To live by grace, one must trust in the Lord. David urged others to trust in the Lord. "Trust in the LORD…feed on His faithfulness…Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him" (Psalm 37:3, 5). David himself trusted in the Lord. "In God, I have put my trust." Part of trusting in the Lord involves holding His word in a heavenly place (depending on it, honoring it, praising it).
David was a man who basically lived by grace (that is, by depending on the Lord to work in his life). Consequently, he trusted in the word of God ("the word of His grace"-Acts 20:32). David lived according to God's word. Psalm 119 bears substantial testimony of what can happen when one lives in this manner.
Those who live according to God's word will characteristically have this testimony. "You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according to Your word." This is true because the word of God is our comprehensive source of the Lord's direction and of His provision. When God's mercy unto salvation is needed for a new life, one must turn to God's word. "Let Your mercies also come to me, O LORD-Your salvation according to Your word" (Psalm 119:41). When reviving is needed for those who have a new life, one must return to God's word. "I am afflicted very much; Revive me, O LORD, according to Your word…My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word" (Psalm 119:107 and 25). Whatever the need, the Lord invites us to face it according to His word.
My Country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing . . . Long may our land be bright, with freedom’s holy light; Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King.
~Samuel Francis Smith~
Bethlehem was God with us. Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.
~Robert Baer~
He will, he must Pass over us, because he spared not our glorious Substitute.
~Charles Spurgeon~
If you are a Christian, then you have been through the Passover. How? You have been delivered out of Egypt––a type of this sinful world. The blood of Jesus has delivered you from the bondage of sin and death. John the Baptist declared: “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” You have been Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb––Jesus Christ. Now we begin our new journey of faith in Jesus Christ.
Satan offers you what he cannot give; he is a liar and has been from the foundation of the world. I pity the man who is living on the devil's promises
D.L. Moody
"Walk in the fear of God, and you need fear nothing else." -
Mary Winslow.
They who believe in Christ see that they can't help themselves, that if Christ doesn't save them they must perish.
Jonathan Edwards
"Possibly, you have sometimes said, 'I feel so sorrowful that I cannot pray.' No, that is the very time when you must pray." — Charles Spurgeon
In times of general apostasy, the Lord knows those that are His, and they shall be enabled to keep their integrity. —Matthew Henry, on Psalm 12:7
"Oh, how my heart hates my heart!" -Thomas Boston.
"God sent into the world a unique person – neither a philosopher nor a general (important though they are) – but a Saviour, with the power to forgive."
HM Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)
"Heartless hymns are insults to heaven." — Charles Spurgeon
Six vital certainties:
1. Life is short and uncertain. 2. Death is sure. 3. Judgment is inevitable.
4. Sin is exceeding sinful. 5. Hell is a dreadful reality. 6. Christ alone can save you.
J.C. Ryle
I am more convinced as I grow older, that to keep our eyes fixed on the 2nd coming of Christ is the secret of Christian peace. -
JC Ryle
A calm hour with God is worth a lifetime with man.
Charles Spurgeon
"God's anger is like a river dammed up. It is getting higher and higher, fuller and deeper, every day." -Robert Murray M'Cheyne.
Christ's righteousness, or that which Christ has done in our stead without us, is the sole cause of our acceptance in the sight of God -
George Whitefield
"I do not believe in the science of comparative religions. No! There is but one true religion, all the rest are lies." — Charles Spurgeon
Be often reflecting and considering what a miserable, lost condition you were in when God found you when he came by his grace and called you to himself.
Jonathan Edwards
Christ’s followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.
Matthew Henry
Holy violence, conflict, warfare, a fight, a soldier's life, and wrestling, are spoken of as characteristic of the Christian.
JC Ryle
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