Category Archives: Devotional

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Thursday, January 15, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Do as thou hast said.”—2 Samuel 7:25. OD’S promises were never meant to be thrown aside as waste paper; He intended that they should be used. God’s gold is not miser’s money, but is minted to be traded with. Nothing pleases our Lord better than to see His promises put… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.”—Matthew 14:30. INKING times are praying times with the Lord’s servants. Peter neglected prayer at starting upon his venturous journey, but when he began to sink his danger made him a suppliant, and his cry though late was not too late. In… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Mighty to save.”—Isaiah 63:1. Y the words “to save” we understand the whole of the great work of salvation, from the first holy desire onward to complete sanctification. The words are multum in parro: indeed, here is all mercy in one word. Christ is not only “mighty to save” those… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The iron did swim.”—2 Kings 6:9. HE axe-head seemed hopelessly lost, and as it was borrowed, the honour of the prophetic band was likely to be imperilled, and so the name of their God to be compromised. Contrary to all expectation, the iron was made to mount from the depth… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.”—1 Kings 22:48. OLOMON’S ships had returned in safety, but Jehoshaphat’s vessels never reached the land of gold. Providence prospers one, and frustrates the desires of another, in the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Monday, January 12, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.”—Job 36:2. E ought not to court publicity for our virtue, or notoriety for our zeal; but, at the same time, it is a sin to be always seeking to hide that which God has bestowed upon us for the good of others.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Monday, January 12, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Ye are Christ’s.”—1 Corinthians 3:23. E are Christ’s.” You are His by donation, for the Father gave you to the Son; His by His bloody purchase, for He counted down the price for your redemption; His by dedication, for you have consecrated yourself to Him; His by relation, for you… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Sunday, January 11, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have prayed for thee.”—Luke 22:32. OW encouraging is the thought of the Redeemer’s never-ceasing intercession for us. When we pray, He pleads for us; and when we are not praying, He is advocating our cause, and by His supplications shielding us from unseen dangers. Notice the word of comfort… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Sunday, January 11, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “These have no root.”—Luke 8:13. Y soul, examine thyself this morning by the light of this text. Thou hast received the word with joy; thy feelings have been stirred and a lively impression has been made; but, remember, that to receive the word in the ear is one thing, and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Saturday, January 10, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “In my flesh shall I see God.”—Job 19:26. ARK the subject of Job’s devout anticipation “I shall see God.” He does not say, “I shall see the saints”—though doubtless that will be untold felicity—but, “I shall see God.” It is not—”I shall see the pearly gates, I shall behold the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Saturday, January 10, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.”—2 Timothy 4:8. OUBTING one! thou hast often said, “I fear I shall never enter heaven.” Fear not! all the people of God shall enter there. I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, “I have no fear… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Friday, January 09, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Serve the Lord with gladness.”—Psalm 100:2. ELIGHT in divine service is a token of acceptance. Those who serve God with a sad countenance, because they do what is unpleasant to them, are not serving Him at all; they bring the form of homage, but the life is absent. Our God… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Friday, January 09, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will be their God.”—Jeremiah 31:33. HRISTIAN! here is all thou canst require. To make thee happy thou wantest something that shall satisfy thee; and is not this enough? If thou canst pour this promise into thy cup, wilt thou not say, with David, “My cup runneth over; I have… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.08.15

Thursday, January 08, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thy love is better than wine.”—Song of Solomon 1:2. OTHING gives the believer so much joy as fellowship with Christ. He has enjoyment as others have in the common mercies of life, he can be glad both in God’s gifts and God’s works; but in all these separately, yea, and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Thursday, January 08, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The iniquity of the holy things.”—Exodus 28:38. HAT a veil is lifted up by these words, and what a disclosure is made! It will be humbling and profitable for us to pause awhile and see this sad sight. The iniquities of our public worship, its hypocrisy, formality, lukewarmness, irreverence, wandering… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Wednesday, January 07, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My sister, my spouse.”—Song of Solomon 4:12. BSERVE the sweet titles with which the heavenly Solomon with intense affection addresses His bride the church. “My sister, one near to me by ties of nature, partaker of the same sympathies. My spouse, nearest and dearest, united to me by the tenderest… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Wednesday, January 07, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For me to live is Christ.”—Philippians 1:21. HE believer did not always live to Christ. He began to do so when God the Holy Spirit convinced him of sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the dying Saviour making a propitiation for his guilt. From the moment… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Tuesday, January 06, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening.”—Ezekiel 33:22. N the way of judgment this may be the case, and, if so, be it mine to consider the reason of such a visitation, and bear the rod and Him that hath appointed it. I am not… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Tuesday, January 06, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.”—1 Peter 5:7. T is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel—”HE careth for me.” Christian! do not dishonour religion by always wearing a brow of care; come, cast your burden upon your Lord. You are staggering… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Monday, January 05, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And God saw the light.”—Genesis 1:4. HIS morning we noticed the goodness of the light, and the Lord’s dividing it from the darkness, we now note the special eye which the Lord had for the light. “God saw the light”—He looked at it with complacency, gazed upon it with pleasure,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Monday, January 05, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”—Genesis 1:4. IGHT might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, “Let there be light.” We who enjoy it should be more grateful for it than we are, and see… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Sunday, January 04, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.”—Genesis 42:8. HIS morning our desires went forth for growth in our acquaintance with the Lord Jesus; it may be well to-night to consider a kindred topic, namely, our heavenly Joseph’s knowledge of us. This was most blessedly perfect long before… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Sunday, January 04, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”—2 Peter 3:18. ROW in grace”—not in one grace only, but in all grace. Grow in that root-grace, faith. Believe the promises more firmly than you have done. Let faith increase in fulness, constancy, simplicity. Grow also… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Saturday, January 03, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”—Luke 3:4. HE voice crying in the wilderness demanded a way for the Lord, a way prepared, and a way prepared in the wilderness. I would be attentive to the Master’s proclamation,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Saturday, January 03, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will give thee for a covenant of the people.”—Isaiah 49:8. ESUS Christ is Himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as one of its gifts, He is the property of every believer. Believer, canst thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? “In Him dwelleth all the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Friday, January 02, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let the people renew their strength.”—Isaiah 41:1. LL things on earth need to be renewed. No created thing continueth by itself. “Thou renewest the face of the earth,” was the Psalmist’s utterance. Even the trees, which wear not themselves with care, nor shorten their lives with labour, must drink of… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Friday, January 02, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Continue in prayer.”—Colossians 4:2. T is interesting to remark how large a portion of Sacred Writ is occupied with the subject of prayer, either in furnishing examples, enforcing precepts, or pronouncing promises. We scarcely open the Bible before we read, “Then began men to call upon the name of the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon

  Thursday, January 01, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “We will be glad and rejoice in Thee.”—Song of Solomon 1:4. E will be glad and rejoice in Thee. We will not open the gates of the year to the dolorous notes of the sackbut, but to the sweet strains of the harp of joy, and the high sounding… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon

Thursday, January 01, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.”—Joshua 5:12. SRAEL’S weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Wednesday, December 31, 2014 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.”—Joshua 5:12. SRAEL’S weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.30.14

  Tuesday, December 30, 2014 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?”—2 Samuel 2:26. F, O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine end. You are a respectable… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~

Tuesday, December 30, 2014 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.”—Ecclesiastes 7:8. OOK at David’s Lord and Master; see His beginning. He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Would you see the end? He sits at His Father’s right hand, expecting until… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.08.18

Monday, January 08, 2018 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thy love is better than wine.” ~ Song of Solomon 1:2 ~ Nothing gives the believer so much joy as fellowship with Christ. He has enjoyment as others have in the common mercies of life, he can be glad both in God’s gifts and God’s works; but in all these… (more…)

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