Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

August 30, 2011

Solace, Security, Satisfaction

Although my house is not so with God, yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; will He not make it increase?

~ 2 Samuel 23:5

He died for our sins.

      Jesus sent the Holy

     Spirit so that we may be

     born again in the spirit.

  "These are David's words, but they may be mine today. Here is a sigh: things are not with me as I could wish; there are trials, cares, and sins. These make the pillow hard.
  Here is a solace, "He has made with me an everlasting covenant." Jehovah has pledged Himself to me and sealed the compact with the blood of Jesus. I am bound to my God, and my God to me.

       Jesus Christ is our
      Everlasting Covenant,
     through His shed Blood!

  This brings into prominence a security, since this covenant is everlasting and sure. There is nothing to fear from the lapse of time, or the natural uncertainty of things.

He goes to prepare

a place for us so that

we can be with him.

  David feels satisfaction: he wants no more for salvation; he is delivered, and he is delighted. The covenant is all a man can desire.
  Turn this day to the Lord Jesus, whom the great Lord has given to be a covenant to the people."
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)

Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

August 29, 2011

Plentiful Refreshment

"Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden."

~ Jeremiah 31:12

The Holy Spirit water's

and refreshes our souls.

  "oh, to have one's soul under heavenly cultivation; no longer a wilderness, but a garden of the Lord! Walled around by grace, planted by instruction, visited by love, weeded by heavenly discipline, and guarded by divine power, one's favored soul is prepared to yield fruit unto the Lord.

The Living Water that flows from

Heaven that Cultivates our souls.

  But a garden may become parched for want of water, and then it starts to wither. How soon would this be the case, were the Lord to leave us! A garden without water ceases to be a garden at all: nothing can come to perfection, grow or even live.
  But when irrigation is kept up, the result is charming. Oh, to have one's soul watered by the Holy Spirit uniformly, every part of the garden having its own stream. Bringing not only its heat, but its refreshment; each plant receiving just what it needs.
  Lord, water me today, and cause me to yield You a full reward."
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)

Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

August 28, 2011

Out of Any Circumstance

As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me.

~ Psalm 55:16

  "I must and will pray. What else can I do? What better can I do? Betrayed, forsaken, grieved, baffled, Lord, I will call upon You. I encourage my heart in the Lord, who will bear me through this trial as He has borne me through so many others.
  The Lord alone shall save me. I desire no other helper. I will cry to Him evening, morning, and noon, and I will cry to no one else, for He is All-sufficient.

  How He will save me I cannot guess, but He will do it. He will do it in the best and surest way. Out of this trouble and all future troubles, the great I AM will bring me as surely as He lives. This shall be my song all through today. Is it not as a ripe apple from the tree of life? I will feed upon it. How sweet it is to my taste!"
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)

Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

August 27, 2011

Choice Men

"I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction."

~ Isaiah 48:10 KJV

In the midst of

our storm, God

is there with us.

Even in the fiery furnace

God is with us keeping

us safe from the flames.

  "It is no mean thing to be chosen of God. So eminent is this privilege, that whatever drawback may be joined to it we very joyfully accept it. We choose the furnace since God chooses us in it.
  We are chosen as an afflicted people and not as a prosperous people: chosen not in the palace, but in the furnace. In the furnace beauty is marred, strength is melted, glory is consumed, and yet here eternal love reveals its secrets and declares its choice. So has it been in our case. In times of severest trial, God has made to us our calling and election plain. We have chosen the Lord to be our God, and He has shown that we are assuredly His chosen.

When Daniel was in the lions

den, God sent an Angel to shut

the mouths of the lions so that

they could not attack Daniel.

  Therefore, if today the furnace be heated seven times hotter, we will not dread it, for the glorious Son of God will walk with us amid the glowing coals."
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)

Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

August 26, 2011

He of Tender Conscience

"I will judge between sheep and sheep."

~ Ezekiel 34:22

  "Some are fat and flourishing, and therefore they are unkind to the feeble. This is a grievous sin and causes much sorrow. The Lord takes note of their proud and unkind deeds, and He is greatly angered by them, for He loves the weak.
  Is the reader one of the despaired? Is he a mourner in Zion and a marked man because of his tender conscience? Is he judged harshly by others? Let him not resent their conduct; above all let him not push and thrust in return. Let him leave the matter in the Lord's hands. He is the Judge. Why should we wish to intrude upon His office? He will decide much more righteously than we can. His time for judgment is the best, and we need not be in a hurry to hasten it on.
  Patience, my soul! patience! The Lord knows your grief. your Jesus has pity upon you!
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)

Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

August 25, 2011

Food and Rest

"I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down," says the Lord God.

~Ezekiel 34:15

The Good Shepherd

  "Under the divine shepherdry, saints are fed to the full. Theirs is not a windy, unsatisfying mess of mere human thought; but the Lord feeds them upon the solid, substantial truth of divine revelation. Jesus Himself is the true life-sustaining Food of believers.
  When filled with holy truth, the mind rests. Those whom Jehovah feeds are at peace. No dog shall worry  them, no wolf shall devour them, no restless propensities shal disturb them. They shall lie down and digest the food which they have enjoyed. The doctrines of grace are not only sustaining, but consoling: in them we have the means for building up and lying down.

    The Lion is Christ and

    the lamb is you or I.

  This day may the Lord cause us to feed in the pastures of the Word and make us to lie down in them. May no folly, and no worry, but meditation and peace mark this day."
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)

Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

August 24, 2011

God above Human Philosophy

It is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

~ 1 Corinthians 1:19

  "The professedly learned are forever trying to bring to nothing the faith of the humble believer, but they fail in their attempts. Their arguments break down and their theories fall under their own weight. The gospel is not extinct - nor will it be while the Lord lives. If it could have been exterminated, it would have perished from off the earth long ago.

  We cannot destroy the wisdom of the wise, nor need we attempt it, for the work is in far better hands. The Lord Himself says, "I will." and He never resolves in vain. We may rest assured that He will not turn aside from it.
  What clean work the Lord makes of philosophy and "modern thought" when He puts His hand to it! It is written that so it shall be, and so shall it be. Lord, make short work of it. Amen.
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)