Suffering & Affliction

The Smoke Of Their Torments

Genesis 19:27

… What pain He endures in that moment when He is lifted up between earth and Heaven! And now He has a long season of suffering before Him. They …

Unbelievers Stumbling—Believers Rejoicing

Romans 9:33

… Again, the Christian would have cause to doubt if Christ were to fail him, either as to Providence or Grace, in his times of trial and temptation. When …

Heavenly Rest

Hebrews 4:9

… Or if his body be sound, yet what suffering he has in his mind! Conflicts between depravity and gross temptations from the evil one, assaults of hell, perpetual …

One Lost Sheep

Matthew 18:12

… May I especially recommend that you make a trial of this extra sheep-seeking? If you do not succeed you will have done no harm. For you will …

Advance!

Deuteronomy 1:6

… My dear Brothers and Sisters, you have been in a very comfortable position for a long time and you know that you have never had a trial to …

The Obedience of Faith

Hebrews 11:8

… Life has no trial which can turn the gracious soul from its passion for obedience! Death, itself, does but enable it to render an obedience which shall be …

Certain Curious Calculations About Loaves and Fishes

Mark 8:19-21

… Yet, for all that, we may look back to gain practical lessons for times of service and comfortable lessons for hours of trial. Like the archer, we may …

Christ's Love for His Vineyard

Solomon 8:12

… bidding His Providence assist her agencies, always upholding her in her hours of trial, leading her into all Truth, instructing her sons and daughters, and making all her …

A Revival Promise

Isaiah 44:3-6

… So truly saved ones will bear discouragement and trial but still spring up. If you cut every bough from the willow tree it will be green again next …

More and More

James 4:6

… There was always a trial for Abraham's faith, but even his trials were blessed, for "God blessed Abraham in all things." 2. And Abraham said unto his …

The Joyous Return

Hosea 14:1-3

… To use another figure—the whole book of Hosea is like a great trial wherein witnesses have appeared against the accused and the arguments and excuses of the …

The Centurion's Faith and Humility

Luke 7:6-8

… will," but the centurion was so clear about Christ's willingness to relieve suffering humanity that it does not occur to him to mention it. He has long …

My Own Personal Holdfast

Micah 7:7

… Let us pray no matter what may be the trial, no matter what the joy, no matter what the company. Pray without ceasing, because it is always true …

Causes and Cure of Fainting

Isaiah 40:29

… You do not give me space in which to swallow my spittle between one trial and another!" Then the troubled soul faints beneath the hand of God who …

Rubbish

Nehemiah 4:10

… free from the disease which is my constant cross, and that every personal trial may work in me for the good of others by rendering my ministry more …

Dwell Deep, O Dedan!

Jeremiah 49:8

… This class is the great trial of the ministry and in every Church there are some of them. They profess to love the Lord Jesus but they are …

The King’s Highway Opened and Cleared

… Thou wilt have many a trial and many a trouble in going to heaven, with so little faith as that, for when there is little wind to a …

"Honey In The Mouth!"

John 16:14

… I may have told you before, but I cannot help telling you again, that many years ago, after the terrible tragedy in the Surrey Gardens, [See "Emotional Trial …

Chariots of Iron

Judges 1:19

… for you and others of His people a greater thing than your present trial requires! Why will you say that you cannot drive out the chariots of iron …

The Eternal Truth of God

Psalm 100:5

… He who was your God of old will help you through the new trial. Go to Him again. "Ah, but I dread the loss of a very dear …

Joseph And His Brothers

Genesis 45:3-5

… You shall feel that it is an awful thing to have turned long-suffering mercy into righteous hatred. You shall know that to have rejected mercy is to …

Holding Fast the Faith

Revelation 2:12

… O dear Children of God, if you are placed in positions of peculiar trial and difficulty, and if your hindrances are so many that you cannot accomplish one …

The Foundation and Its Seal—a Sermon for the Times

2Timothy 2:19

… A great lack of spiritual life and zeal for the Truth of God is our trial, today. Laodicea is not the only Church that is neither cold nor …

The Faculty Baffled, The Great Physician Successful

Mark 5:25-28

… Thus she was doomed to be a poor, suffering, desponding, desolate woman. The physicians of those days were bold enough to attempt impossible cures, but their skill was …

The Unwearied Runner

Isaiah 40:31

… Weariness in the way to Heaven is not at all an uncommon trial. Some of us can say that we are not weary of God's work, although …

The Shank-bone Sermon—Or, True Believers and Their Helpers

Acts 18:27

… Tell the young people how God has helped you in the days of trial. Tell them how He has answered your prayers. Tell them what joy and peace …

Mercy, Omnipotence, and Justice

Nahum 1:3

… The doleful answer comes, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” “My God, my God, why hart thou forsaken me?” It is Jesus suffering all the plagues of sin. Sin is …

Feeding on the Word

Isaiah 55:2

… Grace for every trial, Grace for every duty, Grace for every sin and Grace for every Grace! "Of His fullness have all we received, and Grace for Grace …

The Church Awakened

Ephesians 5:14

… Whitfield's for a young man who had come into possession of a large property, that God would give him Divine Grace to persevere under such a trial …

Who Loves Christ More?

Luke 7:41-43

… Can you, dear Friends, after making trial of God's love and Grace, say of Him, "I was brought low, and He helped me"? If you can, then …

The Coming Resurrection

John 5:28

… eyes are as a flame of fire, seeing all and testing all by trial which cannot err? Your coming forth on that day will be not only a …

Fallen Angels a Lesson To Fallen Men

2 Peter 2:4

… my eyes at the remembrance of how I have been preserved in the trial-hour. We could not possibly tell, nor would we wish to tell in public …

Up from the Country and Pressed Into Service

Mark 15:21

… He had come up to Jerusalem and whatever occupied his mind, he does not appear to have taken any notice of the trial of Jesus, or of the …

Saving the Lost

Luke 19:10

… I lost my wife a year and a half ago, and that was a great grief to me, but I have a trial now which seems to cut …

Good Cheer for Christians

Isaiah 25:6

… If there is any suffering which would honor Him, if He would give me the strength to endure it, it should be my happiness though it caused me …

Grieve Not the Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:30

… the bosom of its own parent—she would feel it a very hard trial to bear. Now the Spirit of God gives to Believers celestial joys and abounding …

The Righteous Holding On His Way

Job 17:9

… as this it would be impossible for a Christian, through a life of trial, to maintain his integrity! Then there is the devil. We put him last, for …

The Eye—a Similitude

Psalm 17:8

… the scalding tears to flow, and you know, by painful experience, how much suffering you may endure from a grain of sand which you could scarcely see. Be …

With Golden Band Girded

Revelation 1:13

… will be glad to place it there! Put me into the place of suffering, if necessary, and I will account it a place of honor, for if You …

One Aspect of Christ's Death

John 15:13

… Do you want to know where to find Christ? He is dwelling in His people and especially in His poor people, in His suffering people, in His tried …