Sermons & Devotionals by Daily Portions

"You have delivered my soul from death." –Psalm 56:13 You may have been delivered from death, as much as David was, but not so fully in the assurance of the deliverance. God may have quickened your soul into life divine; he may have communicated his grace to your heart, and yet you have many doubts ... Read More

"Do not love the world or anything in the world." –1 John 2:15 This is a very wide sentence. It stretches forth a hand of vast grasp. It places us, as it were, upon a high mountain, such as the Lord stood upon when tempted of Satan, and it says to us, "Look around you--now there is not one of these ... Read More

"When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins." –Colossians 2:13 Christ's resurrection was the sure pledge and meritorious cause of the Church's regeneration. The whole body of the elect was "quickened tog... Read More

"And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not." –Deuteronomy 8:2 When you look back upon the way the Lord has led you these many... Read More

"So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." – Luke 11:9 Wherever there is true prayer, there is importunity. Wherever the Lord brings trials upon the soul, he pours out upon it the spirit of grace and supplications. He thus en... Read More

"Everyone who loves the Father loves his child as well." –1 John 5:1 Where there is love to Jesus, there will be love to those who are his by redemption, his by regeneration, and his by personal possession. The more, also, that we see and the more that we know of the beauty and blessedness of the Lo... Read More

"I will not let you go, except you bless me." –Genesis 32:26 It is encouraging to the Lord's people as they are from time to time placed in similar circumstances of trial, exercise, perplexity, sorrow or distress with Jacob, to see the blessed result of his wrestling with the angel. He crosses the f... Read More

"I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me." –Psalm 40:17 Are there not solemn seasons in your soul, when you think upon the Lord? When you lie awake, perhaps at midnight, thinking upon God, upon his truth, his love, his word, his dealings with your soul, and your desires, prayers, and breath... Read More

"Say unto my soul, I am your salvation." –Psalm 35:3 To keep water fresh, it must be perpetually running. And to keep the life of God up in the soul, there must be continual exercises. This is the reason why the Lord's people have so many conflicts, trials, painful exercises, sharp sorrows, and deep... Read More

"You are not your own." –1 Corinthians 6:19 There is a blessed sense in these words, "You are not your own." Remember you must be someone's. If God is not your master, the devil will be; if grace does not rule, sin will reign; if Christ is not your all in all, the world will be. It is not as though ... Read More

"You are bought with a price." –1 Corinthians 6:20 How deep, how dreadful, of what alarming magnitude, of how black a dye, of how ingrained a stamp must sin be, to need such an atonement--no less than the blood of him who was the Son of God--to put it away. What a slave to sin and Satan, what a capt... Read More

"And a MAN shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest." –Isaiah 32:2 Who is this man? Need I ask the question? Is there not a response in every God-fearing breast? It is the man Christ Jesus--the man who is God's fellow. How blessed it is to have a scriptural and spiritu... Read More

"We are saved by hope." –Romans 8:24 What is the meaning of being saved by hope? It does not mean saved 'actually', but 'instrumentally'; not saved as regards our eternal security, but as regards our 'experience of salvation'. By hope we are instrumentally saved from despair, saved from turning our ... Read More

"I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me." –Jeremiah 32:40 As the fear of God springs up in a believing soul, and is maintained and kept alive by the influences which come out of Christ as a covenant Head, it produces, as its effects, an abiding in him. We cannot depar... Read More

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom." –Colossians 3:16 This surely means something more than merely reading the word in a careless, formal manner. It is "to dwell in us," that is, take up its firm and lasting abode in our heart, and that "richly;" not poorly and niggardly, but ... Read More

"Who can separate us from the love of Christ?" –Romans 8:35 Be this never forgotten, that if we have ever been brought near to the Lord Jesus Christ by the actings of living faith, there never can be any final, actual separation from him. In the darkest moments, in the dreariest hours, under the mos... Read More

"You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." –Micah 7:19 When God takes all our iniquities with his own hand, and casts them with his own arm into the depths of the sea, they will never come out of those depths to witness against the family of God in the great and terrible day. Your sins... Read More

"O satisfy us early with your mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days." –Psalm 90:14 Many of the dear children of God are tossed up and down on a sea of great uncertainty, doubt and fear, because they have not had sensible manifestations of Christ to their soul. He has not come into them... Read More

"For whoever is born of God overcomes the world--and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith." –1 John 5:4 If we are to be saved our faith must gain the day; we must have a faith that shall triumph over death and hell and gain a glorious conquest over every internal and external... Read More

"O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge." Psalm 62:8 Have we not sometimes been enabled to pour out our hearts at a throne of grace, and tell the Lord what we really needed, what we really asked for, and tell him that nothing but that which he alone... Read More