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Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.24.23

“Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord.”~ Exodus 14:13 ~ These words contain God’s command to the believer when he is reduced to great straits and brought into extraordinary difficulties. He cannot retreat; he cannot go forward; he is shut up on the right hand and on the left; what is he now to do? The Master’s word… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.23.23

“Even thou wast as one of them.”~ Obadiah 1:11 ~ Brotherly kindness was due from Edom to Israel in the time of need, but instead thereof, the men of Esau made common cause with Israel’s foes. Special stress in the sentence before us is laid upon the word thou; as when Caesar cried to Brutus, “and thou Brutus”; a bad… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.22.23

“I am married unto you.”~ Jeremiah 3:14 ~ Christ Jesus is joined unto His people in marriage-union. In love He espoused His Church as a chaste virgin, long before she fell under the yoke of bondage. Full of burning affection He toiled, like Jacob for Rachel, until the whole of her purchase-money had been paid, and now, having sought her… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.21.23

“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 their most haughty foes. We know that our enemies are attempting… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.20.23

“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 at the best. As an old writer says, “‘Tis but a… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.19.23

“The Lord our God hath shewed us His glory.”~ Deuteronomy 5:24 ~ God’s great design in all His works is the manifestation of His own glory. Any aim less than this were unworthy of Himself. But how shall the glory of God be manifested to such fallen creatures as we are? Man’s eye is not single, he has ever a… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.18.23

“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 the foremost tribes; they followed the same fiery cloudy pillar, they… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.17.23

“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 manner, shall you assure your heart before God. Do you feel… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.16.23

“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 from Jesus, or thou art undone for ever. Old anointings will… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.15.23

“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 the very essence, evidence, and barometer, of vital and experimental… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.14.23

“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 into a system more artificial and more congenial with the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.13.23

“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 be angry?” It may be that we can answer, “YES.”… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.12.23

“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 the Persons of the Trinity; who think of Jesus as… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.11.23

“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 not. The fair colours give way to the fleecy clouds,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.10.23

“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.” The proclamations issued from the throne of glory are freely… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.09.23

“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. But would it not be even more interesting and profitable… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.08.23

“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 says, “My God could not have given this promise,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.07.23

“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 and now repeated by us. Brethren, our work is Solemnly… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.06.23

“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 oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.05.23

“Called to be saints.” ~ Romans 1:7 ~ We are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more especial manner than the other children of God. All are “saints” whom God has called by His grace, and sanctified by His Spirit; but we are apt to look upon the apostles as extraordinary beings,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.04.23

“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 lusts of the flesh are subdued and kept under;… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.03.23

“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 coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.02.23

“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 soon rise to the surface and see the light of… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 07.01.23

“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 art spared to testify of the faithfulness of the Lord.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.30.23

“And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them.”~ John 17:22 ~ Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for He hath given us His all. Although a tithe of His possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was He not content until He had given us all that He had.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.29.23

“Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.”~ 1 Thessalonians 4:14 ~ Let us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise,” is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. They “sleep in Jesus,” but their souls are before the throne of God, praising Him day and night… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.28.23

“Looking unto Jesus.”~ Hebrews 12:2 ~ It is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, “Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do not… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.27.23

“Only ye shall not go very far away.”~ Exodus 8:28 ~ This is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor bondaged Israelites must needs go out of Egypt, then he bargains with them that it shall not be very far away; not too far for them to escape the terror of his arms, and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.26.23

“Art thou become like unto us?“~ Isaiah 14:10 ~ What must be the apostate professor’s doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear that voice, “Depart, ye cursed; thou hast rejected me, and I reject thee; thou hast played the harlot, and departed from Me: I also have banished thee for ever from my presence, and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.25.23

“Get thee up into the high mountain.”~ Isaiah 40:9 ~ Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of our Welsh mountains. When you are at the base you see but little: the mountain itself appears to be but one-half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.24.23

“A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto Him, Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.”~ Luke 11:27, 28 ~ It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.23.23

“Ephraim is a cake not turned.”~ Hosea 7:8 ~ A cake not turned is uncooked on one side; and so Ephraim was, in many respects, untouched by divine grace: though there was some partial obedience, there was very much rebellion left. My soul, I charge thee, see whether this be thy case. Art thou thorough in the things of God?… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.22.23

“He shall build the temple of the Lord; and He shall bear the glory.”~ Zechariah 6:13 ~ Christ Himself is the builder of His spiritual temple, and He has built it on the mountains of His unchangeable affection, His omnipotent grace, and His infallible truthfulness. But as it was in Solomon’s temple, so in this; the materials need making ready.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.21.23

“Thou art fairer than the children of men.”~ Psalm 45:2 ~ The entire person of Jesus is but as one gem, and His life is all along but one impression of the seal. He is altogether complete; not only in His several parts, but as a gracious all-glorious whole. His character is not a mass of fair colours mixed confusedly,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.20.23

“For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.”~ Amos 9:9 ~ Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask leave before he can lay a finger upon Job. Nay, more, in… (more…)

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