Psalms 119:149. Hear my voice -
So the psalmist used to pray aloud. It is a very great help in prayer if you can do the same. If we pray aloud to be heard of men, it is a sin; but if we pray aloud that we may hear ourselves, so that our devotion may be excited, we shall often find it very profitable, and if people hear us by accident, so much the better; they are not hearing anything that will do them hurt, they are hearing that which may do them good.
Psalms 119:149. According unto thy lovingkindness:
That is, do not hear it to judge it, to censure it, to criticize it, but hear it as a father hears his child, loving to hear its little voice speaking in broken accents.
Psalms 119:149. O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
Just now, the psalmist prayed, "Hear me, O Lord!" In the 146th verse, he cried, "Save me;" now his prayer is, "O Lord, quicken me!" When God puts more life into us, then we have more strength to bear our burdens, and having more spiritual life, we have more power to resist temptation. Quickening is an essential mercy, containing within itself a multitude of blessings: "Quicken me according to thy judgment."
Psalms 119:149. Hear my voice -
So the psalmist used to pray aloud. It is a very great help in prayer if you can do the same. If we pray aloud to be heard of men, it is a sin; but if we pray aloud that we may hear ourselves, so that our devotion may be excited, we shall often find it very profitable, and if people hear us by accident, so much the better; they are not hearing anything that will do them hurt, they are hearing that which may do them good.
Psalms 119:149. According unto thy lovingkindness:
That is, do not hear it to judge it, to censure it, to criticize it, but hear it as a father hears his child, loving to hear its little voice speaking in broken accents.
Psalms 119:149. O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
Just now, the psalmist prayed, "Hear me, O Lord!" In the 146th verse, he cried, "Save me;" now his prayer is, "O Lord, quicken me!" When God puts more life into us, then we have more strength to bear our burdens, and having more spiritual life, we have more power to resist temptation. Quickening is an essential mercy, containing within itself a multitude of blessings: "Quicken me according to thy judgment."