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Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.04.16

Friday March 04, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.03.16

Thursday, MARCH 03, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove.” ~ Matthew 3:16 ~ AS the Spirit of God descended upon the Lord Jesus, the head, so He also, in measure, descends upon the members of the mystical body. His descent is to us after the same fashion as that… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.03.16

Thursday March 03, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.02.16

Wednesday, MARCH 02, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his ax, and his mattock.” ~ 1 Samuel 13:20 ~ WE are engaged in a great war with the Philistines of evil. Every weapon within our reach must be used. Preaching,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.02.16

Wednesday, March 02, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.01.16

TUESDAY, MARCH 01, 2016 This Evening’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… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 03.01.16

Tuesday, MARCH 01, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.29.16

Monday, February 29, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Now we have received  the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” ~1 Corinthians 2:12 ~ DEAR reader, have you received the spirit which is of God, wrought by the Holy Ghost in your soul? The necessity of… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.29.16

Monday, February 29, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “With lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”—Jeremiah 31:3. THE thunders of the law and the terrors of judgment are all used to bring us to Christ; but the final victory is effected by lovingkindness. The prodigal set out to his father’s house from a sense of need; but his father saw… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.28.16

Sunday, February 28, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which He spake by Elijah.”~ 1 Kings 17:16 ~ SEE the faithfulness of divine love. You observe that this woman had daily necessities. She had herself and her son to… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.28.16

Sunday, February 28, 2016 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,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.27.16

Saturday, February 27, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” ~ Micah 5:2 ~ THE Lord Jesus had goings forth for His people as their representative before the throne, long before they appeared upon the stage of time. It was “from everlasting” that He signed the compact with His Father,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.27.16

Saturday, February 27, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.26.16

Frisday, February 26, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague. ~ Leviticus 13:13 ~ STRANGE enough this regulation appears, yet there was wisdom in it, for the throwing out of the disease proved that the constitution was sound. This evening it may… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.26.16

Friday, February 26, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.25.16

Thursday, February 25, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa.” ~Jonah 1:3 ~ INSTEAD of going to Nineveh to preach the Word, as God bade him, Jonah disliked the work, and went down to Joppa to escape from it. There are… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.25.16

Thursday, February 25, 2016 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 like purest diamonds in the sunlight. That is… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.24.16

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy upon Jerusalem? . . . And the Lord answered the angel . . . with good words and comfortable words.”~ Zechariah 1:12,13 ~ WHAT a sweet answer to an anxious enquiry! This night let us rejoice in it. O… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.24.16

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.23.16

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Take up the cross, and follow Me.”~ Mark 10:21 ~ YOU have not the making of your own cross, although unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making; neither are you permitted to choose your own cross, although self-will would fain be lord and master; but your cross is prepared and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.23.16

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 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,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.22.16

Monday, February 22, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power.” —Nahum 1:3 ~ JEHOVAH “is slow to anger.” When mercy cometh into the world she driveth winged steeds; the axles of her chariot-wheels are red hot with speed; but when wrath goeth forth, it toileth on with tardy footsteps, for… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.22.16

Monday, February 22, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.21.16

Sunday, February 21, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Understandest thou what thou readest?” ~ Acts 8:30 ~ WE should be abler teachers of others, and less liable to be carried about by every wind of doctrine, if we sought to have a more intelligent understanding of the Word of God. As the Holy Ghost, the Author of the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.22.16

Sunday, February 21, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.20.16

Saturday, February 20, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.”~ Matthew 4:1 ~ A holy character does not avert temptation—Jesus was tempted. When Satan tempts us, his sparks fall upon tinder; but in Christ’s case, it was like striking sparks on water; yet the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.20.16

Saturday, February 20, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.19.16

Friday, February 19, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He first findeth his own brother Simon.”~ John 1:41 ~ THIS case is an excellent pattern of all cases where spiritual life is vigorous. As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others. I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.19.16

Friday, February 19, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.18.16

Thursday, February 18, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Father, I have sinned.”~ Luke 15:18 ~ IT is quite certain that those whom Christ has washed in His precious blood need not make a confession of sin, as culprits or criminals, before God the Judge, for Christ has for ever taken away all their sins in a legal sense,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.18.16

Thursday, February 18, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.17.16

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whereas the Lord was there.”~ Ezekiel 35:10 ~ EDOM’S princes saw the whole country left desolate, and counted upon its easy conquest; but there was one great difficulty in their way—quite unknown to them—“The Lord was there”; and in His presence lay the special security of the chosen land. Whatever… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.17.16

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 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… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.16.16

Monday, February 16, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thy good Spirit.” ~ Nehemiah 9:20 ~ COMMON, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and ingratitude. He deserves well at our hands, for He is good, supremely good. As God, He is good essentially. He shares in the threefold ascription of Holy, holy,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 02.16.16

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 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… (more…)

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