Providence

Enquiring of God

2 Samuel 2:1

… I have but little faith in "Providence" of this sort! I believe in Divine Providence, but I do not always believe in what people speak of as Providence …

Faith Without Sight

John 20:29

… You escape in a railway accident and say that is a Providence. Yes, but it is just as much a Providence that you go to town six days …

The Last Words of Christ on the Cross

Luke 23:46

… Now, I believe in nature and I believe in Providence, but at the back of everything, I believe in God, and in the God who has hands—not …

Question 12: What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state wherein he was created?

Ga 3:12; Ge 2:17

… What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the state wherein he was created? A When God had created man, he entered into a covenant …

Two Visions

Zechariah 1:8-21

… WE HAVE THE WHOLE OF PROVIDENCE ENGAGED UPON OUR SIDE. Thus it is written, "These are they whom the Lord has sent to walk to and fro through …

Goodness Going Before

Psalm 21:3

… It is a hymn which a child may very gratefully sing and which we may all join in when we thank God for the Providence which caused us …

Psalm 50

Psalm 50

… Both words were necessary to express God's sovereign propriety in the whole animal creation. Thus understood, the verse assigns a reason for the negative assertion in the …

Frost And Thaw

Psalm 147:16-18

… This thought of the directness of the Divine operations must be carried into Providence. It will greatly comfort you if you can see God's hand in your …

Frost and Thaw

… This thought of the directness of the Divine operations must be carried into providence. It will greatly comfort you if you can see God’s hand in your …

Psalm 90

Psalm 90

… Moses asks for displays of divine power and providence conspicuously wrought, that all the people might be cheered thereby. They could find no solace in their own faulty …

The Chaff Driven Away

Psalm 1:4

… The ungodly are, it is true, the subjects of a universal providence, even as everything is ordered of God; but the righteous have a special providence over them …

God Pleading For Saints, And Saints Pleading For God

Lamentations 3:58

… The Lord pleads our cause in the Court of Providence. Jeremiah was confined in the low dungeon. He was cast into a wet, damp hole—a pit. And …

A Feast For Faith

Isaiah 28:29

… The mischief of a day has begotten for us blessings which have endured for ages! God has shown in Providence, even until now, that He is wonderful in …

Divine Gentleness Acknowledged

Psalm 18:35

… Goodness is Providence in embryo— Providence is goodness fully developed. Goodness is the bud of which Providence is the flower—or goodness is the seed of which Providence …

Morning, January 6

1Pe 5:7

… What a serene and quiet life might you lead if you would leave providing to the God of providence! With a little oil in the cruse, and a …

Morning, September 8

Ho 14:8

… Our fruit comes from God as to spiritual providence . When the dew-drops fall from heaven, when the cloud looks down from on high, and is about to …

Morning, August 2

Eph 1:11

… And shall there be a God in providence and not in grace? Shall the shell be ordained by wisdom and the kernel be left to blind chance? No …

Evening, October 21

Lu 24:38

… for all things, and the meanest creatures share in his universal providence, but his particular providence is over his saints. “The angel of the Lord encampeth round about …

Evening, May 21

Ge 42:2

… And so the riches of providence are all in the absolute power of our Lord Jesus, who will dispense them liberally to his people. Joseph was abundantly ready …

A Lesson from the Life of King Asa

2 Chronicles 16:9

… What a providence! What a providence! Are you so foolish as to view it in that light? I do not think Jonah was of that mind when he …

The Sweet Harp of Consolation

Isaiah 41:10

… Have you been called, by God's Providence, to undertake a work far beyond your own visible power, and have you plunged into it by faith? You have …

Divine Interpositions

Psalm 18:16

… His providence speeds the ship to its desired haven, but it is equally his providence which sinks the barque and its mariners to the bottom of the sea …

The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith

Job 23:6

… Dost see there the Mighty One upon his throne? Dread Sovereign, I see thine awful arm. What, wilt thou crush the sinner? Wilt thou utterly destroy him with …

Psalm 33

Psalm 33

… This is the doctrine of providence. And on what is the doctrine of providence founded? On this principle: God "fashioneth their hearts alike, "Ps 33:15. Attend a …

God's Hand at Evening

Ezekiel 33:22

… If we are delivered from some accident, we say what a merciful Providence it was that we escaped—yet we are apt to forget the merciful Providence when …

God's Glory Our Rereward

Isaiah 58:8

… Ah, yes, you may rest assured that in all those points in the Christian Church which are the most weak, and the most behind, the Providence of God …

A Solemn Embassy

2 Corinthians 5:20

… What then remains for an ambassador to do when he has spoken to you in the name of the Sovereign? If you will not turn, we must shake …

The Blind Man'S Earnest Cries

Mark 10:47

… It was Providence which brought the blind man where Grace brought Jesus Christ. The Lord might have been passing by, but if this blind man had not happened …

Strengthening Medicine For God's Servants

Joshua 1:5

… But the man who walks by faith will tell you that he notices Providence and never is deficient of a Providence to notice—that he notices answers to …

A Cure For Care

1 Peter 5:7

… The professional or literary man, if he has no firm trust in Providence, may lend his skill to indirect and unlawful ends. And each man, if he has …

Paul's Sermon Before Felix

Acts 24:25

… to-day I renounce my follies, my vices, and my sins, constrained by Sovereign Grace; to-day I cast away my good works as my ground of trust …

Brief, Silent Prayer

Nehemiah 2:4

… The fact that Nehemiah prayed challenges attention! He had been asked a question by his sovereign. The proper thing, you would suppose, was to answer it. Not so …

Negotiations For Peace

Acts 10:36

… This is a most gladsome Truth, for thus we live under the reign of Sovereign Mercy, under the reign of the Incarnate. God Immanuel, God with us. Look …

Psalm 139

Psalm 139

… By thy providence, by thy word, by thy grace, and by thy Spirit, lead me evermore. EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS Whole Psalm. Aben Ezra observes, that this …

A Miracle of Grace

… We had better leave such matters with God, and submit to his sovereign will. He knows better than we do, for ho is wonderful in counsel and excellent …

Psalm 91

Psalm 91

… Let us but watch providence, and we shall find ourselves living in a school where examples of the ultimate reward of sin are very plentiful. One case may …

Why Christ Is Not Esteemed

Isaiah 53:3

… There are others of you who were, either by your early associations, or by the restraints of Sovereign Grace, kept from openly sinning against God as many others …

Concerning Deliverance from Sinning

… Then shall it be fulfilled in us, and we shall have, in after days and years, to sing of that wondrous change which the sovereign grace of God …

Life by Faith

Galatians 3:11

… It is a sorrowful misfortune, but my nephew, Lot, must hear it—perhaps God's Providence will interpose for him." Faith believes in Providence, but she is full …

Things Present

1 Corinthians 3:22

… When the Lord makes our lines to fall in pleasant places, we are not to receive the gifts of Providence with fear and trembling, as if they were …