Fear & Anxiety

Commendation for the Steadfast

Revelation 3:8

… Oh, that men who have ten talents would not be so anxious to be original in their teaching! Oh, that they would cease to display their own thought …

Martha And Mary

Luke 10:38-42

… That spirit, I fear, is growing in these times, and needs to be checked. After all, there is Truth and there is error, and charitable talk cannot alter …

Strong Faith in a Faithful God

Psalm 57:2

… Master's approval, fear not, for He performs all things for you. At this moment you have many perplexities. You may vex yourself with anxiety, and make yourself …

What Jesus Would Do

Matthew 23:37

… Oh, but Jesus would have you spared from all this anxiety! He would have you covered so completely that you would not have known fear! He would have …

Psalm 123

Psalm 123

… they have a holy awe and inward fear of the great and glorious One. They watch, obediently, doing his commandments, guided by his eye. Their constant gaze is …

Declaring the Works of the Lord

Psalm 118:17

… Moreover, I know that you want to guide the anxious and how shall they be guided so well as by telling them what the Lord does? If you …

To-morrow

Proverbs 27:1

… It is a positive command that we are to take no anxious thought concerning to-morrow. No, how can I do that? How can I put myself into …

"Feed My Lambs"—a Sunday School Sermon

John 21:15

… These are very sincere, but sadly anxious, scarcely knowing what full assurance means, but yet true and resolute. Their faith is a trembling one, crying, "Lord, I believe …

Sight For Those Who See Not

John 9:39

… Fear is a blessed thing—"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"—even slavish fear of God is a great deal better thing than presumption …

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… We should always be anxious to receive all who will come to Christ. At the same time, we must exercise judgment and not put down everybody as converted …

Withholding Corn

Proverbs 11:26

… be reached by the common people? We have heard of some and we fear we know some who would rather round a period than win a soul! To …

Heedlessness In Religion

2 Kings 10:31

… Hating one sin, he loved another, and thus proved that the fear of the Most High did not reign in his breast. He was merely a hired servant …

Joy And Peace In Believing

Romans 15:13

… Be anxious to be happy, but be more anxious to be holy. Be desirous after peace, but be more desirous, still, to get a good hope through Christ …

A Message to the Glad and the Sad

Job 22:29

… I fear that many Christian people have lost their comfort through trying to keep it to themselves. The manna was sweet and they had gathered more than they …

Preceding Grace

Galatians 1:15

… He is not saved as yet, but it is always a hopeful sign when a man is willing to listen to the Truth and is anxious to understand …

Zealots

Luke 6:15

… The exaggeration of anxiety for our fellow men would lead us to adopt wrong means to make them of a right opinion! We forget that men's consciences …

A Sad Confession

Isaiah 53:3

… They hid, as it were, their faces from Him—amazed at that brow all carved with lines of anxious thought, those cheeks all plowed with furrows of deep …

The Sequel to Divine Sovereignty

Psalm 99:1

… anxious not to provoke Him to jealousy—or else He would take away His Presence from us. I trust that many of you, Beloved, cherish this holy anxiety …

Believers—Lights In The World

Philippians 2:14-16

… Do not say, "Oh, I would not, for fear people should think I am proud!" Why should you look at the fear of man which brings a snare …

Christ a Sanctuary

Isaiah 8:14

… Because I fear God's anger for my sin, by faith I put myself beneath the Cross of Christ. There God's anger fell upon the innocent Victim …

Awakening

… If they would but follow your lead, they might escape the flames; but they seem to be paralyzed with fear. So the fear of the fire prevents their …

Jesus Asleep on a Pillow

… They gave way to fear. They were sorely afraid that the ship would sink, and that they would all perish. In thus yielding to fear, they forgot the …

Hope in Hopeless Cases

Matthew 17:17

… To fear the coming punishment. To have a dreadful cry in one's ears of the "wrath to come." To fear death and to expect it any moment …

Characteristics of Faith

John 4:48

… His mind is so overwhelmed with one anxiety, that he is oblivious of all beside. "Sir," said he, "come down ere my child die." His faith has now …

The Death of the Christian

Job 5:26

… How much anxiety has been expended on that field! When the seed first sprung up the farmer dreaded lest the worm should bite the tender shoots, and the …

Elijah's Plea

1Kings 18:36

… You are anxious to be saved. You are attentive to the Word of God and your heart says, "Let me know what this salvation is and how to …

The Divine Discipline

Deuteronomy 32:11

… Having from the time of their birth been quiet and happy there, they had no anxiety whatever to try the blue unfathomable oceans of the air! They had …

One War Over and Another Begun

Judges 6:22-24

… poor soul full of doubt and anxiety, vexed with a sense of sin and greatly troubled by affliction, is full of fear when Jesus draws near! Though He …

Early Pastoral Epistles

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

Psalm 39

Psalm 39

… Broken rest, anxious fear, over worked brain, failing mind, lunacy, these are the steps in the process of disquieting with many, and all to be rich, or, in …

Pardon and Justification

Psalm 32:1

… The next one replies— "'Tis a point I long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought— 'Do I love the Lord or no? Am IHis, or am Inot …

Lovely, But Lacking

Mark 10:21

… He was now something more than thoughtful—he was anxious. "What lack I yet?" as if he felt there was something he did not know and he would …

Signs Of The Times

Luke 12:54-57

… You should go up to the top of Carmel, like Elijah's servant, and with anxious eyes look towards the sea. And whenever you have to say, "There …

Soul-winning

Proverbs 11:30

… We win hearts for Jesus by love, by sympathy with their sorrow, by anxiety lest they should perish, by pleading with God for them with all our hearts …

God's Glory Our Rereward

Isaiah 58:8

… But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: fear Him, which after He has killed, haspower to cast into Hell; yes, I say unto you, Fear Him …

To Those Who Feel Unfit for Communion

2 Chronicles 30:17-20

… We are not slaves fearing the lash, but we are sons who have a filial fear of grieving our heavenly Father. The rules concerning the Passover and the …

The Heart Of Flesh

Ezekiel 36:26

… Fear and trembling well become even the most eminent saint. "God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of His saints." "Serve the Lord with fear and …

The Rule of Christ

2 Samuel 23:4

… for a Christian to fear in death? It is not dying—it is living—about which we ought to be anxious, if anxious at all! But you say …

Good Cheer From Grace Received

Matthew 9:20-22

… We fear and tremble because of the greatness of the mercy received and then this word is needed—"Be of good comfort: your faith has made you whole …

A Triumphal Entrance

Psalm 24:9

… ah, what trouble, and labor, and anxiety it gives to us who are ministers of the Gospel! When talking with anxious enquirers we are often amazed at the …