Hope

Faith in Christ's Ability

Matthew 9:28

… I hope that you will afterwards attain to that burning, fervent love that many advanced Believers have to Jesus, but this is not the matter that concerns you …

The Lamb In Glory

Revelation 5:6

… Our Lord usually appears when all other hope disappears. Concerning the winepress of wrath, it is He who says, "I have trod the winepress alone and of the …

A Message From God To His Church And People

Habakkuk 3:2

… If you shall find it to be God's voice to you, I hope you will be led to the farther carrying out of the language of the …

Notable Lectures and Addresses, 1857-1878 (Continued)

… I hope the reader will not be a loser by my resolution.” The notes used by Mr. Spurgeon in delivering the lecture were written on the two sides …

Meeting in the Unfinished Tabernacle

I hope I shall never, while I live, cease to have another project always in hand. When one thing is done, we will do something else. If we …

The Fainting Warrior

Romans 7:24

… He is naturally “dead in trespasses and sins,” “without God and without hope.” The Holy Spirit enters into him, and implants in him a new principle, a new …

God'S Cure For Man'S Weakness

Hebrews 11:34

… I hope we are not among those who make light of sin. A genuine Christian dreads sin. He will not say, "Is it not a little one?" for …

Grieving the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… No love, no hope can ever save us, except it be sealed with the Spirit of God, for whatever hath not his seal upon it is spurious. Faith …

The Pleasures of Piety

Psalm 104:34

… But if Immmanuel's face appears My hope, my joy begins! His name forbids my slavish fear, His Grace forgives my sins" Precious Jesus! What can be a …

Grace—the One Way of Salvation

Acts 15:11

… Upon the whole you have learned it to purpose, and can defend it well, but all of you should be able to give a reason for the hope …

Building “Our Holy and Beautiful House”

… I hope that you will all agree that the spot is a most eligible one ; though some recommended Kensington, others Holloway, and others Clapham. Having secured the ground …

The Lord's Famous Titles

Psalm 146:7-9

… It is sad that it should be so, but the glorious fact remains that "the Lord looses the prisoners." Do not despair, poor women! Have hope of deliverance …

Exceeding Gladness

Psalm 21:6

… The light of His coming reward shone on our Lord's daily path and made it bright with a glorious hope. Sin is the mother of sorrow and …

Why Men Do Not Believe

John 5:46

… I hope you think not that you shall live forever! Then that little drink will seem sour enough when you come to leave it for the last time …

Prayer Answered, Love Nourished

Psalm 116:1

… Whether it be for hope, for joy, for consolation, or for the inspiring of our love, the future after all must be the grand object of the eye …

Ebenezer!

1 Samuel 7:12

… I hope that this day our souls may suggest unto themselves some way in which we may record the Lord’s mighty deeds, and hand down to coming …

"You Are Now the Blessed of the Lord"

Genesis 26:29

… other! If there have been any difficulties between any of you, I would hope that before I really get into my subject—while with my finger I point …

The New Nature

1 Peter 1:23-25

… So in regeneration there is a life, not merely created, but communicated, even the very life of God, who hath begotten us again unto a lively hope. As …

Divine Teaching

… How often an officer of low rank has repeated the murmur, “There is no promotion; no hope of rising; no honors; no prize-money, as if we had …

A New Year's Retrospect And Prospect

Psalm 10:17

… On Sunday, Heaven's gate stands ope, Blessings are plentiful and rife; More plentiful than hope." Sunday is the market day of the week and if a man …

Evening, July 23

1Jn 1:7

… text—not “ shall cleanse.” There are multitudes who think that as a dying hope they may look forward to pardon. Oh! how infinitely better to have cleansing now …

Strange Dispensations and Matchless Consolations

Hosea 2:14

… Night succeeds day and in the thick darkness you still travel on—fear and hope together winging your feet. Day dawns again, but you are as far from …

Sickness and Prayer, Healing and Praise

Psalm 107:17-22

… And they draw near unto the gates of death.They seem to come close to those great iron gates that shut out all hope forever! They can hear …

Morning, May 13

Ps 30:5

… expectation—to antedate heaven? Happy believer, to have so sure, so comforting a hope. It may be all dark now, but it will soon be light; it may …

The Church and the World

… As we hope at last that there shall be a great gulf separating us from the doom of the impenitent, there should be here a deep and wide …

The Universal Remedy

Isaiah 53:5

… When I understood that my life must be found in His death, and my healing in His wounds—then hope sprang up—bright-eyed hope, and my soul …

Morning, January 29

2Co 4:18

… Whether it be for hope, for joy, for consolation, or for the inspiring of our love, the future must, after all, be the grand object of the eye …

A Challenge and a Shield

Romans 8:34

… Christ that died"—we have a well-founded hope in which we may rest with confidence! Such a hope as this is "an anchor of the soul, both …

Morning, June 14

Ps 37:4

… No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight. Delight and true religion are as allied as root and flower; as …

Morning, November 5

Is 54:17

… anniversary of the landing of King William III, at Torbay, by which the hope of Popish ascendancy was quashed, and religious liberty was secured, 1688. This day ought …

A Command and a Promise

James 4:8

… Perhaps, my dear Brother, you have been reading Rutherford's letters and you have said to yourself. "Alas, I cannot hope to enjoy such communion with Christ as …

A Call to the Depressed

Isaiah 52:2

… To the Hebrew nation they were big with counsel, bright with hope. Apart, however, from the connection in which it stands, this verse supplies a pointed practical address …

Morning, December 25

Is 7:14

… glory; and let us pray that he may be formed in us, the hope of glory. Fail not to note his humble parentage . His mother has been described …

A Clarion Call to Saints and Sinners

Micah 2:10

… With hope of a similar result would I sound the trumpet today. Let the clarion note ring out shrill and clear, "Arise you, and depart." To begin, I …

Evening, January 11

Lu 22:32

… Here is a matter for joy, gratitude, hope, and confidence.

Our King, Our Joy

Psalm 149:2

… We acquiesce in His determinations, and hope even to rejoice in the most painful of His Providences. Christian loyalty finds music in the name, and Heaven in the …

Help for Your Sickness

Matthew 8:16

… I went to hear the Word as I had heard it before, but I did not hope to find Jesus then and there. Yet I did find Him …

Morning, March 22

Mt 26:39

… There is no hope of prevalence with God unless we abase ourselves that he may exalt us in due time. It was filial prayer . “Abba, Father.” You will …

Morning, April 9

Lu 23:27

… His mother bare his body—but he is formed in me the hope of glory. In nothing behind the holy women in debt, let me not be behind …

Morning, June 2

Ga 5:17

… Grace within us will employ prayer, and faith, and hope, and love, to cast out the evil; it takes unto it the “whole armour of God,” and wrestles …