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Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.09.16

Saturday, July 09, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And God divided the light from the darkness.” ~ Genesis 1:4 ~ A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he was subject to one principle only, which was darkness; now light has entered, and the two principles disagree. Mark the apostle Paul’s words in… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.09.16

Saturday, July 09, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Forget not all His benefits.” ~ Psalm 103:2 ~ IT is a delightful and profitable occupation to mark the hand of God in the lives of ancient saints, and to observe His goodness in delivering them, His mercy in pardoning them, and His faithfulness in keeping His covenant with them.… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.08.16

Friday, July 08, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me: for Thou art the God of my salvation; on Thee do I wait all the day.” ~ Psalm 25:5 ~ WHEN the believer has begun with trembling feet to walk in the way of the Lord, he asks to be still led… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.08.16

Friday, July 08, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Tell me I pray thee wherein thy great strength lieth.” ~ Judges 16:6 ~ WHERE lies the secret strength of faith? It lies in the food it feeds on; for faith studies what the promise is—an emanation of divine grace, an overflowing of the great heart of God; and faith… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.07.16

Thursday, July 07, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “When I passed by thee, I said unto thee, Live.” ~ Ezekiel 16:6 ~ SAVED one, consider gratefully this mandate (of mercy. Note that this fiat of God is majestic. In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin, expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.07.16

Thursday, July 07, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Brethren, pray for us.” ~1 Thessalonians 5:25 ~ THIS one morning in the year we reserved to refresh the reader’s memory upon the subject of prayer for ministers, and we do most earnestly implore every Christian household to grant the fervent request of the text first uttered by an apostle… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.06.16

Wednesday, July 06, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “How many are mine iniquities and sins?” ~ Job 13:23 ~ HAVE you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God’s people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that not only does a sin here and there tower up like an… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.06.16

Wednesday, July 06, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.” ~ Proverbs 1:33 ~ DIVINE love is rendered conspicuous when it I shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.05.16

Tuesday, July 05, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.” ~ Isaiah 26:4 ~ SEEING that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon Him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavour to get rid… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.05.16

Tuesday, July 05, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Called to be saints.” ~ Romans 1:7 ~ WE are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more especial manner than the other children of God. All are “saints” whom God has called by His grace, and sanctified by His Spirit; but we… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.04.16

Monday, July 04, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.” ~ Psalm 24:4 ~ OUTWARD practical holiness is a very precious mark of grace. It is to be feared that many professors have perverted the doctrine of justification by… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.04.16

Sunday, July 10, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” ~ Genesis 1:5 ~ THE evening was “darkness” and the morning was “light,” and yet the two together are called by the name that is given to the light alone! This is somewhat remarkable, but it has an exact analogy… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.04.16

Monday, July 04, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Sanctify them through Thy truth.” ~ John 17:17 ~ SANCTIFICATION begins in regeneration. The Spirit of God infuses into man that new living principle by which he becomes “a new creature” in Christ Jesus. This work, which begins in the new birth, is carried on in two ways—mortification, whereby the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.03.16

Sunday, July 03, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him.” ~ 2 Timothy 2:12 ~ WE must not imagine that we are suffering for Christ, and with Christ, if we are not in Christ. Beloved friend, are you trusting to Jesus only? If not, whatever you may have to mourn over… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.03.16

Sunday, July 03, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The illfavoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven wellfavoured and fat kine.” ~ Genesis 41:4 ~ PHARAOH’S dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness have frozen… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.02.16

Saturday, July 02, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Unto Thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.” ~ Psalm 28:1 ~ A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all other… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.02.16

Saturday,July 02, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Our heart shall rejoice in Him.” ~ Psalm 33:21 ~ BLESSED is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages. The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.01.16

Friday, July 01, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.” ~ Genesis 3:8 ~ MY soul, now that the cool of the day has come, retire awhile and hearken to the voice of thy God. He is always ready to speak with thee when… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.01.16

Friday, July 01, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “In summer and in winter shall it be.” ~ Zechariah 14:8~ THE streams of living water which flow from Jerusalem are not dried up by the parching heats of sultry midsummer any more than they were frozen by the cold winds of blustering winter. Rejoice, O my soul, that thou… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.30.16

Thursday, June 30, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Ah Lord God, behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.” ~ Jeremiah 32:17 ~ AT the very time when the Chaldeans surrounded Jerusalem, and when the sword, famine and pestilence had desolated… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.30.16

Wednesday, June 30, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them.” ~ John 17:22 ~ BEHOLD the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for He hath given us His all. Although a tithe of His possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was He… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.29.16

Wednesday, June 29, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Howbeit, in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that He might know all that was in his heart.” ~ 2 Chronicles 32:31 ~ HEZEKIAH was… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.29.16

Wednesday, June 29, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:14 ~ LET us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise,” is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. They “sleep in Jesus,” but their souls… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.28.16

Tuesday, June 28, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.” ~ Exodus 7:12 ~ THIS incident is an instructive emblem of the sure victory of the divine handiwork over all opposition. Whenever a divine principle is cast into the heart, though the devil may fashion a counterfeit, and produce swarms of opponents, as… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.28.16

Tuesday, June 28, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Looking unto Jesus.” ~ Hebrews 12:2 ~ IT is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, “Your sins are… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.27.16

Monday, June 27, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.” ~ 1 Corinthians 7:20 ~ SOME persons have the foolish notion that the only way in which they can live for God is by becoming ministers, missionaries, or Bible women. Alas! how many would be shut out from… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.27.16

Monday, June 27, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Only ye shall not go very far away.” ~ Exodus 8:28 ~ THIS is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor bondaged Israelites must needs go out of Egypt, then he bargains with them that it shall not be very far away; not too… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.26.16

Sunday, June 26, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” ~ 2 Peter 1:4 ~ VANISH for ever all thought of indulging the flesh if you would live in the power of your risen Lord. It were ill that a man who is alive in Christ should dwell in… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.26.16

Monday, June 26, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Art thou become like unto us?” ~ Isaiah 14:10 ~ WHAT must be the apostate professor’s doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear that voice, “Depart, ye cursed; thou hast rejected me, and I reject thee; thou hast played the harlot, and departed from Me:… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.25.16

Saturday, June 25, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.” ~ Genesis 8:9 ~ READER, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.25.16

Saturday, June 25, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Get thee up into the high mountain.” ~ Isaiah 40:9 ~ OUR knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of our Welsh mountains. When you are at the base you see but little: the mountain itself appears to be but one-half as high as it really is. Confined in… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.24.16

Friday, June 24, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said . . . Be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods.” ~ Daniel 3:16, 18 ~ THE narrative of the manly courage and marvellous deliverance of the three holy children, or rather champions, is well calculated to… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.24.16

Friday, June 24, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto Him, Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.” ~ Luke 11:27, 28 ~… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.23.16

Thursday, June 23, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Waiting for the adoption.” ~ Romans 8:23 ~ EVEN in this world saints are God’s children, but men cannot discover them to be so, except by certain moral characteristics. The adoption is not manifested, the children are not yet openly declared. Among the Romans a man might adopt a child,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.23.16

 Thursday, June 23, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Ephraim is a cake not turned.” ~ Hosea 7:8 ~ A cake not turned is uncooked on one side; and so Ephraim was, in many respects, untouched by divine grace: though there was some partial obedience, there was very much rebellion left. My soul, I charge thee, see whether this… (more…)

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