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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…)

Sunday, February 01, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They shall sing in the ways of the Lord.”—Psalm 138:5. THE time when Christians begin to sing in the ways of the Lord is when they first lose their burden at the foot of the Cross. Not even the songs of the angels seem so sweet as the first song… (more…)

Saturday, January 31, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord our Righteousness.”—Jeremiah 23:6. IT will always give a Christian the greatest calm, quiet, ease, and peace, to think of the perfect righteousness of Christ. How often are the saints of God downcast and sad! I do not think they ought to be. I do not think they would… (more…)

Friday, January 30, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “When thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, then thou shalt bestir thyself.”—2 Samuel 5:24. THE members of Christ’s Church should be very prayerful, always seeking the unction of the Holy One to rest upon their hearts, that the kingdom of Christ may… (more…)

Thursday, January 29, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The things which are not seen.”—2 Corinthians 4:18. IN our Christian pilgrimage it is well, for the most part, to be looking forward. Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal. Whether it be for hope, for joy, for consolation, or for the inspiring of our love, the future… (more…)

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Perfect in Christ Jesus.”—Colossians 1:28. DO you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you? Does not every day teach you that? Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps “imperfection”; every harsh word which proceeds from your lip, mutters “imperfection.” You have too frequently had… (more…)

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And of his fulness have all we received.”—John 1:16. THESE words tell us that there is a fulness in Christ. There is a fulness of essential Deity, for “in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead.” There is a fulness of perfect manhood, for in Him, bodily, that Godhead… (more…)

Monday, January 26, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Your heavenly Father.”—Matthew 6:26. GOD’S people are doubly His children, they are His offspring by creation, and they are His sons by adoption in Christ. Hence they are privileged to call Him, “Our Father which art in heaven.” Father! Oh, what precious word is that. Here isauthority: “If I be… (more…)

Sunday, January 25, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us.”—Isaiah 63:7. AND canst thou not do this? Are there no mercies which thou hast experienced? What though thou art gloomy now, canst thou forget that blessed… (more…)

Saturday, January 24, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler.”—Psalm 91:3. GOD delivers His people from the snare of the fowler in two senses. From, and out of. First, He delivers them from the snare—does not let them enter it; and secondly, if they should be caught therein, He… (more…)

Friday, January 23, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I have exalted one chosen out of the people.”—Psalm 89:19. WHY was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart, for heart-thoughts are best. Was it not that He might be able to be our brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood? Oh, what relationship there is between… (more…)

Thursday, January 22, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?”—Ezekiel 15:2. THESE words are for the humbling of God’s people; they are called God’s vine, but what are they by nature more than others? They, by… (more…)

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And so all Israel shall be saved.”—Romans 11:26. THEN Moses sang at the Red Sea, it was his joy to know that all Israel were safe. Not a drop of spray fell from that solid wall until the last of God’s Israel had safely planted his foot on the other… (more…)

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Abel was a keeper of sheep.”—Genesis 4:2. AS a shepherd Abel sanctified his work to the glory of God, and offered a sacrifice of blood upon his altar, and the Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering. This early type of our Lord is exceedingly clear and distinct. Like… (more…)

Monday, January 19, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I sought him, but I found him not.”—Song of Solomon 3:1.         TELL me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most likely place to find Him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there… (more…)

Sunday, January 18, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.”—Hebrews 4:9. HOW different will be the state of the believer in heaven from what it is here! Here he is born to toil and suffer weariness, but in the land of the immortal, fatigue is never known. Anxious to serve… (more…)

Saturday, January 17, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion.”—Revelation 14:1. The apostle John was privileged to look within the gates of heaven, and in describing what he saw, he begins by saying, “I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!” This teaches us that the chief object of contemplation… (more…)

Friday, January 16, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I will help thee, saith the Lord.”—Isaiah 41:14. HIS morning let us hear the Lord Jesus speak to each one of us: “I will help thee.” “It is but a small thing for Me, thy God, to help thee. Consider what I have done already. What! not help thee? Why,… (more…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)