“The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.” Psalm 34:15

A child of God should never feel forgotten because the eyes of the Lord are always upon the righteous. Our circumstances have not escaped His notice. He knows our circumstance because He has ordained it according to His eternal purpose and will. A child of God should also be comforted to remember that the ears of our heavenly Father are always open to the cries of His children. Not only does our Father hear the cries of His children but He tells us that we “ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Luke 18:1). What comfort to know that the Lord sees His people and will always hear their prayer.

If God is sovereign, and His is (Daniel 4:35); if we are begotten of God according to His own will, and we are (James 1:8); if the New Birth is not a result of the will of man, and it most certainly is not (John 1:18); then what is being preached from most pulpits is not from God. Brethren, listen to the message that is being preached and if it contradicts God’s Word, COME AWAY FROM IT! Irreverence to the inspired Word of God breeds irreverence to God Himself.

Author Unknown

SALVATION IS ALL OF GRACE - SO WHY NOT ME? (Romans 9:16)

God does not save any man because there is anything in that man that deserves salvation. He saves sinners because He delights to show mercy. The reason for redemption is found in Him, not in us. His mercy planned salvation, His grace chose us, His love gave Christ to redeem us, and His power keeps us. "So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy."

If you have been looking for some reason in yourself why God should show mercy to you, you look in vain! If you have weighed your works and considered your contributions to the kingdom in order to merit God's favor, you'll only be disappointed in the end! The Lord saves whomsoever He will. His own declaration to Moses is, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

Now then, if it be God's will to save sinners who have no good in them, who do not merit or deserve His love; if He delights to show mercy to all who call upon Him, why should He not save me and you? I certainly qualify as the chief of sinners. If God is pleased to provide a full Savior, I can provide an empty sinner. If Christ died for the ungodly then He certainly died for me! If Christ is the Friend of sinners, I lay claim to His friendship. This religion that requires merit and personal righteousness offers me no hope; but God's free grace to the undeserving, God's sovereign mercy to the ill-deserving, and Christ's effectual atonement for the helpless bring me to His Throne of Grace crying, "God be merciful to me, the sinner." "All the fitness He requireth is to feel your need of Him." WHY NOT ME?

Pastor Henry Mahan

Most preachers are sculptors. They take a sinner and chisel here, cut there, sand down this part, hammer another part until at last they have formed him into a believing godly man. (Is 41: 6-7) Yet, apart from the work of the Spirit within, he is only a statue—“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” (2 Tim 3: 5)