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Encouragement for today: 'Look and Live'

 Today's post is from CH Spurgeon's Daily Checkbook which is Featured at Sermon Audio . It's quite appropriate for me this morning as I grieve and hate my sinfulness... But, I belong to a risen Savior who has born my sin and made me clean. I will join Mr. Spurgeon and look to Christ this morning. - Angela Wittman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shalt come to pass, that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live" — Numbers 21:8 This is a glorious gospel type. Jesus, numbered with the transgressors, hangs before us on the cross. A look to Him will heal us of the serpent-bite of sin; will heal us at once -- "When he looketh upon it, he shall live." Let the reader who is mourning his sinfulness note the words -- "Everyone that looketh upon it shall live." Every looker will find this true. I have found it so. I looked to Jesus and lived at once,

Encouragement for today: "He blesseth the habitation of the just" - C.H. Spurgeon

  That house is most blest in which the master and mistress are God-fearing people; but a son or daughter or even a servant may bring a blessing on a whole household. The LORD often preserves, prospers, and provides for a family for the sake of one or two in it, who are "just" persons in His esteem, because His grace has made them so. - C.H. Spurgeon From Today's Daily Checkbook : Home Blessings "He blesseth the habitation of the just" — Proverbs 3:33 He fears the LORD, and therefore he comes under the divine protection even as to the roof which covers himself and his family.  His home is an abode of love, a school of holy training, and a place of heavenly light. In it there is a family altar where the name of the LORD is daily had in reverence. Therefore the LORD blesses his habitation.  It may be a humble cottage or a lordly mansion; but the LORD's blessing comes because of the character of the inhabitant and not because of the size of the dwelling.  That

Encouragement for Today: "Your sorrow shall be turned into joy"

Heavenly Alchemy  By Charles H. Spurgeon   "Your sorrow shall be turned into joy" — John 16:20   Their particular sorrow was the death and absence of their LORD, and it was turned into joy when He rose from the dead and showed Himself in their midst. All the sorrows of saints shall be thus transmuted, even the worst of them, which look as if they must forever remain fountains of bitterness.  Then the more sorrow, the more joy.  If we have loads of sorrow, then the LORD's power will turn them into tons of joy. Then the bitterer the trouble the sweeter the pleasure: the swinging of the pendulum far to the left will cause it to go all the farther to the right.  The remembrance of the grief shall heighten the flavor of the delight: we shall set the one in contrast with the other, and the brilliance of the diamond shall be the more clearly seen because of the black foil behind it.  Come, my heart, cheer up! In a little while I shall be as glad as I am now gloomy. Jesus tells m

Encouragement for today: "He will keep the feet of His saints"

By C. H. Spurgeon, the "Prince of Preachers" and posted at Sermon Audio as a Daily Devotional for January 24, 2020 : Care of Our Feet "He will keep the feet of His saints" — 1 Samuel 2:9 The way is slippery and our feet are feeble, but the LORD will keep our feet. If we give ourselves up by obedient faith to be His holy ones, He will Himself be our guardian. Not only will He charge His angels to keep us, but He Himself will preserve our goings.  He will keep our feet from falling so that we do not defile our garments, wound our souls, and cause the enemy to blaspheme.  He will keep our feet from wandering so that we do not go into paths of error, or ways of folly, or courses of the world's custom.  He will keep our feet from swelling through weariness, or blistering because of the roughness and length of the way.  He will keep our feet from wounding: our shoes shall be iron and brass so that even though we tread on the edge of