Sermons & Devotionals by Daily Portions

"I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight." Isaiah 42:16 What is the mind of man--of any man--of your mind, my mind, under affliction? Let him be tried with pain of body, poverty of circumstances, sickness in his family, guilt of conscience, hard bondage in his own soul, w... Read More

"Bow down your ear, O Lord, hear me--for I am poor and needy." Psalm 86:1 Whatever deliverance a man may have experienced, let him have been delivered from the lowest hell, and have had his feet placed upon a rock, yet all his life long he will have this experience wrought in him by the Holy Spirit-... Read More

"Exercise yourself unto godliness." 1 Timothy 4:7 "The Lord tries the righteous" (Ps. 11:5). In fact, a righteous life is for the most part a tried life. There is not a child of God, whose graces are lively and active, that is not tried in his soul. I have no more belief that the soul can live witho... Read More

"The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit." Philemon 25 It is the regenerating breath of the Lord Jesus Christ which makes the soul alive unto himself. This is manifest from his own language--"It is the Spirit who quickens; the flesh profits nothing--the words that I speak unto you, th... Read More

"In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering." Hebrews 2:10 When, with believing eyes, we can view God the Son as the eternal salvation of all whom the Father gave unto him; ... Read More

"For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty." Isaiah 44:3 Thirst, as a feeling of the soul, in a spiritual sense, is certainly indicative of divine life. It is as impossible, spiritually viewed, for a man dead in sin to thirst after a living God, as for a corpse in the graveyard to thirst after a... Read More