Providence

"Am I A Sea, Or A Whale?"

Job 7:12

… Certain men are not only plagued by conscience and dogged by fear, but the Providence of God seems to have gone out against them. Just when the man …

The Moral of a Miracle

Mark 11:22

… That is the way of Him." And so, when God puts away withered fig trees and when He shows His power in other ways in His divine Providence …

Letters concerning Settlement in London

… Had I been uncomfortable in my present situation, I should have felt unmixed pleasure at the prospect Providence seems to open up before me;. but having a devoted …

Good News for the Lost

Luke 19:10

… What He did personally He now does under the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in His Providence. Sometimes Providence takes away a child, lays a man on a …

Precious, Honorable, Beloved

Isaiah 43:4

… They were favored with special protections in Providence, with special guidance in all their difficulties, special supplies in time of famine. And if they sometimes had special chastisements …

Godly Fear and Its Goodly Consequence

Proverbs 14:26

… In the streets and in the marketplaces, or wherever else the Providence of God may call him, he witnesses the good confession. It is easy to secularize religion …

Pleading For Prayer

Romans 15:30-33

… They hunted him in every place and now he was going into the lion's den—but he believed that God, in Providence, could overrule all things, so …

How To Become Fishers of Men

Matthew 4:19

… The winds of providence will waft you where you can fish for men. The wheels of providence are full of eyes, and all those eyes will look this …

First Literary Friends

… and truth, the caste feeling of society is hit off: ' In England, a sovereign will not speak to a shilling, a shilling will not notice a sixpence, and …

A Refreshing Promise

Isaiah 27:3

… The Spirit of God is as the dew and the rain, but we cannot command His influences—these lie altogether at the Sovereign disposal of the Lord. To …

Bands of Love; or, Union to Christ

… Those who are set apart for the Lord are in due time severed from the impure mass of fallen humanity, and are by sovereign grace engrafted into the …

A Woman of a Sorrowful Spirit

1 Samuel 1:15

… She had also been taught the way and method of His Grace as well as of His Providence, for never did a woman show more acquaintance with the …

Psalm 88

Psalm 88

… If ever we need friends it is in the dreary hour of despondency and the weary time of bodily sickness; therefore does the sufferer complain because divine providence …

Psalm 69

Psalm 69

… When a stroke comes to any in the providence of God, their friends gather around them and condole, but these wretches hunt the wounded and vex the sick …

Psalm 71

Psalm 71

… Nature is charged to be tender with God's servants; Providence is ordered to work their good, and the forces of the invisible world are ordained as their …

Psalm 113

Psalm 113

… Like the great arch of the firmament, the presence of the Lord spans all the lands where dwell the varied tribes of men, for his providence is universal …

Lions Lacking—But the Children Satisfied

Psalm 34:10

… If you should be ill, what would become of you? You trust in Providence, but I trust in my big arms. The best providence is to take care …

Psalm 36

Psalm 36

… Who shall discover the springs of the sea? He who shall do this may hope to comprehend the providence of the Eternal. "Undiscovered sea! Into thy dark, unknown …

The Battle of Life

… Shall I tell you how God will help you? Certainly you may reckon upon his watchful Providence. You little know how easy the Almighty can make a path …

Canaan on Earth

Deuteronomy 11:10-12

… that of a needy mendicant—I have become a gentleman-pensioner on the providence of God; my position, which was that of a bondslave in Egypt, is now …

The Pierced Heart of Jesus

John 19:32-37

… WHAT a wonderful conjunction of Prophecy and Providence! I want you to behold it, and admire it. Two texts of Scripture predict, the one in Exodus the other …

Lecture II: Anecdotes From The Pulpit.

… The marriage of a godly man into a carnal family hath been ordered by Providence for the conversion and salvation of many therein. Thus we read in the …

Forward! Forward! Forward!

Exodus 14:15

… Hell is behind you—you are shut up on the right hand and on the left by God's Providence, your own fears, and Divine Justice. There is …

A Holiday Pastime.—Essay on Popery

… for presuming to put their authority on a footing with that of the Sovereign, and presuming to “ permit ” her proclamation to be published? God addresses His gospel to …

God Comforting His People

Isaiah 49:13

… God's Providence not only extends to mankind in general, and to the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and the innumerable fish in …

The Sealed Hand—a Winter Sermon

Job 37:7

… He that chastises the heathen, shall not He correct?He judges the nations—read the Book of Providence and see how He deals out justice to nation after …

'Tempted of the Devil'

Matthew 4:1

… A further reason why you are thus tempted and tried is that God, in His wise Providence, is now testing you to see whether you are a right …

The Pleiades and Orion

Job 38:31

… Let Him do what seems good to Him." The doctrine of a Divine Providence is calculated to create in the minds of the thoughtful and believing, the spirit …

Overwhelming Obligations

Psalm 116:12

… There is a special Providence in the endowment of life to each individual creature. David did not disdain to trace back the hand of God to the hour …

Faith Hand in Hand With Fear

Psalm 56:3

… You shall, when your experience is most trying, honor God the most if you can then trust Him! Surely it needs little faith to believe in Providence when …

Where to Find Fruit

Hosea 14:8

… Our fruit comes from God, and from God alone, as to providence. When the dew-drops fall from heaven, each one may whisper to the tree and say …

"Things To Come"

1 Corinthians 3:22

… Mercy may be abused into sin, but in itself the bounty of Providence is pure. No, Sirs, when God gives pleasure it is safe, pure and elevating—you …

Grace for the Guilty

Isaiah 44:22

… because they repented, or because they believed, but simply and entirely of the Sovereign Grace of God, because, having set His affection upon them, He would not turn …

A Voice from the Hartley Colliery

Job 14:14

… Once again the voice of Providence has proclaimed "All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of grass." O sword of the Lord …

The Sad Wonder

Mark 6:6

… We never read that either science or art, Nature or Providence excited His wonder. We do not find that He marvelled at the grandeur of the Temple, although …

The Glorious Habitation

Psalm 90:1

… When first I was cast upon thee from my mother’s breast, I found thee my God of Providence. When first I knew thee by that spiritual knowledge …

The Principal Wheat

… chief concern Of mortals here below; May I its great importance learn, Its sovereign virtue know! “More needful this than glittering wealth, Or aught the world bestows: Not …

The Loaded Wagon

Amos 2:13

… Both in Providence and in gracious privilege, He has blessed us above all people that are upon the face of the earth. While other countries have been crushed …

Regeneration and the Holy Spirit

… God works in providence, but men do not therefore sit still. They could not move without the divine power giving them life and strength, and yet they proceed …

For or Against?

Matthew 28:4-6

… Do not marvel, however, if the dispensations of Providence should appear to you to be very mysterious. Just say in your soul, "It is all right, for every …