Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Evening, June 24

"Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said... Be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods." Daniel 3:16, 18

The narrative of the manly courage and marvellous deliverance of the three holy children, or rather champions, is well calculated to excite in the minds of believers firmness and steadfastness in upholding the truth in the teeth of tyranny and in the very jaws of death. Let young Christians especially learn from their example, both in matters of faith in religion, and matters of uprightness in business, never to sacrifice their consciences. Lose all rather than lose your integrity, and when all else is gone, still hold fast a clear conscience as the rarest jewel which can adorn the bosom of a mortal. Be not guided by the will-o'-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star of divine authority. Follow the right at all hazards. When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honour to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle. See whether He will be your debtor! See if He doth not even in this life prove His word that "Godliness, with contentment, is great gain," and that they who "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, shall have all these things added unto them." Should it happen that, in the providence of God, you are a loser by conscience, you shall find that if the Lord pays you not back in the silver of earthly prosperity, He will discharge His promise in the gold of spiritual joy.

Remember that a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of that which he possesseth. To wear a guileless spirit, to have a heart void of offence, to have the favour and smile of God, is greater riches than the mines of Ophir could yield, or the traffic of Tyre could win. "Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and inward contention therewith." An ounce of heart's-ease is worth a ton of gold.

Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, June 24

"A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto Him, Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." Luke 11:27, 28

It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very special privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because they supposed that she had the benefit of looking into His very heart in a way in which we cannot hope to do. There may be an appearance of plausibility in the supposition, but not much. We do not know that Mary knew more than others; what she did know she did well to lay up in her heart; but she does not appear from anything we read in the Evangelists to have been a better-instructed believer than any other of Christ's disciples. All that she knew we also may discover. Do you wonder that we should say so? Here is a text to prove it: "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him, and He will show them His covenant." Remember the Master's words- "Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you." So blessedly does this Divine Revealer of secrets tell us His heart, that He keepeth back nothing which is profitable to us; His own assurance is, "If it were not so, I would have told you." Doth He not this day manifest Himself unto us as He doth not unto the world? It is even so; and therefore we will not ignorantly cry out, "Blessed is the womb that bare thee," but we will intelligently bless God that, having heard the Word and kept it, we have first of all as true a communion with the Saviour as the Virgin had, and in the second place as true an acquaintance with the secrets of His heart as she can be supposed to have obtained. Happy soul to be thus privileged!

Great motivational memes, thank you, Demi...

MEME DROP #349: So Many Doors Will Open When You Realize That It’s Okay To Start Over.
Remember That.
https://www.starfirecodes.com/p/meme-drop-349-so-many-doors-will?publication_id=411246&post_id=158912172&isFreemail=true&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Sharing this AGAIN as a REMINDER!

So Q Is a Conspiracy, Huh? Remember Isaac Kappy.
https://anonymous8675309.substack.com/p/so-q-is-a-conspiracy-huh-remember?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-restack-comment&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true

Many prefer "free" things, "government HANDOUTS" Just remember Nothing is FREE. Wake up and get off your lazy ass and do something. STOP RELYING on others, do it yourself.

Systemic Inaction In Action
https://terrylclark.substack.com/p/systemic-inaction-in-action?publication_id=934525&post_id=163200169&isFreemail=false&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

I don't spend this day grilling hot dogs, or pounding drinks. I'm not going out on the lake, or inviting people over. I don't think about why we were there, or even the morality behind any conflict. I remember my mates, and the things we went through. I remember the good and the bad. I give thanks for surviving, and remember those who didn't. They mattered. They gave, more than me. We all get to live because of their sacrifices. Here's to you, lads! I will remember!

I remember the BEST flower bouquets, I ever received, were from my Children, when they were small! Dandelions, or whatever else was close by!

Importance Of Perspective
https://terrylclark.substack.com/p/importance-of-perspective?publication_id=934525&post_id=160736516&isFreemail=false&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true

I remember reading and digging back that far! Adam Weishaupt, he was also a warlock.

Fire-Walkers: The Return of the Living Oracle, Vol. XXXVII: The Illuminated Thread
A Scroll for the Soul Medicine Collective
https://bobbyschlueter.substack.com/p/fire-walkers-the-return-of-the-living-082

Hahahaha
No it's not....remember what, some say, "fine" means?

Fine Fine Fine
https://terrylclark.substack.com/p/fine-fine-fine?publication_id=934525&post_id=162276093&isFreemail=false&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

REMEMBER THE FALLEN

Oh, this is good!!! I remember the last pedo pope, and JD !!!

ONCE I BOYCOTT I DON'T GO BACK. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY OTHERS DO. ACTUALLY THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE USED THAT "HUMAN" (?) FOR THIS.

Remember the boycott of companies that ended their DEI programs? First quarter results are in, so let’s see how the lefties did.
https://notthebee.com/article/remember-the-liberals-call-to-boycott-corps-ending-dei-first-quarter-results-are-in-lets-see-how-they-did

I remember a lot of people said this on fake book, I would scroll on by.

Rest Assured
https://terrylclark.substack.com/p/rest-assured?publication_id=934525&post_id=161989777&isFreemail=false&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Very interesting read

Samson Occom: Mohegan Minister and Bridge Between Two Worlds
The Legacy of Samson Occom: A Mohegan Minister’s Journey Through Two Worlds and the Bloodline That Remembers
https://bobbyschlueter.substack.com/p/samson-occom-mohegan-minister-and?publication_id=904897&post_id=162157578&isFreemail=true&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

This is interesting, before my time, anyone remember any of it?

Enemy At The Gates
Communism Coming
https://clifftaylor.substack.com/p/enemy-at-the-gates

Remember when The Pope disappeared from the window like a hologram during the Pandemic?
https://rumble.com/v6sdhol-remember-when-the-pope-disappeared-from-the-window-like-a-hologram-during-t.html

I love this, brings back fond memories! I remember when my Children were younger, my middle daughter, Whitney, had a time of it with my sons. They were very protective of their little sister! They would "meet" the "boyfriend". Often he didn't last long!

Is He

https://terrylclark.substack.com/p/is-he

God’s ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts higher than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:9). The wisdom of man is foolishness before God (1 Corinthians 3:19). Thus, true wisdom is to trust in God and lean not on our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5). Treasure His thoughts above your own.

Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Evening, April 30

"How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God." Psalm 139:17

Divine omniscience affords no comfort to the ungodly mind, but to the child of God it overflows with consolation. God is always thinking upon us, never turns aside His mind from us, has us always before His eyes; and this is precisely as we would have it, for it would be dreadful to exist for a moment beyond the observation of our heavenly Father. His thoughts are always tender, loving, wise, prudent, far-reaching, and they bring to us countless benefits: hence it is a choice delight to remember them. The Lord always did think upon His people: hence their election and the covenant of grace by which their salvation is secured; He always will think upon them: hence their final perseverance by which they shall be brought safely to their final rest. In all our wanderings the watchful glance of the Eternal Watcher is evermore fixed upon us- we never roam beyond the Shepherd's eye. In our sorrows He observes us incessantly, and not a pang escapes Him; in our toils He marks all our weariness, and writes in His book all the struggles of His faithful ones. These thoughts of the Lord encompass us in all our paths, and penetrate the innermost region of our being. Not a nerve or tissue, valve or vessel, of our bodily organization is uncared for; all the littles of our little world are thought upon by the great God.

Dear reader, is this precious to you? then hold to it. Never be led astray by those philosophic fools who preach up an impersonal God, and talk of self-existent, self-governing matter. The Lord liveth and thinketh upon us, this is a truth far too precious for us to be lightly robbed of it. The notice of a nobleman is valued so highly that he who has it counts his fortune made; but what is it to be thought of by the King of kings! If the Lord thinketh upon us, all is well, and we may rejoice evermore.

As Scripture says, “as it is written,
‘THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS,
THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;
ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS;
THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD,
THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE.’” - Romans 3:10-12

This is the condition of us all before God opens our hearts to receive the gospel and, thereby, to receive Jesus Christ. We should remember this, and always remember what God has done for us to change the condition of our hearts. Keep watch always, therefore, to not let your heart again become hardened.

Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Evening, April 28

"All the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted." Ezekiel 3:7

Are there no exceptions? No, not one. Even the favoured race are thus described. Are the best so bad?- then what must the worst be? Come, my heart, consider how far thou hast a share in this universal accusation, and while considering, be ready to take shame unto thyself herein thou mayst have been guilty. The first charge is impudence, or hardness of forehead, a want of holy shame, an unhallowed boldness in evil. Before my conversion, I could sin and feel no compunction, hear of my guilt and yet remain unhumbled, and even confess my iniquity and manifest no inward humiliation on account of it. For a sinner to go to God's house and pretend to pray to Him and praise Him argues a brazen-facedness of the worst kind! Alas! since the day of my new birth I have doubted my Lord to His face, murmured unblushingly in His presence, worshipped before Him in a slovenly manner, and sinned without bewailing myself concerning it. If my forehead were not as an adamant, harder than flint, I should have far more holy fear, and a far deeper contrition of spirit. Woe is me, I am one of the impudent house of Israel. The second charge is hardheartedness, and I must not venture to plead innocent here. Once I had nothing but a heart of stone, and although through grace I now have a new and fleshy heart, much of my former obduracy remains. I am not affected by the death of Jesus as I ought to be; neither am I moved by the ruin of my fellow men, the wickedness of the times, the chastisement of my heavenly Father, and my own failures, as I should be. O that my heart would melt at the recital of my Saviour's sufferings and death. Would to God I were rid of this nether millstone within me, this hateful body of death. Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable, the Saviour's precious blood is the universal solvent, and me, even me, it will effectually soften, till my heart melts as wax before the fire.

God has given us His word, that by our faith in Christ, we have salvation and eternal life with Him, and that we can be assured of these things (1 John 5:13). All believers should rejoice in this hope and rest in this assurance.

Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, April 28

"Remember the word unto Thy servant, upon which Thou hast caused me to hope." Psalm 119:49

Whatever your especial need may be, you may readily find some promise in the Bible suited to it. Are you faint and feeble because your way is rough and you are weary? Here is the promise- "He giveth power to the faint." When you read such a promise, take it back to the great Promiser, and ask Him to fulfil His own word. Are you seeking after Christ, and thirsting for closer communion with Him? This promise shines like a star upon you- "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Take that promise to the throne continually; do not plead anything else, but go to God over and over again with this- "Lord, Thou hast said it, do as Thou hast said." Are you distressed because of sin, and burdened with the heavy load of your iniquities? Listen to these words- "I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions, and will no more remember thy sins." You have no merit of your own to plead why He should pardon you, but plead His written engagements and He will perform them. Are you afraid lest you should not be able to hold on to the end, lest, after having thought yourself a child of God, you should prove a castaway? If that is your state, take this word of grace to the throne and plead it: "The mountains may depart, and the hills may be removed, but the covenant of My love shall not depart from thee." If you have lost the sweet sense of the Saviour's presence, and are seeking Him with a sorrowful heart, remember the promises: "Return unto Me, and I will return unto you;" "For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee." Banquet your faith upon God's own word, and whatever your fears or wants, repair to the Bank of Faith with your Father's note of hand, saying, "Remember the word unto Thy servant, upon which Thou hast caused me to hope."