Sermons & Devotionals by Daily Portions

"Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered." Hebrews 5:8 Our gracious Lord had to learn obedience to the will of God by a personal experience of suffering, and especially by an implicit submission to his heavenly Father's will. And what was this will? That he sho... Read More

"Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain--and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it." Zechariah 4:7 If the literal temple had been built up without any trouble whatever; if all had gone on smooth and easy, there woul... Read More

"The poor have the gospel preached to them." Matthew 11:5 What is the gospel? Is not the gospel a proclamation of pure mercy, of super-abounding grace? Does it not declare the loving-kindness of God in sending his only-begotten Son to bleed and die, and, by his obedience, blood, and merit, to bring ... Read More

"Draw me; we will run after you! Let the king bring me into his chambers." Song of Solomon 1:4 How many of us can take the words of the bride into our lips, or have ever been able at any one time of our life to use such an expression? We must have had some sight and sense of the preciousness and lov... Read More

"For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." Romans 5:10 What a fearful spot it is to be in--to feel and fear oneself an enemy to God! I think it is one of the most painful feelings that ever passed thr... Read More

"Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my fellow, says the Lord of hosts." Zechariah 13:7 Would we see, feel, and realize the exceeding sinfulness of sin, it is not by viewing the lightnings and hearing the thunders of Sinai's fiery top, but in seeing the agony and bloody s... Read More

"Our fathers trusted in you--they trusted, and you delivered them. They cried unto you, and were delivered--they trusted in you, and were not confounded." Psalm 22:4, 5 O what a blessed thing it is to have in one's own bosom a secret trust in Jesus--that while so many are looking to something in the... Read More

"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him." Ephesians 1:17 Revelation means literally an uncovering or unveiling of a concealed or covered-up object. It is used, therefore, sometimes in the sense of mani... Read More

"Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips." Psalm 89:33, 34 We live in a changeable, ever-changing world. All outside of us is stamped with variation, death, and... Read More

"He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true." John 3:33 We can only set to our seal that God is true in any one point of doctrine, experience, or precept when we feel an inward witness that God indeed has declared it. Thus, upon every manifestation of God's goodness to t... Read More

"And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them; I will say, It is my people--and they shall say, The Lord is my God." Zechariah 13:9 It is a mercy to be in the furnace,... Read More

"That as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 5:21 This is the mercy for mourning saints who are sighing and groaning under a body of sin and death, that God has decreed that grace not only may reign, but that... Read More

"But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." John 16:13 There are two grand lessons to be learned in the school of Christ, and all divine teaching is comprehended... Read More

Then Gideon said to God, "Please don't be angry with me, but let me make one more request. This time let the fleece remain dry while the ground around it is wet with dew." So that night God did as Gideon asked. The fleece was dry in the morning, but the ground was covered with dew." Judges 6:39, 40 ... Read More

"Who holds our soul in life." Psalm 66:9 "Our lives are in his hands, and he keeps our feet from stumbling." Psalm 66:9 It is indeed an unspeakable mercy for the heirs of promise that the life given them in Christ and communicated by the Holy Spirit to their souls cannot be extinguished. It may sink... Read More

"Him has God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins." Acts 5:31 Jesus is "exalted to be a Prince and a Savior to give repentance and remission of sins." The two go together. Whenever he gives repentance, he gives remission; ... Read More

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1 Wherever there is faith, there is desire; and as faith embraces heavenly realities, desire embraces that of which faith testifies. Now as the soul is wrought upon by a divine power, and faith is drawn forth i... Read More

"Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good." Jeremiah 32:41 God rejoices as much in saving your soul as you can rejoice in your soul being saved. Say I "as much?" His joy is infinite, and yours is finite; his the joy of God, and yours but the joy of man. Do you believe that God rejoices to save,... Read More

"We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." Acts 14:22 What are the promises? Are not all the promises suited to the Lord's poor and needy family? What are the promises of pardon, except to the guilty? What are promises of salvation, except to the lost? What are promises of con... Read More

"Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God." 1 Peter 1:21 Observe the special mark which is here given of those for whom Christ was manifested. It is said of those who "by him they believe in God." If this be their distincti... Read More