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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. Are you one of those trembling ones who fear to offend God? Well, I daresay that you sometimes envy those who are very boisterous in their joy. Do not envy them; you have something better in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant. ine eyes are eyes toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. When they get into it, he will pluck them out of it. When Satan seems to cast a net over me, God will come and pull me out. There is force in that word “pluck”— denoting swiftness and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. If you pass that dish round, there are some who will not help themselves from it, for they are not “desolate and afflicted.” But I know that there are some, even here, who are both “desolate and afflicted.” Be sure, dear friends, that you make this prier your own: “Turn...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of any distresses. Look upon mine affliction and my pain; And what follows? “Take the affliction and the pain away”? No.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And forgive all my sins. David will be quite content if God will but look with pitying eyes upon his sufferings; but, as for his sins, he must be clean rid of them, he cannot be happy until he has the answer to this petition, “Forgive all my sins.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. The better the man, the more bitterly is he hated by the ungodly. It is not by holiness that you will escape the hatred of the world, it is by that very thing that you will arouse its malice. Do not wish to have it otherwise; but remember your Lord’s own words, “Woe unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. Do you notice how David gets back to his key-note? Almost at the beginning of the Psalm, he said, “O my God, I trust in thee;” now he says “I put my trust in thee.” Let faith in God be the key-note of your life-psalm. At another time, David wrote, “Trust in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. The child of God cannot hope to pass through the world safely unless he is careful to keep his integrity and his uprightness. There are some who profess to be Christians, who try to get on in trade by various tricks, and they hope to win the favor of men by just bending a little to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. God did so to Israel himself. Jacob, whose name was also Israel, said, “All these things are against me;” yet God redeemed him out of his troubles; and so will the Lord do for all his people in due time, glory be unto his name, world without end! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Judge me, O LORD; As if he turned away from all other judges, bribed and false as they had proved themselves to be in his ease, and put himself on trial before God: “Judge me, O Lord; “- Psa_26:1.For I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide. He pleads two things: first, the outward life and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. This is a wonderful verse. One would hardly dare to pray it. Here are three kinds of trial. According to the etymology of the Hebrew the first is the trial by touch-“ Examine me “; the next is the trial by smell- “ Prove me “; and the next is the trial by fire-“ Assay my reins and my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes:- Right straight before his eyes, he had God’s lovingkindness. Some people appear to have their miseries, their sorrows, their sins, before their eyes but happy is that believer who always has God’s lovingkindness before him!Come, my brother, forget for a little while the burden of your business cares;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have not sat with vain persons,- I never took counsel with them; they never were my choice companions. Psa_26:4. Neither will I go in with dissemblers. He makes a vow for the future that all crafty, lying, and foolish men shall never have his companionship.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have hated the congregation of evil doers, and will not sit with the wicked. By which he does not mean that he does not associate with them in any way for we must needs go out of the world if we will not have communion with sinners; but he means that he did not seek their company, found no pleasure in it, and never went in it to abet them in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will wash mine hands in innocency: Pilate did this, but alas! the water was very dirty in which he washed his hands. This was an old Jewish rite when a man was found murdered; if the people in the valley in which he was found would be free from the crime of murder they took a heifer, slew it, and then washed their hands in water over the head of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. I am sure many of us can say this, that when the Sabbath comes round, it is the best day of all the week, and that hour in the week-night when we can get to the house of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: in whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. See, he so loves God’s house that he cannot bear the thought of being shut in with sinners; and this is our comfort, that if we have loved God’s house on earth we shall dwell in his house for ever.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. See again, my beloved, how in the Christian’s practice good works and faith are seen happily blended. He declares that he will walk in his integrity, but still, still note, he prays as one that is conscious of a thousand imperfections-“Redeem me and be merciful unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The LORD is my tight and my salvation; whom shall I fear? If a man has a light that can never go out, — a sun which will never set, —and a salvation which must always save, — and God is all that and more to everyone who trusts him, — then what ground has he for fear Psa_27:1. The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? If I...