For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. (Romans 11:29) I have a right to ask for anything that God has promised me, but if I go beyond the range of the the divine promises, I also go beyond the range of assured and confident expectation. The promises are very large and very […]

Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. (Micah 5:2) The Lord Jesus had goings forth for his people as their representative before the throne, long before they appeared upon the stage of time. It was “from everlasting” that he signed the compact with his Father, that he would pay blood for blood, suffering for suffering, […]

By James Smith, “The Way of Salvation Set Forth” By nature we are all dead in trespasses and sins. There is . . . no breath of prayer,no sight of God, no listening to the voice of mercy, no power of faith; but we are alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in us. In this state we live–until God who is rich in mercy with […]

Let me know why you contend against me. (Job 10:2) Perhaps, weary soul, the Lord is doing this to develop your graces. There are some of your graces that would never be discovered if it were not for your trials. Do you not know that your faith never looks as good in summer as it […]

Apprising Ministries reminds you that people will sometimes come up to you and announce: “Well, I’ve got good news, and I’ve got bad news.” Many times, the receiver of that initial report will opt to be told the bad news first, which I’ll share with you now through this devotion from Charles Spurgeon. Afterward, I will […]

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. (Romans 7:24-25) Mourning Christian, dry up your tears. Are you weeping […]

By Jon Cardwell, pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Anniston, Alabama “Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.” —Hebrews 13:9 I am a creedal Christian; and I believe that in the latter portion of these last days, it must be so. Someone says, “Give me Jesus.” I must ask, “Which one?” Someone says, “I follow […]

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. (1 Peter 2:9) The ungodly cannot comprehend the godly; they scoff at them, they turn their glory into shame because they […]

Look forwards! Look upwards! Stand apart from a present evil world. Remember that in the last days perilous times shall come (2Ti 3:1). It remains for us that we let our light shine and keep our garments undefiled (Job 3:4; Rev 3:4). Labor on, O man of faith! labor on; the toil and the battle […]

By Jon Cardwell, pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Anniston, Alabama “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His […]