The Promises of God

An extract from the “Chequebook of the Bank of Faith” by Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892).

 

Mr Spurgeon (1834-1892) was a Baptist minister in London who preached the Gospel to multitudes at a time when dreadful apostasy was entering Britain, when "the truth as it is in Jesus” was largely being despised. He was known as the Last of the Puritans, and his sermons are an excellent introduction to Puritan teaching.    

 

 

The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it. (Genesis 28:13)

 

No promise is of private interpretation: it belongs not to one saint but to all believers. If, my brother, thou canst in faith lie down upon a promise and take thy rest thereon, it is thine. Where Jacob 'lighted' and tarried and rested, there he took possession. Stretching his weary length upon the ground, with the stones of that place for his pillows, he little fancied that he was thus entering into ownership of the land; yet so it was. He saw in his dream that wondrous ladder which for all true believers unites earth and heaven, and surely where the foot of the ladder stood he must have a right to the soil, for otherwise he could not reach the divine stairway. All the promises of God are 'Yea' and 'Amen' in Christ Jesus, and as He is ours, every promise is ours if we will but lie down upon it in restful faith.

 

Come, weary one, use thy Lord's words as thy pillows. Lie down in peace. Dream only of Him. Jesus is thy ladder of light. See the angels coming and going upon Him between thy soul and thy God, and be sure that the promise is thine own God-given portion and that it will not be robbery for thee to take it to thyself, as spoken specially to thee.