Category Archives: ~ To God Be the Glory ~

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.31.20

  Thursday, December 31, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.” ~ Jeremiah 8:20 ~ Not saved! Dear reader, is this your mournful plight? Warned of the judgment to come, bidden to escape for your life, and yet at this moment not saved! You know the way… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.31.20

Thursday, December 31, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon No Stranger in Heaven “Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.” ~ Psalm 73:24 ~ From day to day and from year to year my faith believes in the wisdom and love of God, and I know that I shall not believe… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.31.20

This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.” ~ Joshua 5:1 ~ Israel’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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.30.20

  Wednesday, December 30, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?” ~ 2 Samuel 2:26 ~ 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… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.30.20

Wednesday, December 30, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon Loved to Perfection “Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.” ~ John 13:1 ~ This fact is essentially a promise; for what our Lord was He is, and what He was to those with whom He lived on earth, He… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.30.20

Wednesday, December 30, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.” ~ Ecclesiastes 7:8 ~ Look 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.29.20

Tuesday, December 29, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “What think ye of Christ?” ~ Matthew 22:42 ~ The great test of your soul’s health is, What think you of Christ? Is He to you “fairer than the children of men”—”the chief among ten thousand”—the “altogether lovely”? Wherever Christ is thus esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual man… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.29.20

Tuesday, December 29, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon He Will Carry Us Home “And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.”   ~ Isaiah 46:4 ~ The year is very old, and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.29.20

Tuesday, December 29, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” ~ 1 Samuel 7:12 ~ The word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet, “hitherto the Lord hath helped!” Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health, at home, abroad, on the land,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.28.20

Monday, December 28, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I came not to send peace on earth, but a sword.” ~  Matthew 10:34 ~ The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if to do the right, and to believe the I true, should cause him to lose… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.28.20

Monday, December 28, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon Absolute Assurance “He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”   ~ Hebrews 13:5 ~ Several times in the Scriptures the Lord hath said this. He has often repeated it to make our assurance doubly sure. Let us never harbor a doubt about it. In… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.28.20

Monday, December 28, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.” ~ Galatians 2:20 ~ When the Lord in mercy passed by and saw us in our blood, He first of all said, “Live”; and this He did first, because life is… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.27.20

Sunday, December 27, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And the LORD shall guide thee continually.” ~ Isaiah 58:11 ~ The Lord shall guide thee.” Not an angel, but JEHOVAH shall guide thee. He said He would not go through the wilderness before His people, an angel should go before them to lead them in the way; but Moses… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.27.20

Sunday, December 27, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon His Kindness and Covenant “For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.” ~ Isaiah 54:10 ~ One of the most delightful… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.27.20

Sunday, December 27, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Can the rush grow up without mire?” ~ Job 8:11 ~ The rush is spongy and hollow, and even so is a hypocrite; there is no substance or stability in him. It is shaken to and fro in every wind just as formalists yield to every influence; for this reason… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.26.20

Saturday, December 26, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Lo, I am with you alway.” ~ Matthew 28:20 ~ The Lord Jesus is in the midst of His church; He walketh among the golden candlesticks; His promise is, “Lo, I am with you alway.” He is as surely with us now as He was with the disciples at the… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.26.20

Saturday, December 26, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon God Only, You Can Trust “Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.” ~ Matthew 26:33 ~ “Why,” cries one, “this is no promise of God.” Just so, but it was a promise of man,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.26.20

Saturday, December 26, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The last Adam.” ~ 1 Corinthians 15:45 ~ Jesus is the federal head of His elect. As in Adam, every heir of flesh and blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head and representative of the race as considered under the law of works; so under the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.25.20

Friday, December 25, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.25.20

Friday, December 25, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon He Came; He Is Coming “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” ~ Acts 1:11 ~ Many are celebrating our Lord’s first coming this day; let us turn our thoughts… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.25.20

Friday, December 25, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” ~ Isaiah 7:14 ~ Let us to-day go down to Bethlehem, and in company with wondering shepherds and adoring Magi, let us see Him who was born King of the Jews, for we by faith… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.24.20

Thursday, December 24, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”   ~ Isaiah 40:5 ~ We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when Romanism… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.24.20

Thursday, December 24, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon Over Jordan with Singing “Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee.” ~ Deuteronomy 33:29 ~ That archenemy, the devil, is a liar from the beginning; but he is so very plausible that, like mother Eve, we are led to believe him. Yet in our experience we shall… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.24.20

Thursday, December 24, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For your sakes he became poor.” ~ 2 Corinthians 8:9 ~ The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but “though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor.” As the rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.23.20

Wednesday, December 23, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The night also is Thine.” ~ Psalm 74:16 ~ Yes, Lord, Thou dost not abdicate Thy throne when the sun goeth down, nor dost Thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be the prey of evil; Thine eyes watch us as the stars, and Thine arms… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.23.20

Wednesday, December 23, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon Precious Things “And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath.” ~ Deuteronomy 33:13 ~ We may be rich in such things as Joseph obtained, and we may have… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.23.20

Wednesday, December 23, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Friend, go up higher.” ~ Luke 14:10 ~ When first the life of grace begins in the soul, we do indeed draw near to God, but it is with great fear and trembling. The soul conscious of guilt, and humbled thereby, is overawed with the solemnity of its position; it… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.22.20

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The spot of His children.” ~ Deuteronomy 32:5 ~ What is the secret spot which infallibly betokens the child of God? It were vain presumption to decide this upon our own judgment; but God’s word reveals it to us, and we may tread surely where we have revelation to be… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.22.20

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon Immediately Present “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” ~ Psalm 46:1 ~ A help that is not present when we need it is of small value. The anchor which is left at home is of no use to the seaman in the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.22.20

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will strengthen thee.” ~ Isaiah 41:10 ~ God has a strong reserve with which to discharge this engagement; for He is able to do all things. Believer, till thou canst drain dry the ocean of omnipotence, till thou canst break into pieces the towering mountains of almighty strength, thou… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.21.20

Monday, December 21, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.” ~ Ezekiel 16:10 ~ See with what matchless generosity the Lord provides for His people’s apparel. They are so arrayed that the divine… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.21.20

Monday, December 21, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon From Anger to Love “He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”    ~ Micah 7:19 ~ God never turns from His love, but He soon turns from… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.21.20

Monday, December 21, 2020 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant.” ~ 2 Samuel 23:5 ~ This covenant is divine in its origin. “HE hath made with me an everlasting covenant.” Oh that great word HE! Stop, my soul. God, the everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with thee; yes, that… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.20.20

Sunday, December 20, 2020 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Call thy labourers, and give them their hire.” ~ Matthew 20:8 ~ God is a good paymaster; He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it; and one of His payments is this: an easy conscience. If you have spoken faithfully of Jesus to… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.20.20

Sunday, December 20, 2020 Faith’s Check Book, Daily Entry C. H. Spurgeon Men as Men; God as God “I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; and forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath… (more…)