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Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.23.16

Sunday, October 23, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.” ~ Luke 22:46 ~ WHEN is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.22.16

Saturday, October 22, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you.” ~ John 16:15 ~ THERE are times when all the promises and a doctrines of the Bible are of no avail, unless a gracious hand shall apply them to us. We are thirsty, but too faint to crawl to… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.21.16

Friday, October 21, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?” ~ Luke 24:38 ~ WHY sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?” The Lord cares for all things, and the meanest… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.20.16

Thursday, October 20, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Keep not back.” ~Isaiah 43:6 ~ ALTHOUGH this message was sent to the south, and referred to the seed of Israel, it may profitably be a summons to ourselves. Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.19.16

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “God, my Maker, who giveth songs in the night.” ~ Job 35:10 ~ ANY man can sing in the day. When the cup is full, man draws inspiration from it. When wealth rolls in abundance around him, any man can praise the God who gives a plenteous harvest or sends… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.18.16

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.” ~ 1 Samuel 15:22 ~ SAUL had been commanded to slay utterly all the Amalekites and their cattle. Instead of doing so, he preserved the king, and suffered his people to take the best of the oxen and of the sheep. When called… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.17.16

Monday, October 17, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He shall gather the lambs with His arm.” ~ Isaiah 40:11 ~ OUR good Shepherd has in His flock a variety of experiences, some are strong in the Lord, and others are weak in faith, but He is impartial in His care for all His sheep, and the weakest lamb… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.16.16

Sunday, October 16, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “With Thee is the fountain of life.” ~ Psalm 36:9 ~ THERE are times in our spiritual experience when human counsel or sympathy, or religious ordinances, fail to comfort or help us. Why does our gracious God permit this? Perhaps it is because we have been living too much without… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.15.16

Saturday, October 15, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck.” ~ Exodus 34:20 ~ EVERY firstborn creature must be the Lord’s, but since the ass was unclean, it could not be presented in sacrifice. What then?… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.14.16

Friday, October 14, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And be not conformed to this world.” ~ Romans 12:2 ~ IF a Christian can by possibility be saved while he conforms to this world, at any rate it must be so as by fire. Such a bare salvation is almost as much to be dreaded as desired. Reader, would… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.13.16

Thursday, October 13, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Love is strong as death.” ~ Song of Solomon 8:6 ~ WHOSE love can this be which is as mighty as the conqueror of monarchs, the destroyer of the human race? Would it not sound like satire if it were applied to my poor, weak, and scarcely living love to… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.12.16

Wednesday, October 12, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost.” ~ John 14:26 ~ THIS age is peculiarly the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in which Jesus cheers us, not by His personal presence, as He shall do by-and-by, but by the indwelling and constant abiding of the Holy Ghost, who is evermore… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.11.16

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whom He did predestinate, them He also called.” ~ Romans 8:30 ~ IN the second epistle to Timothy, first chapter, and ninth verse, are these words—”Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling.” Now, here is a touchstone by which we may try our calling. It is… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.10.16

Monday, October 10, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.” ~ Jeremiah 15:21 ~ NOTE the glorious personality of the promise. I will, I will. The Lord Jehovah Himself interposes to deliver and redeem His people.… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.09.16

Sunday, October 09, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But He answered her not a word.” ~ Matthew 15:23 ~ GENUINE seekers who as yet have not obtained the blessing, may take comfort from the story before us. The Saviour did not at once bestow the blessing, even though the woman had great faith in Him. He intended to… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.08.16

Saturday, October 08, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Praying in the Holy Ghost.” ~ Jude 20 ~ MARK the grand characteristic of true prayer—“In the Holy Ghost.” The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven’s storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. We must shoot the Lord’s arrows back to Him. That… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.07.16

Friday, October 07, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Now on whom dost thou trust?” ~ Isaiah 36:5 ~ READER, this is an important question. Listen to the Christian’s answer, and see if it is yours. “On whom dost thou trust?” “I trust,” says the Christian, “in a triune God. I trust the Father, believing that He has chosen… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.06.16

Thursday, October 06, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He had married an Ethiopian woman.” ~ Numbers 12:1 ~ STRANGE choice of Moses, but how much more strange the choice of Him who is a prophet like unto Moses, and greater than he! Our Lord, who is fair as the lily, has entered into marriage union with one who… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.05.16

Wednesday, October 05, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.” ~ Mark 16:16 ~ MR. MacDonald asked the inhabitants of the island of St. Kilda how a man must be saved. An old man replied, “We shall be saved if we repent, and forsake our sins, and turn to God.” “Yes,”… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.04.16

Tuesday, October 04, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” ~ 1 John 2:1 ~ IF any man sin, we have an advocate.” Yes, though we sin, we have Him still. John does not say, “If any man sin he has forfeited his advocate,” but… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.03.16

Monday, October 03, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He Himself hath suffered being tempted.” ~ Hebrews 2:18 ~ IT is a common-place thought, and yet it tastes like nectar to the weary heart—Jesus I was tempted as I am. You have heard that truth many times: have you grasped it? He was tempted to the very same sins… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.02.16

Sunday, October 02, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “A man greatly beloved.” ~ Daniel 10:11 ~ CHILD of God, do you hesitate to appropriate this title? Ah! has your unbelief made you forget that you are greatly beloved too? Must you not have been greatly beloved, to have been bought with the precious blood of Christ, as of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 10.01.16

Saturday, October 01, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He will give grace and glory.”  ~ Psalm 84:11 ~ BOUNTEOUS is Jehovah in His nature; to give is His delight. His gifts are beyond measure precious, and are as freely given as the light of the sun. He gives grace to His elect because He wills it, to His… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.30.16

 Friday, September 30, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “A living dog is better than a dead lion.”  ~ Ecclesiastes 9:4 ~ LIFE is a precious thing, and in its humblest form it is superior to death. This truth is eminently certain in spiritual things. It is better to be the least in the kingdom of heaven than the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.29.16

Thursday, September 29, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I found Him whom my soul loveth: I held Him, and would not let Him go.” ~ Song of Solomon 3:4 ~ DOES Christ receive us when we come to Him, notwithstanding all our past sinfulness? Does He never chide us for having tried all other refuges first? And is… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.28.16

Wednesday, September 28, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Go again seven times.” ~ 1 Kings 18:43 ~ SUCCESS is certain when the Lord has promised it. Although you may have pleaded month after month without evidence of answer, it is not possible that the Lord should be deaf when His people are earnest in a matter which concerns… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.27.16

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My Beloved put in His hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for Him.” ~ Song of Solomon 5:4 ~ KNOCKING was not enough, for my heart was too full of sleep, too cold and ungrateful to arise and open the door, but the touch… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.26.16

Monday, September 26, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallen.” ~ Zechariah 11:2 ~ WHEN in the forest there is heard the crash of a falling oak, it is a sign that the woodman is abroad, and every tree in the whole company may tremble lest to-morrow the sharp edge of the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.25.16

Sunday, September 25, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who of God is made unto us wisdom.”  ~ 1 Corinthians 1:30 ~ MAN’S intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.24.16

Saturday, September 24, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I sleep, but my heart waketh.”   ~ Song of Solomon 5:2 ~ PARADOXES abound in Christian experience, and here is one—the spouse was asleep, and yet she was awake. He only can read the believer’s riddle who has ploughed with the heifer of his experience. The two points in this… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.23.16

Friday, September 23, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe.”  ~ Mark 9:23 ~ A certain man had a demoniac son, who was afflicted with a dumb spirit. The father, having seen the futility of the endeavours of the disciples to heal his child, had little or no faith in Christ, and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.22.16

Thursday, September 22, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I.”  ~ Psalm 61:2 ~ MOST of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart; emptied as when a man wipeth a dish and turneth it upside down; submerged and thrown on our beam… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.21.16

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Gather not my soul with sinners.” ~ Psalm 26:9 ~ FEAR made David pray thus, for something whispered, “Perhaps, after all, thou mayst be gathered with the wicked.” That fear, although marred by unbelief, springs, in the main, from holy anxiety, arising from the recollection of past sin. Even the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.20.16

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “In the evening withhold not thy hand.”   ~ Ecclesiastes 11:6 ~ IN the evening of the day opportunities are plentiful: men return from their labour, and the zealous soul-winner finds time to tell abroad the love of Jesus. Have I no evening work for Jesus? If I have not, let… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.19.16

Monday, September 19, 2016 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For this child I prayed.” ~ 1 Samuel 1:27 ~ DEVOUT souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God’s especial love in them. When we can name our blessings Samuel, that is, “asked of God,” they will be… (more…)

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