Tag Archives: Morning’s With Spurgeon

Saturday, July 21, 2018 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.” ~ Isaiah 37:22 ~ Reassured by the Word of the Lord, the poor trembling citizens of Zion grew bold, and shook their heads at Sennacherib’s boastful threats. Strong faith enables the servants of God to look with calm contempt upon… (more…)

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He that watereth shall be watered also himself.” ~ Proverbs 11:25 ~ We are here taught the great lesson, that to get, we must give; that to accumulate, we must scatter; that to make ourselves happy, we must make others happy; and that in order to become spiritually vigorous, we… (more…)

Friday, July 20, 2018 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The earnest of our inheritance.” ~ Ephesians 1:14 ~ OH! what enlightenment, what joys, what consolation, what delight of heart is experienced by that man who has learned to feed on Jesus, and on Jesus alone. Yet the realization which we have of Christ’s preciousness is, in this life, imperfect… (more…)

Wednesday, July 18, 2018 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They shall go hindmost with their standards.” ~ Numbers 2:31 ~ The camp of Dan brought up the rear when the armies of Israel were on the march. The Danites occupied the hindmost place, but what mattered the position, since they were as truly part of the host as were… (more…)

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.” ~ 1 Thessalonians 1:4 ~ Many persons want to know their election before they look to Christ, but they cannot learn it thus, it is only to be discovered by “looking unto Jesus.” If you desire to ascertain your own election;—after the following… (more…)

Monday, July 16, 2018 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They gathered manna every morning.” ~ Exodus 16:21 ~ Labor to maintain a sense of thine entire dependence upon the Lord’s good will and pleasure for the continuance of thy richest enjoyments. Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come… (more…)

Sunday, July 15, 2018 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.” ~ Leviticus 6:13 ~ Keep the altar of private prayer burning. This is the very life of all piety. The sanctuary and family altars borrow their fires here, there-fore let this burn well. Secret devotion is… (more…)

Saturday, July 14, 2018 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… (more…)

Friday, July 13, 2018 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… (more…)

Thursday, July 12, 2018 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Sanctified by God the Father.” ~ Jude  ~ “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… (more…)

Wednesday, July 11, 2018 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… (more…)

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 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.”… (more…)

Monday, July 09, 2018 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.… (more…)

Sunday, July 08, 2018 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… (more…)

Saturday, July 07, 2018 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… (more…)

Friday, July 06, 2018 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… (more…)

Wednesday, July 04, 2018 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… (more…)

Tuesday, July 03, 2018 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The ill favoured and lean fleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured 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… (more…)

Monday, July 02, 2018 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… (more…)

Sunday, July 01, 2018 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… (more…)