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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, — “We are like men ready to be put into their graves; or the cause that we advocate seems so totally dead that we seem to be like dry bones that are flung out of a grave.” Psa_141:7. As when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. “We feel as if we were like chips out of a tree that has been cut...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; “I may be cut to pieces, I may be chopped up, I may seem to be made into a bundle of firewood; but, Lord, my eyes are unto thee: ‘ O God the Lord: in thee is my trust.’” Psa_141:8. Leave not my soul destitute. “If I have thee, I am still rich. Even if I lie at the grave’s mouth, I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. Amen! So let it be! This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 140, 141.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. Silent prayers are often true prayers, but there are times when, in extremity of suffering, it is very helpful to give expression to the soul’s agony. I know some friends who can never pray to their own comfort except they can hear their own voices, and I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. Of course, the essence of his prayer was in his heart, but it often helps the heart to use the voice. It is much better to pray in silence if you will be heard by others, for we are not to pray to be heard of men, but if you have opportunity to pray aloud,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. David mentions that he prayed with his voice. This is an unimportant matter compared with praying with the heart; but when the heart is full of prayer, it is often very helpful to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I poured out my complaint before him; — That is a beautiful expression, “I poured out my complaint,” — just as you turn a pitcher upside down, and let all the contents run out: “I poured out my complaint.” We are generally ready enough to do that, only that, usually, we go to some friend, or to some enemy, and pour out our complaint into his ear....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I poured out my complaint before him: As if it were in a vessel, and I turned the vessel upside down, and poured it all out. That is true prayer. It is the pouring out of what is really in; not an utterance of words which may, perhaps, go no farther than the mere lips, but the pouring out of whatever is within, whether it is praise or complaint....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. Many of the Lord’s saints know the meaning of that sentence: “My spirit was overwhelmed within me.” They are like a vessel that has sunk in the sea, and is completely covered by the waves. David was in such a plight as that, he did not know his own whereabouts, but here was the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: “They were afraid to link themselves with me, lest, when I went down like a drowning man, they should be dragged down with me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. I did not know it. I was so puzzled — so in a maze, like a man at his wits’ end. My spirit seemed turned bottom upward, like a thing that is overwhelmed. Psa_142:3 In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. I could not find out where the snare was, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. “My spirit was so overwhelmed within me, that I did not know where I was, or what I was. I could not make head or tail of myself. I seemed to be like a skein of silk or wool in a tangle. My thoughts, as George Herbert would have said, were all a case of knives, sharp to cut and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. This is a terrible condition for anyone to be in, — to have every friend forsake you, — to find that those who used to know you best, do not want to know you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Refuge failed me; “I could not run away; there was no place where I could find shelter.” Psa_142:4. No man cared for my soul. “They were all hard, cold, ungrateful, treacherous.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. It is a bad time always when friendship seems to have died out, when those that we rely upon turn their backs upon us and refuse to sympathize with us in any degree. It is a sad case to be in. “No man cared for my soul.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto thee, O LORD: What a mercy that David was driven to do that! If there had been any earthly refuge, he would have fled to it. If there had been some human being at his right hand to help him, probably he would have trusted to him. If any man had cared for his soul, peradventure he would have trusted in that person, but now that every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto thee, O LORD: Ah! that is the thing to do. When no man will know you, God will know you. When no man cares for you, God will care for you. Prayer is an unfailing resort. “I cried unto thee, O Lord.” Psa_142:5. I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. See how he clings to his God now. We never do cling to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. “I left the broken reeds alone, and leaned upon my God. I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. Bring my soul out of prison, — This is a suitable prayer for those who have troubled consciences, for those who are shut up in Doubting Castle, and cannot get out without divine assistance. “Bring my soul out of prison,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: What a blessed argument! Nothing can move God’s pity like it. “I am brought very low.” It is not your height that God will respect: it is your lowliness. O soul, it is not thy excellence that God regards: it is thy need —not thy goodness, but thy want of his goodness that he looks at; not thy...