet to have a fuller accomplishment in His second advent, this gracious word is also for daily use. Is it dark with the reader? Does the night deepen… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.01.25

“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 of rapture which gushes from the inmost soul… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.31.25

“Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.”~ 2 Samuel 18:23 ~ Runningis 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 my spiritual journey, am I labouring up the hill… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 01.31.25

God Always Hears “My God will hear me.”~ Micah 7:7 ~ Friends may be unfaithful, but the Lord will not turn away from the gracious soul; on the contrary, He will hear all its desires. The prophet says, “Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. A man’s enemies are the men of his own… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.31.25

“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 if they could always see their perfection in… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.30.25

“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 Mediator, the federal Head of the covenant of… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 01.30.25

A Heavenly Escort “And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest.” ~ Genesis 28:15 ~ Do we need journeying mercies? Here are choice ones God’s presence and preservation, In all places we need both of these, and in all places we shall have them if we go at the call of duty,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.30.25

“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 come, and that His “will be done on… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.29.25

“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 returned to it; and my soul has learned… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 01.29.25

Obedience Brings Blessing “Observe and hear all these words, which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the Lord thy God.”~ Deuteronomy 12:28 ~ Though salvation is not by the works of the law, yet the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.29.25

“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 a view of your own heart to dream… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.28.25

“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 born unto them. Let us copy them;… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 01.28.25

Tears Shall Cease “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”~ Revelation 21:4 ~ Yes, we shall come to this if we are believers. Sorrow shall cease, and tears shall be wiped away. This is the world of weeping, but it passes away. There shall be a new heaven and a new earth, so says the first verse… (more…)

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