Fear & Anxiety

The Judgment Upon Zacharias

Luke 1:20

… Shall anxiety or tribulation, disappointment or disaster sever my heart from devotion to him? Nay, God give me grace to see my cattle destroyed, and my goods swept …

The Evidence of Our Lord's Wounds

John 20:27

… I said to myself, "What made me love God as I know I do? What made me feel an anxiety to be like him in purity? Whatever made …

Christ Exalted

Hebrews 10:12-13

… Sit still, blessed Jesus, while there is a fear of thy people being lost? Sit still, while their salvation is at hazard? No; alike thy truthfulness and thy …

The Pastors’ College, 1861-1878

… This I do in the fear of God, expecting His blessing in the deed, since I have a single eye to His glory and the benefit of His …

A Singular But Needful Question

John 5:6

… Who would not be made whole? Would the poor man have been lying at the pool if he had not been anxious for healing? Must there not have …

Household Sin and Sorrow

… Isaac is anxious to give the blessing. Rebekah is anxious. Jacob is anxious to get it for himself. And so all round they did not lean on God …

The Believer Not An Orphan

… Our Saviour knew the fear that was in their hearts, and before they could express it, He removed it by saying, “You shall not be left alone in …

The Special Call And The Unfailing Result

1 Corinthians 1:9

… Yes, I am brought into the lowest depths of anxiety! Who is sufficient for these things? To order and distribute its sacred offices aright, to govern with discretion …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

… A heat of fear, a chill of horror, a flaming desire, a horrible insensibility—by these successive miseries a convinced sinner is brought to death's door. And …

Might Have Been, or May Be

John 11:37

… only dealt with what might have been and what could not be! I fear a great deal of our religion is of that kind. But what a mercy …

Psalm 115

Psalm 115

… Whatever our trouble may be, and however fierce the blasphemous language of our enemies, let us not fear nor falter, but confidently rest in him who is able …

The Blood-Shedding

… What question does he ask? Does he raise his eyes with eager anxiety and inquire if the wound be mortal, if the practitioner’s skill can suggest the …

A Most Needful Prayer Concerning The Holy Spirit

Psalm 51:11

… Secondly, we shall employ it, as I think it may be used, as the cry of an anxious Church. And then, thirdly, but in a very modified sense …

A Prospect of Revival

Isaiah 51:3

… is kept hard at work for God, every soul upon the stretch of anxiety to do good and communicate, every disciple a good soldier of the Cross, fighting …

A Double Silver Wedding

… Professing their faith in Christ, living in His fear, dying in the faith, they gave us no cause to doubt their sincerity ; and, therefore, we may not question …

Healed or Deluded? Which?

Jeremiah 8:11

… Convinced that they need healing and made, in a measure, anxious to find it, the danger with the awakened is lest they should rest content with an apparent …

The Minister’s Fainting Fits

… The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body. Our Sabbaths are our days of …

On Laying Foundations

Luke 6:46-49

… I am anxious to speak, at this time, to those who are just beginning to build for eternity. I am indeed happy to know that there are many …

How To Keep the Heart

Philippians 4:7

… I know that I myself, even in my merriest moments, am disturbed; that when my enjoyments run the highest, still there are waves of doubt and fear across …

God’s Tender Care

How careful God is of His people; how anxious He is concerning them, not only for their life, but for their comfort. Does He say, “Strengthen ye, strengthen …

A Merry Christmas

Job 1:4

… on it—he who was so anxious to keep his children clean, was himself more anxious that he might always fear his God and eschew evil! God said …

July 2 — REFRESHING SLEEP

Ps. 127:2

… 127:2 Ours is not a life of anxious care, but of happy faith. Our heavenly Father will supply the wants of His own children, and He knoweth …

Feb. 27 — UNSTAGGERING TRUSTFULNESS

Ps. 112:7

… When we have no news from home, we are apt to grow anxious, and we cannot be persuaded that "no news is good news." Faith is the cure …

April 12 — HE REMEMBERS NO MORE

Jer. 31:34

… God's free pardon makes us anxious never again to grieve Him by disobedience.

March 25 — REFRESHING SLEEP

Prov. 3:24

… If with our lying down there is a laying down of all cares and ambitions, we shall get refreshment out of our beds such as the anxious and …

July 16 — WORD TO HIM WHO HALTS

Zeph. 3:19

… They are in the right road, and exceedingly anxious to run in it with diligence, but they are lame, and make a sorry walk of it. On the …

May 14 — SURGERY FOR HEALING

Hosea 6:1

… Is the reader now under the convincing, crushing hand of the Spirit? Has he received the spirit of bondage again to fear? This is a salutary preliminary to …

The Happiness of Religion

… needed them, but because God would show how He loved us, and how anxious he was that we should be happy. Now, it is not likely that the …

Divine Destruction and Protection

Ezekiel 17:29

… You, too, who tremble at his word; when, you see the threatening, fear lest it should be executed upon you; when you hear the promise, hardly think it …

Jacob Worshipping on His Staff

Hebrews 11:21

… You can see that not even one single rootlet of his soul has taken hold upon Egypt—his first anxiety is to take care that not even his …

Morning, January 18

Heb 4:9

… suffer weariness, but in the land of the immortal, fatigue is never known. Anxious to serve his Master, he finds his strength unequal to his zeal: his constant …

Morning, August 6

Is 21:11

… clear and fair overhead? We must care for the Church of God with anxious love; and now that Popery and infidelity are both threatening, let us observe the …

Evening, February 12

Jn 14:16

… Is his presence recognized as it ought to be? We cannot control his working; he is most sovereign in all his operations, but are we sufficiently anxious to …

Evening, September 17

De 1:38

… Talk cheerily to the young and anxious enquirer, lovingly try to remove stumblingblocks out of his way. When you find a spark of grace in the heart, kneel …

Evening, March 7

Ps 118:8

… Does this evening’s portion meet the eye of a child of God anxious about temporals, then would we reason with him awhile. You trust in Jesus, and …

Morning, July 14

Ex 20:25

… The proud heart of man is very anxious to have a hand in the justification of the soul before God; preparations for Christ are dreamed of, humblings and …

'Do I Love the Lord or Not?'

John 21:17

… He shielded them from bootless anxiety. Yet Peter was grieved. Now why should you and I be grieved when the enquiry turns upon our sincerity? You know that …

Morning, October 13

2Co 7:10

… close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold us up that we may not sin …

Morning, May 22

Ps 107:7

Morning, May 22 Go To Evening Reading “He led them forth by the right way.” Psalm 107:7 Changeful experience often leads the anxious believer to inquire “Why …

Morning, July 3

Ge 41:4

… How anxious should I be to have no lean-fleshed days, no ill-favoured hours! If every day I journeyed towards the goal of my desires I should …