Sermons & Devotionals by Daily Portions

"At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel." –Isaiah 17:7 In the very name "the Holy One of Israel," there is something the sweetness of which melts the heart of a poor sinner. For what is he in himself as a fallen child of Adam? A filthy, d... Read More

"The Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God." –1 Corinthians 2:10 The Spirit of God who dwells in a man, making his body his temple, searches the deep things of God; for there is in these deep things a most heavenly treasure, which is to be searched into, that it may be found. What ... Read More

"And those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passes away." –1 Corinthians 7:31 "Those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away." –1 Cor. 7:31 Nothing is real but that which has an abiding subst... Read More

"God is the Lord, who has showed us light." –Psalm 118:27 If God the Lord has showed us light, he has showed us light both with respect to himself and with respect to ourselves. He has showed us with respect to himself who he is; he has stamped something of himself upon our consciences; he has disco... Read More

"O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing." –Jeremiah 10:24 "Fury is not in me," says the Lord. No; there is no wrath in the bosom of God against his people. They are forever "accepted in the Beloved," and stand in him before the throne of God without sp... Read More

"Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple." –Jonah 2:4 When poor Jonah spoke these words he uttered them in the very bitterness of his heart; he felt that he was cast out of God's gracious presence. But he must have known something experimentally of the... Read More

"The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue." –2 Samuel 23:2 We read that "no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation;" that is to say, it is the public property of the whole family of Jehovah; and "holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit... Read More

"I lead in the way of righteousness." –Proverbs 8:20 How does the Lord Jesus--who speaks here under the name of Wisdom--lead his saints "in the way of righteousness?" By casting a mysterious light into their souls, whereby they see what the word of God has revealed, and shedding abroad a mysterious ... Read More

"Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it--it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it." –Jeremiah 30:7 This "day of trouble" is when sin is laid as a heavy burden upon a man's conscience; when guilt presses him down into the dust of death, when his iniquities... Read More

"Though I am nothing." –2 Corinthians 12:11 Paul did not mean to say that he had no religion--but none in himself. 'What! could not Paul stand against temptation?' Not more than you or I, unassisted by the grace of God. 'Could not Paul pray more than I can?' No, not at all, except so far as the spir... Read More

"You believe in God, believe also in me." –John 14:1 To believe in God is to believe in him as he has manifested himself in his dear Son in all the fullness of his love, in all the riches of his grace, and in all the depth of his mercy. God must be seen, not in the terrors of a holy law, but in the ... Read More

"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." –2 Corinthians 4:17 O suffering saints of God! tried and afflicted children of the most High! raise up your thoughts as God may enable you--lift up your eyes, and see what awaits you... Read More

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." –1 John 1:9 Has the Lord made sin your burden? Has he ever made you feel guilty before him? Has he ever pressed down your conscience with a sight and sense of your iniquities, your s... Read More

"May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word." –2 Thessalonians 2:16, 17 When the Lord is pleased to apply a promise, drop in a word of encouragem... Read More

"He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness." –Psalm 107:9 We find the living family of God sometimes set forth under the character of the 'hungry'. Let us see what they are hungering after. Is it pleasure, honor, promotion, respectability? O no; these toys and baubles ca... Read More

"This is the true God, and eternal life." –1 John 5:20 O the blessedness, which eternity itself can never exhaust, of possessing eternal life! There is something to my mind so singularly blessed in the expression "eternal life," that I cannot help dwelling upon it. How the thought, the feeling of it... Read More

"Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name." –Jeremiah 14:9 If the Lord has ever been in our soul to manifest there a sense of his goodness and mercy, we can then make use of this as our plea, "Yet you, O Lord, are in the midst of us." If he has ever heard your prayer h... Read More

"Blessed is the man who does not fall away on account of me." –Matthew 11:6 What is the feeling of your heart toward Jesus? What is the solemn desire of your soul? that he would come and make your heart his abode? that he would visit your soul with the light of his countenance? that he would sprinkl... Read More

"An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away." –1 Peter 1:4 Whatever you may have in this world, be it much or little, you must leave. And if you have no other inheritance than earth gives, where will be your portion in death and to all eternity? But if you are begotten agai... Read More

"Being justified freely by his grace." –Romans 3:24 It is because grace is free that it can reach us. How free is the sun in sending forth its enlightening, warming beams; how free the clouds in discharging their watery treasures; how free the dew in falling from the face of heaven; how free the win... Read More