May 31, 2018
by Charles Spurgeon
| Tags: Spurgeon, devotion, surefooted
God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places. Habakkuk 3:19 (ESV)
This confidence of the man of God is tantamount to a promise, for that which faith is persuaded of is the purpose of God. ...
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February 7, 2018
by Charles Spurgeon
| Tags: Spurgeon, devotion, our children, prayer
I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring. (Isaiah 44:3)
Our dear children have not the Spirit of God by nature, as we plainly see. We see much in them which makes us fear as to their future, and this drives us to agonizing prayer. ...
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February 1, 2018
by Charles Spurgeon
| Tags: Spurgeon, devotion, promises
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32)
If this is not a promise in form, it is in fact. Indeed, it is more than one promise, it is a conglomerate of promises....
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December 28, 2017
by Charles Spurgeon
| Tags: Spurgeon, heaven, devotion
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 sure that none shall ever fall to the ground....
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November 29, 2017
by Charles Spurgeon
| Tags: Spurgeon, devotion, covenant, peace
I will make them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. (Ezekiel 34:25)
It is the height of grace that Jehovah should be in covenant with man, a feeble, sinful, and dying creature. Yet the Lord has solemnly entered into a faithful compact with us...
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August 17, 2017
by Charles Spurgeon
| Tags: Spurgeon, devotion
Surely the wrath of man shall raise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. (Psalm 76:10)
Wicked men will be wrathful. Their anger we must endure as the badge of our calling, the token of our separation from them: if we were of the world, the world would love its own. ...
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January 24, 2016
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Sword and the Trowel | Tags: Charles Spurgeon, devotion, confession
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. (Job 33:27-28)...
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February 16, 2015
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Sword and the Trowel | Tags: Spurgeon, devotion, mindfulness
The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless us. (Psalm 115:12)
I can set my seal to that first sentence. Cannot you?...
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January 18, 2015
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Sword and the Trowel | Tags: Charles Spurgeon, devotion, Christ
When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. (Isaiah 53:10)
Our Lord Jesus has not died in vain. His death was sacrificial: He died as our substitute, because death was the penalty of our sins. ...
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December 28, 2014
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Sword and the Trowel | Tags: Charles Spurgeon, devotion
This huge round earth is sustained in its orbit without prop or pillar, by the unseen power of the Almighty God. Turning round upon its own axis with marvelous regularity, and moving through space with inconceivable rapidity,...
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