Love

The Census of Israel

Numbers 16:66

… It was Israel's joy that God's love was not withdrawn from the nation. The Lord still acknowledged the tribes as His people. His Glory was still …

'Make This Valley Full of Ditches'

2 Kings 3:16-18

… Get something useful, interesting, telling, Scriptural and give it away largely out of love to Jesus. And if these labors do not suit your taste, talk personally to …

The Holy Spirit’s Intercession

Romans 8:26

… When, indeed, we are in our bewilderment almost driven to give up prayer, the whisper of his love drops a live coal from off the altar into our …

Seeing God's Goodness Here

Psalm 27:13

… are subject to peculiarly trying infirmities, which keep you from the work you love and the field of service where you have long been so happy and useful …

Preventing Grace

1 Samuel 25:32

… had been still greater, you would not have overreached the power of Divine Love. But think now how good it is for you that you were not allowed …

Psalm 115

Psalm 115

… He is alike affected to all his children, and beareth them the same love. Thomas Manton. Verse 13. He says, both small and great, by which circumstance he …

Renewing Strength

Isaiah 40:31

… It needs the eyes of faith to see God in the dark, to believe in His love when He is angry and to rest in His promise when …

Freshness

Job 29:20

… Without pretending to be anything else than they are and telling of God's amazing love to them—not quoting the experience of others, but giving out their …

Self-righteousness—a Smoldering Heap of Rubbish

Isaiah 65:5

… In the heights and depths of dying love I read the heights and depths of my accursed sin! In the infinity of the Atonement I read the boundless …

The Holy Ghost—The Great Teacher

John 16:13

… We love a cheerful gospel, and we think “all the truth” will tend to comfort the Christian. “Comfort again?” says another, “always comfort.” Ah, but there is another …

Abraham's Double Blessing

Genesis 12:2

… If God is with us—if His Divine love surrounds us—we carry our own atmosphere wherever we go, we take our own abode with us wherever we …

The Warning Neglected

Ezekiel 33:5

… In religion men love far rather to believe abstract doctrines, and to talk of general truths, than the searching inquiries which examine their own personal interest in it …

Last Things

Proverbs 5:11

… all look in that light? I think I have believed—I think I love the Savior—I sometimes hope that I am His—but am I so? Shall …

Believers as Blessed as the Blessed Virgin

Luke 11:27

… Assuredly this woman is not to be blamed, but to be commended for pouring out her heart's love in honor of the Lord! The wonder is not …

Jesus the Way

John 14:6

… The Grace, the favor, the love which God has shown to you in Christ Jesus, appeals to your heart and you cheerfully yield to it the obedience which …

How God Comes to Man

Genesis 3:8

… me in tones of wondrous love and graciousness, "I have put you among My children. 'I have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness have …

The Swiftly Running Word

Psalms 147:15

… My Lord's forgiving love runs very swiftly! My Lord's restoring Grace is swifter than an eagle's wings! As it is with individuals, so it is …

What Is Essential in Coming to God?

Hebrews 11:6

… Him and, further, that it is a good thing to know God, to love God, to be reconciled to God, to be under the operations of God's …

The Day of Salvation

2 Corinthians 6:2

… so now there is a day of salvation and all around, angels of love are hovering, still singing—"Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, goodwill …

David's Five-stringed Harp

… But when you get to "waters to swim in," then you need, in childlike confidence, to cast yourself entirely upon the stream of Divine Love, or else, assuredly …

The Word of a King

Ecclesiastes 8:4

… Then, too, the preaching of the Truth of God—the whole Truth of God—will bring a power of union among you, so that you who love the …

Harvest Time

1 Samuel 12:17

… own favored island," He says, "I have loved you, England, with a special love. You are My favored one and the enemy shall not crush you. And lest …

Household Sin and Sorrow

… And make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat: that my soul may bless you before I die. A …

Very Singular

2 Samuel 17:23

… You love your children well and wisely. As far as this world is concerned, you are careful and prudent parents. You were very watchful over them in their …

Testimony And Experience

John 4:39-42

… You must press by faith into the inner circle and cry with the spouse, "Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth, for His love is …

Understandest Thou What Thou Readest?

Acts 8:30-33

… I try with all my might to preach my Lord Jesus Christ, and I love to meet with people who delight in this theme. Certain critics call upon …

Poverty and Riches

2 Corinthians 8:9

… Yet the Savior, out of love of us, stripped Himself of every single vestment of honor that He had a right to wear—and He became despised and …

My Hourly Prayer

Psalm 119:117

… Oh that the Holy Spirit may give us all a deeper love for the Word of God so that we may be upheld that no iniquity may have …

An Awful Premonition

Matthew 16:28

… Your vicious free will ruins you! Your base and wicked love of self and sin destroys you! "You will not come unto Me that you might have life …

Everyday Usefulness

John 1:42

… When hearts are too hard for sermons and good advice is rejected, it still remains to love to be allowed to plead with God for its wayward one …

Feeble Faith Appealing to a Strong Savior

Mark 9:24

… Give me to feel that You love me"—pray those prayers, by-and-by, but for the present, pray like this, "Lord, help me to believe. Lord, give …

Apart

Zechariah 12:12-14

… And his hatred of sin grows in proportion as he understands that love of Christ by which his sin is put away. In true Believers, mourning for sin …

The Cleansing of the Leper

Leviticus 13:12-13

… Since they must not enjoy the delights of piety they turn their heel upon them, and say, “That there are no joys in religion, nor bliss in love …

Looking for One Thing and Finding Another

1 Samuel 9:3

… God has looked on you in love—look you to Jesus and live! What else shall we say about this Doctrine? There is one other thing we will …

The Sinner's Refuge

Numbers 35:11

… Now, when the Lord gave to the Jews this Law concerning the cities of refuge, he took advantage of their deep-rooted love towards the system of the …

The Whole Machinery of Salvation

Romans 10:14

… Go on, my dear Brothers and Sisters, telling of Christ's love to you, even if you have very few gifts. Remember that when you have told out …

Your Personal Salvation

1 Peter 1:9-12

… I beseech You, then, of Your great love, let Your salvation come unto me." You notice in the parable of the prodigal that the forlorn feeder of swine …

Posture, Action, Gesture, Etc. (Second Lecture)

… They set forth the sweet influences of the Pleiades and the gentle wooings of love with blows of the fist; and they endeavour to make you feel the …

Lecture V: The Sciences As Sources Of Illustration.

… Be thou the Center of my heart, O God, my Light, my only Love!" The sun himself is an enormous body; he has been measured, but I think …

Ask and Have

James 4:2

… their fellows, they make the battle of life hotter and hotter, they banish love and brand tenderness as folly—and yet, with all their schemes, they obtain not …