Fear & Anxiety

Daily Blessings for God's People

Psalm 68:19-20

… Why fret and worry? The world went on very well before you were born; it will when you are dead. Leave the helm. Whenever you have been foremast …

The Water and the Blood

John 19:34

… IT is with much fear and trembling that I usually stand upon this platform—not that I shrink before the face of the multitude however large, but the …

An Antidote to Satan's Devices

Genesis 3:1

… Andifyou call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear In holy …

Plenary Absolution

Psalm 103:12

… Why do you go about trembling and saying, "I fear!—I am afraid!" What do you fear, O Man? What do you fear? Are you a Believer and …

A Message From God To His Church And People

Habakkuk 3:2

… But, alas, I fear that oftentimes to us Providence is dumb because we are deaf. How often, in our stubbornness, we are like the horse and the mule …

Enquirers and Converts (Continued)

WHEN talking with anxious enquirers, I am often amazed at the ingenuity with which they resist the entrance of the truth into their hearts. I do not think …

The Best House-visitation

Mark 1:29-33

… So when God's grace comes, the one who has been the object of the most anxiety becomes the happiest of all; the sinner, saved by sovereign grace …

Miracles Of Love

Isaiah 38:17

… This subject has carried my own soul away in my private contemplations, but I fear I cannot set it forth to you as I would wish. I am …

Elijah Fainting

1 Kings 19:4

… Oft it causes anxious thought— Do I love the Lord, or no? Am I His, or am I not?" Now that kind of anxiety is right enough, but …

A Frail Leaf

Job 13:25

… You fear that your sins are not pardoned, that your past transgressions are all brought to remembrance and that punishment is being meted out to you in full …

Bringing the King Back

2 Samuel 19:10

… We shall not worry ourselves about the concerns of the Church, nor take upon ourselves any labor in connection with the Master's vineyard." Ah, but if your …

Knowing and Doing

John 13:17

… If you pray that you may not grieve the Spirit of God, nor cause Him to depart from you, your daily anxiety shall bring its results and you …

A Summons To Battle

2 Samuel 11:1

… I will not cease to testify of the way of salvation to those who are anxious to listen to it"? I beseech you, therefore, because evidently there is …

'The Time Is Short'

1 Corinthians 7:29

… There are some diversions which afford a respite from the incessant strain of labor and anxiety and are profitable to strengthen the mind and brace up the nerves …

Broken Bones

Psalm 51:8

… That which is merely on the surface is not a matter which may cause us deep anxiety—but a broken bone is not a thing to laugh at …

Satan's Arrows and God's

Lamentations 3:12

… But if now the anxious soul should find shelter and rest in the Atonement of Christ, the Prince of Darkness will have lost it forever and, therefore, he …

Witnessing at the Cross

Luke 23:39-43

… But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Do not you fear God, seeing you are in the same condemnation? And we, indeed, justly, for we receive the due …

A Pastoral Letter Accompanying Sermon 221

… hath God wrought!” Ah, sirs! if ye knew in what fear we begun, and with what anxiety we have continued—if ye knew the unrequited exertions of those …

Sounding Out the Word of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 1:8

… Feeling a modest fear that he does not deserve the warm commendation, the good man is anxious to live up to the character imputed to him. This will …

Help for Seekers of the Light

Isaiah 59:9

… you might but gain the unspeakable blessing! You are sincerely anxious for reconciliation with God and your anxiety reveals itself in prayer and supplication. I hope these prayers …

Obeying Christ's Orders

John 2:5

… Their being there has made a greater demand upon the provisions than was expected and the supply is running short, so she, with an anxiety that was natural …

Medicine For The Distracted

Psalm 94:19

… He meant take no carking care, no anxious thought. It was anxiety, not prudence, which He condemned. Christians are among the most thoughtful and contemplative of men. It …

A Definite Challenge for Definite Prayer

Mark 10:51

… Who was the son of Timaeus that he should say, "You Son of David, have mercy on me"? They were all anxious to hush the voice of misery …

A Clarion Call to Saints and Sinners

Micah 2:10

… because it is polluted." You have those whom you love, for whom you pray with deep anxiety, who make you often realize that your relationships in life are …

An Assuredly Good Thing

Psalm 73:28

… Nor need the strength of the hills provoke our anxiety, for it is His, also. Yet such is the tendency of the human heart, that we crave to …

The Form of Godliness Without the Power

2 Timothy 3:5

… If you are, indeed, pure gold, you may still feel anxiety at the sight of the furnace but you will not be driven to anger at the prospect …

God's Mercy Going Before

Psalm 59:10

… you try to do good, you will discover that the person you are anxious about has been prepared by God on purpose for you? For instance, a man …

A Prophetic Warning

Matthew 24:12

… He had taught them before, "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to …

The Sealing of the Spirit

Ephesians 1:13

… There are many who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ who are extremely anxious to obtain some token for good, some witness from God which shall render …

The Cripple at Lystra

Acts 14:9-10

… He listens still, but it is no longer with painful anxiety; a calm satisfaction is palpable on his face now. That soul of communion which is in the …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers

… During a very serious illness, I had an unaccountable fit of anxiety about money matters. There was no real ground for apprehension, for my dear wife and I …

Israel's Hope—Or, The Center of the Target

Psalm 130:7

… I fear it is only a convenient phrase, a conventional expression which is not to be too carefully examined. They do not mean a living, foreseeing, providing, working …

Compel Them to Come In

Luke 14:23

… You do not know, and I suppose could not believe, how anxious a man whom God has called to the ministry feels about his congregation, and especially about …

Gratitude for Great Deliverances

Psalm 102:19-22

… Now, like as a father and a mother of a family pity their children, so the Lord pities them that fear Him— and He especially pities His poor …

A Bit of History for Old and Young

Genesis 48:15

… For temporal things they had no anxiety, for they lived upon the All-Sufficient God. Therefore these two men, Abraham and Isaac, though much tried, led peaceful lives …

The Way Everlasting

Psalm 139:24

… Though anxious and even desirous to take the right road, yet I may come to a place where two ways meet which seem, both of them, to be …

Visits From the Lord

John 21:7

… O Soul, if you would serve the Lord, serve Him with holy fear, for though He is very near to you, He is God—and you are man …

A Vile Weed and a Fair Flower

Hebrews 13:5

… So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me." Hebrews 13:5 , 6 . IS it …

Memory—The Handmaid Of Hope

Lamentations 3:21

… To you who are laboring under anxious thought I now address myself. Let me bid you to remember, in the first place, matters of the past. Shall I …

The Everlasting Counselor

Micah 4:9

… God." The knowledge that "He cares for you" ought to drive all your anxious cares away! One reason why many of us are slow to take counsel of …