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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I love the LORD, Let us go as far as that if we can; let us each one say, “I love the Lord.” Psa_116:1. Because — There is a reason for this love. People say that love is blind, but love to God uses her eyes, and can justify herself: “I love the Lord, because” — Psa_116:1. He hath heard my voice and my supplications. Can you go as far as that? Do...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. “He hath inclined his ear” — stooped down, as it were, as you do to a sick person to catch his faintest word. “He hath inclined his ear.” He has heard my prayer, when I could hardly hear it myself. When it was such a broken prayer, such a feeble prayer,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. “Because.” He harps on that string. It is so sweet a note that he touches it again: “Because he hath inclined his ear unto me”: stooped out of heaven. He has laid his ear down to my lips. He has caught my wandering utterances. He hath inclined his ear. My...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. That same blessed experience which is a reason for love is also an argument for continued prayer. “As he has heard me, he shall still hear me; as he has listened to me, he shall listen to me again; — at least, it shall not be for want of my cries that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. If a beggar in the street were to say to us, “Because you have relieved me once, I will beg of you as long as I live,” we should not be pleased to hear him say that, but God loves to hear us say that to him. He wishes us to resolve that, because we have...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. “Whatever others may do or may not do, I will call upon him as long as I live, and I have a good reason for doing so, ‘ Because he hath inclined his ear unto me.’ He has stooped from his throne in heaven to hearken to my feeble accents, he has bowed himself...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. “This begging business pays so well that I will never give it up as long as I live. The Lord has heard me, so he shall hear me again and again. He is so good and so generous a God, and such bounties are continually being distributed at his door, that I will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. That is a vow which we may well make, and hope for grace to keep it. It means that, as we have succeeded so well in begging at God’s door, we will keep on begging of him as long as we live. I suppose the psalmist meant that, because Jehovah had heard him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. He felt as if he had been hunted. As in hunting, they sometimes surround the stag with dogs as with a cordon, so he says, “the sorrows of death compassed me. There...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, They were all round me. They made a circle. I could not find a break. They compassed me. Sorrows, deadly sorrows, the very sorrows of death. Psa_116:3. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me: They came inside the circle and they gripped me. I was like one that did lie under the lion. He seemed to bite and tear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me,— Just as the dogs surround the poor stag, and shut him in the fatal circle. Psa_116:3. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me:— They set their teeth into him as the dogs do into the stag. Psa_116:3. I found trouble and sorrow. He was in a double grief; he had trouble without and sorrow within, it was troubled...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, — “I seemed to be shut in, — surrounded by a circle of difficulties and terrors: ‘The sorrows of death compassed me,’” — Psa_116:3. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me: They seemed to seize him as a lion seizes his prey.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. His prayer was a very short one, but very much to the point. Words make not prayer; they often burden it, and prevent it from flying. “Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire;” —and David, in a few earnest words, expressed that desire: “O...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, “They formed a ring around me, from which I could see no way of escape. I was like a wounded stag that is surrounded by fierce dogs.” Psa_116:3. And the pains of hell gat hold upon me: “The dogs of hell had fixed their cruel teeth in my throat so that it seemed impossible for me to escape from them.” Psa_116:3. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. His petition was short, earnest, plain, and personal. It was a sharp arrow shot from the bow of prayer, and it reached its mark in the heart of God. Are any of you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the LORD; Dark days are good days for praying; when your eyes cannot see, you pray all the better; when there is no earthly prop to lean upon you are all the more ready to lean upon God alone. The psalmist was like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; The most canonical hour for prayer is the time of our greatest distress. When you can do nothing else but pray, then is the very best time to pray. When you seem shut up to prayer, what a blessed shutting up it is! “Then called I upon the name of the Lord.” And what was his prayer? Very short: very full: a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then called I upon the name of the LORD;— That was the very best time to pray. Satan does his utmost to prevent our praying when we are in extremities; but, oh! dear friends, if Jonah prayed in the whale’s belly, where can you and I be where we may not and cannot pray? If we sat down upon the very door-step of Hades; yea, if the pit did open her...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Do you remember, dear friend, when you prayed such a prayer as that,-short, sharp, sincere, pointed, personal, out of the depths of your soul? Then, let your recollection of that prayer have so gracious an influence upon your heart that, in the remembrance of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. He did not have to search for a form of prayer, his words were such as came naturally to his mind; and that is the best sort of prayer which arises out of the heart’s sincere desire.