THE love of the Father, the work of the Son, and the operations of the Holy Ghost, save the soul. The Father devised the scheme, the Son gave the ransom, and the Holy Spirit puts us in possession of the blessing. It is of God. It is by grace. It is through faith. Deliverance from dangers, trails, and wants, is of the Lord. He delivered Jonah when he cried, though he was a poor, proud, obstinate, peevish, fretful sinner: and He will deliver us. He says, "Look unto me and be delivered, for I am God. Look, for I bid you. Look, for I will deliver you." He will deliver in six troubles, and in seven He will not forsake us. He will deliver our souls from death, our eyes from tears, and our feet from falling. He will deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor also, and him that hath no helper. Are you looking to others? Are you drooping, fearing, or desponding? Your God takes it unkindly; He asks, "Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Is any thing too hard for me?" He says, "I WILL WORK." He asks, "WHO SHALL LET IT?" He swears, " I WILL NOT BE WROTH WITH THEE."Of all the crowns JEHOVAH bears, Salvation is His dearest claim; That gracious sound well pleased He hears, And owns EMMANUEL for His name; He saves us by His precious blood, And proves Himself the MIGHTY GOD

Written by James Smith for his own flock around 1840, but such was the demand that by 1846 over thirty thousand copies where in circulation.

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"Salvation is of the Lord." Jonah 2:9

Salvation is the work of God. It is he alone who quickens the soul "dead in trespasses and sins," and it is he also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both "Alpha and Omega." "Salvation is of the Lord." If I am prayerful, God makes me prayerful; if I have graces, they are God's gifts to me; if I hold on in a consistent life, it is because he upholds me with his hand. I do nothing whatever towards my own preservation, except what God himself first does in me. Whatever I have, all my goodness is of the Lord alone. Wherein I sin, that is my own; but wherein I act rightly, that is of God, wholly and completely. If I have repulsed a spiritual enemy, the Lord's strength nerved my arm. Do I live before men a consecrated life? It is not I, but Christ who liveth in me. Am I sanctified? I did not cleanse myself: God's Holy Spirit sanctifies me. Am I weaned from the world? I am weaned by God's chastisements sanctified to my good. Do I grow in knowledge? The great Instructor teaches me. All my jewels were fashioned by heavenly art. I find in God all that I want; but I find in myself nothing but sin and misery. "He only is my rock and my salvation." Do I feed on the Word? That Word would be no food for me unless the Lord made it food for my soul, and helped me to feed upon it. Do I live on the manna which comes down from heaven? What is that manna but Jesus Christ himself incarnate, whose body and whose blood I eat and drink? Am I continually receiving fresh increase of strength? Where do I gather my might? My help cometh from heaven's hills: without Jesus I can do nothing. As a branch cannot bring forth fruit except it abide in the vine, no more can I, except I abide in him. What Jonah learned in the great deep, let me learn this morning in my closet: "Salvation is of the Lord. "

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"Salvation is of the Lord." - Jonah 2:9

Morning Devotional

We are all familiar with the zealous "soul winner" who dashes around, buttonholing unsuspecting prospects, leading them through a salvation formula, and badgering them until they finally make a profession in order to get rid of him. He chalks up another convert and then looks around for more heads to count. Is this evangelism?We would have to admit that it is not. It is a form of religious harassment. Like any service performed in the energy of the flesh, it does more harm than good.John Stott was right when he wrote: "Christ has the keys. He opens the doors. Then let us not barge our way unceremoniously through doors which are still closed. We must wait for Him to make openings for us. Damage is continually being done to the cause of Christ by rude or blatant testimony. It is indeed right to seek to win for Christ our friends and relatives at home and at work. But we are sometimes in a greater hurry than God. Be patient! Pray hard and love much, and wait expectantly for the opportunity of witness."We may not agree with much of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's doctrine, but we might well take to heart the following words of his: "The word of salvation has its limits. He has neither power nor right to force it on other men… Every attempt to impose the Gospel by force, to run after people and proselytize them, to use our own resources to arrange the salvation of other people, is both futile and dangerous… We shall only meet with the blind rage of hardened and darkened hearts, and that will be useless and harmful. Our easy trafficking with the word of cheap grace simply bores the world to disgust, so that in the end it turns against those who try to force on it what it does not want."Real conversion is a work of the Holy Spirit. It is "not of the will of man" in the sense that a man cannot produce it by his own efforts, however well intended. People who are pressured into a profession of Christ without the full consent of their will become disillusioned, disaffected and often become enemies of the Cross of Christ.It is one of the great experiences of life when the Holy Spirit uses us in the salvation of another person. But it is bizarre and grotesque when we try to do it in our own strength.

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"Salvation is of the Lord." (Jonah 2:9)

9 <poetry>But I, with shouts of grateful praise, <indent>will sacrifice to you.</indent> What I have vowed I will make good. <indent>I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>.’”</indent></poetry>

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Jonah 2:9

 9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise,   will sacrifice   to you. What I have vowed   I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation   comes from the Lord.’”

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The NIV is published by Zondervan in the United States and Hodder & Stoughton in the UK. The NIV was updated in 1984 and 2011 and has become one of the most popular and best-selling modern translations.

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 But I, with shouts of grateful praise,  will sacrifice  to you. What I have vowed  I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation  comes from the Lord.’”

<poetry>But I, with shouts of grateful praise, <indent>will sacrifice to you.</indent> What I have vowed I will make good. <indent>I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the <smallCap>Lord</smallCap>.’”</indent></poetry>

 But I, with shouts of grateful praise,   will sacrifice   to you. What I have vowed   I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation   comes from the Lord.’”

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