Hope

The Importunate Widow

Luke 18:1-8

… how much more ought you and I to be instant in prayer and hopeful of success when we have to supplicate a Father! Far other is a father …

The Good Shepherd

Psalm 23:1

… If I had anything of which I could say, "God has not given me this," I hope, by Divine Grace, I would turn it out of doors. Food …

Why the Gospel Is Hidden

2 Corinthians 4:3

… Your hope must be in Him and in Him, alone! To Him would we affectionately point you and we pray the Holy Spirit to shut your eyes to …

The Blood of Christ's Covenant

Zechariah 9:11

… Spurgeon upon Verses 11 and 12 are #2839, Volume49—"PRISONERS OF HOPE" and #2883, Volume 50—PRISONERS DELIVERED.] THE LORD is here speaking to His ancient people, Israel …

Accepted of the Great Father

Ephesians 1:6

… We have fled for refuge to the hope set before us and now no more need we be in terror of the Great White Throne and the righteous …

'Brief Life Is Here Our Portion'

Psalm 39:4

… I hope when we come to die it will be no question as to whether we are saved or not. But even to a saved man, there arises …

First Forgiveness, Then Healing

Luke 5:20

… Next, being hopeful, himself, he inspired those about him with hope. Of course they would not have taken him to Christ if they had not had some sort …

Shall and Will

Psalm 91:15

… The desire to pray, the disposition to pray, the resolve, the determination to pray—what hopeful, healthy symptoms these are! But to be able to pray—ah, what …

A Definite Challenge for Definite Prayer

Mark 10:51

… But sometimes we are in distress, as Christian and Hopeful were in Doubting Castle, and we have to say, as Christian did, "What a fool I am to …

India’s Ills and England’s Sorrows

Jeremiah 9:1

… Ah, my friends, with all the advancement of piety in this land, with all the hopeful signs of better times, with all the sunlight of glory heralding the …

Cheer for Despondency

Proverbs 27:1

… I have no more hope, now, than I had long ago! I seem as far off the attainment of eternal life as I was when first I heard …

Real Grace for Real Need

Luke 9:11

… And let this always be treasured up as a hopeful circumstance to you who would be saved—that in the matter of actual sin there was a deep …

A Call To Worship

Zechariah 8:21

… It is hopeful work to throw the net where there are great shoals of fish. Where men are hearing, we may hope that God will be blessing and …

A Time of Finding for Lost Sheep

Ezekiel 34:16

… but hopeful You may call to mind, like Jeremiah, your affliction and your misery, "the wormwood and the gall," and say with him, "Therefore have I hope." Have …

Compassion for Souls

Genesis 21:16

… You all desire to glorify Christ by becoming soul-winners—I hope you do—and be it remembered that, other things being equal, he is the fittest in …

Justification by Faith

Romans 5:1

… Then there comes another discovery, namely, that consequently it is utterly impossible for us to hope that we ever can be just before God on the footing of …

God's Mercy Going Before

Psalm 59:10

… If your affairs are at the lowest ebb and there is the sharpest winter passing over all your prospects, now turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope …

The Special Prayer Meeting

Acts 12:12

… I do not know where the mother of John Mark is, this morning, but I hope she will start a Prayer Meeting in her large room. She is …

The Singing Pilgrim

Psalm 119:54

… Jesus, who has a tender heart for mourners, will see you, again, and your heart shall rejoice! Think not that the past has devoured all your happiness—hope …

To Souls In Agony

Psalm 116:3

… I was glad to hear their cries the other night, and I hope, with that, the Lord means to bless them and bring them into liberty. We shall …

Two Choice Assurances

Genesis 15:1

… So as the Holy Spirit shall open up the word to me, I hope to be able to give you, Beloved, some honey out of the Rock by …

The Mediator’The Interpreter

Exodus 20:18-20

… rottenness entered into my bones." And God intended it to be so, that you might look to the flames which Moses saw, and abandon forever all hope of …

God's Innumerable Mercies

Psalm 71:15

… For You are my hope, O Lord GOD: You are my trust from my youth Happy is the man who can truthfully say that, "You are my trust …

Mercy for the Meanest of the Flock

Micah 4:6

… What with poverty and many struggles and no apparent hope of deliverance. What with one sickness and then another in their own bodies. What with one temptation and …

The Seed Upon Stony Ground

Mark 4:5

… But if we hear the Truth as it is in Jesus, we may hope that He will make it effectual to our conversion. Remember, next, that hearing is …

Setting Jesus at Nothing—Treating Him with Contempt

Luke 23:11

… What an unhappy thing that the hopeful hearer should decline into a hopeless despiser! Herod heard John but he ridiculed Jesus. See to what unconverted hearers may come …

Public Meeting Of The Various Denominations

… of the curse and of the Fall? Had we not also the same hope, and the same expectation of Redemption and deliverance from that Fall, and should we …

Communion With Christ and His People

1 Corinthians 10:16

… Jesus was exceedingly sorry that the hopeful young man turned away and went back to the world—we know that sorrow. Those who have sympathetic hearts and live …

Preparing to Depart

2 Kings 2:11

… I hope we can truly say, "Farewell!" and then we shall meet in the morning, when the night is over, and the death-dews drop no more, when …

Stephen and Saul

Acts 7:58

… The martyr's only hope was in the Crucified Christ of Calvary That which gladdened him was not a sight of himself, but a sight of his exalted …

Christ and His Hearers

Luke 15:1

… Besides that, I doubt not that another charm of Christ's preaching lay in this, that He always preached Doctrine that was hopeful to them. While He said …

Two Essential Things

Acts 20:21

… Now, this is hopeful; but it is not sufficient. We are glad when men are under influences which promise amendment; but if a man stops at a mere …

Ruins

2 Chronicles 28:23

… Now, all is a desolation! So, in that man was once everything that was hopeful—you would have been glad to go to the House of God in …

Let Him Alone

Hosea 4:17

… I hope there will never be another death in this Tabernacle, but more than once individuals have been thus called away from our very midst. Before this congregation …

Compel Them to Come In

Luke 14:23

… You have no faith, you have no virtue, you have no good work, you have no grace, and what is poverty worse still, you have no hope. Ah …

The Essence Of The Gospel

John 3:18

… This is the condition of the man who believes in Christ! It is a very happy condition, a very hopeful condition, a very heavenly condition—who would not …

Jesus Near but Unrecognized

Luke 24:16

… And, if you remember, he would soon have wearied them with his chat, had not Christian and Hopeful adopted a capital expedient for getting rid of him. They …

The Broken Column

Luke 9:61

… There is hope, there in hope for thee yet. What! is the boat’s bow already out of the water, and does she seem to leap like a …

"Return! Return!"

Jeremiah 18:11

… If there is a hope that a man will leave his sin sometime or other, there must be a better hope that he will leave it nowthan that …

What Have I Done?

Jeremiah 8:6

… It was but one tear that trickled down thy cheek, but thy Father noticed that as a hopeful sign; it was but one throb that went through thy …