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Friday, November 13, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The branch cannot bear fruit of itself.”—John 15:4. HOW did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus and cast yourselves on His great atonement, and rested on His finished righteousness. Ah! what fruit you had then! Do you remember those early days? Then indeed the… (more…)

Thursday, November 12, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The trial of your faith.”—1 Peter 1:7. FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her: tempests are her… (more…)

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Underneath are the everlasting arms.”—Deuteronomy 33:27. GOD—THE eternal God—is Himself our support at all times, and especially when we are sinking in deep trouble. There are seasons when the Christian sinks very low in humiliation. Under a deep sense of his great sinfulness, he is humbled before God till he… (more…)

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The eternal God is thy refuge.” ~Deuteronomy 33:27 ~ THE word refuge may be translated “mansion,” or “abiding-place,” which gives the thought that God is our abode, our home. There is a fulness and sweetness in the metaphor, for dear to our hearts is our home, although it be the… (more…)

Monday, November 09, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “So walk ye in Him.”—Colossians 2:6. IF we have received Christ Himself in our inmost hearts, our new life will manifest its intimate acquaintance with Him by a walk of faith in Him. Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our closet; we must carry out… (more…)

Sunday, November 08, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord.”—Colossians 2:6. THE life of faith is represented as receiving—an act which implies the very opposite of anything like merit. It is simply the acceptance of a gift. As the earth drinks in the rain, as the sea receives the streams, as night… (more…)

Saturday, November 07, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.” ~ Isaiah 49:16 ~ NO doubt a part of the wonder which is concentrated in the word “Behold,” is excited by the unbelieving lamentation of the preceding sentence. Zion said, “The Lord hath forsaken me, and my God hath… (more…)

Friday, November 06, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will pour water upon him that is thirsty.”—Isaiah 44:3. WHEN a believer has fallen into a low, sad state of feeling, he often tries to lift himself out of it by chastening himself with dark and doleful fears. Such is not the way to rise from the dust, but… (more…)

Thursday, November 05, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.” ~ Isaiah 54:17 ~ THIS day is notable in English history for two great deliverances wrought by God for us. On this day the plot of the Papists to destroy our Houses of Parliament was discovered, 1605. “While for our princes… (more…)

Wednesday, November 04, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For my strength is made perfect in weakness.”—2 Corinthians 12:9. A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God’s work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God’s warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he… (more…)

Tuesday, November 03, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, he prayeth.”—Acts 9:11. PRAYERS are instantly noticed in heaven. The moment Saul began to pray the Lord heard him. Here is comfort for the distressed but praying soul. Oftentimes a poor broken-hearted one bends his knee, but can only utter his wailing in the language of sighs and tears;… (more…)

Monday, November 2, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I am the Lord, I change not.” Malachi3:6 It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows. All things else have changed—all things are changing.… (more…)

Sunday, November 1, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The church in thy house.” ~ Philemon 2 ~ Is there a Church in this house? Are parents, children, friends, servants, all members of it? or are some still unconverted? Let us pause here and let the question go round—Am I a member of the Church in this house? How would… (more…)

Saturday, October 31, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will praise thee, O Lord.” Psalm 9:1 Praise should always follow answered prayer; as the mist of earth’s gratitude rises when the sun of heaven’s love warms the ground. Hath the Lord been gracious to thee, and inclined his ear to the voice of thy supplication? Then praise him… (more…)

Friday, October 30, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, etc.” Matthew 6:9 This prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit of adoption, “Our Father.” There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, “I will arise, and go unto my Father.” This child-like… (more…)

Thursday, October 29, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, etc.”—Matthew 6:9. THIS prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit of adoption, “Our Father.” There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, “I will arise, and go unto my Father.” This child-like spirit… (more…)

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have chosen you out of the world.”—John 15:19. HERE is distinguishing grace and discriminating regard; for some are made the special objects of divine affection. Do not be afraid to dwell upon this high doctrine of election. When your mind is most heavy and depressed, you will find it… (more…)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “It is a faithful saying.”—2 Timothy 2:11. PAUL has four of these “faithful sayings.” The first occurs in 1 Timothy 1:15, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” The next is in 1 Timothy 4:6, “Godliness is… (more…)

Monday, October 26, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.”—Haggai 1:9. CHURLISH souls stint their contributions to… (more…)

Sunday, October 25, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For the truths sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.”—2 John 2. ONCE let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart and subdue the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal can dislodge it. We entertain it not as… (more…)

Saturday, October 24, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The trees of the Lord are full of sap.”—Psalm 104:16. WITHOUT sap the tree cannot flourish or even exist. Vitality is essential to a Christian. There must be life—a vital principle infused into us by God the Holy Ghost, or we cannot be trees of the Lord. The mere name… (more…)

Friday, October 23, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Will ye also go away?”—John 6:67. MANY have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with Him; but what reason have YOU to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved Himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning—”Have I been… (more…)

Thursday, October 22, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will love them freely.”—Hosea 14:4. THIS sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. He who understands its meaning is a theologian, and he who can dive into its fulness is a true master in Israel. It is a condensation of the glorious message of salvation which was delivered… (more…)

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The love of Christ constraineth us.”—2 Corinthians 5:14. HOW much owest thou unto my Lord? Has He ever done anything for thee? Has He forgiven thy sins? Has He covered thee with a robe of righteousness? Has He set thy feet upon a rock? Has He established thy goings? Has… (more…)

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Grow up into Him in all things.”—Ephesians 4:15. MANY Christians remain stunted and dwarfed in spiritual things, so as to present the same appearance year after year. No up-springing of advanced and refined feeling is manifest in them. They exist but do not “grow up into Him in all things.”… (more…)

Monday, October 19, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Babes in Christ.”—1 Corinthians 3:1. ARE you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown… (more…)

Sunday, October 18, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thy paths drop fatness.”—Psalm 65:11. MANY are “the paths of the Lord” which “drop fatness,” but an especial one is the path of prayer. No believer, who is much in the closet, will have need to cry, “My leanness, my leanness; woe unto me.” Starving souls live at a distance… (more…)

Saturday, October 17, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul.”—1 Samuel 27:1. THE thought of David’s heart at this time was a false thought, because he certainly had no ground for thinking that God’s anointing him by Samuel was intended to be left… (more…)

Friday, October 16, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.”—John 21:12. IN these words the believer is invited to a holy nearness to Jesus. “Come and dine,” implies the same table, the same meat; ay, and sometimes it means to sit side by side, and lean our head upon the Saviour’s bosom. It… (more…)

Thursday, October 15, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But who may abide the day of his coming?”—Malachi 3:2. HIS first coming was without external pomp or show of power, and yet in truth there were few who could abide its testing might. Herod and all Jerusalem with him were stirred at the news of the wondrous birth. Those… (more…)

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.”—Philippians 3:8. SPIRITUAL knowledge of Christ will be a personal knowledge. I cannot know Jesus through another person’s acquaintance with Him. No, I must know Him myself; I must know Him on my own… (more…)

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Godly sorrow worketh repentance.”—2 Corinthians 7:10. GENUINE, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature’s garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except divine grace works it in them. If… (more…)

Monday, October 12, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will meditate in Thy precepts.”—Psalm 119:15. THERE are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in His service. We… (more…)

Sunday, October 11, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.”—Lamentations 3:41. THE act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary lesson for such proud beings as we are. If God gave us favours without constraining us to pray for them we should… (more…)

Saturday, October 10, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Faultless before the presence of His glory.”—Jude 24. REVOLVE in your mind that wondrous word, faultless!” We are far off from it now; but as our Lord never stops short of perfection in His work of love, we shall reach it one day. The Saviour who will keep His people… (more…)