Providence

For the Candid and Thoughtful

Mark 12:34

… A consciousness of the supremacy of the sovereignty of God over us, so that he ought to have every thought, every breath, every pulse, is the work of …

The First and Great Commandment

Mark 12:30

… Sometimes they talk about good luck and chance, strange deities of their own brain; but God, the over-ruling God of Providence, they never talk of, though sometimes …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Ephesians 1:5

… Let a man but agree to acknowledge an act of Providence, and I need to know how he can, except he runs in the very teeth of Providence …

None But Jesus

John 3:18

… all thou addest thereunto will be a wicked antichrist, a rebellion against the sovereignty of the Lord Jesus. But take care if your faith save you, that while …

"Jehovah-Rophi"

Exodus 15:26

… He has changed my circumstances in Providence and in many ways altered the whole aspect of affairs. On other occasions the Lord has not removed the circumstances and …

The Commissariat of the Universe

Psalm 104:28

… We are to go forth unto our work and our labor until the evening and to expect that bounteous Providence will thus enable us to gather what the …

Psalm 25

Psalm 25

… Elisha Coles on "God's Sovereignty", 1678. Verse 7. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. In the first place, considering that he had not …

The Glory, Unity and Triumph of the Church

John 17:22-3

… Daily we labor to bring others into subjection to that blessed Sovereignty under which we delight to dwell! In this place our Lord tells us that this desirable …

The Call to the Ministry

… Have they no bowels of compassion for others? no sense of responsibility upon themselves? Dare they, by a vain misrepresentation of divine sovereignty, cast the blame on their …

A Sermon For The Week Of Prayer

Colossians 4:2

… How many there are who, under a powerful sermon, or during a trying Providence, have bent their knees suddenly in hasty prayer! They have risen from their knees …

The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death

Psalm 23:4

… We have seemed to be at cross-purposes with Providence. We have come to a place where two seas meet and we cannot understand the current. Our temptation …

Characteristics of Faith

John 4:48

… He that looks for providences will never lack a providence to look at. Take heed then of these three diseases; of ceasing from prayer; waiting to see signs …

The True Christian’s Blessedness

Romans 8:28

… No man after having read these chapters attentively, and having understood them, can deny that the doctrines of sovereign, distinguishing grace, are the sum and substance of the …

Spiritual Transformations

Isaiah 4:13

… Men, comparable to thorns and briers, are, by the Sovereign Grace of God, changed and renewed so that they may then be compared to fir trees and to …

God's Nearness To Us

Acts 17:27

… So also is the Lord very near in Providence. Albeit that this godless age seeks to banish God, yet is He present in the transactions of every day …

Turn or Burn

Psalm 7:12

… I believe judgment is reserved for the next world; I could not account for providence if I believed that God punishes here. “Those men upon whom the tower …

Sanctified Sorrow

Isaiah 54:11

… You cannot lay hold of a promise! You cannot take comfort from any Providence! You see not your signs, and yet all this tossing and all this tumult …

Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness

Jeremiah 23:6

… It was his breath that thawed our icy heart; for once we felt no love to him;— “But now, subdued by sovereign grace, Our spirit longs for his …

The Snare of the Fowler

Psalm 91:3

… God knows that our backsliding will soon end in our destruction and he, by a sad providence, blasts our prospect, takes away our child from us, buries our …

Psalm 131

Psalm 131

… If I have anything, it is from thee; it is thy providence which brought me from following the ewes great with young to feed and govern thy people …

Do Not Sin Against the Child

Genesis 42:22

… And if they are, therefore, blaming the Providence of God, let them pause awhile and ask themselves whether they ought not rather to blame themselves—are they not …

Psalm 72

Psalm 72

… The sovereignty of God is a delightful theme to the poor in spirit; they love to see the Lord exalted, and have no quarrel with him for exercising …

Glorying in the Lord

1 Corinthians 1:31

… Turn to Providence and faith's eye perceives that Providence is always displaying the glory of the Lord. All things work not only for the good of the …

Absconding and Apostasy

John 6:67

… By the ministry of the Gospel, by the order of Providence, by all the arrangements of Divine Government, the precious are separated from the vile, the dross is …

God's Mercy Going Before

Psalm 59:10

… Great difficulties have frequently run in our way in Providence and in Grace, and we have been like the women who went to the sepulcher. We have said …

The Bellows Burned

Jeremiah 6:29

… If words of admonition have not been successful with them, God often, in His great mercy, tries with the ungodly the judgments of Providence, if perhaps by humbling …

Psalm 130

Psalm 130

… Free, full, sovereign pardon is in the hand of the great King: it is his prerogative to forgive, and he delights to exercise it. Because his nature is …

The Saint'S Horror At The Sinner'S Hell

… Here they were restrained by Providence, by company, by custom—there, there will be no restraints. Hell will be a world of sinners at large, a land of …

Psalm 20

Psalm 20

… A happy people here plead for a beloved sovereign, and with loving hearts cry to Jehovah, "God save the King." We gather that this song was intended to …

Angelic Protection in Appointed Ways

Psalm 91:11

… Always follow the cloud of God's Providence—don't run before it, for if you run before it, you may find it hard work to get back …

Chastened Happiness

Jeremiah 33:9

… Blessed be God if He has given us first, the fruits of the sun of Grace, and then the fruits put forth by the moon of Providence! The …

Footsteps Of Mercy

Job 33:23

… When God has thus, in the way of Providence, prepared any human heart for a work of Divine Grace, one of the first means of blessing the chosen …

'The Desire Of All Nations'

Haggai 2:7

… Had it been God's Providence that a Temple equally magnificent as the first should be erected, it might have been very readily accomplished. Cyrus appears to have …

The Luther Sermon at Exeter Hall

Galatians 5:6

… Faith is truthful and confesses her obligation to the Sovereign Grace of God. I bless the Lord that He has chosen this way of faith because it is …

The Foundation and Its Seal—a Sermon for the Times

2Timothy 2:19

… Yet when we are baffled by matters which are beyond our control, it is a blessed thing to fall back upon the purpose and Providence of the Almighty …

A Blessed Wonder

Matthew 8:10

… Only Sovereign Grace, fresh from the altar of atoning sacrifice, can make an end of sin. Confess all this! You are far gone from hope—confess it! Your …

Miracles Of Love

Isaiah 38:17

… At this present moment, by Sovereign Grace, those of us who have believed in Jesus have been brought up out of the horrible pit. Our standing, now, is …

Psalm 94

Psalm 94

… My text contains two parts; the providence of God to his people, and the prosperity of the providence among them. The providence of God to his people lies …

'Make This Valley Full of Ditches'

2 Kings 3:16-18

… We may also learn here how easily men in times of difficulty, which they have brought upon themselves, will lay their distress upon Providence rather than honestly see …

Effectual Calling

Luke 19:5

… So that we have you any way. “He must needs go through Samaria.” Providence directed man to build Samaria directly in the road, and grace constrained the Saviour …