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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. What a happy breathing-space is this! When you and I also are near our journey’s end, may we be able to say, as Jacob did, “I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.” He could not have said that once. This is the very Jacob who had, in his earlier days, been full of crafty policy, and tricks and schemes; but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. But he soon resumed his prophecy: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
God, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. This has been the blessing of many a child of God, — to fight, and apparently to lose the battle, yet to win it at the end. O thou who art striving against sin, or seeking to win souls for Christ, after many disappointments may you be able to clutch this sweet assurance, “He shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. Many of God’s servants belong to this tribe, for their life is spent in conflict. They do not seek it, but it comes to them; and, for a time, they seem to be overcome, yet let them clutch at the promise given by God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Asher was a tribe that was placed in a very fertile region where everything was crowned with delight. Oh, to have our inheritance where we feed upon the bread of heaven, and where the deep truths of God become to us royal dainties!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties. Well fed, and then yielding correspondingly. There are some people who like to have their bread to be fat, but they yield to the King no dainties. Let it not be so with us; but let us both feed well and yield well.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. Naphtali was a tribe notable for those that could speak freely, helped of God with a holy freedom in bearing testimony to his truth.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Naphtali is a hind let loose: — The type of what a Christian minister should be,— indeed, what every Christian worker should be,— “a hind let loose,” one who can say with David, “O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bonds.” Gen_49:21. He giveth goodly words. He has liberty in speech,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Joseph — Ah, now the patriarch comes to his beloved Joseph, and here the old man lingers long, longer than upon any other of his sons: “Joseph” — Gen_49:22. Is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The Hebrew puts it, “Joseph is a son of fruits, even a son of fruits by a well; whose daughters run over...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; — Where he can suck up abundant nutriment,— Gen_49:22. Whose branches run over the wall: He does more than he is expected to do; nothing seems to content him, his “branches run over the wall.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hand were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Joseph is a type of him who is both the Shepherd and the Stone to us, the Shepherd who defends us, provides for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: but his bow abode in strength, You know how sorely Joseph was persecuted by his brethren, yet how the Lord was with him in all his troubles. It appears from these words that he was himself an archer, and that he was not in a hurry to shoot his arrows; his bow remained still. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the arms of his hands — Not only his hands, but the arms of his hands —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: the blessings of thy father...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the came that is in the...