Providence

The Fullness and the Filling

John 1:16

… Or if you give him a shilling, he would not consider that an argument why you should give him a sovereign! But you may deal thus with God …

Introduction

… crowd I’ll sing, While Heaven’s resounding mansions ring With shouts of sovereign grace.’ “I thought that I was the greatest debtor to Divine grace, and would …

The Sick Man Left Behind

2 Timothy 4:20

… The God who counts the hairs of our heads in Providence may well mention His sick servant on the pages of Inspiration! Instead of quibbling at the littleness …

Our Champion

Judges 16:3

… Now, will you believe, Brothers and Sisters, that in the blood of Christ and in the water that flowed with it from His side, there is a Sovereign …

Assurance Sought

Psalm 35:3

… He would not encroach upon the freedom he enjoys in approaching his sovereign, lest by any negligence or impropriety he should forfeit the good esteem and grateful smile …

Self-Humbling and Self-Searching

Solomon 1:6

… There are persons living before the public eye, and jealous of popularity, who appear quite indifferent to the good opinion of the sovereign in whose kingdom they dwell …

Deep Calls Unto Deep

Psalm 42:7

… Deep called unto deep at the noise of God's waterspouts—all the waves and billows of God's Providence had gone over him. But now, no longer …

Restless! Peaceless!

Isaiah 57:20

… The only balm is Sovereign Grace And the Physician God. Madness by nature reigns within— The passions burn and rage Till God's own Son, with skill Divine …

Everybody's Sermon

Hosea 12:10

… But all the teachings of his providence were unavailing, and whilst his hand was stretched out, still they continued to rebel against the Most High. He hewed them …

God's King Magnified

Psalm 132:18

… Now, when does a crown flourish? Does it not flourish when the sovereign is beloved by his subjects?The foundations of a throne are always to be found …

Pictures of Happiness

Psalm 144:15

… friend! Your back is no longer toward your God— "But now subdued by Sovereign Grace, Your spirit longs for His embrace." Now bless Him for that with all …

The Immutability of God

Malachi 3:6

… He loved them out of pure sovereign grace, and he will love them still. But we should have been consumed by the devil, and by our enemies—consumed …

Sown Light

Psalm 97:11

… If His way is unsearchable and His design deep beyond human understanding, we need not be surprised if we find it so in the dispensations of His Providence …

Faith First, Confession Following

Romans 10:10

… Take care to ascribe it all to Sovereign Grace. Do not blush at being a Christian, but, at the same time, do not boast about it. As Paul …

A Very Early Bible Society

2 Chronicles 34:15

… By the Divine Providence of God this one standard copy had been preserved and now came to light! It may have been hidden carefully and then Providence had …

The Faculty Baffled, The Great Physician Successful

Mark 5:25-28

… Even a few hundred years ago many of the articles which were given to patients as medicines, and cried up as drugs of sovereign efficacy, were so unutterably …

Sincere Seekers—assured Finders

1 Chronicles 28:9

… Understand that you cannot save yourself—that you have no right to be saved—that if saved, it will be by His Sovereign Grace—therefore, cry humbly, but …

A Present Helper

Acts 18:10

… I wonder whether that beating did him good—whether, in the Providence of God, he was led to see the hand of Providence in this beating falling upon …

An Earnest Invitation

Psalm 2:12

… Take us and make us thine, for we are willing to be thy subjects— “Oh, sovereign grace our hearts subdue; We would be led in triumph too, As …

The Privileged Man

Ezekiel 16:9-14

… Blessed be God, that when we were lost, and lost forever, Sovereign mercy interposed! Let us consider the list of the favors received in the order in which …

The Yoke Removed and the Lord Revealed

Ezekiel 34:27

… I know what I know and I know this—the Lord is kind in all His ways and that His Providence does continually interpose on behalf of His …

Psalm 116

Psalm 116

… as their sovereign Lord, whose commands concerning all things are right, and in the keeping of which there is great reward; in his will of providence as their …

A Practical Discourse

1 Kings 5:14

… He is a Sovereign and He divides unto every man according as He wills. How this ought to hush all envy and rebellion against the officers in the …

Our Miseries, Messengers of Mercy

Hosea 6:1-2

… The man who escaped as a card player, I fear, was hardened by the providence by which he escaped. Yet, mark you, God was glorified, because his providence …

Attention!

Matthew 17:5

… The Truths of God that were uttered in His name, like the miracles that were worked in His name, have the impress of His Sovereign authority. Hence that …

The Recorders

1 Chronicles 16:4

… I have been so favored of Providence and Grace that if I were crushed into mortar, I think every little bit and fragment of me would bless and …

The Dream of the Barley Cake

Judges 7:13

… The first thing that I shall bring under your observation is THE STRIKING PROVIDENCE which must have greatly refreshed Gideon. Just as he and Phurah stealthily stole up …

Psalm 121

Psalm 121

… Personal agency of God in providence. 2. Personal regard of providence to the favoured individual. 3. Special care over the centre of the personality—"thy soul." Verse 8 …

Traveling Expenses On The Two Great Roads

Jonah 1:3

… In the court of Providence he is an outlaw and can claim no right of protection. How shall Providence care for him who cares not for God? He …

Loved and Washed

Revelation 1:5

… He is not loyal to his sovereign. I am not going to condemn you who have never come out and acknowledged yourselves followers of Christ—I wish that …

Witnessing at the Cross

Luke 23:39-43

… They were poor confessors of Christ, scarcely worthy of the name! Was the chain of testimony to be broken? Would none declare His Sovereign Power? No, the Lord …

"My Times Are In Your Hand"

Psalm 31:15

… The open acts of Providence, here below, tally exactly with that which is written in the secret Book which no eye of man or angel as yet has …

The Song of a City, and the Pearl of Peace

Isaiah 26:3

… All the powers of providence and grace protect the saints. Material and spiritual forces alike surround her. The Lord keeps His people doubly fenced by walls and bulwarks …

A Pastoral Letter Accompanying Sermon 221

… I am not restrained from my accustomed ministry by a chain forged by man, but by the silken cord of God’s providence: no rough jailor, but loving …

Seeing Jesus

John 14:19

… There they hang—the sovereign keys of death and Hell, still entrusted to Him, alone! He has not left the chariot for some diabolic Jehu to drive, and …

Strange Dispensations and Matchless Consolations

Hosea 2:14

… THIS is one of the many instances in the Word of God of His free, rich, Sovereign Grace. The Lord has set the children of Israel before us …

Our King, Our Joy

Psalm 149:2

… Prove your loyalty this day—rejoice in His Sovereign will even though He may be exercising it in a manner against which the flesh rebels. We will receive …

The Great Teacher and Remembrancer

John 14:26

… And God is determined that they that are of the Law shall not inherit it! He has made it a Sovereign Decree that the Believer shall be justified …

The Great Revival

Isaiah 52:10

… grays, and they both go in and bend together before the throne of sovereign grace. All classes are affected. Even the senate feels it; the statesman himself is …

Israel's God and God's Israel

Deuteronomy 33:26-28

… How precious it is to see that God has promised to thrust out the enemy from before us! This He does sometimes by Providence. Providence often removes enemies …