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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Cast me not away from thy presence,.... As abominable; as a vessel in which he had no pleasure; with indignation and wrath; as one that is angry with another, cannot bear him in his sight, but bids him be gone from him. Nothing is more desirable to a child of God than the presence of God; and nothing gives him more sensible pain than his absence;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; “I have acted as if you were not present, but, oh, do not fling me away! Do not take away thy presence from me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; “I was so happy once. Oh, give me back my joy!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Are you praying these prayers, dear friends, as we are reading them? I am sure you are if you have ever enjoyed the presence of God, if the Holy Spirit is your daily companion. And if you have lost that heavenly company, if you have lost that comfortable presence, I know...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; — “Dismiss me not thy service, Lord.” “Chase me not out of doors; banish me not from where thy face may be seen: ‘Cast me not away from thy presence.’” Psa_51:11. And take not thy holy spirit from me. “For, if thou do so, I am utterly undone. I shall go from bad to worse; I shall never repent; I shall never...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me, “O Lord, do not thrust me into a dungeon, and say, ‘Thou shalt never be a favoured child of mine again.’ ‘Take not thy Holy Spirit from me. That I should dread beyond everything else.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; “I cannot bear to be away from thy presence; I must see thy face, or I cannot live.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. One of our proverbs says, “A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind;” and he who knows by bitter experience what sin is, talks tenderly and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; “Lift me up, and then keep me up. Let me never sin against thee again.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways: and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Do not fling me away as a man pulls up a weed by the roots and throws it on a dunghill. “Take not thy Holy Spirit from me.” Oh! how often will the child of God have to pray this prayer? The Holy Spirit is in him, and he knows it, but he grieves the Spirit; and when his heart...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy spirit from me. I have put thee away from my presence by forgetting thee, but put me not away from thy presence. I have been filled with an unholy spirit, but oh! take not thy Holy Spirit from me.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation,.... Not temporal, but spiritual and eternal; and designs either Christ himself, who is God's salvation, of his appointing and providing, in the view of whom, as such, David had much spiritual joy; or the salvation he was to work out, which God the Father had contrived the scheme of in him, had covenanted...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And uphold me with thy free spirit. “I have fallen foully; let me not fall again. Henceforth, I cannot trust myself; do thou uphold me. I have made free to sin. Lord, send me a freer spirit, that I may be free to follow after righteousness.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. “Make me happy, O Lord, but oh, make me steadfast! In delivering me from my sin, deliver me from ever going into it again. Make me like a burnt child that keeps clear of the fire. O my God, come back to me!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; — “I had it once, Lord; restore it to me, bring it back.” Psa_51:12. And uphold me with thy free spirit. “That I shall not turn aside again. O lift me up, and keep me up, and help me to rise higher and higher!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. “Lord, I shall slip again unless thou dost hold me up, and, since thou canst not trust thy little child by himself, come and teach me how to walk.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy way’; There are no such teachers of righteousness as those who have smarted under their own personal sin; they can indeed tell to others what the ways of God are. What are those ways? His ways of chastisement,-how he will smite the wandering; his ways of mercy,-how he will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. I did know it once. What joy it is—the joy of thy salvation. Give it me back, O Lord. I cannot live on the old mercy. The recollection does not satisfy. It only makes me hunger. “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. David longs for his Lord to some back to him. When God flogs his children, they still cling to him, and they cry to him. They do not wish to run away, and hide themselves from him. No, their only comfort is to weep upon their Father’s bosom, and to wait for the kiss of...