Prayer, Thanksgiving, Praise

                                                   
No care but all prayer. 

No anxiety but much joyful communion with God. 

Carry your desires to the LORD of your life, the guardian of your soul. 

Go to Him with two portions of prayer and one of fragrant praise. 

Do not pray doubtfully but thankfully. 

Consider that you have your petitions, and therefore thank God for His grace. 

He is giving you grace; give Him thanks, Hide nothing. 

Allow no want to lie rankling in your bosom; "make known your requests."

Run not to man. 

Go only to your God, the Father of Jesus, who loves you in Him.

This shall bring you God's own peace. 

You shall not be able to understand the peace which you shall enjoy. 

It will enfold you in its infinite embrace. 

Heart and mind through Christ Jesus shall be steeped in a sea of rest. 

Come life or death, poverty, pain, slander, you shall dwell in Jesus above every rolling wind or darkening cloud. 

Will you not obey this dear command?

Yes, LORD, I do believe thee; but, I beseech thee, help mine unbelief.

~Charles Spurgeon~

Fear To Fear

Whenever fear comes in and makes us falter, we are in danger of falling into sin. 

Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice. 

Dare to be a Daniel. 

Our great Captain should be served by brave soldiers.

What a reason for bravery is here!

God is with those who are with Him. 

God will never be away when the hour of struggle comes. 

Do they threaten you? 

Who are you that you should be afraid of a man that shall die? 

Will you lose your situation? 

Your God whom you serve will find bread and water for His servants. 

Can you not trust Him? 

Do they pour ridicule upon you? 

Will this break your bones or your heart? 

Bear it for Christ's sake, and even rejoice because of it.

God is with the true, the just, the holy, to deliver them; and He will deliver you. 

Remember how Daniel came out of the lions' den...

And the three holy children out of the furnace. 

Yours is not so desperate a case as theirs; but if it were, the LORD would bear you through and make you more than a conqueror. 

Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. 

Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. 

Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, "I will trust, and not be afraid."

~Charles Spurgeon~

Not Left To Perish

Psa 16:10  For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

This word has it proper fulfillment in the LORD Jesus; but it applies also, with a variation, to all who are in Him.

Our soul shall not be left in the separate state, and our body, though it see corruption, shall rise again.

The general meaning, rather than the specific application, is that to which we would call our readers' thoughts at this particular time.

We may descend in spirit very low till we seem to be plunged in the abyss of hell; but we shall not be left there.

We may appear to be at death's door in heart, and soul, and consciousness; but we cannot remain there.

Our inward death as to joy and hope may proceed very far...

But it cannot run on to its full consequences, so as to reach the utter corruption of black despair...

We may go very low, but not lower than the LORD permits...

We may stay in the lowest dungeon of doubt for a while, but we shall not perish there.

The star of hope is still in the sky when the night is blackest.

The LORD will not forget us and hand us over to the enemy.

Let us rest in hope...

We have to deal with One whose mercy endureth forever.

Surely, out of death, and darkness, and despair we shall yet arise to life, light, and liberty.

~Charles Spurgeon~