Doubt & Assurance

From Death To Life

1 Samuel 2:6

… No doubt, the man now sees death written upon all his hopes. There was a door through which I had hoped to enter eternal life. I had spent …

A Last Look-Out

2 Timothy 4:6

… Certainly, whether we doubt it or not, we shall have to go. There will be a departure for us. Beloved believer in Christ Jesus, to you the soft …

Intercessory Prayer

Psalm 141:5

… and for the tried, for the troubled and for the downcast—with the assurance that whatever we shall ask in prayer, believing, we shall receive. In this thing …

The Thorn in the Flesh

2 Corinthians 12:7

… He continued to pray till at last he received for an answer not the removal of the thorn, but the assurance, "My Grace is sufficient for you." God …

Hidden Manna

Jeremiah 15:16

… To tender-hearted Jeremiah I have no doubt it was a trial to say, “Your city will be destroyed, and your women and your children will be slain …

Ask and Have

James 4:2

… Prayers which are filled with doubt are requests for refusal. Imagine that you wrote to a friend and said, "Dear Friend, I am in great trouble and I …

Psalm 125

Psalm 125

… certainly a rise in the sense is here perceptible, since full assurance concerning years to come is a higher form of faith than the ascription of farther escapes …

Our Change of Masters

Romans 6:18

… is a blessed thing when the Lord enables us to feel a clear assurance that our baptism was not a mere form, but the instructive token of a …

A Cure For Unsavory Meats—or, Salt for the White of an Egg

Job 6:6

… This holy savor cannot be imitated or borrowed! It must come of personal assurance. It is a holy thing and the composition thereof is known only to the …

Sin's True Character

Romans 7:13

… Full assurance rings out her clarion trumpet strain and we ought to be able to send it forth, but sometimes we are unable. Conquest over sin gives us …

The Secret of a Happy Life

Psalm 16:8

… Very frequently the fellowship was exercised in prayer, for our Lord, though He is described as praying very much, no doubt prayed infinitely more than any Evangelist has …

The Truth Of God's Salvation

Psalm 69:13

… It is good milk, but you must let it stand a while and then you will find the cream of enjoyment, assurance and realization which will make you …

Christ in You

Colossians 1:27

… If you are such a poor Believer that you can hardly think of assurance or confidence, yet if you trust the Lord, as surely us the sun comes …

"Speak, Lord!"

1 Samuel 3:10

… If You will give me the assurance of Your love, my heart shall dance at every sound of Your voice. Only speak, Lord; for Your servant hears." I …

Resurgam

1 Corinthians 15:35-38

… Though there shall seem to be but little similarity, yet shall no man doubt but that the very body which was sown in the earth hath sprung up …

Learning in Private What to Teach in Public

Matthew 10:27

… Cannot we find a Brother who preaches both those Truths? Yes, no doubt we can, but, then, that Brother will probably fail to see some other Truth of …

Adoption—The Spirit and the Cry

Galatians 4:6

… We do not doubt tee the loving union of all in the work of deliverance. We reverence the Father, without whom we had not been chosen or adopted …

What the Lord's Supper Sees and Says

1 Corinthians 11:26

… He will come. " And, oh, blessed assurance, He must keep His promise! This Supper is His pledge and it would be a cruel mockery of us if He …

Not Sufficient and Yet Sufficient

2 Corinthians 3:5

… I suppose there may be, but all that doubt which is now so popular and ostentatiously labels itself, "honest doubt," I am a little suspicious of. If I …

The Arrows of the Bow Broken in Zion

Psalm 76:3

… But when He "rose again for our justification," our security was no longer in doubt! In His death He paid the debt. In His resurrection He obtained the …

The Minister'S Stock-Taking

Acts 28:24

… Are you full of assurance and confidence? Then Paul preaches to you from this text—"I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor …

The Real Presence, the Great Want of the Church

Solomon 3:4-5

… They must get beyond the feebleness which is full of doubting and fearing, into the assurance which grasps the Savior, and the fellowship which lives in daily communion …

The Great Mystery of Godliness

1 Timothy 3:16

… Beyond all doubt "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." "Handle Me and see," says He, "a Spirit has not flesh and bones as you see …

For the Sick and Afflicted

Job 34:31

… And we have his assurance, besides, that all things work together for our good. Our trials are not merely sent with a good object, but with an object …

The Believer in the Body and Out of the Body

2 Corinthians 5:5-10

… In that condition to which we are speeding, we shall also be beyond all doubt as to the truth of our holy faith. There will be no more …

The Blind Befriended

Isaiah 42:16

… And oh, Brothers and Sisters, there are many blind sinners here tonight who, I have no doubt, could guide others in the ways that they know! They could …

The Lion and the Bear—Trophies Hung Up

1 Samuel 17:36

… If you have any doubt about whether Jesus Christ is able and willing to help you in your present trouble—and to deliver you from your present doubt …

I Will Give You Rest

… Neither unbelief nor superstition can avail to lull it to sleep; it defies these opiates of falsehood, and frets the soul with perpetual annoyance. Like the troubled sea …

A Sermon of Personal Testimony

Deuteronomy 32:47

… No Christ Jesus? Why, we have in secret had such fellowship with Him as a man has with his dearest friend! We could doubt our own existence sooner …

Forgiveness Made Easy

Ephesians 4:82

… When through doubt and anxiety I was not sure of my pardon, yet it was still true; for he that believeth on him is not condemned, even though …

God Pleading For Saints, And Saints Pleading For God

Lamentations 3:58

… and may be able to speak with the clear, melodious voice of full assurance, "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to …

God's People—or Not God's People

Hosea 2:23

… through Jesus Christ? He that believes in Christ Jesus may have the blessed assurance that the Lord loves him and that he is one of the Lord's …

Christ Is All

Colossians 3:11

… will be lost; you need not doubt of that, you will be lost sure enough; but why need you make the assurance of your condemnation doubly sure by …

The Holy Road

Isaiah 35:8

… Brothers and Sisters, a way is made for us through the deserts of sin and the wildernesses of sorrow—over hills of doubt and mountains of fear! That …

Walking Humbly With God

Micah 6:8

… guard, now, than ever, against pride, for a haughty spirit lurks in an assurance of humility like a lion in its den! The leaven of self is brought …

Psalm 129

Psalm 129

… In her present hour of trial she may remember her former afflictions and speak of them for her comfort, drawing from them the assurance that he who has …

The Necessity of Ministerial Progress

… They swallow the medicine of every spiritual quack who has enough of brazen assurance to appear to be sincere. Be ye not such children in understanding, but test …

God's Fire and Hammer

Jeremiah 23:29

… Perhaps another friend says, "I have lost so much of my comfort, assurance and joy, that I feel as if I had grown quite cold and hard and …

The Believer Catechized

John 11:26

… I doubt not that for every pain which racks this mortal frame there is a pain reliever among the herbs of the fields and for every disease there …

Where True Prayer is Found

2 Samuel 7:27

… There are times with us when we find it in our heart to pray a prayer and then we do so with eagerness and assurance. But we cannot …