Doubt & Assurance

A Vile Weed and a Fair Flower

Hebrews 13:5

… well as today—but abstain from fretfulness, murmuring and abhor every tendency to unbelief, lest you provoke Him to anger— "Commit all your griefs And ways unto His …

Under His Shadow

… The joy of the Lord is our strength, and it is when we delight ourselves in the Lord that we have assurance of power in prayer. Here faith …

The Interest Of Christ And His People In Each Other

Solomon 2:16

… Be not happy; take no solace find no comfort as long as there is any doubt about your union with the Beloved—His possession of you and your …

David's Dying Song

2 Samuel 23:5

… But once make me doubt that, and you will see me the vilest character living under the sun. Take from me the everlastingness of the gospel, and you …

Salvation by Grace

Ephesians 2:5

… The mercy is that even if you have, in your anxiety—perhaps I ought to say in your unbelief—been saying, "Because I am not the hand, I …

Open Praise and Public Confession

Psalm 138:1-3

… Thank God, faith, as well as unbelief, is contagious! And if— "One sickly sheep infects the flock, And poisons all the rest"— there is another side to that …

"Rest in the Lord"

Psalm 37:7

… bring you, this day, by the operation of His Grace, upward from doubt to assurance, from fretfulness to rest! Rest is a blessing which properly belongs to the …

Concerning the Consolations Of God

Job 15:11

… I will close by saying that one of the worst causes of disquietude is unbelief. Have you begun to distrust? Do you really doubt your God? Then I …

Feeble Faith Appealing to a Strong Savior

Mark 9:24

… to that one matter of his own unbelief—he did not even mention his poor child! His child was, no doubt, still in his thoughts, yet his prayer …

Sorrow and Sorrow

2 Corinthians 7:10

… There are some who also erroneously think that sorrow for sin must be mixed with unbelief They suppose that if a man is sorrowful for sin, he must …

Why the Heavenly Robes are White

Revelation 7:14

… sin, as it made Job sin in a certain way and as, no doubt, it caused the martyrs many a secret sin even though they were triumphant over …

A Blessed Gospel Chain

John 14:23

… There have been times, with me, since I have known the Savior, when it seemed to me as if I could not doubt my Lord—as if I …

Without Money and Without Price

Isaiah 55:1

… We are to buy it, that is to say, we are to have it with as good as a right, and as full an assurance, as if we …

The Security Of Believers—Or, Sheep Who Shall Never Perish

John 10:27-30

… He flashed in the faces of His adversaries this grand but humbling Truth, "You believe not, because you are not of My sheep." Your unbelief is just an …

Darkness Before the Dawn

Solomon 2:17

… So the child of God may one day walk with full assurance of faith, in close fellowship with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ, and at …

Encouragement for the Depressed

Zechariah 4:10

… But the Prophet rebuked them both—rebuked the unbelief of friends and the contempt of enemies, by this question—"Who has despised the day of small things?"—and …

The First Beatitude

Matthew 5:3

… And it is such a work that it bears within it the promise, yes, the assurance of salvation—for the poor in spirit already possess the Kingdom of …

Rejecters Of The Gospel Admonished

Isaiah 28:12

… Gospel promises to remove! He shall have rest in Christ, even "quietness and assurance forever." It is written, "for this Man shall be the peace." "Being justified by …

Concerning Prayer

Psalm 86:6

… All sorts of absurdities, I do not doubt, have come from the long-continued and thoughtless repetition of mere words. I am not now speaking against the use …

"The Marriage of the Lamb"

Revelation 19:7

… Here to demonstration, beyond all possibility of doubt by any true heart, the Well-Beloved proved His love to us. See how it runs—"He loved me and …

Stephen's Death

Acts 7:59

… If you have no assurance of salvation, do you expect it to come to you on your dying bed? Why, my dear Friend, when the pain increases and …

Further Afield

Acts 13:46-48

… God forgive our unbelief and at the same time kill it! The great Father has set Christ Jesus to be "salvation unto the ends of the earth." So …

A Hasty Expression Penitently Retracted

Psalm 31:22

… Let us begin by listening to AN UTTERANCE OF UNBELIEF—"I said in my haste, I am cut off from before Your eyes." Note here, first, that unbelief …

Mourning at the Cross

Zechariah 12:10

… That silly talk when we ought to have been proclaiming His Gospel—those doubts and fears, that wicked unbelief when we ought to have been fully trusting Him …

The Safeguards of Forgiveness

2 Samuel 12:13

… I will not deny that it was our unbelief in Christ that kept us there, but, at the same time, I see how God, in His wise Providence …

Jesus Christ Himself

Ephesians 2:20

… All power is given unto Him in Heaven and in earth and, therefore, are we to proclaim His life-giving Word with full assurance of success. He causes …

A Song Among the Lilies

Solomon 2:16

… with love of his character and person, and then doubt is doomed. We do not slay our unbelief by reason, but we annihilate it by affection. The influence …

God Our Portion and His Word Our Treasure

Psalm 119:57

… Beyond a doubt, You are, at this very moment, my portion, O Lord. May the Lord teach you, Brothers and Sisters, to speak in the same confident manner …

The Well-beloved's Vineyard

Isaiah 5:1

… all His pains? Have we given Him hardness of heart instead of repentance? Unbelief instead of faith? Indifference instead of love? Idleness instead of holy industry? Impurity instead …

Psalm 13

Psalm 13

… Faith is now in exercise, and consequently is readily discovered; there is never a doubt in our heart about the existence of faith while it is in action …

An Earnest Warning Against Unbelief

Hebrews 8:18

… But when it came to unbelief—a doubt of Him who was so clearly God, a denial of His power, His faithfulness, His Truth—then they were shut …

Prayerful Importunity

Luke 18:7

… sad eye and we say, "Ah, the millennium is many years off." Indeed, unbelief says it is quite impossible! "How shall the heathen bow before Him? How shall …

The Coming Resurrection

John 5:28

… So the Savior tells them that if the two former things made them wonder and made them doubt, what would this doctrine do—that all the dead should …

The Lord's Knowledge, Our Safeguard

2 Peter 2:9

… Do not let us get into such a condition that others may justifiably doubt us, but if they maliciously doubt us—if without cause they cast out our …

Multitudinous Thoughts And Sacred Comforts

Psalm 94:19

… No man has any right to believe that he is saved upon any assumed and taken-for-granted ground of assurance. He who is afraid to examine himself …

New Uses for Old Trophies

2 Kings 11:10

… So they served to kindle emulation, I doubt not, in the breasts of true-hearted sons. Thus it was while generations sprung up and passed away; till at …

And Why Not?

Luke 17:22

… Holy anxiety, when it broods over us, is often mistaken for unbelief. Full assurance is suspected to be presumption and joy is doubted and stinted for fear it …

Holy Water

John 4:14

… We must not profess to believe with the creed of the head while the heart remains in unbelief. We must not pay to our Lord the empty compliment …

The Two Guards Praying and Watching

Nehemiah 4:9

… They had a full assurance that, though He was the God of the whole earth, yet He was especially their God—and so they made their prayer unto …

The Pastor’s Parting Blessing

Romans 16:24

… doubt know that Jesus loves you, and the fact being ascertained, may you drink deep into the fullness of its meaning. May you be ravished with the assurance …