psalm-61:1-4,-judges-15:18-19

Grace Gems for JUNE 2006 I am not what I once was (John Newton) I am not what I ought to be. Ah, how imperfect and deficient. I am not what I wish to be. I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good. I am not what I hope to be. Soon I shall put off, with mortality—all sin and imperfectio... Read More

1 John 4:19 - We love him, because he first loved us. 1 John 4:8 - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Mark 9:7 - And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him. 2 Corinthians 10:5 - Casting down imaginations... Read More

(2 Chr 7:13 NASB) "If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, (2 Chr 7:14 NASB) and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I... Read More

I will abide in Thy tabernacle for ever; I will trust in the covert of Thy wings. --PSALMS 61:4 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel. --PSALMS 16:7 WOULD it not be possible for every man to double his intellectual force by keeping much in the company of Infinite Wisdom? --E. P. TENNEY I ... Read More

Honey Out of the Rock by Thomas Wilcox (1621-1687) “But I would feed you with the best of foods. I would satisfy you with honey from the rock." Psalm 81:16 A word of advice to my own heart and yours. You are a religious person and partake of all the ordinances. You do well: they are glorious privile... Read More

WORDS FROM HEAVEN TO THOSE BURDENED WITH ANXIOUS FOREBODINGS AND CARES (From The Visitor's Book of Texts. Chapter 4 from Part 3 " The Word brought nigh to the sorrowful") (In a few cases the wording of the Bible text will be found to differ from the Authorised Version. This is how it was printed ori... Read More

A Sermon (No. 1826) Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, On March 23rd, 1884, "And he said, Nay; but I will die here."--1 Kings 2:30 WE MUST tell you the story. Solomon was to be the king after David, but his elder brother, Adonijah, was preferred by Joab, the capt... Read More

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. It has pleased the Most High to reveal Himself to us (in that which men call the New Testament), under the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost (Matt. 28: 19). In this we learn redemption eternal and for Heaven. Of old, in the Creation of the world, He had ... Read More

I print the Psalms as poetry; they are so in Hebrew. G.V.W. [Publisher's note: In Present Testimony the Psalms are rendered in full as the Authorised Version, here only the notes are reproduced.] First Book (Pss. 1 - 51) "The faithful are looked at as not yet driven out from Jerusalem; hence covenan... Read More

"Have mercy upon me, 0 LORD, consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: "That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation." -Ps. 9:1 3,14. David was in a bad way: he was troubled ... Read More