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Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.19.16

Friday, February 19, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He first findeth his own brother Simon.”~ John 1:41 ~ THIS case is an excellent pattern of all cases where spiritual life is vigorous. As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others. I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.19.16

Friday, February 19, 2016 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 this… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.18.16

Thursday, February 18, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Father, I have sinned.”~ Luke 15:18 ~ IT is quite certain that those whom Christ has washed in His precious blood need not make a confession of sin, as culprits or criminals, before God the Judge, for Christ has for ever taken away all their sins in a legal sense,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.18.16

Thursday, February 18, 2016 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 looks… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.17.16

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whereas the Lord was there.”~ Ezekiel 35:10 ~ EDOM’S princes saw the whole country left desolate, and counted upon its easy conquest; but there was one great difficulty in their way—quite unknown to them—“The Lord was there”; and in His presence lay the special security of the chosen land. Whatever… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.17.16

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.16.16

Monday, February 16, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thy good Spirit.” ~ Nehemiah 9:20 ~ COMMON, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and ingratitude. He deserves well at our hands, for He is good, supremely good. As God, He is good essentially. He shares in the threefold ascription of Holy, holy,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.16.16

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.15.16

Sunday, February 15, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whereby they have made Thee glad.” ~ Psalm 45:8 ~ AND who are thus privileged to make the Saviour glad? His church—His people. But is it possible? He makes us glad, but how can we make Him glad? By our love. Ah! we think it so cold, so faint; and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.15.16

Monday, February 15, 2016 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.14.16

Sunday, February 14, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “She was healed immediately.”~ Luke 8:47 ~ ONE of the most touching and teaching of the Saviour’s miracles is before us to-night. The woman was very ignorant. She imagined that virtue came out of Christ by a law of necessity, without His knowledge or direct will. Moreover, she was a… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.14.16

Sunday, February 14, 2016 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.13.16

Saturday, February 13, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There is therefore now no condemnation.” ~ Romans 8:1 ~ COME, my soul, think thou of this. Believing in Jesus, thou art actually and effectually cleared from guilt; thou art led out of thy prison. Thou art no more in fetters as a bond-slave; thou art delivered now from the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.13.16

Saturday, February 13, 2016 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.12.16

Friday, February 12, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever.” ~ John 14:16 ~ GREAT Father revealed Himself to believers of old before the coming of His Son, and was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as the God Almighty. Then Jesus came, and the ever-blessed… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.12.16

Friday, February 12, 2016 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.11.16

 Thursday, February 11, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou hast left thy first love.” ~ Revelation 2:4 ~ EVER to be remembered is that best and brightest of hours, when first we saw the Lord, lost our burden, received the roll of promise, rejoiced in full salvation, and went on our way in peace. It was spring time… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.11.16

Thursday, February 12, 2016 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.10.16

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee.” ~ Isaiah 44:22 ~ ATTENTIVELY observe THE INSTRUCTIVE SIMILITUDE: our sins are like a cloud. As clouds are of many shapes and shades, so are our… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.10.16

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 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 his… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.09.16

Tuesday, February 09, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil [or, the evil one.” ~ Luke 11:4 ~ WHAT we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.09.16

Tuesday, February 09, 2016 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 when… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.08.16

Monday, February 08, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.08.16

Monday, February 08, 2016 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.07.16

Saturday, February 07, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.07.16

Sunday, February 07, 2016 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.06.16

Saturday, February 06, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.06.16

Saturday, February 06, 2016 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.05.16

Friday, February 05, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.05.16

Friday, February 05, 201 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…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.04.16

Thursday, February 04, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.04.16

Thursday, February 04, 2016 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 hath… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.03.16

Wednesday, February 03, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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?… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.03.16

Wednesday, February 03, 2016 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 amount… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.02.16

Tuesday, February 02, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

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