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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Even if we die, let our work live. May there be something permanent remaining after we are gone; — not wood, hay, and stubble, which the fire will consume; but a building of gold, silver, and precious stones which will endure the fire that, sooner...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let the beauty of the LORD our god be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: That, if we must go, we may do something that will live that we may not have lived in vain. “Establish thou the work of our hands upon us.” Psa_90:17. Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. It is my daily prayer. My heart goes up to heaven...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. “Let not what we do for thee fall to the ground like a badly-built wall! Let not our work be consumed in the great testing fire, ‘but the work of our hands establish thou it!’” This exposition consisted...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. It is not every worshipper that comes there who shall be thus privileged but those who dwell there, as Simeon and Anna dwelt in the temple. So there are some that abide in Christ and his words abide in them. They live near to God. They receive...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. It is not every man who dwells there; no, not even every Christian man. There are some who come to God’s house; but the man mentioned here dwells with the God of the house. There are some who worship in the outer court of the temple; but “he that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Observe the sweetness of making a personal application of any passage in the Word. “ I will say.” A general doctrine gives us little consolation till we can make a particular application of it. Oh, for faith-daring, personal faith-to say, “I will say of the Lord...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. This is a daring utterance, as if the psalmist would claim for himself the choicest privileges of any child of God. When you hear a glorious doctrine preached, it may be very sweet to others; but the honey lies in the particular application of it to yourself. You...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, You cannot see it. You do not know it to be a snare. The bird does not suspect the fowler. “Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird.” If the bird knew it was a net it would not fly into it. You do not know your temptation, young man. Nay, and the oldest and most...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, If you dwell near to God, you will not be deceived by Satan. In the light of the Lord you will see light; and you will discover the limed twigs and the nets and the traps that are set to catch you: “He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler.” Psa_91:3. And from the noisome...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. It is a marvelous verse. I do not think that any devout man would have been daring enough to use such language as this if he had not been led to do so by the Holy Spirit himself. Where the Holy Spirit leads the way we may safely...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall cover thee with his feathers, The psalmist uses a wonderful metaphor when he ascribes “feathers” to God, and compares him to a hen, or some mother-bird, under whose wings her young find shelter. Yet the condescension of God is such that he allows us to speak of him thus: “He shall cover thee with his feathers.” Psa_91:4. And under his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; For if this alludes to temporal dangers, “Not a single shaft shall hit, Till the God of love sees fit.” And if there be a covert allusion here to spiritual dangers-to the darts of the wicked one and to the alarms which fill the soul when the presence of God is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nervous as you are, and naturally timid, when you dwell near to God, your fears shall all go to sleep. That is a wonderful promise: “Thou shalt not be afraid.” If it had said, “Thou shalt have no cause for fear,” it would have been a very comforting word; but this is even more cheering, Thou shalt...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. When God takes his people to dwell in nearness to himself, and they have faith in this promise, I make no doubt that, literally, in the time of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, “There shall no evil befall thee.” It may have the appearance of evil; but it shall turn out to thy good. There shall be but the appearance of evil, not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. You remember how the devil misapplied this text to Christ. He was quite right in the application; but he was quite wrong in the. quotation, for he left out the words “in all thy ways.” God will help us in our ways if we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. They get special commandment to take care of the saints of God-the angels, those unseen but swift and mighty messengers of heaven. When David had the troops paraded before him, when they were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. What royal protection we have, a guard of angels, who count it their delight and their honour to wait upon the seed-royal of the universe, for such are all the saints of God!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. God often gives victories like these to his people, so that Satan and all the powers of evil are trampled down by the holy child-take confidence of the man who is resolved to serve his God.