“Have faith in God.” Mark 11:22 Faith is the foot of the soul by which it can march along the road of the commandments. Love can make the...

“Before destruction the heart of man is haughty.” Proverbs 18:12 It is an old and common saying, that “coming events cast their shadows...

“Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.” Psalm 35:3 What does this sweet prayer teach me? It shall be my evening’s petition; but first let...

“Let us not sleep, as do others.” 1 Thessalonians 5:6 There are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness. Among the rest, let me...

“I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” Isaiah 48:10 Comfort thyself, tried believer, with this thought: God saith, “I have...

“Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches...

“But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.” 1...

“Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.” Song of Solomon 4:16 Anything is...

“The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.” 1 Kings...

“My expectation is from him.” Psalm 62:5 It is the believer’s privilege to use this language. If he is looking for aught from the world,...

“Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting” Micah 5:2 The Lord Jesus had goings forth for his people as their...

“Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation.” Psalm 91:9 The Israelites in the wilderness were...

“Behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague.” Leviticus 13:13 Strange enough...

“Salvation is of the Lord.” Jonah 2:9 Salvation is the work of God. It is he alone who quickens the soul “dead in trespasses and sins,”...

“But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa.” Jonah 1:3 Instead of going to Nineveh to...

“The wrath to come.” Matthew 3:7 It is pleasant to pass over a country after a storm has spent itself; to smell the freshness of the...

O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy upon Jerusalem? ... And the Lord answered the angel ... with good words and...

“I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.” Ezekiel 34:26 Here is sovereign mercy—“I will...

“Take up the cross, and follow me.” Mark 10:21 You have not the making of your own cross, although unbelief is a master carpenter at...

“I will never leave thee.” Hebrews 13:5 No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one saint, he has said to...