Grace

Safety in Conflict

… If we are not tried, there is no honor to Him who preserves us; and if we are not tempted, there is no gratitude to His grace who …

The End of the Righteous Desired

Numbers 23:10

… Prepare now that you may be ready when the final summons shall be sounded, and may God grant you Divine Grace that the words of this morning may …

Man Unknown To Man

Proverbs 14:10

… Sickness is often a means of Divine Grace—those who have much Grace may be called to endure much disease. There is a bitterness which some of you …

Setting Jesus at Nothing—Treating Him with Contempt

Luke 23:11

… There was a learned Romanist who once ventured to say that if salvation could only be had on terms of Free Grace, he would not have it. Do …

Morning, June 21

Ps 45:2

… Oh, Jesus! thy power, thy grace, thy justice, thy tenderness, thy truth, thy majesty, and thine immutability make up such a man, or rather such a God-man …

Evening, June 27

1Co 7:20

… Beloved, it is not office, it is earnestness; it is not position, it is grace which will enable us to glorify God. God is most surely glorified in …

Morning, November 16

La 3:24

… Not his grace merely, nor his love, nor his covenant, but Jehovah himself. He has chosen us for his portion, and we have chosen him for ours. It …

Evening, January 18

Lu 24:27

… O for grace to study the Bible with Jesus as both our teacher and our lesson!

Morning, February 7

Mic 2:10

… this world of woe is but the stepping-stone to a world of bliss. “Prepare us, Lord, by grace divine, For thy bright courts on high; Then bid …

Morning, January 11

Lu 8:13

… Am I rooted in sincere fidelity and love to Jesus? If my heart remains unsoftened and unfertilized by grace, the good seed may germinate for a season, but …

Morning, May 20

Ps 17:7

… When he puts the golden tokens of his grace into our palms, he accompanies the gift with such a warm pressure of our hand, that the manner of …

Morning, June 17

Ps 12:1

… Workers in heavenly labour may thus obtain grace in time of need. Seeking sinners, in doubts and alarms , may offer up the same weighty supplication; in fact, in …

Evening, July 10

Ge 1:5

… me, a sinner.” The place of the morning is second, it dawns when grace overcomes nature. It is a blessed aphorism of John Bunyan, “That which is last …

Morning, August 20

2Sa 23:1

… As we are instructed in the same school, as we grow matured in grace and in years, we increasingly appreciate David’s psalms, and find them to be …

Morning, September 26

Zec 1:8

… and the Church in her worst time still hath a blessed verdure of grace about her; nay, she has sometimes exhibited most verdure when her winter has been …

Evening, September 30

Ec 9:4

… The lowest degree of grace is superior to the noblest development of unregenerate nature. Where the Holy Ghost implants divine life in the soul, there is a precious …

Morning, November 12

1Pe 1:7

… Meanwhile, if you cannot yet claim the result of long experience, thank God for what grace you have; praise him for that degree of holy confidence whereunto you …

Lessons From a Dovecot

Isaiah 60:8

… We will serve the King!"? I would rather suffer any personal affliction or calamity than that God's work of Grace should be stopped among us. It is …

Evening, April 8

Ps 23:4

… You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content. Are you conscious of a …

Evening, July 30

Jn 6:37

… bondage again to fear, but the spirit of adoption whereby thou shalt cry, Abba, Father! Oh! the grace of these words: “I will in no wise cast out.”

Evening, October 24

Jn 13:5

… you have fallen again into the selfsame folly and sin from which special grace delivered you long ago; and yet Jesus will have great patience with you; he …

Morning, November 21

Eph 4:30

… from Christ, but it comes solely through the channel of the Spirit of grace. Moreover, as all blessings thus flow to you through the Holy Spirit, so also …

Morning, January 8

Ex 28:38

… O for grace to view our great High Priest by the eye of faith!

Morning, February 18

Job 10:2

… Besides, it is not merely discovery, real growth in grace is the result of sanctified trials. God often takes away our comforts and our privileges in order to …

Morning, May 17

1Jn 2:6

… If they desire to be in a healthy state of soul—if they would escape the sickness of sin, and enjoy the vigour of growing grace, let Jesus …

Morning, May 18

Col 2:9-10

… Arise, believer, and behold the Lord Jesus yoking the whole of his divine Godhead to the chariot of salvation! How vast his grace, how firm his faithfulness, how …

'The Sun of Righteousness'

Psalm 19:4-6

… To this end, he actually descended by dark steps of anguish into the silent inner room of the grace, and there he slept in his chamber, perfectly wedded …

Evening, January 15

Ps 109:4

… Thus, and thus only, shall any of us speed at the throne of grace. As a shadow has no power because there is no substance in it, even …

Evening, April 30

Ps 139:17

… hence their election and the covenant of grace by which their salvation is secured; he always will think upon them: hence their final perseverance by which they shall …

Morning, May 9

Eph 1:3

… He had from all eternity the prerogatives of Sonship , as his Father’s only-begotten and well-beloved Son, and he has, in the riches of his grace …

Evening, November 13

Lu 18:1

… The door of grace is always open for her petitions, and they never return empty-handed. The veil was rent for her , the blood was sprinkled upon the …

The Christian's Manifestation

1 John 3:2

… Only such eagle-eyed men as John were able to say, "We beheld His Glory, the Glory as of the Only-Begotten of the Father, full of Grace …

Evening, January 9

Ps 100:2

… Our God requires no slaves to grace his throne; he is the Lord of the empire of love, and would have his servants dressed in the livery of …

Evening, January 19

Lu 24:45

… The most unlearned of men become ripe scholars in the school of grace when the Lord Jesus by his Holy Spirit unfolds the mysteries of the kingdom to …

Morning, March 29

Heb 5:8

… Just so far as the Lord shall give us grace to suffer for Christ, to suffer with Christ, just so far does he honour us. The jewels of …

Morning, April 10

Lu 23:33

… In that place of thirst, grace hath dug a fountain which ever gusheth with waters pure as crystal, each drop capable of alleviating the woes of mankind. You …

Morning, April 11

Ps 22:14

… remember well the way by which he prepared it as a throne of grace for us; let us in spirit drink of his cup, that we may be …

Morning, June 19

Ac 2:4

… As sacred oil , he anoints the head of the believer, sets him apart to the priesthood of saints, and gives him grace to execute his office aright. As …

Evening, September 4

Le 19:36

… Those weights with which we measure our doctrinal belief, are they quite fair? The doctrines of grace should have the same weight with us as the precepts of …

Preach the Gospel

1 Corinthians 9:16

… Works, works, works—instead of “By grace are ye saved through faith,” If a penitent should come and ask me, “What must I do to be saved?” I …