Suffering & Affliction

Heaven Below

Revelation 7:16

… If the Believer en- dured a sharp affliction, his chief concern was that the Lord would sanctify it to him—if people persecuted or slandered him, he was …

Real Grace for Real Need

Luke 9:11

… And truly to this very hour no spiritual sickness has defeated the great Physician. No sick souls have ever been carried away from His feet to perish hopelessly …

Terrible Convictions and Gentle Drawings

Psalm 32:3-4

… The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. These are Highlanders that carry everything before them. They know the rivers of sin, they know …

"Now Then, Do It"

2 Samuel 3:17

… Jesus the Savior. An earnest sermon has driven you home to your knees. Affliction has frequently compelled you solemnly to consider. The death of others has made you …

Another And A Nobler Exhibition

Ephesians 3:10

… to trial, in the Divine Grace which sustains them in it, in the power which brings them out of it, in the wisdom which overrules the trial for …

The Growth of Faith

2 Thessalonians 1:3

… And we fear that many professors of religion are suffering in a similar fashion. They know too much, for they are wise above what is written and are …

Spared!

Ezekiel 9:8

… A SOLEMN REVIEW—"I was left." You remember, many of you, times of sickness, when cholera was in your streets. You may forget that season of pestilence, but …

The Alarum

Psalms 42:8

… it is surely sufficient cause for lively thanksgiving that you are not upon a bed of sickness; that you are not in the lunatic asylum; that you are …

Great Pardon for Great Sin

Psalm 25:11

… Some of them will have an affliction, a disease quite unknown to the faculty. Medicines have been tried, but their cases have been so stubborn that the best …

Psalm 40

Psalm 40

… All through his agony in the garden, his trial of cruel mockings before Herod and Pilate, and his passion on the tree, he waited in omnipotence of patience …

Meal-time in the Cornfields

… And certain I am that when trouble, affliction, persecution, and bereavement become the most painful to us, it is then that the Lord hands out to us the …

A Prophetic Warning

Matthew 24:12

… but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell." They were thus braced up to meet the fiery trial. Earthquake, pestilence, war …

To The Thoughtless

Isaiah 1:3

… You have sailed over every known sea of affliction. You know what sickness means—there are in your body the scars of old diseases. You have known what …

To Die Or Not To Die!

2 Corinthians 5:8

… quote Carry and Ward and Pierre, who when they were laid down with sickness at Serampore, prayed that they might live a little longer, because every godly man …

Seeing Jesus

Hebrews 2:9

… him from the land of the shadow of death, where he sat in affliction and irons, and give him the oil of joy for mourning, and the garments …

In Whom Are You Trusting?

Isaiah 36:5

… Though suffering and sorrow and trial are near, Our God is our Refuge and whom can we fear? He raises the fallen, He cheers the faint; The weak …

Good Cheer From Forgiven Sin

Matthew 9:2

… to sympathize with such a spiritual necessity—to them he spoke of his affliction, not of his repentance, for while they would pity him for his palsy, they …

The Sinner's Savior

Luke 19:7

… shall see the light." Our Lord was more moved at the sight of sickness than of health! He worked His greatest wonders among fevers, leprosies and palsies! This …

The Poor Man's Friend

Psalm 10:14

… But have they no sickness? Yes, but they commit themselves to Jehovah-Rophi, the Lord the Healer—and He either heals their sickness, or gives them the Grace …

Love

1 John 4:19

… what a trial of love was that, when Christ began to suffer for us! There are many men, I doubt not, who are true believers, and love their …

"I Would, But You Would Not"

Matthew 23:37

… God to give him mercy upon mercy! When affliction comes, or bereavement comes, when loss of property comes, when sickness comes in your own body, there is nothing …

Peace By Believing

Romans 5:1

… You do feel a little better sometimes, but it is a very poor sort of confidence that you have, for a little sickness shakes it. How would you …

Jacob's Waking Exclamation

Genesis 28:16

… Some of you, too, are in very deep affliction. You are driven to such straits that you do not know where things will end, and you are in …

Psalm 125

Psalm 125

… The people of God are not to expect immunity from trial because the Lord surrounds them, for they may feel the power and persecution of the ungodly. Isaac …

Serving The Lord

Romans 12:11

… Dear Brothers and Sisters—if from sickness, lack of education, or from your position in life you have had no opportunities to preach the Word or even to …

Priest and Victim

Hebrews 7:27

… No, but when conscience has been awakened and has begun to speak in the quiet night watches, in times of sickness, or when you have seemed to be …

The Talking Book

Proverbs 6:22

… deeps, and has been on the heights, that has known the overwhelmings of affliction, and has rejoiced in the triumphs of delight. The word of God is to …

Means for Restoring the Banished

2Samuel 14:14

… Many are brought to repentance and faith by sickness. They have been frivolous in health, but the chamber of affliction has given them time and reasons for meditation …

Brave Waiting

Psalm 27:14

… good courage! Once again, if you are called to endure great affliction, sharp pain, frequent sickness. If business goes amiss, if riches take to themselves wings and fly …

Heart Disease Curable

Isaiah 61:1

… When sickness first comes to our door and we are new to it, it is a very unwelcome guest. New pains are sharp, fresh griefs appear intolerable, for …

Silken Cords

Hosea 11:4

… The parent has seen his children, one after another, laid upon a bed of sickness with fever, but yet they have all been spared. Or he, himself, has …

The Fainting Soul Revived

Jonah 2:7

… the paths of righteousness—this is seldom accomplished without dire trouble and deep affliction. Some men, it is true, are brought to God by gentle means; they are …

Man's Ruin and God's Remedy

Numbers 21:8

… No, your trial is over, your sentence is past already, and you are now this day condemned. What though no officer has arrested you, though death has not …

God Beseeching Sinners by His Ministers

2 Corinthians 5:18-21

… It is by that bloody sweat, that crown of thorns, that shame and suffering—it is by those five dear wounds, those extreme agonies—that God has removed …

Who Is This?

Isaiah 62:11

… of sickness—and He never failed even then! But now that He has gone through death and Hell for us—and made Himself perfect through suffering—He is …

God’s Barriers Against Man’s Sin

Jeremiah 5:22-23

… Don’t you remember, some little time ago, when sickness was rife, you were stretched on your bed? One night you will never forget; sickness had got strong …

By The Fountain

Genesis 49:22

… God grant that neither sickness, nor traveling, nor watching at the bedside may keep us away from the assembly of His people. But if ever it should so …

And Why Not?

Luke 17:22

… And it will become clear to all around that it is your last bed and your last sickness. And then you will begin to say, "O God, are …

Crowning Blessings Ascribed to God

Psalm 65:11

… Sickness has fallen here and there and sometimes affliction and poverty—but you have, all of you, learned something under the rod and you have blessed God for …

Love's Commendation

Romans 5:8

… It was moreover, no small love when he lived a holy and a suffering life for us; it was love amazing, when God with feet of flesh did …