Fear & Anxiety

Others To Be Gathered In

Isaiah 56:8

… They are not satisfied unless they see conversions! They are anxious to hear the cry of penitents! I wish they had far stronger longings and more intense anxieties …

Children Brought to Christ, and Not to the Font

Mark 10:13-16

… first, because they discouraged those who would bring others to him; and secondly, because they discouraged those who themselves were anxious to come to him. They did not …

Hope for the Worst Backsliders

Jeremiah 3:22

… They do not want to keep the counterfeit money which they once reckoned to be great riches—they are anxious to be rid of it! Yes, Brothers and …

A Visit to the Harvest Field

James 5:7-8

… then, the hope that cheers, the fruit that buds and blossoms, and verily, too, the profit of that struggle of faith and fear incident to waiting will all …

The First Five Disciples

John 1:37-51

… There was no man more anxious to convert souls than Paul, though there was no man more sound in the doctrine of the election of God. He knew …

Mysterious Visits

… We shall half wish that the morning may never break again, for fear its light should banish the superior light of Christ’s presence. We shall wish that …

The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus

2 Timothy 2:8

… The venerable minister is anxious about the young man who has preached with remarkable success and whom he regards, in some respects, as his successor. The old man …

Taking Hold of God

Isaiah 64:7

… And here I shall be addressing, I hope, many now present who are sincerely anxious to find present salvation. If you really wish to be reconciled to God …

Fire—the Need of the Times

Luke 12:49

… Enlist beneath My banner and from this day be a champion for the Truth which you have despised." Never let us fear! The fire of God which Christ …

The Present Crisis

Hosea 5:15

… Dear Friends, I shall speak, this morning, with the most anxious desire to be practical. I am longing and praying in my heart that wherever sin has begun …

More and More, or Less and Less

Matthew 13:12

… True Grace must grow—there is no fear about its increase. If the bulb of the lily is really alive, the fair flower will crown its stem before …

The Royal Prerogative

Psalm 68:20

… We wish that all the human race would come and accept the provisions of infinite Love and we are anxious to go into the highways and hedges and …

The Message from the Lord's Mouth

Ezekiel 3:17

… Why is such startling ability to be flaunted if the object is to warn a sinner to flee from the wrath to come? I fear that my Brothers …

The Minister’s Self-Watch

… The fear of the Lord must teach the young man wisdom, or he is barred from the pastorate; the grace of God must mature his Spirit, or he …

The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God

1 Timothy 1:11

… O let my anxious questions tenderly quicken you to be concerned about your soul's affairs and to seek unto the Lord Jesus for eternal life! Paul, having …

Personal Service

Psalm 116:16

… Thou hast loosed me from the bonds of worldly maxims; thou hast delivered me from the fear of man; thou hast rescued me from the stooping and fawning …

The God of the Aged

Isaiah 46:4

… An old man is not anxious about self. He hath not the cares of starting in business, as he once had. He hath no children to launch out …

Public Meeting Of Our London Baptist Brethren

… be so anxious about the rural districts? One could not desire a better thing than that those members of Parliament who are so afflicted for fear the country …

The Soul Winner

… Thus they have no fear; or, if they do fear at all, they do not live in constant dread of that eternal destruc- tion from the presence of …

Early Wedded Life

… Voltaire, and other notable or notorious men, and we listened, with something like fear, to the thunderous echo which lurks there, and attracts visitors to these subterranean vaults …

Struggles of Conscience

Job 13:23

… The better a man is, the more anxious is he to know the worst of his case. The more a man gets rid of sin and the more …

Psalm 41

Psalm 41

… How foolish are they that fear to lose their wealth by giving it, and fear not to lose themselves by keeping it! He that lays up his gold …

Spiritual Transformations

Isaiah 4:13

… And let us all tell how sometimes our ungodly relatives have made our hearts beat fast with dread anxiety for them! Lot cannot live in Sodom without being …

Hope for Your Future

… Whose fault is that? The kitchen is the same and the food the same— I fear the appetite has gone. How ravenous I was after God's Word …

Individuality, and Its Opposite

… Be not in so much hurry  to do  that you forget  to be,— so anxious to give out that you never take in. This is the haste which …

Glimpses of Essex and Cambridgeshire Life, 1853

… Some friends had visited him, and had observed that, if they were blessed with his experiences, they should be beyond all doubt and fear; and he replied that …

Jesus, The Gread Object of Astonishment

… a wolfish glance; no selfish care lent to His features a sharp and anxious cast. Such an unselfish, holy life as His ought to have rendered Him, if …

The Great Change.—Conversion

… When I was anxious about the possibility of a just God pardoning me, I understood and saw by faith that He who is the Son of God became …

John Ploughman's Talk

… They have the fear of the minister a deal more before their eyes than the fear of God. Their religion lies in imitating the religious; they have none …

Psalm 95

Psalm 95

… So that your fear, or your despondency, or your anxiety, in circumstances of perplexity, or peril, are nothing less than the calling upon God to depart from his …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… We have lost a friend; we are in anxiety about one who is all to us; we know not which way to turn for tomorrow's bread or …

Powerful Persuasives

Matthew 11:27-28

… Ye students, anxious for knowledge, chary of sleep, burning out the midnight oil. Ye labour with exhausted brains; therefore, come. Come from struggling after fame. Ye pleasure—seekers …

“In Labours More Abundant”

… Thomas Olney — " Father Olney," as he was affectionately called by our Park Street friends, — was very anxious that I should go and preach at Tring, the little Hertfordshire …

Psalm 64

Psalm 64

… Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. From harm and dread of harm protect me; or it may be read as an expression of his assurance that …

Eyes Opened

Genesis 21:19

… So some souls have such grief for sin; such sorrow for having offended God; such fear of wrath to come that they cannot perceive the Truth of God …

The Horns of the Altar

1 Kings 2:30

… and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness." I have two lessons I am anxious to teach at this time. The first is derived from …

The Joy of Harvest

… Alas, a frost of doubt came; snow of fear fell; cold winds of despondency blew on you, and you said, “There can be no hope for me.” But …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890 (Continued)

… the matter abroad, so far as I am concerned, I neither court nor fear publicity in any of my actions ; and, in this case, if the simple truth …

The Lord’s Hand behind the Maid’s Mistake

… When a man has no fear of God before his eyes, there is no wonder that he should run to an excess of meanness, and even to an …

To Workers with Slender Apparatus

… I earnestly wish that such a beginning had been made everywhere; but, alas! I fear that a long succession of starveling ministers will alone arouse the miserly to …