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Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.05.19

Saturday, October 05, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights.” ~ 1 Kings 19:8 ~ All the strength supplied to us by our gracious God is meant for service, not for wantonness or boasting. When the prophet Elijah found the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.04.19

Friday, October 04, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” ~ 1 John 2:1 ~ If any man sin, we have an advocate.” Yes, though we sin, we have Him still. John does not say, “If any man sin he has forfeited his advocate,” but… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.04.19

Friday, October 04, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “At evening time it shall be light.”   ~ Zechariah 14:7 ~ Often times we look forward with forebodings to the time of old age, forgetful that at eventide it shall be light. To many saints, old age is the choicest season in their lives. A balmier air fans the mariner’s… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.03.19

Thursday, October 03, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He Himself hath suffered being tempted.” ~ Hebrews 2:18 ~ It is a common-place thought, and yet it tastes like nectar to the weary heart—Jesus I was tempted as I am. You have heard that truth many times: have you grasped it? He was tempted to the very same sins… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.03.19

Thursday, October 03, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” ~Hebrews 1:14 ~ Angels are the unseen attendants of the saints of God; they bear us up in their hands, lest we dash our foot against a stone. Loyalty to their Lord… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.02.19

Wednesday, October 02, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “A man greatly beloved.” ~ Daniel 10:11 ~ Child of God, do you hesitate to appropriate this title? Ah! has your unbelief made you forget that you are greatly beloved too? Must you not have been greatly beloved, to have been bought with the precious blood of Christ, as of… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.02.19

Wednesday, October 02, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The hope which is laid up for you in heaven.” ~ Colossians 1:5 ~ Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy here. It will animate our hearts to think often of heaven, for all that we can desire is promised there.… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.01.19

Tuesday, October 01, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He will give grace and glory.”  ~ Psalm 84:11 ~ Bounteous is Jehovah in His nature; to give is His delight. His gifts are beyond measure precious, and are as freely given as the light of the sun. He gives grace to His elect because He wills it, to His… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.01.19

Tuesday, October 01, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.”      ~ Song of Solomon 7:13 ~ The spouse desires to give to Jesus all that she produces. Our heart has “all manner of pleasant fruits,” both “old and new,” and they are laid up for… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.30.19

Monday, September 30, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “A living dog is better than a dead lion.”  ~ Ecclesiastes 9:4 ~ Life is a precious thing, and in its humblest form it is superior to death. This truth is eminently certain in spiritual things. It is better to be the least in the kingdom of heaven than the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.30.19

Monday, September 30, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Sing forth the honour of His name, make His praise glorious.”  ~ Psalm 66:2 ~ It is not left to our own option whether we shall praise God or not. Praise is God’s most righteous due, and every Christian, as the recipient of His grace, is bound to praise God… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.29.19

Sunday, September 29, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I found Him whom my soul loveth: I held Him, and would not let Him go.” ~ Song of Solomon 3:4 ~ Does Christ receive us when we come to Him, notwithstanding all our past sinfulness? Does He never chide us for having tried all other refuges first? And is… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.29.19

Sunday, September 29, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague.” ~ Leviticus 13:13 ~ Strange enough this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This morning it may… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.28.19

Saturday, September 28, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Go again seven times.” ~ 1 Kings 18:43 ~ Success is certain when the Lord has promised it. Although you may have pleaded month after month without evidence of answer, it is not possible that the Lord should be deaf when His people are earnest in a matter which concerns… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.28.19

Saturday, September 28, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men.” ~ Psalm 33:13 ~ Perhaps no figure of speech represents God in a more gracious light than when He is spoken of as stooping from His throne, and coming down from heaven to attend to the wants and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.27.19

Friday, September 27, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My Beloved put in His hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for Him.” ~ Song of Solomon 5:4 ~ Knocking  was not enough, for my heart was too full of sleep, too cold and ungrateful to arise and open the door, but the touch… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.27.19

Friday, September 27, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!” ~ Deuteronomy 33:29 ~ He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.26.19

Thursday, September 26, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallen.” ~ Zechariah 11:2 ~ When in the forest there is heard the crash of a falling oak, it is a sign that the woodman is abroad, and every tree in the whole company may tremble lest to-morrow the sharp edge of the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.26.19

Thursday, September 26, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The myrtle trees that were in the bottom.”  ~ Zechariah 1:8 ~ The vision in this chapter describes the condition of Israel in Zechariah’s day; but being interpreted in its aspect towards us, it describes the Church of God as we find it now in the world. The Church is… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.25.19

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who of God is made unto us wisdom.”  ~ 1 Corinthians 1:30 ~ Man’s intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.25.19

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Just, and the justifier of him which believeth.” ~ Romans 3:26 ~ Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. Conscience accuses no longer. Judgment now decides for the sinner instead of against him. Memory looks back upon past sins, with deep sorrow for the sin, but yet with… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.24.19

Tuesday, September 24, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I sleep, but my heart waketh.”   ~ Song of Solomon 5:2 ~ Paradoxes abound in Christian experience, and here is one—the spouse was asleep, and yet she was awake. He only can read the believer’s riddle who has ploughed with the heifer of his experience. The two points in this… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.24.19

Tuesday, September 24, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek Him; but His power and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.23.19

Monday, September 23, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe.”  ~ Mark 9:23 ~ A certain man had a demoniac son, who was afflicted with a dumb spirit. The father, having seen the futility of the endeavours of the disciples to heal his child, had little or no faith in Christ, and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.23.19

Monday, September 23, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Accepted in the beloved.” ~ Ephesians 1:6 ~ What a state of privilege! It includes our justification before God, but the term acceptance” in the Greek means more than that. It signifies that we are the objects of divine complacence, nay, even of divine delight. How marvellous that we, worms,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.22.19

Sunday, September 22, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I.”  ~ Psalm 61:2 ~ Most of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart; emptied as when a man wipeth a dish and turneth it upside down; submerged and thrown on our beam… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.22.19

Sunday, September 22, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let Israel rejoice in him.” ~ Psalm 149:2 ~ Be glad of heart, O believer, but take care that thy gladness has its spring in the Lord. Thou hast much cause for gladness in thy God, for thou canst sing with David, “God, my exceeding joy.” Be glad that the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.21.19

Saturday, September 21, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Gather not my soul with sinners.” ~ Psalm 26:9 ~ Fear made David pray thus, for something whispered, “Perhaps, after all, thou mayst be gathered with the wicked.” That fear, although marred by unbelief, springs, in the main, from holy anxiety, arising from the recollection of past sin. Even the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.21.19

Saturday, September 21, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will rejoice over them to do them good.” ~ Jeremiah 32:41 ~ How heart-cheering to the believer is the delight which God has in His saints! We cannot see any reason in ourselves why the Lord should take pleasure in us; we cannot take delight in ourselves, for we… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.20.19

Friday, September 20, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “In the evening withhold not thy hand.”   ~ Ecclesiastes 11:6 ~ In the evening of the day opportunities are plentiful: men return from their labour, and the zealous soul-winner finds time to tell abroad the love of Jesus. Have I no evening work for Jesus? If I have not, let… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.20.19

Friday, September 20, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.” ~ Judges 7:20 ~ Gideon ordered his men to do two things: covering up a torch in an earthen pitcher, he bade them, at an appointed signal, break the pitcher and let the light shine, and then sound with the trumpet, crying,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.19.19

Thursday, September 19, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For this child I prayed.” ~ 1 Samuel 1:27 ~ Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God’s especial love in them. When we can name our blessings Samuel, that is, “asked of God,” they will be… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.19.19

Thursday, September 19, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.” ~ Galatians 5:1 ~ This “liberty” makes us free to heaven’s charter—the Bible. Here is a choice passage, believer, “When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee.” You are free to that. Here is another: “The mountains shall depart,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.18.19

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And they follow me.” ~ John 10:27 ~ We should follow our Lord as unhesitatingly as sheep follow their shepherd, for He has a right to lead us wherever He pleases. We are not our own, we are bought with a price—let us recognize the rights of the redeeming blood.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.18.19

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” ~ Galatians 5:25 ~ The two most important things in our holy religion are the life of faith and the walk of faith. He who shall rightly understand these is not far from being a master in… (more…)

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