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Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.06.15

Friday, 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, there is not… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.06.15

Friday, February 06, 2015 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 He had blotted… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.05.15

Thursday, February 05, 2015 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 human being.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.05.15

Thursday, February 05, 2015 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 men. We are… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.04.15

Wednesday, February 04, 2015 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 us; Jesus… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.04.15

Wednesday, February 04, 2015 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 put up… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.03.15

Tuesday, February 03, 2015 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? I will go,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.03.15

Tuesday, February 03, 2015 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 which we… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.02.15

Monday, February 02, 2015 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 us unto eternal… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.02.15

Monday, February 02, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.01.15

Sunday, February 01, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.01.15

Sunday, February 01, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.31.15

Saturday, January 31, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.”—2 Samuel 18:23. RUNNING is 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… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.31.15

Saturday, January 31, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.30.15

Friday, January 30, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.30.15

Friday, January 30, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.29.15

Thursday, January 29, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.29.15

Thursday, January 29, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The things which are not seen.”—2 Corinthians 4:18. IN our Christian pilgrimage it is well, for the most part, to be looking forward. Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal. Whether it be for hope, for joy, for consolation, or for the inspiring of our love, the future… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.28.15

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.28.15

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.27.15

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.”—Luke 2:19. THERE was an exercise, on the part of this blessed woman, of three powers of her being: her memory—she kept all these things; her affections—she kept them in her heart; her intellect—she pondered them; so that memory,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.27.15

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And of his fulness have all we received.”—John 1:16. THESE words tell us that there is a fulness in Christ. There is a fulness of essential Deity, for “in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead.” There is a fulness of perfect manhood, for in Him, bodily, that Godhead… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.26.15

Monday, January 26, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “All they that heard it wondered at those things.”—Luke 2:18. WE must not cease to wonder at the great marvels of our God. It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God’s glory,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.26.15

Monday, January 26, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Your heavenly Father.”—Matthew 6:26. GOD’S people are doubly His children, they are His offspring by creation, and they are His sons by adoption in Christ. Hence they are privileged to call Him, “Our Father which art in heaven.” Father! Oh, what precious word is that. Here isauthority: “If I be… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.25.15

Sunday, January 25, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”—Romans 3:31. WHEN the believer is adopted into the Lord’s family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once; but then he is under a new rule, and a new covenant. Believer,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.25.15

Sunday, January 25, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us.”—Isaiah 63:7. AND canst thou not do this? Are there no mercies which thou hast experienced? What though thou art gloomy now, canst thou forget that blessed… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.24.15

Saturday, January 24, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Martha was cumbered about much serving.”—Luke 10:40. HER fault was not that she served: the condition of a servant well becomes every Christian. “I serve,” should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven. Nor was it her fault that she had “much serving.” We… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.24.15

Saturday, January 24, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler.”—Psalm 91:3. GOD delivers His people from the snare of the fowler in two senses. From, and out of. First, He delivers them from the snare—does not let them enter it; and secondly, if they should be caught therein, He… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.23.15

Friday, January 23, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have exalted one chosen out of the people.”—Psalm 89:19. WHY was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart, for heart-thoughts are best. Was it not that He might be able to be our brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood? Oh, what relationship there is between… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.23.15

Saturday, January 23, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “We will remember Thy love more than wine.”—Song of Solomon 1:4. JESUS will not let His people forget His love. If all the love they have enjoyed should be forgotten, He will visit them with fresh love. “Do you forget my cross?” says He, “I will cause you to remember… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.22.15

Thursday, January 22, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Doth Job fear God for nought?”—Job 1:9. THIS was the wicked question of Satan concerning that upright man of old, but there are many in the present day concerning whom it might be asked with justice, for they love God after a fashion because He prospers them; but if things… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.22.15

Thursday, January 22, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?”—Ezekiel 15:2. THESE words are for the humbling of God’s people; they are called God’s vine, but what are they by nature more than others? They, by… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.21.15

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of Thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst?”—Judges 15:18. SAMSON was thirsty and ready to die. The difficulty was totally different from any which the hero had met… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.21.15

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And so all Israel shall be saved.”—Romans 11:26. THEN Moses sang at the Red Sea, it was his joy to know that all Israel were safe. Not a drop of spray fell from that solid wall until the last of God’s Israel had safely planted his foot on the other… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~01.20.15

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken Thou me in Thy way.”—Psalm 119:37. THERE are divers kinds of vanity. The cap and bells of the fool, the mirth of the world, the dance, the lyre, and the cup of the dissolute, all these men know to be vanities;… (more…)

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