Work & Service

Evening, December 19

Rev 21:1

… To John in Patmos the deep waters were like prison walls, shutting him out from his brethren and his work: there shall be no such barriers in the …

Morning, January 8

Ex 28:38

… The iniquities of our public worship, its hypocrisy, formality, lukewarmness, irreverence, wandering of heart and forgetfulness of God, what a full measure have we there! Our work for …

Evening, January 13

2Ki 6:6

… I knew a man in Christ but a few years ago who was called to undertake a work far exceeding his strength. It appeared so difficult as to …

Morning, February 18

Job 10:2

… He trains his soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them …

Evening, September 19

1Sa 1:27

… Have we petitioned for success in the Lord’s work? How joyful is the prosperity which comes flying upon the wings of prayer! It is always best to …

Morning, November 11

De 33:27

… This assurance of support is a comfort to any weary but earnest worker in the service of God. It implies a promise of strength for each day, grace …

Morning, November 27

Zec 3:1

… Jesus has made us priests and kings unto God, and even here upon earth we exercise the priesthood of consecrated living and hallowed service. But this high priest …

The Planter of the Ear Must Hear

Psalm 94:9

… He does see—He does hear—He must work for truth and righteousness. Shall He that made the ear not hear? Shall He that formed the eye not …

Evening, January 15

Ps 109:4

… Prayer must not be our chance work, but our daily business, our habit and vocation. As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits …

Morning, May 9

Eph 1:3

… His high estate is as much at our service as was his condition of abasement. He who gave himself for us in the depths of woe and death …

War With Amalek

Exodus 17:8

… Moses never said to the children of Israel while they were in Egypt, "Go, fight with Pharaoh." Not at all—it is God's work to bring us …

The Miracles of Our Lord's Death

Matthew 27:50-53

… And yet, at a distance, His will sufficed to rend that thick veil of fine twined linen and cunning work. The miracle of turning water into wine was …

A Simple Sermon for Seeking Souls

Romans 10:13

… I have punished Christ instead of you—you shall be saved.” But that is only half the work. He says in the next place—“Man, I will not …

Evening, January 19

Lu 24:45

… In the first work he has many fellow-labourers, but in the second he stands alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the mind, but the Lord alone …

Evening, January 20

Ps 119:37

… and standing before my God, and yet be slothful in my Master’s service? Will not Christ’s love constrain me? Can I think of his dear wounds …

Evening, September 4

Le 19:36

… Reader, we might lengthen the list, but we prefer to leave it as your evening’s work to find out and destroy all unrighteous balances, weights, and measures.

Spared!

Ezekiel 9:8

… He marked them begin the destroying work at the gate of the Temple. He saw them proceed through the main streets and not omit a single lane—they …

Morning, January 26

Mt 6:26

… Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster’s toil, but run in the way of his commands because it is your Father …

Morning, September 8

Ho 14:8

… into fruit, but it was first in the stem; so also every good work was first in Christ, and then is brought forth in us. O Christian, prize …

The Christian Warfare

… It is not a campaign which he shall win, who, but a raw recruit to-day, foolishly imagines that one week of service will insure a crown of …

Keeping the Soul Alive

Psalm 22:29

… There are temptations everywhere! Some of you work among ungodly associates. Some of you are in places still more perilous, namely, with those who profess to be religious …

Evening, August 16

Ro 8:23

… So, brethren, when God gives us things which are pure, lovely, and of good report, as the work of the Holy Spirit, these are to us the prognostics …

Morning, September 3

Song 1:7

… True love to Christ is in every case the Holy Spirit’s work, and must be wrought in the heart by him. He is the efficient cause of …

Evening, September 14

Ps 32:5

… Having done this, a work so simple and yet so difficult to pride, he received at once the token of divine forgiveness; the bones which had been broken …

Christ's Past and Present Witnesses

John 15:27

… and you also shall bear witness." Oh, what an honorable position we are to occupy! What a grand work we are to do—a work which an angel …

Morning, May 1

Song 5:13

… the flowery month is come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all bedecked with beauty. Come my soul, put on thine …

Evening, November 1

Mt 24:39

… their boastings and hard speeches? The critic who judged the old man’s work is drowned in the same sea which covers his sneering companions. Those who spoke …

Evening, May 28

La 3:21

… Thus memory may be, as Coleridge calls it, “the bosom-spring of joy,” and when the Divine Comforter bends it to his service, it may be chief among …

Evening, September 3

Ps 11:5

… The balloon never rises until the cords are cut; affliction doth this sharp service for believing souls. While the wheat sleeps comfortably in the husk it is useless …

Morning, October 13

2Co 7:10

Morning, October 13 Go To Evening Reading “Godly sorrow worketh repentance.” 2 Corinthians 7:10 Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God …

Evening, November 11

Ps 47:4

… will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God. Down busy self, and proud impatience, it is not …

Evening, July 18

Joe 2:8

… So also with our duties , one must not interfere with another; public usefulness must not injure private piety; church work must not push family worship into a corner …

Evening, October 4

1Jn 2:1

… He is Christ, and therefore authorized; he is Christ, and therefore qualified , for the anointing has fully fitted him for his work. He can plead so as to …

Evening, October 21

Lu 24:38

… the Lord is the death of his saints.” “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called …

"A Peculiar People"

Psalm 4:3

… There is a difference in the end, if nowhere else, for to you and to me, as God's people, "all things work together for good." But they …

Evening, February 8

Mt 1:21

… Where Christ works a saving work, he casts Satan from his throne, and will not let him be master any longer. No man is a true Christian if …

Evening, November 15

Ps 68:28

… We have a strong argument to plead, for it is his own work of grace which we ask him to strengthen—“ that which thou hast wrought for us …

Evening, June 8

Nu 11:23

… the weak for strength, and to the creature to do the Creator’s work. Let us, then, put the question on the right footing. The ground of faith …

Evening, November 16

Is 33:17

… Would that our conversation were more in heaven, and that we were more taken up with the person, the work, the beauty of our incarnate Lord. More meditation …

Evening, June 12

2Ti 1:9

… The excellencies which we see in a believer are as much the work of God as the atonement itself. Thus is brought out very sweetly the fulness of …