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Psalm 28
Psalm 28
… A sinner's wise resolution in the hour of despondency. Verse 1. The saint's fear of becoming like the ungodly. Verse 1. God's silence—what terror …
SERMON • SERMON 3435Sanctified Sorrow
Isaiah 54:11
… consolation be applied to any Church that is passing through a time of depression? All the promises of God are like minted gold, of sterling value and intended …
SERMON • SERMON 2925Reasons For Doubting Christ
Matthew 14:31
… To be gloomy and depressed is not sinful at all, but there may have been in the midst of that, the sin of unbelief. There may have been …
SERMON • SERMON 1535Christ's Universal Kingdom and How It Comes
Psalms 2:8
… You and I are often downcast and depressed and our forebodings are dark and dismal, but God sits in His eternal peacefulness and serenely overrules tumult and rebellion …
SERMON • SERMON 1399Am I My Brother's Keeper?
Genesis 4:9
… I remember years ago, when I labored to feel the responsibility of men's souls upon me, I became very depressed in spirit and the temptation arose out …
SERMON • SERMON 2132Christ Put On
Romans 13:14
… that last little word, "Be thankful," to farmers and others whose interests are depressed. I might equally recommend it to certain trades people whose trade is quite as …
SERMON • SERMON 2638The Right Observance of the Lord's Supper
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
… I am very glad that I can remember it, but that recollection is of little use to me when I get depressed in spirit. No, then I need …
SERMON • SERMON 3313A Practical Discourse
1 Kings 5:14
… Does anybody know how precious the Gospel is till he has seen it light up the eyes that were dim with despondency? Does any man know how the …
SERMON • SERMON 2964'Trust in the Living God'
1 Timothy 4:10
… alive and He can fill it, so you must not give way to despondency or despair. We may grieve, for even Jesus wept, but let us never distrust …
SERMON • SERMON 1011Job's Regret and Our Own
Job 29:2
… His soul was depressed; he had lost the light of God’s countenance; his inward comforts were declining, his joy in the Lord was at a low ebb …
SERMON • SERMON 2702'Marvelous Loving Kindness'
Psalm 17:7
… every common blessing of Providence, but they would also see it in every despondency, in every deficiency, in every cross and every loss—and, seeing it, they would …
SERMON • SERMON 1000Number One Thousand; Or, “Bread Enough and To Spare”
Luke 15:17
… she is going down, the captain is persuaded she must be a wreck. Depressed by such evil tidings, the men refuse to work; and since the boats are …
SERMON • SERMON 1475Crowning Blessings Ascribed to God
Psalm 65:11
… gone! How many you have helped by sweet encouragement when they have been depressed! I know not all your labors of love, but God knows! This much I …
SERMON • SERMON 2601Small Things Not to Be Despised
Zechariah 4:10
… If we feel that we have become useless and for that reason our spirit is greatly depressed, let us give heed to this sweet, this charming exhortation of …
SERMON • SERMON 2758'Return Unto Your Rest'
Psalm 116:7
… Perhaps the rod will fall more heavily upon them and their souls will sink into a deeper despondency. For a Christian to once be a fool, is a …
SERMON • SERMON 1062Why Am I Thus?
Romans 7:22
… Do not be depressed about it. Say, "after all, there is some life here." Where there is pain there is life. The best of God's saints have …
SERMON • SERMON 1544Mahanaim—or, Hosts Of Angels
Genesis 32:1
… Alas, as soon as he lost sight of them, poor Jacob was depressed in spirit again about his brother, Esau, lest he should slay the mothers with the …
SERMON • SERMON 736A Happy Christian
Isaiah 58:11
… The prevalence of unbelief, depression of spirit, backsliding and indifference to heavenly things becomes chronic, and they grow so familiar with reflecting upon it that they regard it …
SERMON • SERMON 2465Our Omnipotent Leader
Matthew 28:18
… we were aching in every bone of our body and if we were depressed in soul—this ought to be enough to make us full of gladness to …
SERMON • SERMON 2433Heman's Sorrowful Psalm
Psalm 88:13
… the footprints of another human being? So here, on the lone island of despondency, you shall be able to trace the footprints of another who has been there …
SERMON • SERMON 216Confession and Absolution
Luke 18:13
… as if your eyes were so used to the darkness of doubt and despondency, that even one stolen ray seemed to be too much for your poor weak …
SERMON • SERMON 1126A Song Concerning Loving Kindnesses
Isaiah 63:7
… Tell how He has blessed you with countless mercies and it will make the daughters of despondency rejoice, and the sons of mourning lift up their heads! Last …
SERMON • SERMON 3327Our Lord's Heroic Endurance
Hebrews 12:3
… He did stagger and did sweat great drops of blood when He was under the deep depression of His own spirit—caused by our sins being laid upon …
SERMON • SERMON 784The Rose and the Lily
Solomon 2:1
… If you are so depressed by your trials that you can by no means rejoice knowing your name is written in Heaven, then I think you do not …
SERMON • SERMON 1292The Soul-Winner
Proverbs 11:30
… Some are very depressed. You will have to comfort them. Perhaps you will comfort them too much and make them unbelieving! Therefore, possibly instead of comforting them, you …
SERMON • SERMON 895A Summons To Battle
2 Samuel 11:1
… forth its mire most horribly, so I have found it with regard to despondency and feebleness of faith. At certain times these tyrants make havoc in our souls …
SERMON • SERMON 3436Christ Glorified
Isaiah 55:5
… glorified! In every step the Believer takes, right out of the slough of despondency, up to the Beulah hilltop of full assurance and still onward beyond the clouds …
SERMON • SERMON 2295God's People—or Not God's People
Hosea 2:23
… Whether we are joyous or depressed, if we are the Lord's people, all is working for our good! "We know that all things work together for good …
SERMON • SERMON 3034Reasons for Seeking God
Amos 5:8
… be in the ascendant and we should be visited with a winter of despondency, chilled by howling winds of fear and sharp frosts of dismay—if we seek …
SERMON • SERMON 861Broken Bones
Psalm 51:8
… Observe, negatively, he did not lie down sullenly or in despondency—he turned to his chastening God in prayer! He did not offer sacrifices, nor attempt good works …
SERMON • SERMON 3453The Wandering Bird
Proverbs 27:8
… In sheer despondency they shut their eyes and swallowed the bitter pill. It did not take five minutes to do it. Their friends said it was wise. Ill …
SERMON • SERMON 311The Beginning, Increase, and End of the Divine Life
Job 8:7
… Oh, Mistress Despondency, the dungeons of Giant Despair’s castle are not to be thy perpetual abode; thou, too, shall stand upon the top of Mount Clear, and …
SERMON • SERMON 1999Small Rain for Tender Herbs
Deuteronomy 32:2
… In His teaching He evidently thought of the feebler sort and suited Himself to those depressed by grief. You find no hard words thrown in to make the …
SERMON • SERMON 3475The Soul's Great Crisis
Romans 7:8
… And for need of knowing what it is and what God is driving at, some of them are often driven to very great despondency—some even to despair …
SERMON • SERMON 1419Encouragement to Trust and Pray
Isaiah 30:19
… You are depressed at this time by heavy grief. Things have gone amiss with you—you do not prosper in business, or you are sickening in body—or …
SERMON • SERMON 620A Warning Against Hardness Of Heart
Hebrews 3:13
… And when much depressed on account of his folly, the devil said to him by way of temptation, "Do it again, do it again," for said he, "the …
SERMON • SERMON 1411Under Constraint
2 Corinthians 5:14
… or singing, anxious or hopeful, victorious or defeated, increasing or decreasing, elevated or depressed we may still follow our one design and devote ourselves to the holy cause …
SERMON • SERMON 322A Divine Challenge!
Exodus 8:1
… which is given in the Scriptures is the most deplorable picture that even despondency, itself, could paint! Ah, men talk about some remnants of good that are left …
SERMON • SERMON 164The Loved Ones Chastened
Revelation 3:19
… perhaps, that you have committed any gross act of sin; still this dark depression continues, and at last you discover that you had been living in a sin …
SERMON • SERMON 334Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing
2 Samuel 3:39
… Heaven whose names on earth were Little-Faith, and Ready-to-Halt, and Despondency, and Much-Afraid! You may be an anointed king, and yet exceedingly weak in …