Sermons & Devotionals by Daily Portions

"Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but unto those who are outside, all these things are said in parables." Mark 4:11 By "the kingdom of God" is meant the same thing as "the kingdom of heaven," that is, the internal kingdom set up in the heart by the power of the Spirit-... Read More

"But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark." Genesis 8:9 What a restless being is a tempted child of God! How unable he often is even to rest locally, to take his chair, and sit quietly by his fire-side! Like Noah's dove, he can find no rest for the ... Read More

"They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in." Psalm 107:4 "They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way;"--a way not tracked; a path in which each has to walk alone; a road where no company cheers him, and without landmarks to direct his course. This is a ... Read More

"They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses." Psalm 107:4-6 Until they wandered in the wilderness--until they felt it ... Read More

"And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation." Psalm 107:7 "He led them forth." Forth out of the world--forth out of sin--forth out of a mere profession--forth out of a name to live--forth out of everything hateful to his holy and pure eyes. "To go to a city of... Read More

"Underneath are the everlasting arms." Deuteronomy 33:27 The "everlasting arms" of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the divine Jehovah, are "underneath" every one of his people, and, being underneath them, they can neither fall through them nor out of them; but they are borne, and supported, and ca... Read More

"I will cry unto God most High; unto God who performs all things for me." Psalm 57:2 In the word "most High," there is something to my mind very expressive. It is to "God most High" that prayers go up from broken hearts, in all parts of the world where the Lord has a quickened people. "Unto God most... Read More

"The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations." 2 Peter 2:9 Few will sincerely and spiritually go to the Lord, and cry from their hearts to be delivered from the power of a temptation, until it presses so weightily upon their conscience, and lies so heavy a burden upon their soul, that... Read More

"That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life." Luke 1:74-75 Holiness consists mainly of two points– 1. being made a partaker of the spirit of holiness whereby, as ... Read More

"By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew." Proverbs 3:20 When the Lord said, "Let there be light," instantly there was light. So when the Lord says, "Let the heart open," the heart immediately opens, the conscience is made tender, and the soul hears and receives w... Read More

"Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O Lord; the man you teach out of your law." Psalm 94:12 We may observe in the words before us, that the Lord puts chastening before teaching. Is there not something remarkable in this? Why should chastening precede teaching? For this reason. We have no ear to he... Read More

"And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." Luke 10:18 It deserves our utmost attention and prayerful consideration to see, by the eye of faith, the display of wisdom and power shining forth in the way in which the all-wise God sent his dear Son "to destroy" or, as the wor... Read More

"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace." Romans 14:19 What a sweetness is contained in the word "peace." Bunyan well represents this in his Pilgrim's Progress, where he speaks of Christian, after having been entertained in the "house Beautiful," going to sleep in the chamber ... Read More

"And they shall spring up as among the grass." Isaiah 44:4 The Lord's people are spoken of here as at once "springing up" under the influence of the water poured, and of the floods given. We cannot mistake the spiritual meaning of the figure, as it is so clear and certain. In those burning regions w... Read More

"They will spring up . . . as willows by the flowing streams." Isaiah 44:4 The willow, we know, cannot exist without water; it must be near the brook or river, or it withers and dies. Take a young willow and plant it upon a mountain top or in the sandy desert, and it soon droops and perishes. But ta... Read More

"So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God." Mark 16:19 The right hand of God means the right hand of power, of dominion, of authority, and of acceptance. When our blessed Lord went back to the courts of bliss, and the gates of heav... Read More

"O my dove, in the clefts of the rock." Song of Solomon 2:14 Jesus is the hiding-place, the only hiding-place from sin and self. "You are my hiding-place," said David of old. This was shown to Moses, in figure, when the Lord put him into the cleft of a rock, which Toplady has so beautifully versifie... Read More

"O Ephraim, what shall I do unto you?" Hosea 6:4 Most of the Lord's people have some peculiar thing that they want to have granted. Most living souls have some peculiar temptation from which they want to be delivered. If some of the Lord's family could sum up all their desires in one petition, it wo... Read More

"Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them." Hebrews 7:25 If the gracious Lord did not live to make intercession for us, he could hardly be said to save us to the uttermost. But as he ever lives at God's right hand and is... Read More

"He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from the ash-heap, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory." 2 Samuel 2:8 A man can never reach heaven unless he travels heavenwards, Zionwards, in the way that God has marked out for his people to walk i... Read More