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Sunday, March 08, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”—Acts 14:22. GOD’S people have their trials. It was never designed by God, when He chose His people, that they should be an untried people. They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace… (more…)

Saturday, March 07, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Have faith in God.”—Mark 11:22. FAITH is the foot of the soul by which it can march along the road of the commandments. Love can make the feet move more swiftly; but faith is the foot which carries the soul. Faith is the oil enabling the wheels of holy devotion… (more…)

Friday, March 06, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Ye must be born again.”—John 3:7. REGENERATION is a subject which lies at the very basis of salvation, and we should be very diligent to take heed that we really are “born again,” for there are many who fancy they are, who are not. Be assured that the name of… (more…)

Thursday March 05, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let us not sleep, as do others.”—1 Thessalonians 5:6. THERE are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness. Among the rest, let me strongly advise Christians to converse together concerning the ways of the Lord. Christian and Hopeful, as they journeyed towards the Celestial City, said to themselves, “To prevent drowsiness… (more…)

Wednesday March 04, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My grace is sufficient for thee.”—2 Corinthians 12:9. IF none of God’s saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wanderer who has not where to lay his head, who yet can say, “Still will I trust… (more…)

Tuesday March 03, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”—Isaiah 48:10. COMFORT thyself, tried believer, with this thought: God saith, “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yea, is it not an asbestos armour,… (more…)

Monday, March 02, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.”—Genesis 49:24. THAT strength which God gives to His Josephs is real strength; it is not a boasted valour, a fiction, a thing of which men talk, but… (more…)

Sunday, MARCH 01, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.”—Song of Solomon 4:16. ANYTHING is better than the dead calm of indifference. Our souls may wisely desire the north wind of trouble if that alone can be sanctified to the drawing… (more…)

Saturday, February 28, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My expectation is from Him.”—Psalm 62:5. IT is the believer’s privilege to use this language. If he is looking for aught from the world, it is a poor “expectation” indeed. But if he looks to God for the supply of his wants, whether in temporal or spiritual blessings, his expectation”… (more…)

Friday, February 27, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation.”—Psalm 91:9. THE Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change. Whenever the pillar stayed its motion, the tents were pitched; but tomorrow, ere the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark was… (more…)

Thursday, February 26, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Salvation is of the Lord.”—Jonah 2:9 SALVATION is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul “dead in trespasses and sins,” and it is He also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both “Alpha and Omega.” “Salvation is of the Lord.” If… (more…)

Tuesday, February 25, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon Wednesday, February 25, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The wrath to come.”—Matthew 3:7. IT is pleasant to pass over a country after a storm has spent itself; to smell the freshness of the herbs after the rain has passed away, and to note the drops while they glisten… (more…)

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.”—Ezekiel 34:26. HERE is sovereign mercy—”I will give them the shower in its season.” Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?—for who can say, “I will give them showers,” except God? There is only one… (more…)

Monday, February 23, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will never leave thee.”—Hebrews 13:5. NO promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one saint, He has said to all. When He opens a well for one, it is that all may drink. When He openeth a granary-door to give out food, there may be… (more…)

Sunday, February 22, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.”—Genesis 49:24. THAT strength which God gives to His Josephs is real strength; it is not a boasted valour, a fiction, a thing of which men talk, but… (more…)

Saturday, February 21, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He hath said.”—Hebrews 13:5. IF we can only grasp these words by faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt will not be slain by this two-edged sword? What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before this arrow from the bow… (more…)

Friday, February 20, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “God, that comforteth those that are cast down.”—2 Corinthians 7:6. AND who comforteth like Him? Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed child of God; tell him sweet promises, and whisper in his ear choice words of comfort; he is like the deaf adder, he listens not to the voice of… (more…)

Thursday, February 19, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them.”—Ezekiel 36:37. PRAYER is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded… (more…)

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.”—Job 10:2. PERHAPS, O tried soul, the Lord is doing this to develop thy graces. There are some of thy graces which would never be discovered if it were not for thy trials. Dost thou not know that thy faith never looks so grand… (more…)

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.”—Genesis 25:11. HAGAR had once found deliverance there and Ishmael had drank from the water so graciously revealed by the God who liveth and seeth the sons of men; but this was a merely casual visit, such as worldlings pay to the Lord in times… (more…)

Monday, February 16, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.”—Philippians 4:11. THESE words show us that contentment is not a natural propensity of man. “Ill weeds grow apace.” Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. We need not sow thistles… (more…)

Sunday, February 15, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “To Him be glory both now and forever.”—2 Peter 3:18. HEAVEN will be full of the ceaseless praises of Jesus. Eternity! thine unnumbered years shall speed their everlasting course, but forever and for ever, “to Him be glory.” Is He not a “Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek”?… (more…)

Saturday, February 14, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.”—2 Kings 25:30. JEHOIACHIN was not sent away from the king’s palace with a store to last him for months, but his provision was given him as… (more…)

Friday, February 13, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God.”—1 John 3:1,2. BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed… (more…)

Thursday, February 12, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.”—2 Corinthians 1:5. THERE is a blessed proportion. The Ruler of Providence bears a pair of scales—in this side He puts His people’s trials, and in that He puts their consolations. When the scale of… (more…)

Wednesday, February 12, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.”—Acts 4:13. A christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written, but the best life of Christ is His living biography, written out in the words and actions of… (more…)

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I know how to abound.”—Philippians 4:12. THERE are many who know “how to be abased” who have not learned “how to abound.” When they are set upon the top of a pinnacle their heads grow dizzy, and they are ready to fall. The Christian far oftener disgraces his profession in… (more…)

Monday, February 09, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And David enquired of the Lord.”—2 Samuel 5:23. WHEN David made this enquiry he had just fought the Philistines, and gained a signal victory. The Philistines came up in great hosts, but, by the help of God, David had easily put them to flight. Note, however, that when they came… (more…)

Sunday, February 08, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou shalt call his name Jesus.”—Matthew 1:21. WHEN a person is dear, everything connected with him becomes dear for his sake. Thus, so precious is the person of the Lord Jesus in the estimation of all true believers, that everything about Him they consider to be inestimable beyond all price.… (more…)

Saturday, February 07, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Arise, and depart.”—Micah 2:10. THE hour is approaching when the message will come to us, as it comes to all—”Arise, and go forth from the home in which thou hast dwelt, from the city in which thou hast done thy business, from thy family, from thy friends. Arise, and take… (more…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)