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Tuesday, July 19, 2015 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord our God hath shewed us His glory.” ~ Deuteronomy 5:24 ~ GOD’S great design in all His works is the manifestation of His own glory. Any aim less than this were unworthy of Himself. But how shall the glory of God be manifested to such fallen creatures as… (more…)

Monday, July 18, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They shall go hindmost with their standards.” ~ Numbers 2:31 ~ THE camp of Dan brought up the rear when the armies of Israel were on the march. The Danites occupied the hindmost place, but what mattered the position, since they were as truly part of the host as were… (more…)

Sunday, July 17, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.” ~ 1 Thessalonians 1:4 ~ MANY persons want to know their election before they look to Christ, but they cannot learn it thus, it is only to be discovered by “looking unto Jesus.” If you desire to ascertain your own election;—after the following… (more…)

Saturday, July 16, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They gathered manna every morning.” ~ Exodus 16:21 ~ LABOUR to maintain a sense of thine entire dependence upon the Lord’s good will and pleasure for the continuance of thy richest enjoyments. Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come… (more…)

Friday, July 15, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.” ~ Leviticus 6:13 ~ KEEP the altar of private prayer burning. This is the very life of all piety. The sanctuary and family altars borrow their fires here, there-fore let this burn well. Secret devotion is… (more…)

Thursday, July 14, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.” ~ Exodus 20:25 ~ GOD’S altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross… (more…)

Wednesday, July 13, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry?” ~ Jonah 4:9 ~ ANGER is not always or necessarily sinful, but it has such a tendency to run wild that whenever it displays itself, we should be quick to question its character, with this enquiry, “Doest thou well to… (more…)

Tuesday, July 12, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Sanctified by God the Father.” ~ Jude  ~ “Sanctified in Christ Jesus.” ~ 1 Corinthians 1:2 ~ “Through sanctification of the Spirit.” ~ 1 Peter 1:2 ~ MARK the union of the Three Divine Persons in all their gracious acts. How unwisely do those believers talk who make preferences in… (more…)

Monday, July 11, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “After that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.” ~ 1 Peter 5:10 ~ YOU have seen the arch of heaven as it spans the plain: glorious are its colours, and rare its hues. It is beautiful, but, alas, it passes away, and lo, it is… (more…)

Sunday, July 10, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Fellow citizens with the saints.” ~ Ephesians 2:19 ~ WHAT is meant by our being citizens in heaven? It means that we are under heaven’s government. Christ the king of heaven reigns in our hearts; our daily prayer is, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”… (more…)

Saturday, July 09, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Forget not all His benefits.” ~ Psalm 103:2 ~ IT is a delightful and profitable occupation to mark the hand of God in the lives of ancient saints, and to observe His goodness in delivering them, His mercy in pardoning them, and His faithfulness in keeping His covenant with them.… (more…)

Friday, July 08, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Tell me I pray thee wherein thy great strength lieth.” ~ Judges 16:6 ~ WHERE lies the secret strength of faith? It lies in the food it feeds on; for faith studies what the promise is—an emanation of divine grace, an overflowing of the great heart of God; and faith… (more…)

Thursday, July 07, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Brethren, pray for us.” ~1 Thessalonians 5:25 ~ THIS one morning in the year we reserved to refresh the reader’s memory upon the subject of prayer for ministers, and we do most earnestly implore every Christian household to grant the fervent request of the text first uttered by an apostle… (more…)

Wednesday, July 06, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.” ~ Proverbs 1:33 ~ DIVINE love is rendered conspicuous when it I shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the… (more…)

Tuesday, July 05, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Called to be saints.” ~ Romans 1:7 ~ WE are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more especial manner than the other children of God. All are “saints” whom God has called by His grace, and sanctified by His Spirit; but we… (more…)

Monday, July 04, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Sanctify them through Thy truth.” ~ John 17:17 ~ SANCTIFICATION begins in regeneration. The Spirit of God infuses into man that new living principle by which he becomes “a new creature” in Christ Jesus. This work, which begins in the new birth, is carried on in two ways—mortification, whereby the… (more…)

Sunday, July 03, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The illfavoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven wellfavoured and fat kine.” ~ Genesis 41:4 ~ PHARAOH’S dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness have frozen… (more…)

Saturday,July 02, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Our heart shall rejoice in Him.” ~ Psalm 33:21 ~ BLESSED is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages. The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon… (more…)

Friday, July 01, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “In summer and in winter shall it be.” ~ Zechariah 14:8~ THE streams of living water which flow from Jerusalem are not dried up by the parching heats of sultry midsummer any more than they were frozen by the cold winds of blustering winter. Rejoice, O my soul, that thou… (more…)

Wednesday, June 30, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them.” ~ John 17:22 ~ BEHOLD the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for He hath given us His all. Although a tithe of His possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was He… (more…)

Wednesday, June 29, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” ~ 1 Thessalonians 4:14 ~ LET us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise,” is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. They “sleep in Jesus,” but their souls… (more…)

Tuesday, June 28, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Looking unto Jesus.” ~ Hebrews 12:2 ~ IT is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, “Your sins are… (more…)

Monday, June 27, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Only ye shall not go very far away.” ~ Exodus 8:28 ~ THIS is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor bondaged Israelites must needs go out of Egypt, then he bargains with them that it shall not be very far away; not too… (more…)

Monday, June 26, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Art thou become like unto us?” ~ Isaiah 14:10 ~ WHAT must be the apostate professor’s doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear that voice, “Depart, ye cursed; thou hast rejected me, and I reject thee; thou hast played the harlot, and departed from Me:… (more…)

Saturday, June 25, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Get thee up into the high mountain.” ~ Isaiah 40:9 ~ OUR knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of our Welsh mountains. When you are at the base you see but little: the mountain itself appears to be but one-half as high as it really is. Confined in… (more…)

Friday, June 24, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto Him, Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.” ~ Luke 11:27, 28 ~… (more…)

 Thursday, June 23, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Ephraim is a cake not turned.” ~ Hosea 7:8 ~ A cake not turned is uncooked on one side; and so Ephraim was, in many respects, untouched by divine grace: though there was some partial obedience, there was very much rebellion left. My soul, I charge thee, see whether this… (more…)

Wednesday, June 22, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He shall build the temple of the Lord; and He shall bear the glory.” ~ Zechariah 6:13 ~ CHRIST Himself is the builder of His spiritual temple, and He has built it on the mountains of His unchangeable affection, His omnipotent grace, and His infallible truthfulness. But as it was… (more…)

Tuesday, June 21, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou art fairer than the children of men. “~ Psalm 45:2 ~ THE entire person of Jesus is but as one gem, and His life is all along but one impression of the seal. He is altogether complete; not only in His several parts, but as a gracious all-glorious whole.… (more…)

Monday, June 20, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.” ~ Amos 9:9 ~ EVERY sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask leave… (more…)

Sunday, June 19, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” ~ Acts 2:4 ~ RICH were the blessings of this day if all of us were filled with the Holy Ghost. The consequences of this sacred filling of the soul it would be impossible to overestimate. Life, comfort, light, purity, power,… (more…)

Saturday, June 18, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thy Redeemer.” ~Isaiah 54:5 ~ JESUS, the Redeemer, is altogether ours and ours for ever. All the offices of Christ are held on our behalf. He is king for us, priest for us, and prophet for us. Whenever we read a new title of the Redeemer, let us appropriate Him… (more…)

Friday, June 17, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Help, Lord.” ~ Psalm 12:1 ~ THE prayer itself is remarkable, for it is short, but seasonable, sententious, and suggestive. David mourned the fewness of faithful men, and therefore lifted up his heart in supplication—when the creature failed, he flew to the Creator. He evidently felt his own weakness, or… (more…)

Thursday, June 16, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish.” ~ John 10:28 ~ THE Christian should never think or speak lightly of unbelief. For a child of God to mistrust His love, His truth, His faithfulness, must be greatly displeasing to Him. How can we ever grieve… (more…)

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 This Morning’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.” ~ Genesis 21:6 ~ IT was far above the power of nature, and even contrary to its laws, that the aged Sarah should be honoured with a son; and even so it… (more…)