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Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.10.05

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “We live unto the Lord.”—Romans 14:8. IF God had willed it, each of us might have entered heaven at the moment of conversion. It was not absolutely necessary for our preparation for immortality that we should tarry here. It is possible for a man to be taken to heaven, and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.09.15

Tuesday, June 09, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Search the Scriptures.”—John 5:39. THE Greek word here rendered search signifies a strict, close, diligent, curious search, such as men make when they are seeking gold, or hunters when they are in earnest after game. We must not rest content with having given a superficial reading to a chapter or… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.09.15

Tuesday, June 09, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.”—Psalm 126:3. SOME Christians are sadly prone to look on the dark side of everything, and to dwell more upon what they have gone through than upon what God has done for them. Ask for their impression of the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.08.15

Monday, June 08, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou shalt see now whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.”—Numbers 11:23. GOD had made a positive promise to Moses that for the space of a whole month He would feed the vast host in the wilderness with flesh. Moses, being overtaken by a fit of… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.08.15

Monday, June 08, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There fell down many slain, because the war was of God.”—1 Chronicles 5:22. WARRIOR, fighting under the banner of the Lord Jesus, observe this verse with holy joy, for as it was in the days of old so is it now, if the war be of God the victory is… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.07.15

Sunday, June 07, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Be zealous.”—Revelation 3:19. IF you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that “the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord”; if you would place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and His throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal. For,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.07.15

Sunday, June 07, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Ye that love the Lord hate evil.”—Psalm 97:10. THOU hast good reason to “hate evil,” for only consider what harm it has already wrought thee. Oh, what a world of mischief sin has brought into thy heart! Sin blinded thee so that thou couldst not see the beauty of the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.06.15

Saturday, June 06, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Are they Israelites? so am I.”—2 Corinthians 11:22. WE have here A PERSONAL CLAIM, and one that needs proof. The apostle knew that His claim was indisputable, but there are many persons who have no right to the title who yet claim to belong to the Israel of God. If… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.06.15

  Saturday, June 06, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, I am vile.”—Job 40:4. ONE cheering word, poor lost sinner, for thee! You think you must not come to God because YOU are vile. Now, there is not a saint living on earth but has been made to feel that he is vile. If Job, and Isaiah, and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.05.15

Friday, June 05, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He that loveth not knoweth not God.”—1 John 4:8. THE distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First, faith sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the apostle,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.05.15

  Friday, June 05, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord shut him in.”—Genesis 7:16. NOAH was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which lieth in the wicked one. We are not of the world even as our Lord Jesus was not… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.04.15

04. Thursday, June 04, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Received up into glory.”—1 Timothy 3:16. WE have seen our well-beloved Lord in the days of His flesh, humiliated and sore vexed; for He was “despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” He whose brightness is as the morning, wore the sackcloth of… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.04.15

  Thursday, June 04, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The kindness and love of God our Saviour.”—Titus 3:4. HOW sweet it is to behold the Saviour communing with His own beloved people! There can be nothing more delightful than, by the Divine Spirit, to be led into this fertile field of delight. Let the mind for an instant… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.03.15

Wednesday, June 03, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He humbled Himself.”—Philippians 2:8. JESUS is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of Him. See the Master taking a towel and washing His disciples’ feet! Follower of Christ, wilt thou not humble thyself? See Him as the Servant of servants, and surely thou canst… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.03.15

  Wednesday, June 03, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “These were potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.” —1 Chronicles 4:23. POTTERS were not the very highest grade of workers, but “the king” needed potters, and therefore they were in royal service, although the material upon which… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.02.15

Tuesday, June 02, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Good Master.”—Matthew 19:16. IF the young man in the gospel used this title in speaking to our Lord, how much more fitly may I thus address Him! He is indeed my Master in both senses, a ruling Master and a teaching Master. I delight to run upon His errands, and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.02.15

  Tuesday, June 02, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.”. -GALATIANS 5:17 In every believer’s heart there is a constant struggle between the old nature and the new. The old nature is very active, and loses no opportunity of plying all the weapons of its deadly… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.01.15

Monday, June 01, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He will make her wilderness like Eden.”—Isaiah 51:3. METHINKS, I see in vision a howling wilderness, a great and terrible desert, like to the Sahara. I perceive nothing in it to relieve the eye, all around I am wearied with a vision of hot and arid sand, strewn with ten… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.01.15

  Monday, June 01, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The evening and the morning were the first day.”—Genesis 1:5. WAS it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of time in the first day? Then little wonder is it if I have also changes in my circumstances from the sunshine of prosperity to… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.31.15

Sunday, May 31, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who healeth all thy diseases.”—Psalm 103:3. HUMBLING as is the statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are all more or less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort to know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us! Let… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.31.15

  Sunday, May 31, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron.”—2 Samuel 15:23. DAVID passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company from his traitor son. The man after God’s own heart was not exempt from trouble, nay, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord’s… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.30.15

Saturday, May 30, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “That henceforth we should not serve sin.”—Romans 6:6. CHRISTIAN, what hast thou to do with sin? Hath it not cost thee enough already? Burnt child, wilt thou play with the fire? What! when thou hast already been between the jaws of the lion, wilt thou step a second time into… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.30.15

  Saturday, May 30, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines.” Song of Solomon 2:15 Alittle thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.29.15

Friday, May 29, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho.”—Joshua 6:26. SINCE he was cursed who rebuilt Jericho, I much more the man who labours to restore Popery among us. In our fathers’ days the gigantic walls of Popery fell by the power of their… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.29.15

  Friday, May 29, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou hatest wickedness.”—Psalm 45:7. BE ye angry, and sin not.” There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed Him in… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.28.15

Thursday, May 28, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.”—Lamentations 3:21. MEMORY is frequently the bondslave of despondency. Despairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past, and dilate upon every gloomy feature in the present; thus memory, clothed in sackcloth, presents to the mind a cup of… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.28.15

Thursday, May 28, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whom He justified, them He also glorified.”—Romans 8:30. HERE is a precious truth for thee, believer. Thou mayest be poor, or in suffering, or unknown, but for thine encouragement take a review of thy “calling” and the consequences that flow from it, and especially that blessed result here spoken of.… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.27.15

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?”—2 Samuel 9:8. IF Mephibosheth was thus humbled by David’s kindness, what shall we be in the presence of our gracious Lord? The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.27.15

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet.”—2 Samuel 9:13. MEPHIBOSHETH was no great ornament to a royal table, yet he had a continual place at David’s board, because the king could see in his face the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.26.15

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Continue in the faith.”—Acts 14:22. PERSEVERANCE is the badge of true saints. The Christian life is not a beginning only in the ways of God, but also a continuance in the same as long as life lasts. It is with a Christian as it was with the great Napoleon: he… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.26.15

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.”—Psalm 55:22. CARE, even though exercised upon legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin. The precept to avoid anxious care is earnestly inculcated by our Saviour, again and again; it is reiterated by the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.25.15

Monday, May 25, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And they rose up the same hour, and returned Jerusalem . . . and they told what things were done in the way, and how He was known of them.”—Luke 24:33,35. WHEN the two disciples had reached Emmaus, and were refreshing themselves at the evening meal, the mysterious stranger who… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.25.15

Monday, May 25, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Forsake me not, O Lord.”—Psalm 38:21. FREQUENTLY we pray that God would not forsake us in the hour of trial and temptation, but we too much forget that we have need to use this prayer at all times. There is no moment of our life, however holy, in which we… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.24.15

Sunday, May 24, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ.”—Philippians 1:27. THE word “conversation” does not merely mean our talk and converse with one another, but the whole course of our life and behaviour in the world. The Greek word signifies the actions and the privileges of citizenship:… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.24.15

Sunday, May 24, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Blessed be God, which hath nor turned away my prayer.”—Psalm 66:20. IN looking back upon the character of our prayers, if we do it honestly, we shall be filled with wonder that God has ever answered them. There may be some who think their prayers worthy of acceptance—as the Pharisee… (more…)

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