Fear & Anxiety

"The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved"

John 21:20

… He believed in his Master in a sweetly familiar way, "for there is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear." Such a trustful, confiding disciple …

Encouragements To Prayer

Psalm 81:10

… The exhortation of the text means, then, shake off all fear, and, also, exercise a holy boldness of familiarity and freedom in the Presence of the Most High …

Present Privilege And Future Favor

Deuteronomy 33:27

… Surely, if "the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him," the secrets of them that fear Him ought to be, and must be with their …

Christ the Maker of All Things New

… It is the freshest news that an anxious heart can hear! It is the most novel music by which a troubled breast can be soothed! Jesus Christ's …

Precepts and Promises

John 12:26

… true, "Where I am, there shall also My servant be." Some people are anxious to know more concerning the condition of the redeemed between death and the Resurrection …

Zedekiah—or, the Man Who Cannot Say, "No"

Jeremiah 38:5

… He that fears God is under no necessity to fear anybody else. True godliness infuses courage into the heart—in this respect, also, "perfect love casts out fear …

The Child Of Light Walking In Darkness

Isaiah 50:10

… As to the thoughtless, "What is the chaff to the wheat? says the Lord." The Lord's heart is towards the hearts that fear Him and He makes …

The Unknown Ways of Love

John 13:7

… I hope, dear Brothers and Sisters, our faith in Christ does not rest upon our capacity to understand what He does! If so, I fear it is not …

Strong Consolation for the Lord's Refugees

Hebrews 6:18

… I am always sorrowful when hallowed fear departs from a man so that he no longer dreads self-deception. But the fear of presuming may be perverted by …

Intercessory Prayer

Job 42:10

… eminent for piety personally, who has not always been pre-eminent in his anxious desires for the good of others, and in his prayers for that end. Take …

Examination Before Communion

1 Corinthians 11:28

… On the contrary, my soul longs that the whole of you might truly feel and say, "Yes, we do love the Lord, and we are anxious to come …

The Judgment Seat Of God

Romans 14:10-12

… But inside the charmed circle of Christian communion there should be esteem for one another, a defending of each other—we should be anxious to apologize for infirmity …

Jacob's Model Prayer

Genesis 32:9-12

… for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. And You said, I will surely do you good, and make …

Fountains of Repentant Tears

Mark 14:72

… Do you remember how earnestly you used to teach the children, how anxious you were to lead the little ones to the Savior, and the intense joy with …

A Call to Holy Living

Matthew 5:47

… Now have all much cause for heart-searching here, but the misery is that the very men who have most cause to be anxious will refuse to search …

Rest, Rest

Matthew 11:28-30

… If you learn of Jesus you will have rest from the fear of men. I recollect, before I came to London, being at a prayer-meeting where a …

Jesus and His Forerunner

John 10:39-42

… hope of blessing because such hearers would have come to us prepared and anxious to learn the way of salvation. Do you not know that when you go …

The Proof of Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 13:3

… he was as a nurse, continually on the watch and, in all tenderness, anxious for her little ones. He was deeply grieved when he saw anything wrong, lest …

Paul—His Cloak And His Books

2 Timothy 4:13

… Noble example! How anxious all Christians ought to be to see that they do not come to want in their old age! Yet Paul does come to poverty …

The Way of Wisdom

Job 28:7

… Others who were anxious about him slept amidst the gods of the valley, not knowing, except by faith, that their supplications for him would be heard. And that …

The Lord's Own Salvation

Hosea 1:7

… In many cases I fear that the disappointed Church has become more hard to stir than it was before. Brethren, I hopefully believe that there will soon come …

The Pierced One Pierces The Heart

Zechariah 12:10

… And each night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming and each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this next day God would hold us …

The Word of a King

Ecclesiastes 8:4

… I fear that some Christian people have been looking in many other directions for the power which can only be found in the Word of the King. At …

A Sincere Summary—and a Searching Scrutiny

Psalm 119:168

… There are some persons who appear to be very scrupulous concerning the precepts and they are very anxious to keep them. So far, they do well. But as …

Counting the Cost

Luke 14:28-30

… He was anxious to leave a living Church like good seed-corn in the land—as free as possible from all admixture. Therefore in this particular instance one …

The First Day Of Creation

Genesis 1:4

… There are times when, through doubt, fear and a keen sense of sin, we begin to question whether the Lord has ever shone upon us at all! And …

The Recorders

1 Chronicles 16:4

… This is a great gift and a worthy use for it, but I fear that few of us have it. It is not likely that men could say …

Our Last Journey

Job 16:22

… Was he righteous or wicked? Did he fear God or despise Him? Whether he was rich or poor, his rank and station are subjects of indifference. The hangings …

The Peace of God

Philippians 4:7

… How grateful we ought to be that we can meet together to worship God after that form which best satisfies our consciences without any fear of being hunted …

The Best Thing in the Best Place

Psalm 37:31

… And often have I paused, when I was speaking, for fear I would not say the right word. That holy caution is most commendable in all who have …

The Red Heifer

Hebrews 9:13

… Abraham, however much he may love his Sarah, soon becomes anxious to bury his beloved dead out of his sight. Now, what death does for the "human face …

Heaven's Nurse Children

Hosea 11:3

… The old fear was slain at once; they had been slaves, and dreaded their masters, but the strength of Egypt had been so terribly broken at the Red …

A Discourse to the Despairing

Genesis 42:1

… Jacob was of a timorous disposition in his latter days—he had an old man's fear of that which is high and the grasshopper had become a …

Choice Food for Pilgrims to Canaan

Exodus 33:14

… I am with you." Will she not have done with her sobbing? So does the Lord say, "How can you fear? How can you fall? I am with …

The Water of Life

John 4:15

… You have broken away from indifference and obstinacy—you are now anxious and desirous to obtain salvation by Jesus Christ. It is to you that I wish to …

The Weary Dove's Return

Genesis 8:9

… I speak what I know, for with weary wings have I fled across the waters, and with anxious eyes have I scanned the horizon, but there is no …

All the Promises

2 Corinthians 1:20

… So, whenever I hear or read of anyone speaking or writing against the Divine decrees I at once feel anxious to bow my head and to prostrate myself …

Without Christ—Nothing

John 15:5

… But now, in the second place, there passes through my heart a shudder—A SHUDDER OF FEAR. Albeit I glow and burn with strong desire and rise upon …

God's Non-Remembrance of Sin

Isaiah 43:25

… When a man's sins are set before him in the light of God's Countenance, his first instinct is to fear that they are altogether unpardonable. If …

The Key-Note of a Choice Sonnet

Luke 1:46

… She says, ‘Holy is his name, and his mercy is on them that fear him.’ She magnifies the name of the Lord. If he has given her a …