God's ordering of our circumstances; his sovereign hand in what befalls us; trusting that he does all things well and appoints our lot in wisdom and love.
- Our Constitutional Temperament John Newton
I would observe farther, that our spiritual exercises are not a little influenced by our constitutional temperament. As you are only an ideal correspondent, I can but …
- Is He Not Gracious and Faithful? John Newton
Let us suppose the thing we are most afraid of actually to happen. Can it come a moment sooner, or in any other way, than by His appointment?
Is He not gracious, and …
- Beware Doubting His Kindness J.C. Ryle
If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life. Let us never allow ourselves to think …
- Heavenly Hosts Keeping Watch John Calvin
For if the fact that all of the heavenly hosts are keeping watch for his safety will not satisfy a man, I do not see what benefit he could derive from knowing that one …
- Honor the Lord with your wealth Proverbs 3:9–10
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
- Calvin on Submission to Authority John Calvin
Knowing that someone has been placed over by the Lord’s ordination, we should render to him reverence, obedience, and gratefulness, and should perform such other duties …
- Habitual Resignation John Newton
Let us strive and pray for a habitual resignation to his will—for he does all things well.
It is never ill with us—but when our evil hearts doubt or forget this plainest …
- Submitting to Our Own Rule John Calvin
For the plague of submitting to our own rule leads us straight to ruin, but the surest way to safety is neither to know nor to want anything on our own, but simply to …
- God is Never Weary of Doing Good Thomas Watson
God is never weary of doing us good. Therefore, we should not be weary of serving Him.
- God Speaking John Newton
Though infidels and petty reasoners will, doubtless, labour to persuade themselves that [’the late dreadful hurricanes in the West Indies’] proceeded merely from natural …
- Our Insignificant Selves John Newton
We take it for granted that the Sun, the Moon, Jupiter and the rest are exactly where they should be, and move just as they ought.
But if we are content the Lord should …
- The Longsuffering of God John Newton
[The Lord] knows our frame and how to bear with us though we can hardly bear with ourselves, or with one another.
- Freedom from God’s Will? J. Gresham Machen
Emancipation from the blessed will of God always involves bondage to some worse taskmaster.
- The Crowd and Hurry of Earthly Business John Flavel
And yet do not be so intent upon your particular callings as to make them interfere with your general calling.
Beware you do not lose your God in the crowd and hurry of …
- Heart-Eating Anxieties John Newton
We have liberty to express our desires to the Lord; but the more simply we can commit the how, the when, and the where, to his wisdom and will, the more we shall be freed …
- Our Part is Submission John Newton
Now that the Lord has made known his will by the event—our part is submission.
- The Lord’s Political Instruments John Newton
The instruments whom the Lord employs in political matters are usually such as are incapable of better employment.
- No Great Matter Where We Are John Newton
It is no great matter where we are, provided we know that the Lord has placed us there, and that he is with us!
- Living in Dependence on Him J. Ligon Duncan
God will continually put His people into situations where they must live in dependence on Him expressed through prayer.
- Comfort from Sovereignty John Newton
When heavy trials in life are appointed to us, and we are called to give up, or perhaps to pluck out, a right eye—it is an easy matter for a bystander to say ‘Be …
- Use of Creation William Greenhill
Six ways that we can use God’s creation well and right.
Use all things for the end that God has made them [for the glory of God]. Walk with God in the use of the world …
- The Patient Guidance of God John Newton
Indeed we may admire His patience towards us.
If we were blind, and reduced to desire a person to lead us, and should yet pretend to dispute with him, and direct him at …
- Wait His Leisure Georg Neumark
Only be still, and wait his leisure In cheerful hope, with heart content To take whate’er thy Father’s pleasure And all deserving love hath sent; Nor doubt our inmost …
- Jesus is Mine! John Newton
Jesus is mine! I’m now prepared To meet with what I thought most hard; Yes, let the winds of trouble blow, And comforts melt away like snow:
No blasted trees, or failing …
- End of Fear Matthew Henry
The clearer sight we have of the sovereignty and power of heaven the less we shall fear the calamities of this earth.
- Faith Can Do This Jeremiah Burroughs
So what do you get by being a believer, a Christian? What can you do by your faith? I can do this: I can in all states cast my cares upon God, cast my burden upon God, I …
- God’s Tools in Providence Jeremiah Burroughs
‘I think I could be content with God’s hand,’ says one, ‘so far as I see the hand of God in a thing I can be content. But when men deal so unreasonably and unjustly with …
- We Are Prone to Lean Too Hard on Ministers John Newton
The fountain from which your dear pastor obtained the water of life, which he communicated to his congregation—is still full and still flowing; and you are still welcome …
- He Overrules All the Designs of Men John Newton
He overrules all the designs of men–for the furtherance and accomplishment of his holy plan. Not only his friends, but his enemies contribute to it.
- He Who Called Us John Newton
He who called us can easily call others.
- God For Me William Gurnall
Satan hates me; Satan accuses me; Satan temps me.
Conversely, you lose much comfort when you fail to see the promises and providence of God as available for your own …
- The Nature of Inspiration Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
When we think of God the Lord giving by His Spirit a body of authoritative Scriptures to His people, we must remember that He is the God of providence and of grace as …
- His Great Salvation Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
By slow steps and gradual stages He at once works out His saving purpose and molds the world for its reception, choosing a people for Himself and training it through long …
- One Little Word Shall Fell Him Martin Luther
The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him; His rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure, One little word shall fell him.
- New Things Each Day John Newton
Every new day is filled up with new things, new mercies on the Lord’s part, new ingratitude on mine.
- He Does All Things Well John Newton
Let us strive and pray for a habitual resignation to his will; for He does all things well. It is never ill with us but when our evil hearts doubt or forget this plainest …
- Though Friends Should All Fail Us John Newton
Though troubles assail us and dangers affright, / Though friends should all fail us and foes all unite, / Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide, / The promise assures …
- Isaac’s Sacrificial Ram Meredith Kline
When the hour of darkness should come, it was the Lord who would himself be Isaac’s sacrificial ram.
- The Judge of All the Earth will do Right John Newton
That the Judge of all the earth will do right, is to me as evident and necessary is that two and two make four. I believe that He has a sovereign right to do what He will …
- Political Comfort John Newton
There is one political maxim which comforts me: ‘The Lord reigns.’
- He has dealt bountifully Psalm 13:5, 6 ESV
But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.
- Resentment and Impatience John Sanderson
Our resentment is against the timetable which the sovereign God has assigned us, a schedule based on a plan of which we are usually ignorant. It is this ignorance which …
- Trueman on Humility Carl Trueman
Acknowledging that God works in history means that we acknowledge that he has worked in the past; and acknowledging that he has worked in the past means that we …
- Calvin on Prayer John Calvin
We must, therefore, maintain both of these truths, that He freely anticipates our wishes, and yet that we obtain by prayer what we ask.
- The Doctrine of Providence Herman Bavinck
The doctrine of providence is not a philosophical system but a confession of faith that, notwithstanding appearances, only God–by his almighty and everywhere present …
- I Sing the Goodness of the Lord Isaac Watts
I sing the goodness of the Lord / That filled the earth with food; / He formed the creatures with his word, / And then pronounced them good.
- God's Infinite Liberality John Calvin
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
- George Ladd on the Kingdom of God George Ladd
The Kingdom of God is a miracle. It is the act of God. It is supernatural. Men cannot build the Kingdom; they cannot erect it. The Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of God; …
- Steadfast Love of the Lord King David
But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,and his righteousness to children’s children.
- I Will Sing to the Lord King David
I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.