Category Archives: ~ To God Be the Glory ~

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.24.24

“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 evening’s text are a mournful sleepiness and a hopeful wakefulness.… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.24.24

The Life-Giving Stream “And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live.”~ Ezekiel 47:9 ~ The living waters, in the prophet’s vision, flowed into the Dead Sea and carried life with them, even into that stagnant lake. Where grace goes, spiritual life is the immediate and the everlasting consequence.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.24.24

“For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.”— Ezra… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.23.24

Deliverance from Dust and Chaff “For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all sections, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.”~ Amos 9:9 ~ The sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we are still being winnowed and sifted. In… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.23.24

“Accepted in the beloved.”~ Ephesians 1:6 ~ What a state of privilege! It includes our justification before God, but the term acceptance” in the Greek means more than that. It signifies that we are the objects of divine complacence, nay, even of divine delight. How marvellous that we, worms, mortals, sinners, should be the objects of divine love! But it… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.23.24

“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 therefore, when he was bidden to bring his son to Him,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.22.24

“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 ends like a vessel mastered by the storm. Discoveries of… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.22.24

 Broad Rivers Without Galleys “But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.” ~ Isaiah 33:21 ~ The Lord will be to us the greatest good without any of the drawbacks which seem necessarily to attend the best earthly things. If… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.22.24

“Let Israel rejoice in him.”~ Psalm 149:2 ~ Be glad of heart, O believer, but take care that thy gladness has its spring in the Lord. Thou hast much cause for gladness in thy God, for thou canst sing with David, “God, my exceeding joy.” Be glad that the Lord reigneth, that Jehovah is King! Rejoice that He sits upon… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.21.24

“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 pardoned man will enquire, “What if at the end my sins… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.21.24

Let Trials Bless “Knowing that tribulation worketh patience.”~ Romans 5:3 ~ This is a promise in essence if not in form. We have need of patience, and here we see the way of getting it. It is only by enduring that we learn to endure, even as by swimming men learn to swim. You could not learn that art on… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.21.24

“I will rejoice over them to do them good.”~ Jeremiah 32:41 ~ How heart-cheering to the believer is the delight which God has in His saints! We cannot see any reason in ourselves why the Lord should take pleasure in us; we cannot take delight in ourselves, for we often have to groan, being burdened; conscious of our sinfulness, and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.20.24

“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 me no longer withhold my hand from a service which requires… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.20.24

Perfect Willingness ‘Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.’~ Psalm 110:3 ~ Blessed be the God of grace that it is so! He has a people whom He has chosen from of old to be His peculiar portion. These by nature have wills as stubborn as the rest of the froward sons of Adam; but when… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.20.24

“The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.”~ Judges 7:20 ~ Gideon ordered his men to do two things: covering up a torch in an earthen pitcher, he bade them, at an appointed signal, break the pitcher and let the light shine, and then sound with the trumpet, crying, “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon! the sword of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.19.24

“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 as dear to us as her child was to Hannah. Peninnah… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.19.24

  The Reason for Singing “The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.” ~ Zephaniah 3:17 ~ What a word is this! Jehovah God in the center of His people in all the majesty… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.19.24

“The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.”~ Galatians 5:1 ~ This “liberty” makes us free to heaven’s charter the Bible. Here is a choice passage, believer, “When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee.” You are free to that. Here is another: “The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.18.24

“And they follow me.”~ John 10:27 ~ We should follow our Lord as unhesitatingly as sheep follow their shepherd, for He has a right to lead us wherever He pleases. We are not our own, we are bought with a price let us recognize the rights of the redeeming blood. The soldier follows his captain, the servant obeys his master,… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.18.24

Complete Safety “And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.” ~ Deuteronomy 33:12 ~ Yes, there is no safety like that which comes of dwelling near to God. For His best beloved the Lord can… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.18.24

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”~ Galatians 5:25 ~ The two most important things in our holy religion are the life of faith and the walk of faith. He who shall rightly understand these is not far from being a master in experimental theology, for they are vital points to a Christian. You… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.17.24

Like Palm and Cedar “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.”~ Psalm 92:12 ~ These trees are not trained and pruned by man: palms and cedars are “trees of the Lord,” and it is by His care that they flourish. Even so it is with the saints of the Lord: they… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.17.24

  “Bring him unto me.”~ Mark 9:19 ~ Despairingly the poor disappointed father turned away from the disciples to their Master. His son was in the worst possible condition, and all means had failed, but the miserable child was soon delivered from the evil one when the parent in faith obeyed the Lord Jesus’ word, “Bring him unto me.” Children… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.16.24

“Am I a sea, or a whale, that Thou settest a watch over me?”~ Job 7:12 ~ This was a strange question for Job to ask of the Lord. He felt himself to be too insignificant to be so strictly watched and chastened, and he hoped that he was not so unruly as to need to be so restrained. The… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.16.24

Reward Is Certain “And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward. “~ Matthew 10:42 ~ Well, I can do as much as that. I can do a kind act toward the… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.16.24

“Partakers of the divine nature.” ~ 2 Peter 1:4 ~ To be a partaker of the divine nature is not, of course, to become God. That cannot be. The essence of Deity is not to be participated in by the creature. Between the creature and the Creator there must ever be a gulf fixed in respect of essence; but as… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.15.24

“A people near unto him.“~ Psalm 148:14 ~ The dispensation of the old covenant was that of distance. When God appeared even to His servant Moses, He said, “Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet”; and when He manifested Himself upon Mount Sinai, to His own chosen and separated people, one of the first commands… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.15.24

The Safest Shelter “And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the tempest.”~ Isaiah 32:2 ~ Who this Man is we all know. Who could He be but the Second Man, the Lord from heaven, the man of sorrows, the Son of Man? What a hiding place He has been to His people!… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.15.24

“He shall not be afraid of evil tidings.”~ Psalm 112:7 ~ Christian, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved His faithfulness as you have done, and it is no wonder… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.14.24

“I acknowledged my sin unto Thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.” ~ Psalm 32:5 ~ David’s grief for sin was bitter. Its effects were visible upon his outward frame: “his bones waxed old”; “his moisture was turned into the drought… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.14.24

Mark of Divine Approval “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”~ James 1:12 ~ Yes, he is blessed while he is enduring the trial. No eye can see this till he has been anointed with heavenly eye salve.… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.14.24

“There were also with Him other little ships.”~ Mark 4:36 ~ Jesus was the Lord High Admiral of the sea that night, and His presence preserved the whole convoy. It is well to sail with Jesus, even though it be in a little ship. When we sail in Christ’s company, we may not make sure of fair weather, for great… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.13.24

“This man receiveth sinners.”~ Luke 15:2 ~ Observe the condescension of this fact. This Man, who towers above all other men, holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners this Man receiveth sinners. This Man, who is no other than the eternal God, before whom angels veil their faces this Man receiveth sinners. It needs an angel’s tongue to describe such… (more…)

Faith’s Check Book ~ C.H. Spurgeon 09.13.24

The Dew of Heaven “His heavens shall drop down dew.”~ Deuteronomy 33:28 ~ What the dew in the East is to the world of nature, that is the influence of the Spirit in the realm of grace. How greatly do I need it! Without the Spirit of God I am a dry and withered thing. I droop, I fade, I… (more…)

Morning’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 09.13.24

“Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well, the rain also filleth the pools.” ~ Psalm 84:6 ~ This teaches us that the comfort obtained by a one may often prove serviceable to another; just as wells would be used by the company who came after. We read some book full of consolation, which is like Jonathan’s rod,… (more…)

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