“Jehovah has ordained His people the heirs of blessedness, and nothing shall rob them of their inheritance. With all the fulness of His power He will bless them, and all His attributes shall unite to satiate them with divine contentment.”

“Jehovah has ordained his people the heirs of blessedness, and nothing shall rob them of their inheritance. With all the fulness of his power he will bless them, and all his attributes shall unite to satiate them with divine contentment. Nor is this merely for the present, but the blessing reaches into the long and [...]

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“Grace is not obscured by God’s demand for holiness, but is highly exalted as we see it decking the saint with jewels, and clothing him in fair white linen; all this sumptuous array being a free gift of mercy.”

“It must not be supposed that the persons who are thus described by their inward and outward holiness are saved by the merits of their works; but their works are the evidences by which they are known. The present verse (Ps. 24:5) shows that in the saints grace reigns and grace alone. Such men wear [...]

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October 1 – “Let not the roughness of the road dismay thee—it is the better proof that it is the right road to heaven.”

“Let not the roughness of the road dismay thee—it is the better proof that it is the right road to heaven. Why, you will have a worse trouble yet, perhaps. That is poor consolation, say you; but, then, save your tears till you get to it. Cease your weeping now, and if this be poor [...]

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August 28 – “The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.”

“The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it. As I sat last year under a wide-spreading beech, I was pleased to mark with prying curiosity the singular habits of that most wonderful of trees, which seems to have an intelligence about it which other trees have not. [...]

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August 27 – “…but streams that run for a long distance above ground gradually gather for themselves somewhat of the soil through which they flow…”

“Sermons and books are well enough, but streams that run for a long distance above ground gradually gather for themselves somewhat of the soil through which they flow, and they lose the cool freshness with which they started from the spring head. Truth is sweetest where it breaks from the smitten Rock, for at its [...]

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“Blessed is that ministry of which Christ is all.”

“We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man’s fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through an atonement, and salvation as a result of faith, these are our battle-axe and weapons of war…O that Christ crucified were the universal burden of men of God. Your guess at the [...]

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Pray before the battle

“…how dare we pray in the battle if we have never cried to the Lord while buckling on the harness!” Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p45.

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