Category Archives: ~ To God Be the Glory ~

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.04.25

“And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.” ~ Genesis 42:8 ~ This morning our desires went forth for growth in our acquaintance with the Lord Jesus; it may be well to-night to consider a kindred topic, namely, our heavenly Joseph’s knowledge of us. This was most blessedly perfect long before we had the slightest knowledge of Him.… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 01.04.25

In Calm Repose “I will make them to lie down safely.”~ Hosea 2:18 ~ Yes, the saints are to have peace. The passage from which this gracious word is taken speaks of peace “with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground.” This is peace with earthly enemies, with… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.04.25

“Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”~ 2 Peter 3:18 ~ GROW in grace not in one grace only, but in all grace. Grow in that root-grace, faith. Believe the promises more firmly than you have done. Let faith increase in fullness, constancy, simplicity. Grow also in love. Ask that your love may… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.03.25

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”~ Luke 3:4 ~ The voice crying in the wilderness demanded a way for the Lord, a way prepared, and a way prepared in the wilderness. I would be attentive to the Master’s proclamation, and give Him a road into my heart,… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 01.03.25

Rest on a Promise “The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it.”~ Genesis 28:13 ~ No promise is of private interpretation: it belongs not to one saint but to all believers. If, my brother, thou canst in faith lie down upon a promise and take thy rest thereon, it is thine. Where Jacob “lighted” and tarried and… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.03.25

“I will give thee for a covenant of the people.”~ Isaiah 49:8 ~ JESUS Christ is Himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as one of its gifts, He is the property of every believer. Believer, canst thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? “In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Consider that word… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.02.25

“Let the people renew their strength.”~ Isaiah 41:1 ~ ALL things on earth need to be renewed. No created thing continueth by itself. “Thou renewest the face of the earth,” was the Psalmist’s utterance. Even the trees, which wear not themselves with care, nor shorten their lives with labour, must drink of the rain of heaven and suck from the… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 01.02.25

Conquest to Victory “And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.”~ Romans 16:20 ~ This promise follows well upon that of yesterday. We are evidently to be conformed to our covenant Head, not only in His being bruised in His heel but in His conquest of the evil one. Even under our feet is the old… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.02.25

“Continue in prayer.”~ Colossians 4:2 ~ IT is interesting to remark how large a portion of Sacred Writ is occupied with the subject of prayer, either in furnishing examples, enforcing precepts, or pronouncing promises. We scarcely open the Bible before we read, “Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord;” and just as we are about to… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.01.25

“We will be glad and rejoice in Thee.” ~ Song of Solomon 1:4 ~ We will be glad and rejoice in Thee. We will not open the gates of the year to the dolorous notes of the sackbut, but to the sweet strains of the harp of joy, and the high sounding cymbals of gladness. “O come, let us sing… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 01.01.25

The Bible’s First Promise And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.~ Genesis 3:15 ~ This is the first promise to fallen man. It contains the whole gospel and the essence of the covenant of grace. It has been in… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 01.01.25

“They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.”~ Joshua 5:12 ~ ISRAEL’S weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land. Perhaps… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.31.24

No Stranger in Heaven “Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.”~ Psalm 73:24 ~ From day to day and from year to year my faith believes in the wisdom and love of God, and I know that I shall not believe in vain. No good word of His has ever failed, and I am… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.31.24

“They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.”~ Joshua 5:1 ~ Israel’s weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land. Perhaps… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.30.24

“Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?”~ 2 Samuel 2:26 ~ O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine end. You are a respectable attendant at a place of worship; you go because others… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.30.24

Loved to Perfection “Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.”~ John 13:1 ~ This fact is essentially a promise; for what our Lord was He is, and what He was to those with whom He lived on earth, He will be to all His beloved so long as the moon endureth. “Having… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.30.24

“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.”~ Ecclesiastes 7:8 ~ Look at David’s Lord and Master; see His beginning. He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Would you see the end? He sits at His Father’s right hand, expecting until His enemies be made his footstool. “As He… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.29.24

“What think ye of Christ?”~ Matthew 22:42 ~ The great test of your soul’s health is, What think you of Christ? Is He to you “fairer than the children of men “the chief among ten thousand” the “altogether lovely”? Wherever Christ is thus esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual man exercise themselves with energy. I will judge of your… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.29.24

He Will Carry Us Home “And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.”~ Isaiah 46:4 ~ The year is very old, and here is a promise for our aged friends; yes, and for us all,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.29.24

“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.”~ 1 Samuel 7:12 ~ The word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet, “hitherto the Lord hath helped!” Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health, at home, abroad, on the land, on the sea, in honour, in dishonour, in perplexity, in joy,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.28.24

“I came not to send peace on earth, but a sword.”~  Matthew 10:34 ~ The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if to do the right, and to believe the I true, should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will count it but a small loss,… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.28.24

Absolute Assurance “He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”  ~ Hebrews 13:5 ~ Several times in the Scriptures the Lord hath said this. He has often repeated it to make our assurance doubly sure. Let us never harbor a doubt about it. In itself the promise is specially emphatic. In the Greek it has five negatives,… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.28.24

“The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.”~ Galatians 2:20 ~ When the Lord in mercy passed by and saw us in our blood, He first of all said, “Live”; and this He did first, because life is one of the absolutely essential things in spiritual matters, and until… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.27.24

“And the LORD shall guide thee continually.”~ Isaiah 58:11 ~ The Lord shall guide thee.” Not an angel, but JEHOVAH shall guide thee. He said He would not go through the wilderness before His people, an angel should go before them to lead them in the way; but Moses said, “If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.27.24

His Kindness and Covenant “For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.”~ Isaiah 54:10 ~ One of the most delightful qualities of divine love is its abiding character. The pillars of the earth… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.27.24

“Can the rush grow up without mire?”~ Job 8:11 ~ The rush is spongy and hollow, and even so is a hypocrite; there is no substance or stability in him. It is shaken to and fro in every wind just as formalists yield to every influence; for this reason the rush is not broken by the tempest, neither are hypocrites… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.26.24

“Lo, I am with you alway.”~ Matthew 28:20 ~ The Lord Jesus is in the midst of His church; He walketh among the golden candlesticks; His promise is, “Lo, I am with you alway.” He is as surely with us now as He was with the disciples at the lake, when they saw coals of fire, and fish laid thereon… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.26.24

God Only, You Can Trust “Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.”~ Matthew 26:33 ~ “Why,” cries one, “this is no promise of God.” Just so, but it was a promise of man, and therefore it came to nothing. Peter thought that he was saying what… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.26.24

“The last Adam.”~ 1 Corinthians 15:45 ~ Jesus is the federal head of His elect. As in Adam, every heir of flesh and blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head and representative of the race as considered under the law of works; so under the law of grace, every redeemed soul is one with the Lord… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.25.24

“And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.”~ Job 1:5… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.25.24

He Came; He Is Coming “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.“~ Acts 1:11 ~ Many are celebrating our Lord’s first coming this day; let us turn our thoughts to the promise of His second coming. This is as sure as the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.25.24

“Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”~ Isaiah 7:14 ~ Let us to-day go down to Bethlehem, and in company with wondering shepherds and adoring Magi, let us see Him who was born King of the Jews, for we by faith can claim an interest in Him, and can sing, “Unto us… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.24.24

“The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”~ Isaiah 40:5 ~ We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and the crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 12.24.24

Over Jordan with Singing “Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee.”~ Deuteronomy 33:29 ~ That archenemy, the devil, is a liar from the beginning; but he is so very plausible that, like mother Eve, we are led to believe him. Yet in our experience we shall prove him a liar. He says that we shall fall from grace, dishonor… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 12.24.24

“For your sakes he became poor.”~ 2 Corinthians 8:9 ~ The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but “though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor.” As the rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substance he ministers to their necessities, so (the same rule holding… (more…)

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