Suffering & Affliction

The Known and the Unknown

Ecclesiastes 6:12

… That kind of rebellious spirit creates 10 times more pain than the affliction, itself, did! Then the rod falls more heavily than it otherwise would have done and …

Breakfast With Jesus

John 21:12

… Prepare your soul for the hour of trial when the business of the hour will be to answer the question, "Simon, son of Jonas, do you love Me …

Good Talk

1 Chronicles 16:9

… Talk to one another—especially to those who can understand you because they have felt the same—of the long-suffering of God when you were in your …

Abraham's Great Reward

Genesis 15:1

… by the power of God and shall be delivered out of every trial and affliction. He shall also be to you your shield and your exceeding great reward …

Early Pastoral Epistles

… The tone of your supplications during my affliction has made me beyond measure thankful. I rejoice that you have, with humble submission, kissed the rod, not impatiently asking …

The Inexhaustible Barrel

1 Kings 17:16

… The first thing she hears is a trial: Give away some of that water which thy son and thyself so much require! Give away a portion of that …

The Christian's Helmet

1 Thessalonians 5:8

… The severest trial which a Christian has to bear is probably the trial which comes from his kind but inconsiderate friends who would puff him up, if they …

An Old-Fashioned Conversion

Job 33:29

… But, further, it seems that, as Elihu puts it, sickness was a yet more effectual awakener in the common run of cases. Observe the 19th verse, "He is …

Deep Calls Unto Deep

Psalm 42:7

… Brethren, SOME OF YOU ARE ENDURING DEEP AFFLICTION. All are not tried alike. God has not been pleased to deal out the wormwood and the gall to all …

Why Some Sinners Are Not Pardoned

Job 7:21

… of the children of God who are now suffering simply because they are gracious. There are certain kinds of affliction that come only upon the more eminent members …

Psalm 62

Psalm 62

… When this Psalm was composed it was not necessary for us to know, since true faith is always in season, and is usually under trial. Moreover, the sentiments …

Prayer, The Cure for Care

Philippians 4:6

… I bless You for this affliction, for I am sure that it means some good thing to me. Now be pleased to heal me, I beseech You!" "Lord …

A Call to the Depressed

Isaiah 52:2

… That face of yours, once so happy, was a living advertisement of the Gospel! Your cheerful temperament under trial was an invitation to sinners to come and find …

The Saint's Trials and the Divine Deliverances

Psalm 77:1-20

… a personal disease under which he was suffering. But from other words it would seem to be a deep affliction that had come upon his family and those …

Tearful Sowing and Joyful Reaping

Psalm 126:6

… In activity, in suffering, in thought, in word we are always scattering imperishable seed. Some sow amidst laughter and merriment—they sow unto the lusts of the flesh …

To Those Who Have Believed

… Submit yourselves under the hand of God, and affliction will lose its sharpness. Self-will and repining cause us a hundred times more grief than our afflictions themselves …

Psalm 109

Psalm 109

… God will not be absent when his people are on their trial; he will hold a brief for them and stand in court as their advocate, prepared to …

Light at Evening Time

Zechariah 14:6-7

… Are you suffering from temporal troubles. You cannot expect to be without these. They are hard to bear. This, however, should cheer you, that God is as much …

Daniel's Undaunted Courage

Daniel 6:10

… We are told that before, before the trial, he had been in the constant habit of prayer. He prayed much. There are some forms of spiritual life which …

The Holy Child, Jesus

Acts 4:30

… He lay hidden in the virgin's womb, and in due time was born into a world of suffering. The gate by which we enter upon the first …

Marah Better Than Elim

Exodus 15:22-26

… Yet Holy Writ seems, here, to speak after the manner of men, and to let us have the four verses for the trial, and the one verse for …

The Lord's Eternal Rest

Psalm 132:14

… some of his people or descendants pleaded that Covenant in time of affliction and trial. "Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions." The Lord would not forget either …

Memories of my Father (Continued)

… I have seldom been long without affliction; but no man who has ever lived could have been more highly favoured in domestic happiness than I have been.” On …

Waiting, Hoping, Watching

Psalm 130:5

… It has been as much as the saint could do to call his God his own, for his very faith seemed to tremble under the pressure of affliction …

Christ Crucified

1 Corinthians 2:2

… But here was One who was far greater than they, who had to yet endure suffering from which they were exempted—the only perfect One was forsaken by …

The Lord's Knowledge, Our Safeguard

2 Peter 2:9

… Oh, then, what a mercy it is if we have faith enough to trust in God! If Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego had been summoned to the common trial …

“As Thy Days, So Shall Thy Strength Be”

Deuteronomy 33:25

… suffering that many women endure, without exhibiting a hundred times as much impatience. Most of us who are gifted with strong constitutions, and have but little of sickness …

Psalm 138

Psalm 138

… It may not be best for us that the trial should come to an end; it may be far more to our advantage that by its pressure we …

"Jesus Wept"

John 11:35

… Jesus knew, moreover, that the death of Lazarus was for the Glory of God—He had said, "This sickness is not unto death but for the Glory of …

Lessons From the Manna

Exodus 16:4

… When the Lord did allow them quail in answer to their cravings, while the meat was yet in their months they were taken with deadly sickness. It was …

The Secret of Happiness

Matthew 9:2

… David truly wrote, "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered," and he is blessed even though he is sick of the palsy, or suffering …

Love's Reward

Psalm 91:14

… Gladly would you try even to suffer, to die upon the bed of sickness when called to it, struggling with weakness, confiding in the physician's skill—without …

God's Innumerable Mercies

Psalm 71:15

… Never, even in the sharpest trial, can the heir of Heaven accuse God of being unfaithful to what He has promised. He told His disciples that they would …

The Gospel in Power

1 Thessalonians 1:5-10

… At the same time he tells us that these people received the Word of God "in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit." I know that there …

A Sabbath Miracle

Luke 13:10-13

… Besides, it is a beautiful thing to be able to look up—but to be always obliged to look down is something terrible! Through this trying affliction, the …

The Touchstone of Godly Sincerity

Job 27:10

… Prayer is a test, but here is a test for the test—a trial even for prayer itself. “Will he always call upon God?” There is the point …

Resurrection—Christ The First Fruits

1 Corinthians 15:20

… And what? After all the pain, the suffering, the temptation and the trial of your friends, do you wish to awake them? Rather I think you should say …

God's Remembrance of His Covenant

Psalm 106:44

… SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, when He heard their cry: And He remembered, for their sake, His Covenant, and repented according to …

Comfort Proclaimed

Isaiah 40:1

… Whenever a Christian man sinks under affliction; when he does not seek grace from God to battle manfully with his sea of troubles; when he does not ask …

The Holy Spirit in the Covenant

Ezekiel 36:27

… But now, thanks be to God, I can perceive through Jesus Christ how this 'light affliction, which is but for a moment,' works for me, 'a far more …