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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. Strength and mastery may be united. The young lion and the dragon, but the child of God shall overcome them. Talk of St. George and the dragon! We ought to think more of the saint and the dragon. It is he that dwelleth in the secret place of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He loves me, and therefore I love him, and I will deliver him because he loves me. Oh, love the Lord all ye saints, love him more and more; for this love of yours shall bring to you a sweet reward.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: Does God take notice of our poor love? Oh, yes, he values the love of his people, for he knows where it came from; it is a part of his own love; the creation of his grace! Psa_91:14. I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. Does God value such feeble and imperfect...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: Were there ever words fuller of consolation than these? “ He shall call upon me.” Grace will take care to give us the spirit of prayer. “ And I will answer him.” Grace will give the answer.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation. Now, it is not a promise to every good man that he shall live for a long period, for some among the best of men die in very early youth, but still they have had a full life, for life must not be measured by years. Oh, how...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: Notice, that it is, “He shall,” and I will.” The mighty grace of God “shall” make us pray, and the Almighty God of grace “will” answer our prayer: “He shall call upon me, and I will answer him.” How I love these glorious shalls and wills! Psa_91:15. I will be with him in trouble; “Whatever that trouble...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. He will live as long as he wants to live. Even if he should have but few years, yet he shall have a long life; for life is to be measured by the life that is in it, not by the length along which it drags. Still, God’s children do live to a far longer age than any other people in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: It is good in itself; it is good for those who hear it; but it is especially good for our own hearts to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto the name of the Most High. Sometimes, when we are very heavy in spirit, if we would take care...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithful every night, Begin the day by setting forth the Lord’s lovingkindness. It was his lovingkindness that watched over you when you lay unconscious and defenseless, and could not therefore protect yourself; it was his lovingkindness that drew wide the curtain of the night, that touched...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound. Under the old dispensation, instrumental music seemed more congruous than it does now with the spiritual worship into which we have been introduced. If we must ever have instrumental music in our worship, let it be the same the very same as David had; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. There is a blessed verse to come from the heart and mind of a happy man who is praising God, and who looks on all the works of the Lord, in creation, providence, and redemption, and makes them all the subject of his joyous doing.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. There is little that we know of the thoughts of God except as we gather them from his works or learn them from his Word, “ for what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him ? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” It is by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this. He looks at nature, and as he sees its varied operations, he observes certain eternal law as he calls them, but he does not see the power at the back of those laws which makes the laws potent for the government of the world. Nay, he lives and walks where God has displayed his power to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When the wicked spring as the grass, — Numerous, fresh, vigorous, — Psa_92:7. And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: That is the end to which they will surely come, no matter how much they boast, nor how they grow and flourish till they seem, like the grass in the meadow, to cover everything,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore. The psalmist began by calling the Lord most high, and now he says that he is “most high for evermore.” Yes, this is our joy that God never passes away; he abides for ever. Myriads of the ungodly have come and gone, empires of wickedness have risen to great power, and in due time have passed away like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. But my horn halt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. The believer, though he is very weak in his own consciousness, and utterly insignificant in his own esteem, shall receive fresh power from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ear shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise by against me. The translators put in the words my desire in both cases they are printed in italics to show that they are not in the original. No doubt the psalmist means that his eye should see the end of his enemies, and his ears should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. The palm tree flourishes amidst the desert sunshine, growing straight upright towards heaven without a branch that deviates to the right or the left, and bearing its great masses of fruit as near heaven as ever it can. It is a fine type of Christian life and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our Lord. Like trees planted in the courtyard, screened and protected, such are true believer; God is their defense, and they are screened within the court of the Lord’s house.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; When worldings decay, they shall still be fruitful. They shall not feel, as so many others do, that their age is a curse; it shall be to them a blessing, ripening them for eternity, and it shall be a blessing to all by whom they are surrounded.