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Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.14.15

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “As it began to dawn, came Magdalene, to see the sepulchre.”—Matthew 28:1. LET us learn from Mary Magdalene how to obtain fellowship with the Lord Jesus. Notice how she sought. She sought the Saviour very early in the morning. If thou canst wait for Christ, and be patient in the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.14.15

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.”—Exodus 20:25. GOD’S altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.13.15

Monday, July 13, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “When I cry unto Thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.”—Psalm 56:9. IT is impossible for any human speech to express the full meaning of this delightful phrase, “God is for me.” He was “for us” before the worlds were made; He… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.13.15

Monday, July 13, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry?”—Jonah 4:9. ANGER is not always or necessarily sinful, but it has such a tendency to run wild that whenever it displays itself, we should be quick to question its character, with this enquiry, “Doest thou well to be angry?” It… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.12.15

Sunday, July 12, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “His heavenly kingdom.”—2 Timothy 4:18. DONDER city of the great King is a place of active service. Ransomed spirits serve Him day and night in His temple. They never cease to fulfil the good pleasure of their King. They always “rest,” so far as ease and freedom from care is… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.12.15

Sunday, July 12, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Sanctified by God the Father.”—Jude 1 “Sanctified in Christ Jesus.”—1 Corinthians 1:2 “Through sanctification of the Spirit.”—1 Peter 1:2. MARK the union of the Three Divine Persons in all their gracious acts. How unwisely do those believers talk who make preferences in the Persons of the Trinity; who think of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.11.15

Saturday, July 11, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.”—Joel 1:3. IN this simple way, by God’s grace, a living testimony for truth is always to be kept alive in the land—the beloved of the Lord are to hand down their witness… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.11.15

Saturday, July 11, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “After that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.”—1 Peter 5:10. YOU have seen the arch of heaven as it spans the plain: glorious are its colours, and rare its hues. It is beautiful, but, alas, it passes away, and lo, it is not. The fair… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.10.15

Friday, July 10, 2015 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 in spiritual experience.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.10.15

Friday, July 10, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Fellow citizens with the saints.”—Ephesians 2:19. WHAT is meant by our being citizens in heaven? It means that we are under heaven’s government. Christ the king of heaven reigns in our hearts; our daily prayer is, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” The proclamations issued… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.09.15

Thursday, July 09, 2015 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 the seventh chapter… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.09.15

Thursday, July 09, 2015 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. But would it… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.08.15

Wednesday, July 08, 2015 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 onward like a… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.08.15

Wednesday, July 08, 2015 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 says, “My God… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.07.15

Tuesday, July 07, 2015 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 Lord passes by… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.07.15

Tuesday, July 07, 2015 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 and now… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.06.15

Monday, July 06, 2015 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 alp, but that… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.06.15

Monday, July 06, 2015 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 oasis which blooms… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.05.15

Sunday, July 05, 2015 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 of doubts and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.05.15

Sunday, July 05, 2015 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 are apt to… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.04.15

Saturday, July 04, 2015 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 faith in such… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.04.15

Saturday, July 04, 2015 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 lusts of the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.03.15

Friday, July 03, 2015 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 on earth, you… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.03.15

Friday, July 03, 2015 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 all the genial… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.02.15

Thursday, July 02, 2015 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 modes of appeal… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.02.15

Thursday,July 02, 2015 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 rise to the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.01.15

Wednesday, July 01, 2015 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 thou art prepared… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.01.15

Wednesday, July 01, 2015 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 art spared… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.30.15

Tuesday, June 30, 2015 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 the land, Jeremiah… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.30.15

Tuesday, June 30, 2015 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 not content until… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.29.15

Monday, June 29, 2015 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 growing so inwardly… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.29.15

Monday, June 29, 2015 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 are before… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.28.15

Sunday, June 28, 2015 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 sure as ever… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.28.15

Sunday, June 28, 2015 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 too great for… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.27.15

Saturday, June 27, 2015 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 any opportunity of… (more…)

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