Faith

Frost and Thaw

… As the bulb of the crocus holds up its golden cup to be filled with sunshine, so did our new-born faith open itself to the glory of …

Psalm 121

Psalm 121

… Romaine read this psalm every day; and sure it is, that every word in it is calculated to encourage and strengthen our faith and hope in God.— Samuel …

Christ and His Table-Companions

… My dear brethren and sisters, are you all Christ’s servants consciously? If so, though the service may at times seem heavy because your faith is weak, yet …

Delay Is Dangerous

Genesis 24:55

… Success, which was in perfect harmony with his faith and with the Divine promises, at once crowned his efforts. The maiden best adapted above all others to be …

Bringing the King Back

2 Samuel 19:10

… Your faith is not the faith of God's elect." He will tear up, one after another, all your comfortable experiences even as the wild boar out of …

Prayer 22 — The Presence of God

… The Lord be with these dear workers throughout today and make it a high day, a festival of prayer and faith, a time when Jesus the Lord shall …

Fear Not

Isaiah 41:14

… Try and make it so by faith; and the least of you may be mighty through the strength of God. O for grace to trust God, and there …

Dec. 31 — NO STRANGER IN HEAVEN

Ps. 73:24

… 73:24 From day to day and from year to year my faith believes in the wisdom and love of God, and I know that I shall not …

Distinguishing Grace

1 Corinthians 4:7

… Each act that I perform is marred, either by want of prayer for a blessing upon it, by want of faith in my Lord, or by pride in …

Psalm 35

Psalm 35

… The assurance that God will save some is a faith incident to devils. The very reprobates may believe that there is a book of election; but God never …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… Naturally we walk by sight; and to sing the Lord's song is possible only to faith. Faith is the soul's sight: faith is seeing the Invisible …

Open-Air Preaching — A Sketch of Its History

… It may suffice us, however, to go back as far as the origin of our own holy faith, and there we hear the forerunner of the Saviour crying …

Pure Fun

… Spurgeon’s solidity of thought, steadfastness of purpose, and unfaltering faith in God as the chief characteristics of his life,—the firmament across which the flashes of his …

Psalm 150

Psalm 150

… Praise God with a strong faith; praise him with holy love and delight; praise him with an entire confidence in Christ; praise him with a believing triumph over …

Psalm 8

Psalm 8

… He can carry thee upon eagles' wings, enable thee to bear and suffer strong affliction for him, to persevere to the end, to live by faith, and to …

Patient Job and the Baffled Enemy

Job 1:22

… A cloud of witnesses look down upon the feats of Faith and note with joy how it achieves everything which the Lord appoints it to perform. It even …

The Fear of Final Falling

… all time, and for all eternity, have failed because they had a temporary faith, which never went far enough to save them. They set out trusting to Jesus …

The Fruits of Grace

Isaiah 19:18-25

… If Egypt shall be saved, have faith for this Egypt. If Assyria shall be saved, have confidence in God for those who are often worse than heathens, and …

Psalm 117

Psalm 117

… praise Jehovah, unless they were to be gathered into the unity of the faith together with the children of Abraham. Second, The Summary of the Gospel , namely, the …

Christ Manifesting Himself to His People

John 14:22

… And faith will sometimes so outsoar the wings of time, that we can bring futurity to the present, and see that great and pompous appearance, when on the …

The Comforter

John 14:26

… Come to him in all boldness of faith; tell him thou hast grieved him, and he will forget thy wandering, and will receive thee again; the kisses of …

Psalm 103

Psalm 103

… Without faith and hope in the heart, even the bravest determination to remain young always, or at least as long as possible, must give away before the first …

The Great Catastrophe at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall

… William Olney to see the place ; and though we felt it to be a venturesome experiment to attempt to preach in so large a building, we had faith …

Effectual Calling

Luke 19:5

… Fearing lest the principles of Christian faith, which he had endeavoured to instil into his mind, would be rudely assailed, but trusting in the efficacy of that word …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890 (Continued)

… Spurgeon, from whom we learned lessons of patience, trust, and faith, that we hope we shall never unlearn ; but if I should tell you how fully you captured …

Psalm 93

Psalm 93

… our faith is grounded upon the eternal truth of the Most High. Holiness becometh thine house, 0 LORD, for ever. Truth changes not in its doctrines, which are …

The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption

Romans 8:15

… The Word contained in Scripture is quite enough for us if we have a saving faith. We accept it and believe it. The Spirit of God thus witnesses …

'Magnificat'

Judges 5:12

… thou my faith, awake also! Love has the sweetest voice, hope can thrill forth the higher notes of the saved scale; but thou, O faith—with thy deep …

The Young Soul-Winner at Waterbeach

… One day, when I was talking with her, she told me that she had not any hope at all; she had no faith; she believed that she was …

"Noli Me Tangere" ("Touch Me Not")

John 20:17

… I believe there are some minds so feeble that they would scarcely get any faith at all if there were not some touch of the supernatural about them …

The Soul's Desertion

Song 5:6

… When Jesus Christ is gone, everything is amiss—love nearly expires, hope scarcely glimmers, faith is well-nigh paralyzed, no Grace is in lively exercise! Without the life …

Living Temples for the Living God

Isaiah 66:1

… THAT is an excellent answer which was given by a poor man to a skeptic who attempted to ridicule his faith. The scoffer said, "Pray Sir, is your …

False Professors Solemnly Warned

Philippians 3:18-19

… You may be very good, but if you will take a trifle of my advice, I recommend you to “examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith,” lest …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:7

… O for faith to believe that. O! for confidence in God never to doubt him, but in the darkest moment of our sorrows, still to feel all is …

A Vision of the Latter-Day Glories

Isaiah 2:2

… We will leave the avenue of troubles and of trials through which the church has passed and is to pass, and we will come, by faith, to the …

A Searching Test

Titus 1:15

… guilt of it! Faith will cleanse him, applying to him the precious blood and the water which flows from the side of Christ! Faith will, by the Holy …

Negotiations For Peace

Acts 10:36

… The faith which saves is a faith which produces a change of life, and subdues the soul to obedience to the Lord. Be not deceived—where Jesus comes …

The Bed and Its Covering

Isaiah 28:20

… If by faith you can put this garment on, it is broad enough to cover you; though you were wide as giant Goliath, and though your heads reached …

A Miracle of Grace

… Let your own faith in God stimulate you to believe that all things are possible. Never give them up, never give them up. Are you a mother—you …

Our Magnificent Savior

Isaiah 53:11

… Sacrifice is by knowing and believing—not by doing! We are justified by faith, and not by the works of the Law. "By the works of the Law …