Fear & Anxiety

The Dawn of Revival, or Prayer Speedily Answered

… So long as God understands it, the troubled mind has no anxiety about its modes of speech. Daniel here, with what the old Divines would have called multiplied …

A Page From a Royal Diary

Psalm 119:132

… Oh, that we all spoke with greater freshness and naturalness in prayer—that we had no thought about keeping on with fine language, but great anxiety as to …

Encourage Your Minister!

Deuteronomy 1:38

… I like those who fear the Lord to speak often to one another. We are getting into a bad state when they who fear the Lord speak often …

Dwell Deep, O Dedan!

Jeremiah 49:8

… Hypocrites are the devil's martyrs—they endure a life-long martyrdom of constraint and fear. I have seen, when I was a boy, a juggler in the …

A Honeycomb

Hebrews 12:3

… Ah, and there is good cause to fear it. "Fear Him who can cast both body and soul into Hell, yes, I say unto you, fear Him." But …

Eternal Faithfulness Unaffected By Human Unbelief

2 Timothy 2:13

… He will bring himself great anxiety, labor and travail, but the work is honorable and has so large a spiritual reward that a man is wise to choose …

Enoch

Genesis 5:21-24

… He tells us His secret, the secret of the Lord, which He reveals only to them that fear Him. And we tell Him, alike, our joys in praise …

The Right Kind of Fear

Proverbs 28:14

… And I would like you also to be anxious in your business, for fear lest you should in any way take advantage of anybody—lest, in the measure …

A Dire Disease Strangely Cured

Isaiah 53:5

… I wish it were painful to every unhealed man and woman, for they might then be anxious to be cured of it. And let me tell you that …

Backsliding Healed

Hosea 14:4

… I fear I should feel the hardening effect of slavish fear, and like Hagar, flee into the wilderness. If the prodigal son had once suspected that he was …

Certain Singular Subjects

Joshua 24:4

… stands the fact—in birth there is joy tempered with godly fear, hope mingled with sacred anxiety and high advantage which may yet most sadly end in deepened …

Good Works In Good Company

Solomon 7:11-13

… Let us be particularly anxious, therefore, that we do not fall little by little. And let us watch that we do not suffer small sins to get force …

The Hexapla Of Mystery

1 Timothy 3:16

… O dear Hearers, I may not speak to you much longer and every time that I am kept away from addressing you I feel a deep anxiety that …

Love Thy Neighbour

Matthew 19:19

… seen to, thine own comfort will be a very primary theme of thine anxiety. Thou wilt line thine own nest well with downy feathers, if thou canst. There …

Those Who Desire

Nehemiah 1:11

… If you do not desire to fear God, you do not fear Him. If you do not feel any desire after that which is right in God's …

The Anxious Enquirer

Job 23:3

… There is another hopeful sign about this anxious enquirer. Not only has the man this one desire, but it is an intense desire. Hear the text again. "Oh …

A Call to the Lord's Own Flock

Ezekiel 34:30

… Let us spend the time of our sojourning here in fear, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God. This is the special matter …

The Blessing of Full Assurance

1 John 5:13

… You will be anxious now to understand the terms, and to make sure of the clauses, and you will even wish to remember every word of the clause …

The Beloved Pastor's Plea for Unity

Romans 1:7

… He was, he says, anxious to do good to others. He longed to see the Roman Christians in order that he might impart to them some spiritual gift …

The Everlasting Arms

Deuteronomy 33:27

… That young man has begun to preach a little, but he says, "I fear that I shall break down." Dear Brother, if you get a message from God …

Love's Labours

1 Corinthians 13:7

… Though everything may be pure and right, yet certain weak minds are suddenly fevered with anxiety through the notion that all is wrong and rotten. This unholy mis …

How to Read the Bible

Matthew 12:3-7

… You are scarcely allowed to put your eye on the manuscript, for fear you should blot a letter out by glancing at it; it is such a precious …

Mysterious Meat

John 4:31-38

… were not worth a thought! If you and I felt our Lord's anxiety to be serving God and winning souls, we should find refreshment in the service …

A Golden Sentence

John 4:34

… forgive or the equally absurd fear that he may possibly find a decree of God shutting him out when he is anxious to be reconciled. Where God gives …

Flesh And Spirit—A Riddle

Psalm 73:22-25

… We get our telescope out sometimes to look to the future, and we breathe on the glass with the hot breath of our anxiety. And then we think …

Our Stronghold

Proverbs 18:10

… It is a stern conflict and you fear that the sons of Anak will never be driven out. You feel you carry a bombshell within your heart. Your …

Psalm 125

Psalm 125

… Like a prince, Israel has prevailed with God, and therefore he need not fear the face of man; his wrestlings are over, the blessing of peace has been …

Contention Ended and Grace Reigning

Isaiah 57:16-18

… The Spirit of God has come to you as a spirit of bondage and this makes you fear, but fear is often the outrider of faith. The Lord …

Faith Without Sight

John 20:29

… We ought to be very anxious to win souls for the Lord Jesus Christ, but blessed is the man who goes on faithfully preaching the Gospel even if …

Eternal Life!

John 17:3

… Whenever sin returns to assail you and you get troubled and perplexed, do you not go and look, again, to Christ upon the Cross, and all your anxiety …

Sin's True Character

Romans 7:13

… To reject loving messengers sent from God, godly parents, earnest pastors, affectionate teachers—to reject the kind message that they bring and the yearning anxiety that they feel …

Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:13

… The possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification. "Forgive us our debts," that is justification. "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil …

A Single Eye And Simple Faith

Matthew 6:22

… were equally anxious that they should be thought well of in their oratory, so that they should not say a course rough word, for fear of degrading their …

Ben-Hadad'S Escape—An Encouragement For Sinners

1 Kings 20:31-34

… There are thousands of men in London who would open their shops tonight if it were not for the influence of those who fear the Lord. Their shops …

"Behold the Lamb of God"

John 1:29

… And yet, once more, there seems to be a deep anxiety on John's part in the words of my text. He says, "Behold the Lamb of God …

The Moral of a Miracle

Mark 11:22

… Only trust in the eternal power and Godhead and there is nothing between here and Heaven that need give you any fear! If we are without God we …

Imitators of God

Ephesians 5:1

… What are we sent into the world for? Is it not that we may keep men in mind of God, whom they are most anxious to forget? If …

"Lead Us Not Into Temptation"

Matthew 6:13

… So I look upon this prayer as exhibiting that blessed childlike confidence which tells its father a fear which grieves it whether that fear is altogether correct or …

The Conditions Of Power In Prayer

1 John 3:22-24

… It is precisely so with us towards God, who is a perfect Parent, and therefore we may, without fear of mistake, always make His pleasure the rule of …

Pictures of Life

James 4:14

… Some translate this passage as "the ships of desire," that is, the ships hurrying home, anxious for the haven and, therefore, crowding on all sail. You may well …