{"id":7183,"date":"2026-07-27T04:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2026-07-27T04:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:44:52","slug":"the-preciousness-of-the-promises-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7183","title":{"rendered":"THE PRECIOUSNESS OF THE PROMISES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>THE PRECIOUSNESS OF THE PROMISES<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><em><br><\/em><em>By Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The promises of God<\/strong>&nbsp;are to the believer an \u2018inexhaustible<br>mine of wealth\u2019. Happy is it for him if he knows how to<br>search out their secret veins and enrich himself with<br>their hidden treasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are an \u2018armoury\u2019, containing all manner of offensive and<br>defensive weapons. Blessed is he who has learned to enter<br>into the sacred arsenal, to put on the breastplate and the<br>helmet, and to lay his hand to the spear and to the sword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are a \u2018pharmacy\u2019, in which the believer will find all<br>manner of restoratives and blessed elixirs; nor lacks there<br>an ointment for every wound, a cordial for every faintness,<br>a remedy for every disease. Blessed is he who is well skilled<br>in heavenly pharmacy and knows how to lay hold on the<br>healing virtues of the promises of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The promises are to the Christian a \u2018storehouse of food\u2019.<br>They are as the granaries which Joseph built in Egypt, or as<br>the golden pot wherein the manna was preserved. Blessed is<br>he who can take the five barley loaves and fishes of promise,<br>and break them till his five thousand necessities shall all<br>be supplied, and he is able to gather up baskets full of<br>fragments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, they are the \u2018jewel room\u2019 in which the Christian\u2019s crown<br>treasures are preserved. The regalia are his, secretly to<br>admire today, which he shall openly wear in Paradise<br>hereafter. He is already privileged as a king with the silver<br>key that unlocks the strong room; he may even now grasp<br>the sceptre, wear the crown, and put upon his shoulders the<br>imperial mantle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O, how unutterably rich are the promises of our faithful,<br>covenant-keeping God! If we had the tongue of the mightiest<br>of orators, and if that tongue could be touched with a live<br>coal from off the altar, yet still it could not utter a tenth<br>of the praises of the exceeding great and precious promises of<br>God. Nay, they who have entered into rest, whose tongues<br>are attuned to the lofty and rapturous eloquence of cherubim<br>and seraphim, even they can never tell the height and depth,<br>the length and breadth of the unsearchable riches of Christ<br>which are stored up in the treasure house of God\u2013<br>the promises of the covenant of His grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE PRECIOUSNESS OF THE PROMISESBy Spurgeon The promises of God&nbsp;are to the believer an \u2018inexhaustiblemine of wealth\u2019. Happy is it for him if he knows how tosearch out their secret veins and enrich himself withtheir hidden treasures. They are an \u2018armoury\u2019, containing all manner of offensive anddefensive weapons. 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