Suffering & Affliction

Concern For Other Men's Souls

Romans 9:1-5

… you could save souls better by being poor! That you would gladly endure sickness if from your sick bed you could speak better for Christ than now! Yes …

Think Well And Do Well

Psalm 26:3

… In your health or in your sickness, in your wealth or in your poverty, in your joy or in your sorrow—still, this theme of the loving kindness …

Ears Bored to the Doorpost

Exodus 21:5

… keep us from sin, and none of His love to comfort us in affliction? We would be utterly ruined! Leave Him? Ask the young husband to forsake his …

The Security Of Believers—Or, Sheep Who Shall Never Perish

John 10:27-30

… Take the next sentence—"And they shall never perish." They have a tendency to spiritual sickness, but their Shepherd will doctor them so that they shall never perish …

The Relationship of Marriage

Jeremiah 3:14

… tender has He been! How faithful, how generous, how sympathizing! In your every affliction He has been afflicted, and the angel of His Presence has saved you. Just …

The Chief Of Sinners

1 Timothy 1:15

… But still, still Paul, the chief of sinners, found mercy—and so may you! And again—if you have had warning in sickness and especially if on your …

Coming—Always Coming

1 Peter 2:4

… Are we in sickness? He relieves it. As He is at all times the same in Himself so He is the same to us. To the same Christ …

Darkness Before the Dawn

Solomon 2:17

… This may arise partly through sickness of body. There are sicknesses of the body which, in a very peculiar way, touch the soul— exquisite pain may yet be …

An Urgent Request for an Immediate Answer

Genesis 24:49

… During the past few months, how many of our dear friends have been taken away by influenza and other causes! This congregation has suffered from sickness, in family …

Great Forgiveness for Great Sin

Ephesians 1:7

… Our first parents lived in a Garden of delights and, if they had not sinned, we would have been heirs to a happy life free from sickness, sorrow …

I Will Give You Rest

… He who saves us from the battle-axe of Satanic temptation, also extracts the thorn of a domestic trial. We may rest in Jesus as to our sick …

The Spur

John 9:4

… They saw that there must be a connection between sin and suffering—but they could not trace the connection here. So they were all speculating upon the wonderful …

Lacking Moisture

Luke 8:6

… of His Countenance." "My countenance is wrinkled and covered with sores through my sickness, but He is the help of my countenance, and I shall yet praise Him …

Moving

Exodus 33:15

… the service, but they would find me in a most fearful state of sickness produced by that tremendous thought of my solemn responsibility. And, even now, if I …

Particular Election

2 Peter 1:10-11

… Get temperance, and then add to it by God’s Holy Spirit patience ; ask him to give thee that patience which endureth affliction, which, when it is tried …

Resistance to Salvation

Mark 5:7

… but no man gave any unto him." Poverty, sickness, bereavement and sorrow of heart are often God's angels that come to smite men on the side and …

Following the Risen Christ

Colossians 3:1

… In your sickness delight much in the land where the inhabitants shall no more say, "I am sick." In the midst of depression of spirit comfort your heart …

A Root Out Of A Dry Ground

Isaiah 53:2

… might least have expected it? When the body is gradually pining away with sickness we have seen the spirit more triumphant than it was in health, deriving none …

Helps

1 Corinthians 12:28

… of the goods entrusted to them—your talent may be taken from you. Sickness may be waiting for you because you are not active while you are in …

Plain Directions To Those Who Would Be Saved From Sin

Psalm 4:4

… You may look to Him concerning your poverty, your sickness, your bereavements, your children, your business. You may trust Him for time, and trust Him for eternity—trust …

Love Abounding, Love Complaining, Love Abiding

Isaiah 43:1-4

… you nor forsake you," come life, come death, come temptation, come poverty, come sickness, come assault of Satan, come whatever may from Heaven, or earth, or Hell, the …

Knowledge. Worship. Gratitude.

Romans 1:20

… constitution, who yet do not praise the God who has kept them from sickness and death? Are we any of us sufficiently grateful for our talents, our faculties …

Mourning at the Cross

Zechariah 12:10

… God, or by a sense of that wrath overtaking them in times of sickness or of the approach of death. But terror alone is hardening, rather than softening …

Salvation of the Lord

Jonah 2:9

… Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall …

'The Lord Is My Shepherd'

Psalm 23:1

… I think I have heard that there is no animal (except a man) that has so many forms of sickness as a sheep has. It may be afflicted …

Nothing But Leaves

Mark 11:13

… Besides, in genuine professors we do get the fruit, we see a faithful attachment to the Redeemer’s cause, an endurance to the end, in poverty, in sickness …

Our Watchword

Psalm 70:4

… We would be content to be poor, but we cannot be content to be sinful; we could be resigned to sickness, but we could not be satisfied to …

God's Desire for Us, and His Work in Us

Psalm 51:6

… If one you love has a toothache, you think more of the pain of that beloved one than of some far greater sickness of one in whom you …

Faith's Way of Approach

Romans 10:17

… By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of …

Migratory Birds

Jeremiah 8:7

… For instance, times of sickness. Have you been laid aside lately and are you able again to come out of doors? This is a loud call to you …

Blinded By Satan

2 Corinthians 4:4

… Oh, if they could but know that, during the week, they will fall down dead, or be laid aside by sickness, never to leave the bed, again! Yet …

A Sacred Solo

Psalm 28:7

… s end, or awake in the morning, or live through a year without sickness, without calamity, without alarm? Without violently imagining mischiefs or nervously inventing perils, we may …

Jubilee Joys

… Power has been seen in weakness, healing by sickness, and joy through sorrow." Mr. Spurgeon preached upon the various verses here engraved, and he intended to make a …

What Is Your Life?

James 4:14

… Of course they will not be laid up with sickness! They do not fear that accident or disease will keep them away from market, or hinder the active …

The Blessing of Full Assurance

1 John 5:13

… know that you are saved, you can sit down in poverty, or in sickness, or under slander, and feel perfectly content. Full assurance is the Koh-i-noor …

'Going and Weeping'

Jeremiah 50:4

… But if sickly and laid low—and made to weep through bodily pain or relative affliction, I ask that I may have cheerful courage, so that if I …

Prayerful Importunity

Luke 18:7

… so?" And there are times with each of us—when a kind of sickness seizes our spirits—we look at everything with a sad eye and we say …

Runaway Jonah and the Convenient Ship

Jonah 1:3

… This is a trial to righteous souls! That, I think, was the great fear that lay in the heart of Jonah, for he said to God, when God …

The Beloved Pastor's Plea for Unity

Romans 1:7

… rich or poor, or even whether you are in good health or in sickness! Neither will I enquire whether you are in honor or in disrepute, or whether …

Foretastes of the Heavenly Life

Deuteronomy 1:25

… far sweeter word than that! You like to talk a great deal about affliction, do you not? Well, if you love that black word—you may have reason …