Family & Children

"Herein Is Love"

1 John 4:10

… I rather want to press home to the conscience of every child of God here that God loves him. You know very well that God did not love …

An All-important Question

John 9:35

… Even when the dear children appear to be favorable to the reception of the Truth of God, to be impressed by the story of the Cross and to …

The Place of Prayer and Pardon

2 Chronicles 6:28-30

… THE Temple was intended to be the center of prayer for all the children of Israel. Those who could do so went up to it a certain number …

Experiences after Conversion

… They are very good for people who are unconverted to go to, but of very little use for children of God. That is my notion of Methodism. It …

Unconditional Surrender

James 4:7

… No father can let his boy bend his little fist in defiance, and yet treat that child with the same love and fondness as his other children, who …

'Never, No Never, No Never'

Hebrews 13:5

… The mother, as she presses her child to her bosom, says, "I will never leave you, nor forsake you," but she knows not how soon that little child …

Kept From Iniquity

Psalm 18:23

… I am now talking to the child of God—the man or woman who has spiritual life. I speak to you, my dear Brothers and Sisters, because you …

The Tenderness of Jesus

Hebrews 4:15

… The great loaves of wisdom must be broken and crumbed into a basin of milk for the children. How few remember the words, "Let the children first be …

The True Lineage

Luke 11:27

… She had to be washed from sin, both original and contracted, in the precious blood of her own Child, "the Son of the Highest." Neither could she have …

Bochim—Or, the Weepers

Judges 2:4

… Not that parents can teach children so that they know the Lord in their hearts, but God has so put it—"Train up a child in the way …

Breakfast With Jesus

John 21:12

… Hear His cry, in the ancient Song of Songs—"Eat, O Friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved." Dear child of God believe and doubt not. Should a …

Am I My Brother's Keeper?

Genesis 4:9

… Converted children can lisp the name of Jesus to their sires and bless them! We have all some capacity for doing good. Now, take it as an axiom …

Marah; or, The Bitter Waters Sweetened

Exodus 15:23-25

… We have heard of some who have repined that they had no children, and, like Rachel, their cry was, “Give me children, or else I die.” Ere long …

"The King Can Do No Wrong"

2 Samuel 3:36

… The father said to me, "God could not take that child away." He had lost several children, before, and he said that if his daughter died, he would …

Sweet Stimulants for the Fainting Soul

Psalm 42:6

… When the young Believer has first to suffer from it, he thinks that he cannot be a child of God, "For," he says, "if I were a child …

Enquire of the Lord

Ezekiel 36:37

… Their children have sprung up as among the grass and as willows by the water courses. When they have been "diminished and brought low," it has been because …

Faith Victorious

Matthew 15:21-28

… children of Israel, that Christ had been with, had turned into dogs; but here is a dog of a Canaanite and she has turned into a child." I …

God's Desire for Us, and His Work in Us

Psalm 51:6

… So sin is a disease which, when God sees in His own beloved child, He perceives it with sorrow and He is quick to remove it and to …

The Blessing of Full Assurance

1 John 5:13

… Surely I shall come across some child of God who is dying in the dark." But I have not met with any such. Brethren, a child of God …

Grace Abounding

Hosea 14:4

… what was worse, he made his children to pass through the fire to the son of Hinnom, put his own child to death as a sacrifice to the …

A Welcome Discovery

Genesis 21:19

… It was necessary that they should be sent away from the child of promise. God, nevertheless, had designs of good towards Ishmael and his mother. Still He tried …

Prayer 3 — The Love Without Measure or End

… Let no child of Thine have any dead work upon his conscience and may our conscience be purged from dead works to serve the living and true God …

Man'S Weakness—God'S Anointing

2 Samuel 3:39

… Every child of God also was actually anointed when Jesus Christ ascended up on high and led captivity captive and received gifts for men. When Jesus took His …

Foundation Work

1 Kings 5:17

… the salvation of a child as with the salvation of a full-grown man. Christ receives adults, but He also suffers little children to come to Him. Let …

True Prayer—True Power!

Mark 11:24

… When you have taken the case of your sick child before God to believe that the child will recover, or if it should not, that it will be …

Soul Saving Our One Business

1 Corinthians 9:22

… The same is true of the Sunday school teacher and of all other workers among children—if they have merely taught the child to read, to repeat hymns …

The Everlasting Arms

Deuteronomy 33:27

… Many a father feels that he cannot indulge his child as he would wish to indulge him when he finds the child negligent as to his father's …

Servus Servorum

Luke 22:27

… He was seen, one day, lying in his hut, teaching a little Red Indian child to say, "a, b, c." Somebody said, "What? Is this David Brainerd teaching …

Love's Great Reason

1 John 4:19

… The way to be saved for man, woman, or child is to trust Jesus for the pardon of sin—and then, trusting Jesus, love comes as a fruit …

Rejoice Evermore

1 Thessalonians 5:16

… He would have His children wait upon Him with a light in their faces which is the reflection of His own! He would have His joy fulfilled in …

The Broad Wall

Nehemiah 3:8

… Now, according to your profession, you are a living child of God, you have received a new life, whereas the children of this world are dead in trespasses …

Miracles Of Love

Isaiah 38:17

… I am like the child which said to its mother, "Mother, I will bring the sea to you," and the little one went down to the shore and …

Some Marks of God's People

Psalm 68:28

… The true child of God loves God! There are many men who are, to a certain extent, religious because they feel bound to be so by a law …

Prospect—"He Will Keep"

John 17:11

… Our little children sing— "I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How He called little children like lambs to …

First Printed Works.–Author, Publishers, and Readers

… The writer says, "A father sitteth in his room, and there cometh in a stranger; the stranger taketh up a child on his knee, and the child hath …

The Teaching of the Holy Ghost

John 14:26

… Now, there are some things which you and I can do naturally, when we are but children without any teaching. Who ever taught a child to cry? It …

God's Thoughts Of Peace and Our Expected End

Jeremiah 29:11

… The child playing on the deck does not understand the tremendous engine whose beat is the throbbing heart of the stately Atlantic liner, but all is safe, for …

Both Sides of the Shield

Exodus 17:8

… the Lord shall have them in derision." Woe be to the man who wantonly attacks the saints of the Most High God! Be not disquieted, O child of …

The Prosperous Man's Reminder

Hosea 13:5-8

… They rendered existence misery and life itself a perpetual death! The children of Israel went three days without water—they came to wells where they expected to drink …

Sunlight for Cloudy Days

Psalm 40:17

… The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. Many of you make a profession of being the children of God. Can …