Sermons & Devotionals by Daily Portions

"Our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake." 1 Thessalonians 1:5 The Holy Spirit never comes into any poor sinner's soul, except through the medium of the gospel of the grace of God.... Read More

"Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death." Psalm 107:10 God's people are here represented not as sitting in death; were they sitting there, they would be dead altogether; but they are sitting in the shadow of death. Observe, death has lost its reality to them; it now can only cast a shado... Read More

"Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end." Proverbs 19:20 What lessons we need day by day to teach us anything aright, and how it is for the most part "line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little." O what slow learners, what dull, forgetfu... Read More

"For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us." Ephesians 2:14 "He is our peace." This necessarily springs from being reconciled and brought near by the blood of Christ. Sin has not only made us enemies to God; but made God an enemy to us. W... Read More

"The secret of the Lord is with those who fear him; and he will show them his covenant." Psalm 25:14 "The secret of the Lord" (that is, present possession) "IS with those who fear him; and he WILL show them" (that is, something future) "his covenant." This shows, that while all the people of God, wh... Read More

"That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." 2 Timothy 3:17 What perfection does the Holy Spirit speak of here? Certainly not perfection in the flesh; that is but a wild dream of free-will and Arminianism. But perfection here and elsewhere means a being well-establi... Read More

"For the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:10 "The Son of man has come." What a blessed coming! The Lord Jesus seems to have taken to himself, with the tenderest condescension to our needs, that gracious title, "the Son of man." He was the Son of God, and that fro... Read More

"Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober." 1 Thessalonians 5:6 Here sobriety is opposed to sleepiness, and is connected with walking in the light and in the day; just as sleepiness and its frequent cause, drunkenness, are connected with darkness and night. One of the ... Read More

"Be in the fear of the Lord all the day long. There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off." Proverbs 23:17, 18 The Lord is here addressing himself to a soul laboring under temptation, and passing through peculiar exercises; and this is the exhortation that he gives it--"... Read More

"We are here for only a moment, sojourners and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a shadow, gone so soon without a trace." 1 Chronicles 29:15 If you possess the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and, Jacob, you, like them, confess that you are a stranger; and yo... Read More

"The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." 1 Corinthians 4:20 It is through the word of God in the hands of the Spirit, that this kingdom is set up in the soul. All God's people are agreed on this point, that they have no more religion than they have inward power. And all the living family a... Read More

"I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hell." Revelation 1:18 O what a mercy that he who was dead lives at God's right hand! that he lives as a risen head; that he is not a dead Savior; but a Savior that lives for evermore; that ca... Read More

"Abide in me, and I in you." John 15:4 The Lord did not use these words as though there were any power in the creature to abide in him. But he was pleased to use them, that they might be blessed to his people when the Holy Spirit applied them to the heart; for he adds, "And I in you." The one is the... Read More

"Through the tender mercies of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high has visited us." Luke 1:78 By "day-spring" is meant the day-dawn, the herald of the rising sun, the change from darkness to light, the first approach of morn, in a word, the spring of the day. But what is this "day-spring" sp... Read More

"To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace." Luke 1:79 What was it that moved the divine Father to send his own Son into the world? Was it not the free mercy of God flowing forth from his bosom to his family? Then, what merit, what... Read More

"But you should say, Why are we persecuting him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?" Job 19:28 It is at the root that disease begins, in almost every plant. If ever you see even a plant in a flower-pot unhealthy, depend upon it there is something wrong at the root. It is overwatered or un... Read More

"But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them." Hebrews 11:16 In desiring a better country these ancient pilgrims wanted something heavenly, something that tasted of God, savored of God, smelt ... Read More

"But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, then the veil is taken away." 2 Corinthians 3:16 The blessed Spirit, as a needful preparation for his own divine instruction, convinces us of our ignorance, of the veil of unbelief that is by nature spread over our heart, and of our utter inability to take it ... Read More

"Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I have spoken against this place and its people, that they would become accursed and laid waste, and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the Lord." 2 Kings 22:19 Th... Read More

"For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are--yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of n... Read More