Suffering & Affliction

Self-Examination

2 Corinthians 13:5

… before—“Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God;” but owing to excruciating pain and continual sickness, I have been unable to gather my thoughts together, and therefore I feel constrained …

Thanksgiving And Prayer

Psalm 65:11

… My sickness today makes my thoughts wander and unfits me for so noble a theme, yet my soul pants to set your hearts on fire. O for Heaven …

Christ Our Life—Soon To Appear

Colossians 3:4

… But I could not thrust upon you, this morning, the poverty-stricken productions of my own insufferable dullness of brain, weariness of heart and sickness of spirit during …

A Warning to Waverers

James 1:6

… Or, "trials." This is a strange thing to say, is it not? Should we not count it great joy when we escapefrom trial? Perhaps so, but we are …

Sown Light

Psalm 97:11

… There must be a trial of our patience and our faith. God delights that His servants should be put through many exercises and ordeals in order that the …

Trials Expected and Conquered

Isaiah 43:2

… You will have to endure trial of a certain kind which will chill you to the very marrow—trial which will seem to sweep you off your feet …

Learning in Private What to Teach in Public

Matthew 10:27

… be welcome and affliction to be regarded as a gain! Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can make poverty to be sweet and sickness to be borne with …

Choice Comfort for a Young Believer

Psalm 138:8

… He will make your bed in your sickness and underneath you shall be the everlasting arms." Between here and Heaven, perhaps you will experience a great many needs …

A Distinction with a Difference

Luke 1:18

… His affliction was sent not so much in anger as in love. He had asked for a sign and by a sign was he chastened. God often makes …

Psalm 37

Psalm 37

… Their singular blessedness, "upheld, "above trial, under trial, after trial. 4. Their august Patron. Verse 18. The comforts derivable from a consideration of the divine knowledge. The eternity …

Enlivening and Invigorating

Psalm 119:25

… quicken me, O Lord, according unto Your Word." In seasons of affliction we are very apt to fall into a dark, cold, dead state of mind. We have …

The Real Presence, the Great Want of the Church

Solomon 3:4-5

… in their affliction they will seek me early.' He will go unless you hold him. But note, next, he is very willing to be held. Who could hold …

Psalm 16

Psalm 16

… have eternal joy; for a little hunger, an eternal banquet; for light sickness and affliction, everlasting health and salvation; for a little imprisonment, endless liberty; for disgrace, glory …

Soul-satisfying Bread

John 6:35

… Thirst, also, is not a sentimental matter, it is a trial, indeed. What pain can be worse beneath the skies than thirst? Now Jesus has come to meet …

Trust In God—True Wisdom

Proverbs 16:20

… Having sent the trial, He will surely make a way of escape for you! II. But now I turn to the second part of our discourse. IN SPIRITUAL …

Faith.

… Further, brethren, we believe in  the gospel as God’s power to save.  We know that, for every case of spiritual sickness, we have an infallible cure; we …

Strength in Weakness

… I wrote, many years ago, to my venerable grandfather, and told him of many things that happened to me before preaching,—sickness of body, and terrible fears, which …

'Good Judgment'

Psalm 119:65

… Take heed lest His dealings of long-suffering, being slighted, He should begin to deal with you after another fashion, for He has a rod of iron, and …

The Panting Deer

Psalm 42:1

… Or when we have been banished from the Church of God for awhile, or have been confined by sickness, or have been compelled to sit under an unprofitable …

Joseph's Bones

Hebrews 11:22

… That trial which we thought we passed through with so much impatience, may have been before God an exhibition of true patience as He looked deep down into …

Meditation on God

Psalm 104:34

… It may be well enough for those who are in poverty and deep trial, but that it is at all congruous with the condition of a healthy, able …

Man Transient—god's Word Eternal

Isaiah 40:8

… Beloved, if you and I should seek to obtain a righteousness by exact obedience to the Law of God, by patience under suffering, by zeal in the service …

A New Leaf for the New Year

Genesis 42:21

… Personal affliction or bereavement, or trial of one kind or another may be most useful to us by making us think about our own condition in the sight …

Children'S Bread Given To Dogs

Matthew 15:27

… painful silence from the Savior is the grievous trial of many a seeking soul, but heavier, still, is the affliction of a harsh cutting reply such as this …

Cries From the Cross

Psalm 22:1

… the original Hebrew, that deep, solemn groan which is caused by serious sickness and which suffering men utter. Christ compares His prayers to those roars and complains that …

The Gospel'S Healing Power

Luke 5:17

… Did you ever hear, O Earth, of such a Physician as this? Who heals by suffering Himself? Whose pains, and sorrows, and griefs, and pangs, and torments, and …

Alive or Dead—Which?

1 John 5:12

… no sickness, no physician: no wound, no surgeon. No soul asks for pardon or obtains it till he has felt that sin is an evil for which pardon …

Direction In Dilemma

Exodus 14:13

… Bless Him that you have been capacitated to show forth His Glory by being permitted and honored to endure a great fight of affliction. Our one aim in …

A Painful and Puzzling Question

Mark 4:40

… There are some here who are doubting Christ because they are in temporal trial. You never were in such a sad position as you are in just now …

Hagar at the Fountain

Genesis 16:13

… You are suffering heavily and God, the All-Pitiful, has heard your affliction. Grief has an eloquent voice when Mercy is the listener. Woe has a plea which …

The People's Christ

Psalm 89:19

… Suppose God had chosen an angel to make satisfaction for our sins—imagine that an angel were capable of bearing that vast amount of suffering and agony which …

The Death of Moses

Deuteronomy 34:5

… All-sufficient Grace was given though the thorn was not removed—Moses, the servant of the Lord, died, but triumphed over death! When I thought of the trial …

Jesus, The Gread Object of Astonishment

… There were ploughings on His brow as well as upon His back; suffering, and brokenness of spirit, and agony of heart, had told upon that lovely face, till …

Concealing the Words of God

Job 6:10

… Even in the time of his affliction the Patriarch had not spoken other than according to the mind of God. What said he when he had lost all …

Communion With Christ—a Baptizing Sermon

Amos 3:3

… If your desire is slack, the Lord Jesus will leave you and travel on before you—and you will probably find the whip of affliction behind you goading …

The Parable of the Sower

… afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.” Have we not thousands of hearers who receive the word with joy? They …

Heavenly Lovesickness!

Solomon 5:8

… Do you ask me concerning the sickness itself—What is it? It is the sickness of a soul panting after communion with Christ. The man is a Believer …

Spiritual Appetite

Proverbs 27:7

… Those delicate people who are forever complaining of this and that, and regretting the, "good old times," would change their tune if they had a trial of such …

The Parable of the Sower

Luke 8:4-8

… afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended." Have we not thousands of hearers who receive the word with joy? They …

The Jeer Of Sarcasm, And The Retort Of Piety

2 Samuel 6:20-22

… Think of them! You may suppose there is very little suffering for Christ now—I speak what I know—there is still a vast deal of suffering! I …