Providence

A Dirge for the Down-grade and a Song For Faith

Isaiah 66:10

… came down from Heaven! How great, then, will be our joy! Brethren, the Providence of God is with us. All its terrors, as well as all its bounties …

Good News

Proverbs 25:25

… God is working in Providence and making all things work together for your good if you belong to Him. Your heart is heavy just now and your harp …

Ruth's Reward—or, Cheer for Converts

Ruth 2:12

… present reward than complete rest from all anxiety and calm confidence in a Providence which ran never fail! Another part of the Believer's great gain lies in …

The Gentleness Of Jesus

Matthew 12:19

… your insolence, He neither quenches nor crushes you! You enjoy the bounties of Providence. You are permitted to inhale the air which afterwards you send forth in blasphemy …

The Lambs And Their Shepherd

Isaiah 40:11

… wind to the shorn lamb." He takes them up in the arms of Providence and carries them where there is no trouble. At other times they are carried …

How Saints May Help the Devil

Ezekiel 16:54

… up against affliction a great deal better than their faith in God’s providence can do. Why, just look at these saints:—a drivelling set of crying creatures …

Christian Conversation

Psalm 145:11

… We ought often to speak of how God provides for His creatures in Providence. Why should we not tell how God has taken us out of poverty and …

"The Lord Is Risen, Indeed"

Luke 24:5

… O Brothers and Sisters, Brothers and Sisters, permit me earnestly to rebuke you lest you receive a severe rebuke in Providence in your own souls. Christ is not …

Advance!

Deuteronomy 1:6

… Let us put ourselves under the protection of Providence—especially in making changes. Some make changes out of mere love of novelty. Some make changes because they think …

Something Done for Jesus

Matthew 26:10

… And that other part of Christian service, namely, endurance—the bearing of shame for Christ's sake, the patient suffering of the will of God in Providence—all …

Psalm 38

Psalm 38

… Turning right away from the creature to the sovereign Lord of all, and to him as our own covenant God, we shall find the richest solace in waiting …

'The True Sayings of God'

Revelation 19:9

… the best commentaries on God's written Book is God's Book of Providence when it is explained to us by His Holy Spirit. 98. You, through Your …

"God With Us"

Matthew 1:23

… but we have seen His acts of Grace on our behalf, both in Providence and in the working of His blessed Spirit. "The Lord has made bare His …

A Hasty Expression Penitently Retracted

Psalm 31:22

… Who is to be master? Are we to be lords over all? Who is to order Providence? In whose hands should be the issues of death? Is God …

An Observation of the Preacher

Ecclesiastes 7:8

… You are, however, only at the beginning—the beginning of the ways of Providence. Your poor faith is ready to be staggered by the sufferings you endure and …

Contentment

Philippians 4:11

… the sight of all men, but yet they still continue through an inscrutable providence to be numbered with the poor and needy. You will excuse me, brothers and …

Fields White For Harvest

John 4:35

… something or other which may one of these days, in the order of Providence, "turn up." Meanwhile, it is true that death does not cease to slay! Meanwhile …

Enlivening and Invigorating

Psalm 119:25

… you are too apt to forget the Lord or to murmur against His Providence. There is nothing in this world to help a Christian—it is all against …

The Lily Among Thorns

Solomon 2:2

… The thorn is the mark of wrath and the lily is the symbol of Divine Providence. A true Believer is a blessing, a tree whose leaves heal and …

Gratitude for Deliverance from the Grave

Psalm 118:17

… nonetheless, an atrocious crime on the part of ungodly men! The Omnipotence and Providence of God are to be believed, but man's responsibility is not, therefore, to …

The Faculty of Impromptu Speech

… The god of providence has promised to feed his people with temporal food; but if we came together to a banquet, and no one had prepared a single …

The Deep-Seated Character of Sin

Jeremiah 17:1

… There is no God to them, though the table is loaded with the bounties of His Providence. There is to them no God even though the sick chamber …

An Earnest Warning Against Unbelief

Hebrews 8:18

… Then think of the lord's gracious Providence. You have been fed and cared for. Perhaps you have been brought very low, but you have had food and …

“All These Things”—A Sermon with Three Texts

Genesis 42:36

… Believe not the clearest inferences from His Providence—believe HIM! Let outward circumstances say what they may. Even if your understanding should lead you to doubt the Lord …

Departed Saints Yet Living

Luke 20:37

… While there is a God and a Providence, Moses cannot continue in obscurity. There are certainties wrapped up in him which cannot fail. A man need not be …

Christ's Crowning Glory

Psalm 21:5

… All the arrangements of Providence are under His control. Nothing is done in the entire universe without His command or His permission. Does that statement startle you? It …

A Lesson and a Fortune for Christian Men of Business

Hebrews 13:5

… God's Presence, God's help, God's Covenant favor, God's gracious Providence, God's Covenant engagements for our good—what more can we need? I. The …

The Tender Enquiry of a Friend

Jeremiah 47:5

… have never tried to do him any good. Surely this cannot be right. Providence has put him in my way and I ought at least to have asked …

The Model Soul-winner

John 4:7

… But her heart is now won by the Messiah! So now you may come in, you disciples! Providence shut the door and kept them waiting a while until …

Moving

Exodus 33:15

… When, in God's good Providence, you are removed from one sphere of service to another, I think that you, also, may look up to God in prayer …

Compassion on the Ignorant

Hebrews 5:2

… It was, in the all-wise Providence of God, ordained that the sons of Aaron should be men compassed with infirmity that they might compass others with sympathy …

Entangled in the Land

Exodus 14:3

… In Providence we are not left without a Leader and in spiritual things we are not left without the Spirit of God who shall lead us into all …

Christ's Manifestation to Mary Magdalene

John 20:17

… That is the great purpose and end of nature, of Providence and of Grace—that the Glory of the Lord may be revealed. It is already revealed—but …

Following the Risen Christ

Colossians 3:1

… days to tarry here—the period may be longer or shorter as the Providence of God ordains— but it will soon be over and the time of our …

The Lord's Own View of His Church and People

Solomon 4:12

… and do My Prophets no harm." He sets a hedge about them in Providence so that nothing shall by any means harm them. He has shut them up …

"Better Than Wine"

Solomon 1:2

… The love of His Providence, for He rules for you. The love of His intercession, for He pleads for you. The love of His representation, for He stands …

The Best Christmas Fare

Psalm 119:103

… this I also know that, lifted up with gratitude for the blessings of Providence—health, wealth, friends—yet God's saints have found greater sweetness in His Word …

Let Us Go Forth

Hebrews 13:13

… Away he must go—Faith must be his guide—Providence his provision and the living God his only keeper! The separate life of Abraham, in the midst of …

The Holdfasts of Faith

Romans 4:16

… When you have looked at creation, remember Providence, which is a prolongation of the creative act. The power which made all things upholds them. The Lord keeps them …

Peter's Prayer

Luke 5:8

… And it is a blessed Providence and a blessed work of the Spirit of God when a man at last is starved till he must go home to …