Suffering & Affliction

Romans, But Not romanists

Romans 16:1-16

… So was it with the Church in the olden times—the men who went first in suffering were also first in their love and esteem. They never failed …

Psalm 144

Psalm 144

… How long suffering he is to his adversaries, whom he could so readily consume. A touch would do it; God's finger of flame would set the hills …

Sow To Yourselves

Hosea 10:12

… If you are about to pass through an extreme trial and need great strength to yield a greater harvest of patience, have a greater sowing of Grace by …

Sin Condemned And Executed By Christ Jesus

Romans 8:3

… The Law of God of the Ten Commands, with the penal sentence attached, was intended to be God's great conviction, trial, and judgment of sin. Truly, when …

The Glory in the Rear

Exodus 14:19-20

… Every trial was severe to the raw, undisciplined spirits of the tribes, and therefore the Lord winked at their follies. There was not a touch of the rod …

How Can I Obtain Faith?

Romans 10:17

… One of them, the Apostle Paul, lost his position, which was one of great eminence, and spent his whole life in toil, and suffering, and reproach, and ended …

God'S Estimate Of Time

2 Peter 3:8

… And if the Church shall keep at that stretch for two thousand years to come, (we pray God she may not have the trial), but if she should …

Joy in Harvest

Isaiah 9:3

… Some of you have children who are a trial to you whenever you think of them—let them be such a trial to you that they drive you …

The Child of Light and the Works of Darkness

Ephesians 5:11

… and we shall have an awful fellowship with them at the last by suffering as they shall suffer! God make us holy, then! The very name of Jesus …

"Dare To Be a Daniel"

Daniel 1:8

… Sometimes those who are the most exalted will have the most suffering. 3. 4. And the king spoke unto Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, that he should …

Peter's Fall and Restoration

Luke 22:61

… all this was done very close to where his Lord and Master was suffering at that time. I think that this Tabernacle might very well picture the kind …

"He Shall Be Great"

Luke 1:32

… He was brought very low in His trial, condemnation and suffering. Who thought Him great when He was covered with bloody sweat, or when He was sold at …

God's Thoughts and Ways Far Above Ours

Isaiah 55:8

… Lord! We have no patience—we cannot even bear with a little suffering or trial from Him without complaint and murmur. There are men around us who will …

A Memorable Milestone

Psalm 40:9-11

… It is a great thing for us to have fellowship with Christ in His suffering which we could not have had if we had not, ourselves, also been …

Restraining Prayer

Job 15:4

… We are ready enough to ask for deliverance from trial, but how often we forget to ask that it may be sanctified to us! We are quite ready …

A Gracious Dismissal

Luke 7:50

… We climb the hill of enterprise, or dare the wave of trial with an inspiring word upon our lips. To certain young men, a word has come in …

The King in Pilate's Hall

John 18:37

… To some of Christ's followers, this time of trial comes very soon after their conversion. Others are assailed at a later period. The cool, calm, calculating doubter …

The Seed Upon a Rock

Matthew 13:5

… They are brought forward as converts and there is great rejoicing over them—but after a very little while, days of trial arise and there being no depth …

Why Some Seekers Are Not Saved

Isaiah 59:1

… These promises are distinctly made to those who care for the needy and suffering. My Brothers and Sisters, mind well what the Lord, here, teaches you, for these …

An Exhortation By Rev. C.H. Spurgeon

2 Samuel 11:1

… But now an hour of trial is at hand, Saul is dead and the last of his race sits as a humble pensioner at David's table. The …

Idols Found Wanting, But Jehovah Found Faithful

Isaiah 46:1-4

… But these idols—always a mere deceit—proved themselves powerless in the day of trial. Cyrus came, the Euphrates was dried up, the empire of Babylon ended and …

The Proof of Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 13:3

… The Apostle had much joy in being the founder, the father and the fosterer of so many Churches, but this joy brought with it constant and heavy trial …

Special Protracted Prayer

Luke 6:12

… Should you not also make your times of peculiar trial to be also times of special prayer? Wait upon God now that the child is dying. Wrestle with …

Psalm 9

Psalm 9

… Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death! What a glorious lift! In sickness, in sin, in despair, in temptation, we have been brought very low …

The Head and the Body

Ephesians 4:15

… He entreats them, with all lowliness, meekness and long-suffering, to bear and to forbear with one another in love. He most touch-ingly and tenderly pleads his …

The Great Mystery of Godliness

1 Timothy 3:16

… There could have been no putting away of sin by vicarious suffering if God had not become Incarnate. Sin is not removed except by an atonement—neither would …

The Blind Befriended

Isaiah 42:16

… In trial or in triumph you still trust Him! It is a dangerous thing to begin to draw your happiness from your circumstances. Thereby you will weaken yourself …

A Description of Young Men in Christ

1 John 2:13

… If you are weak, you shall have no trial happen to you but such as is common to men. But if you are strong, rest assured that trials …

The Soul-Winner

Proverbs 11:30

… You feel refreshed by observing how they act—their patience in suffering, their courage in danger, their holy faith in God, their happy faces under trial—all these …

The Christian's Glorious Inventory

1 Corinthians 3:21-23

… I am suffering excruciating pain in my body and my circumstances are not what I wish them to be. I am exceedingly pained and driven to and fro …

Unsound Spiritual Trading

Proverbs 16:2

… The fiery trial has been too much for the wood, hay, and stubble of many a gigantic firm. Houses of business which seemed to be founded upon a …

What God Cannot Do!

Titus 1:2

… Seventy years God's long-suffering may wait over you, but when you shall come into another world you shall find every terrible Word of Scripture fulfilled. You …

The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear

… Be not staggered thereby, for this trial has befallen the very best of men, and even your Lord did not escape the envenomed tongue of falsehood. In almost …

Bread For The Hungry

Deuteronomy 8:3

… This is a trial for your faith. Oh, let not your faith fail you, but seek help from God this morning, that you may say, "I can starve …

Prayer 10 — The Music of Praise

… Oh! the joy of knowing that we are Thine forever, thine in the trials of life, and thine in the last dread trial of death, and then Thine …

"Goodness, as a Morning Cloud"

2 Chronicles 24:2

… after year, without any great trial or temptation, may leave the personal character altogether undeveloped. Some continually put children under restraint, never suffering them to have any sort …

The Peacemaker

Matthew 5:9

… For he knows that Jesus did so —who took the blows from His Father and from us also—that so by suffering in our place, peace might be …

Death and Life—the Wage and the Gift

Romans 6:23

… At first by deprivation of the joy which spiritual life brings with it and, afterwards, by suffering the inevitable misery of spiritual death. God has justly appointed that …

Psalm 84

Psalm 84

… What made the tabernacle of Moses lovely was not the outside, which was very mean, as the Church of God outwardly is, through persecution, affliction, and poverty; but …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage

… voice of joy at His manifold mercies. “Whatever befall us, trouble and adversity, sickness or death, we need not fear a final separation, either from each other, or …