Sermons & Devotionals by Daily Portions

"For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul? Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him? Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?" Job 27:8-10 Many of God's people are at times exercised as to their hypocrisy, and so... Read More

"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus." Romans 8:1 There is not a more blessed declaration than this in the whole word of truth. It is the sweetest note sounded by the gospel trumpet, for it is the very crown of the whole jubilee. Is not condemnation the bitterest ... Read More

"What man is he that fears the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose." Psalm 25:12 In all the multiplicity and variety of circumstances that have distressed the children of God, has the Lord ever taken a wrong step? Though he has baffled nature, though he has disconcerted reason, ... Read More

"Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it." –Psalm 81:10 When the Lord favors your soul with sweet access at a throne of grace, make the most of it. What would we think of the master of a vessel coming up the river, if, when the wind was favorable and the tide served, he would not heave her anchor, ... Read More

"My soul, wait only upon God; for my expectation is from him." –Psalm 62:5 I believe that the Lord, before ever he communicates a real blessing to the souls of his poor and needy children, not merely convinces them by the Spirit of the depth of their poverty, of their truly ruined and lost state by ... Read More

"In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit." –Ephesians 2:22 These words will apply both to the whole body of Christ viewed collectively, and to each separate member of that body viewed individually; and what the Church of God is in its completeness in Christ, as... Read More

"Follow after righteousness." –1 Timothy 6:11 We may understand two things by this expression. First, the discovery to the conscience of Christ's imputed righteousness, in the way of justification; and secondly, the communication to the soul of a divine or righteous nature, whereby it brings forth t... Read More

"I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself." – Jeremiah 31:18 The spiritual feeling of sin is indispensable to the feeling of salvation. A sense of the malady must ever precede, and prepare the soul for, a believing reception and due apprehension of the remedy. Wherever God intends to reveal his... Read More

"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." –Philippians 2:12 None but God's people under the teachings of the Spirit know what it is to "work out their own salvation." And all who work out their own salvation will work it out "with fear and trembling." For when a man is taught by God to ... Read More

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." –Philippians 2:13 When God has worked in a man "to will," and not only worked in him "to will," but also worked in him "to do;" when he has made him willing to flee from the wrath to come; willing to be saved by the atoning... Read More

"Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through manifold temptations." –1 Peter 1:6 As everything in SELF is contrary to the life of God, there is a needs-be for manifold trials and temptations to bring us out of those things which are opposed to the g... Read More

"For we who have believed do enter into rest." –Hebrews 4:3 We enter into rest by ceasing from our own works, and resting on Christ's; according to the words, "For he who has entered into his rest, has also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his." Now when you can fully rest upon the fin... Read More

"Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion." –Jeremiah 31:12 Until the redeemed know something of the efficacy of atoning blood and have their consciences purged from guilt and filth by its application, they cannot come and sing in the height of Zion. But when they are redeemed from t... Read More

"For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul." –Psalm 109:31 How cheering, how comforting it is, to have a friend to stand by us when we are in trouble. Such a friend is Jesus. In the hour of necessity, he comes as a friend to stand by the right han... Read More

"Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you." –1 Peter 1:20 By "these last times" is meant this present dispensation, the dispensation of grace under which we live, and they are called the last times chiefly for two reasons– 1. Becaus... Read More

"Who crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies." –Psalm 103:4 The coronation of a king puts the last and highest seal upon his reigning authority. This made the spouse say, "Go forth, O daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him in the day of... Read More

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." –1 Peter 1:3 The resurrection of Jesus Christ was God's grand attestation to the truth of his divine mission and S... Read More

"Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." –John 20:17 Why your Father? Because my Father. Why your God? Because my God. As his only-begotten Son from all eternity, God was the God of our Lord Jesus Christ; as the Father's messenger... Read More

"The just shall live by faith." –Romans 1:17 A life of faith in Christ is as necessary to our present and experimental salvation, as his death upon the cross was to our past and actual salvation. If you are alive to what you are as a poor fallen sinner, you see yourself surrounded by enemies, tempta... Read More

"For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect." –1 Peter 1:18-19 O the unspeakable depths of the goodness ... Read More