Providence

The Love Of Jonathan and the Love Of Jesus

2 Samuel 1:26

… If you have an enemy, you have also a friend—God sets the one over against the other in His Providence. Set the one over against the other …

"My Garden"—"His Garden"

Solomon 4:16

… But often something more is needed—some movement of God's Providence and much more—some mighty working of His Grace to come and shake the flower bells …

Greater Things Yet Who Shall See Them?

John 1:50

… high—all Heaven shall be opened to him! God will help him by Providence; will help him by Grace; will help him by actual angels and will help …

Prayer Perfumed with Praise

Philippians 4:6

… Elijah, when on the top of Carmel, did not pray for all the blessings of providence in general, but for rain, for rain there and then. He knew …

Believers—Lights In The World

Philippians 2:14-16

… working for God. "Do all things without murmurings," without murmuring at God's Providence—which was a common vice of the heathen, who, on their tombstones often recorded …

The Trees in God's Courts

Psalm 92:13-15

… we cannot discover speck, spot, or flaw in all the transactions of His Providence. Though sometimes they have been mysterious, they have always been right! Blessed be His …

Hands Full of Honey

Judges 14:8

… have taught him to stand fast upon the pinnacle of glory whereon the Providence of God had placed him. Learn, then, O young Brother, that, if, like Samson …

Psalm 12

Psalm 12

… If I am covetous, it is interpreted providence; if miserable, it is counted temperance; if melancholy, it is construed godly sorrow; if merry, it is voted spiritual joy …

How Faith Comes

John 4:39-42

… There came a woman of Samaria to draw water Providence was at work so that when Christ reached the well, this woman was on her way there. It …

The Lion and the Bear—Trophies Hung Up

1 Samuel 17:36

… Never let us dream of changing, nor even of comparing our different lots—the settlements of Providence are wiser than our fancies! The will of the Lord is …

What God Cannot Do!

Titus 1:2

… Even if outward Providence should come to you and say that God has forsaken you, that is only one. And even if another and another and another should …

Faith's Ultimatum

Job 13:15

… for in some mysterious way or other I shall yet know that His Providence was right and good, for He cannot err! His dealings must be wise, He …

The Prosperous Man's Reminder

Hosea 13:5-8

… And the more so if Providence has dealt bountifully with us. We read in our text, "According to their pasture, so were they filled," that is to say …

Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… gives to the soul when it feels that God appoints everything and that Providence is not for us to arrange but is all settled and determined by Infinite …

No Room for Christ in the Inn

Luke 2:7

… Remark here the wisdom of a God of providence, and believe that all things are ordered well. When all persons of the house of David were thus driven …

Sweet Savor

Ezekiel 20:41

… Seek to do something—seek to serve Christ! Pray that you may be a sweet savor of Christ unto God in every place where Providence may cast your …

The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ

John 16:14

… But let a man's only object be to glorify Christ, and he will feel very little concern where Providence places him, so long as he may still …

Springtime in Nature and Grace

Isaiah 55:10-13

… In the works of Creation and in the dispensations of Providence, we have abundant proofs of the perpetuity of God's lovingkindness. No sooner have we experienced the …

Alive or Dead—Which?

1 John 5:12

… As the living are constrained to live among the dead, as the children of God are mixed up by Providence with the heirs of wrath, what manner of …

Beginning at Jerusalem

Luke 24:47

… After her first days she seems to have fallen asleep, and it is scarcely a hundred years ago since in the providence and grace of God the church …

The Heroic In Christianity

Luke 6:32-34

… He may rejoice as they do in the common bounties of Providence, but that joy is to hold very secondary rank. Even in his own success as a …

Every Man's Necessity

John 3:7

… Or imagine that by some revolution of the wheel of Providence they should become emperors and kings—yet what of that? The change would be extraordinary and men …

Today! Today! Today!

Psalm 95:7

… It was an amazing Providence that the bed should be pushed close against the wall which was only a thin partition separating the apartment from the room in …

Taking Hold of God

Isaiah 64:7

… Wherever he is settled in Providence, he sets about founding a Church for his Lord. He is glad to be a member of a large Church for the …

The Star and the Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-2

… There may be a message from the Lord to thee in many a left-handed providence; a voice for wisdom may come to thee from the month of …

Fire—the Need of the Times

Luke 12:49

… will win the day! In these times we are screened by a gracious Providence from the Satanic cruelty of persecution. Nowadays it takes another shape—the preacher is …

A Woman's Memorial

Matthew 26:13

… But there was a greater intent in the womb of Providence. The Lord meant that to set the whole country in a blaze, and to bring forth a …

The Pilgrim's Grateful Recollections

Deuteronomy 8:3-6

… is but a man, and that he is dependent, very dependent, upon the Providence of God. Their hunger was, no doubt, increased in its power to humble them …

Temple Glories

2 Chronicles 5:13

… It might have been so to this day if it had not been for the purpose and Providence of God which prevented me from going to my usual …

The Sons of God

Romans 8:16

… You feel you must have your Father, or else the gifts of his providence are nothing to you. That is, your spirit beareth witness that you are the …

'Bought with a Price'

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

… it is God who keeps you in life; you would die if he withdrew his power.” The preservation of divine providence might furnish abundant arguments for holiness. Surely …

Heavenly Geometry

Ephesians 3:16-19

… Do you not think, however, that we, most of us, fail to see the breadth of Christ's love in matters of Providence? You know what is meant …

Remember Lot's Wife

Luke 17:32

… should live together, work together, suffer together and should be delivered, by the Providence of God, many a time together—and should see our children grow up together …

Psalm 79

Psalm 79

… Sometimes providence appears to deal much more severely with the righteous than with the wicked, and this verse is a bold appeal founded upon such an appearance. It …

Importance of Small Things in Religion

… they left the oxen to bear it as they pleased, and by divine providence the ark was carried to Beth-shemesh. The men of Beth-shemesh struck with …

Varying Voices–Pro and Con

… soften its outline, its substance, or its results ; and what has followed ? Truly, Providence would seem once more to have made foolish the wisdom of this world. While …

Forgiveness and Fear

Psalm 130:4

… Blessed be His name for this great act of Sovereign Grace. 8. And I will encamp about My house because of the army, because of him that passes …

A Secret And Yet No Secret

Solomon 4:12

… They are separated day by day by Divine Providence, for the fiery pillar gives light to them, while it is darkness to the Egyptians. But their separation, so …

Struggles of Conscience

Job 13:23

… A second method by which the Lord answers this prayer is by opening the eyes of the soul; not so much by providence, as by the mysterious agency …

The New “Helensburgh House,” Nightingale Lane

… I think it must have been because my beloved so often spoke of it, and delighted to tell of the tender providence which, in so remarkable a way …