Fear & Anxiety

Prayer, The Cure for Care

Philippians 4:6

… FOR CARE OR ANXIETY. I suppose it is true of many of us that our cares are numerous. If you once become careful, anxious, fretful, you will never …

Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision

Luke 12:29

… to get into a state of worry, fretfulness, care, anxiety and distress. Our Savior's injunction means, "Do not be anxious about your temporal affairs." Be prudent. You …

Fever and Its Cure

Luke 4:38

… Now, when a soul gets into the fever of unbelief, fear and anxiety, it is in general disorder. Prayer is fevered. Song languishes. Patience fails. Service drags. The …

A Sermon to Ministers and Other Tried Believers

1 Peter 5:7

… be in Heaven, and let us carefully abstain from carelessness, being anxious only to end anxiety by a childlike confidence in God! II. Accept this little contribution towards …

First Things First

… Undue anxiety is very common among city men and it is not rare anywhere. Certain of us are nervous, timid, doubtful and prone to fear. There are plenty …

Thought Condemned, Yet Commanded

Matthew 6:31-33

… But the other could not rejoice notwithstanding all that he possessed! A Christian should not be one of those who are full of worry, those who rise up …

"My Times Are In Your Hand"

Psalm 31:15

… This blessed realization of the Lord's interposition causes us to glory in tribulation! Is not that a cure for worry, a blessed cure for anxiety? V. Fifthly …

Earth's Vanities and Heaven's Verities

Psalm 39:6-8

… And of that he says, "Surely every man walks in a vain show." Then he speaks of life as a worry. And of that he says, "Surely they …

Vanities and Verities

2 Corinthians 4:18

… a time that you need not worry and fret! Coming down from such a domestic grief as that, to a commercial anxiety—you have had a sad loss …

Sermon for New Year's-Day

Revelation 21:5

… O anxious one, it can turn you! I want, then, to drop into your ear—and may the Spirit of God drop into your heart—this word, you …

Pressing Questions of an Awakened Mind

Acts 9:5

… He would let those poor Christians in Damascus know! He would worry them out of their fanaticism. He would take care to let them see that Saul of …

More Room for More People

Luke 14:22

… In fact, it seems to them as if God never sent a new-born convert into their church except for them to worry it—not for them to …

Rejoice Evermore

1 Thessalonians 5:16

… Amidst a thousand duties give not way to a single anxiety! While you are desirous to honor God in everything, yet be not overburdened, even, with the cares …

Needless Fears

Isaiah 51:12

… spirit will fret and worry us from day to day. There is some oppressor, as the text puts it, whom we dread and fear continually, yet we forget …

Perfect Sanctification

Hebrews 10:10

… Hence many things which once caused us no disquietude now create in us great anxiety. We thought that we were all right and felt it to be enough …

"Without Carefulness"

1 Corinthians 7:32

… That calling may be one which, ordinarily, involves a vast amount of care and anxious thought and yet they cannot get out of it. They ought not to …

Martha and Mary

Luke 10:41-42

… She seemed to be more anxious about what she should do for Christ than she was grateful about what Christ had done for her! Then, you see, this …

Cumbered With Much Serving

Luke 10:40

… But you Sunday school teachers, if you are very anxious about your class—and remember, you ought not to be teachers if you are not anxious—you will …

Spring In The Heart

Psalm 65:10

… But they try to measure their faith and it seems so little when they contrast it with the faith of full-grown Christians that they fear it is …

Spring in the Heart

… Suppose you have good desires, but no blessing on these desires, they will only tantalize and worry you; and then, after a time, they will be gone, and …

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 …

The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear

… As soon as you enter upon your pastorate you may be waited upon by persons who are anxious to secure your adhesion to their side in a family …

The Weaned Child

Psalm 131:2

… for," said he, "with the infirmities of old age, I fear I get fretful and peevish and anxious. And when the day is over I do not feel …

Self-Humbling and Self-Searching

Solomon 1:6

… Are you prepared to receive it? Are you willing that this should be your eternal destiny? Are you not, rather, alarmed? Are you not made anxious and desirous …

An Anxious Enquiry for a Beloved Son

2 Samuel 18:29

… labor, grief, and anxiety with it. There is a joy in the parental relationship, but there must necessarily be a vast amount of anxious care with it throughout …

The Watchword For Today—"Stand Fast"

Philippians 3:20

… I like the spirit of Bayard, that "knight without fear and without reproach." He knew not what fear meant. In his last battle, his spine was broken and …

Messages to Sinners and Saints

Isaiah 30:15

… in those last days we shall neither fret, nor worry, nor trouble, nor question, nor doubt, nor fear—but in quietness and confidence shall be our strength! The …

Psalm 54

Psalm 54

… The vigour of faith is the death of anxiety, and the birth of security. EXPOSITION Verse 1. Save me, O God. Thou art my Saviour; all around me …

Morning, May 26

Ps 55:22

… The precept to avoid anxious care is earnestly inculcated by our Saviour, again and again; it is reiterated by the apostles; and it is one which cannot be …

A Cure For Care

1 Peter 5:7

… Let them rejoice, "Rejoice in the Lord always," but they never can, so long as they indulge in anxious cares. Besides this, these anxious cares do not only …

The Planter of the Ear Must Hear

Psalm 94:9

… When the fear of God is taken away from men, they frequently proceed to persecute His servants. The Prophet complains, "They break in pieces Your people, O Lord …

The Crown of Thorns

Matthew 27:29

… A poor reed was put into His hand for a scepter, and then the ribald soldiers dared to spit upon His face, and worry Him with their filthy …

Good Advice For Troublous Times

Isaiah 26:20

… Halt not through fear, be not paralyzed with apprehension! Come, My people; come to Me, come to your God, come to your Father, come to your Friend." For …

Psalm 127

Psalm 127

… Happy is the man who hits the golden mean by so working as to believe in God, and so believing in God as to work without fear. In …

A Wise Desire

Psalm 47:4

… relieve your mind from anxiety, that you would be better able to walk as a Christian should. For when a man is anxious he cannot pray; when he …

Lame Sheep

Hebrews 12:13

… They seem as if they never could quite recover from the sudden shock, or the protracted anxiety that has once impaired their strength, wrinkled their face and dried …

'I Have Enough'

Genesis 33:9

… One may be of a very happy and easy-going spirit, but the other possesses enough worry and care to have stocked the two. But here are two …

"Rest in the Lord"

Psalm 37:7

… Do not wish to pry into the secrets of the future, but "commit your way unto the Lord." Do not worry about the troubles or the present, but …

Aug. 25 — FOOD AND REST

Ezek. 34:15

… No dog shall worry them, no wolf shall devour them, no restless propensities shall disturb them. They shall lie down and digest the food which they have enjoyed …

The Lions' Den

Daniel 6:20

… Amidst work and worry, heavy responsibilities and incessant anxiety, you had need often renew the confession of sin and weakness on your bended knees. Then, again, you must …