Suffering & Affliction

The Work of Grace the Warrant for Obedience

John 5:11

… When a man is suffering let us pity him, however the suffering has come. When a man had been in misery so long as 38 years, it was …

The King Feasting in his Garden

Solomon 5:1

… Having laid down His life for His friends, having brought them to know His friendship in times of trial and of difficulty, He at all times proves His …

The Duty of Remembering the Poor

Galatians 2:10

… You know we hear of a great many different inventions that will never stand a trial. One man advertises a swimining belt; a fine thing it would be …

Witnessing Better Than Knowing the Future

Acts 1:6-8

… birth, the time of a sore trial, the time of the death of your beloved one, the time of your sickness, and how long it shall last—all …

Our Sanctuary

Jeremiah 17:12

… in the anguish of his soul, "I am the man that has seen affliction." And, therefore, he could not have lived if he had not found sanctuary in …

Needless Fears

Isaiah 51:12

… will not be long), how short a time will your trial seem to have lasted! "Our light affliction, which is but for a moment," says the Apostle, "works …

The Right Observance of the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

… It appears that God visited this Church at Corinth with sickness, and took away many of the members by death because they had profaned the Lord's Table …

Appreciative Correspondents, 1855-1890

… Christ Jesus, with whom I feel more closely united by means of every affliction which I suffer. " What a large letter I have inflicted upon you ! Forgive the …

Miracles Of Love

Isaiah 38:17

… The remedy for his soul's sickness was love. His heart was fetched up from the grave of its despair by love—love was the hand of power …

God's Unspeakable Gift

2 Corinthians 9:15

… You who have used Him most and longest will say, "He is unspeakably precious to us, for He has been good to us in sickness and in health …

A Message From God

Judges 3:20

… Those children have been restored from beds of sickness when your heart has been sick with anxiety. In your own health of body you have not been strangers …

A Clarion Call to Saints and Sinners

Micah 2:10

… You may, perhaps, have lived a long time, now, without any sickness or illness. You are certainly getting a little gray, your hair tells of the passing of …

Good News for the Lost

Luke 19:10

… We are now, if unrenewed, in a state of condemnation! The trial is not now pending—it is over and we are condemned, already, for our sins. The …

The Empty Seat

1 Samuel 20:27

… Permit me also to remind you that among your assemblies there are SEATS EMPTIED BY SICKNESS for a while. You will not forget one place, the most conspicuous …

The Peace of the Devil and the Peace of God

Luke 11:21

… Within a single day her son died and those hours of false peace were the wormwood and the gall of her affliction. It was a sad, sad pity …

Psalm 147

Psalm 147

… Secondly, in relation to wholeness of heart from sin; and so it is a malady or sickness, and yet peculiar to one blood alone, namely, God's elect …

The Battle of Life

… You may have a trial or a temptation such as never crossed your path before. Hence I beseech you to consider the greatness of the charge of this …

The Singing Pilgrim

Psalm 119:54

… Sometimes a home sickness is upon us and then we are weary of this wilderness and pine for the land which flows with milk and honey. We hear …

The Way To Honor

Proverbs 27:18

… In the New Testament we read of the centurion who so honored his servant that in his sickness he sent to the Lord Jesus, earnestly entreating Him to …

Faith's Firm Resolve

Psalm 71:16

… sometimes suffering—and occasionally we carry a pair of baskets and both work and suffer. The Lord will be with us under every form of trial—He will …

The Life, Walk and Triumph of Faith

Genesis 17:1

… also be useful to those who are trembling under some present temporal trial and affliction. They are dreading what may yet happen. Forebodings of what may soon come …

Struggling Against Sin

Psalm 119:145

… I will keep Your statutes." This ought to be the effect of every affliction—to make us more careful in our obedience. It is not always so, but …

Delivered On Sunday Morning, December 4, 1864,

2 Corinthians 6:2

… You may have been very much tempted, you may feel, through some sickness of body, anything but cheerful. But if you believe in Christ, remember now you are …

An Instructive Truth

Jeremiah 10:23

… So your contention must not be against the instrument of your affliction. If there is any contention, it is really against God—and you would not, I trust …

God's Will About the Future

James 4:13-17

… The Apostle, by the Spirit, speaks truly when he says, "You know not what shall be on the morrow." Whether it will come to us laden with sickness …

A Discourse For A Revival Season

Jeremiah 8:19

… A visitation from God to this Church will try you—it is all a blessing, but partly a trial. I believe that in every society and every Church …

The Immutability of God

Malachi 3:6

… I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a …

Earnest Expostulation

Romans 2:4

… The laying of his healing hand upon the individual who was suffering had more virtue in it than all those heavenly addresses which fell from his lips upon …

The High Rock

Psalm 61:2

… Sometimes, by sickness, either personal or the sickness of our relatives, we are detained from the House of God. At other times, in journeying by land or upon …

Knowing and Doing

2 Corinthians 8:9

… How that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of the joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.They were very poor …

Love To Jesus

Solomon 1:7

… power'? But ah, remember the flesh is weak, And will shrink in the trial hour. Yet yield to His love, who round you now, The bands of a …

The Great Catastrophe at the Surrey Gardens Music Hall

… Much prayer was offered, and I looked forward hopefully, but yet felt overweighted with a sense of responsibility, and filled with a mysterious premonition of some great trial …

Our Sympathizing High Priest

Hebrews 5:7-10

… period of limitation, weakness, suffering, weariness since He was in human flesh. "The days of His flesh" were, to Him, days of poverty, sickness, weariness, reproach and temptation …

Evening, April 11

Ps 25:18

Evening, April 11 Go To Morning Reading “Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.” Psalm 25:18 It is well for us when …

Love at Its Utmost

John 15:9

… Doubtless, in the future we shall have to make continued trial of his love, but we are sure it will endure every test. We may have rough ways …

The Wounds of Jesus

Luke 24:40

… I have known a man, perhaps, five or six years ago; he has passed through a world of suffering and pain, and when I hare seen him again …

Healed or Deluded? Which?

Jeremiah 8:11

… Believe me, sickness is often a time when a man is led to turn over the pages of his past life, to see whether they will bear inspection …

Reasons For Doubting Christ

Matthew 14:31

… It was as extraordinary problem that I am sure that I must be the man that has seen affliction peculiarly marked out from all the rest." Yes, dear …

Accepted In The Beloved

Ephesians 1:6

… When He did hang upon the tree, the chosen who were in Him were virtually suffering the wrath of God. Justice looks upon the chosen as though they …

Right Replies To Right Requests

Luke 11:11-13

… Amid fiery trials your faith is honoring God, and every circumstance of your affliction is made subservient to your soul's perfection. In spiritual matters how often in …