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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice I have mercy also upon me, and answer me. The psalmist has only just begun praising when he takes to praying; and that should be a Christian’s double occupation, — praising and praying. I have often said that, as our life is made up of breathing in and breathing out, so we should breathe in the atmosphere of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear, O LORD. when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD will I seek. Are we always mindful of divine monitions? When the still small voice in the heart says, “Seek ye my face,” brothers and sisters, do we always at once respond and say, “Thy face,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. As if it were an echo, “Thy face, Lord, will I seek.” And he did seek it, and seek it at once. But, oh! there are many who have long been called to seek God’s face, who have never obeyed the summons; are you among that number? If so, the Lord have mercy upon...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. The child of God knows his Father’s voice, and responds to it. God’s Word is like a seal, and we should be like the wax, ready to take the impress of it. “Seek ye my face.” “Thy face, Lord, will I seek.” It is the same expression reversed, just as it is when...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. David springs forward to accept the divine invitation; the invitation was general: “Seek ye my face;” but the response was personal: “Thy face, Lord, will I seek.” Whether others would do so, or not, David resolved and declared that he would seek the face of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. This is grand praying on the part of David; he pleads the past as a reason for mercy in the present: “Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.” It is a very bad...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; I do not know why the translators put in that word “far.” It is printed in Italics, but it should not be there at all. “Hide not thy face from me at all, my Lord. I do not ask thee not to hide it far from me, but I pray thee not to hide it at all. Make no break in my sunlight. Let me always see thee; this is all I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. There is a poor child, and his father and mother have both gone away and left him; but the Divine Father comes along, picks the child up, and clasps him to his bosom: “Then the Lord will take me up.” It is a wonderful...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: David has a jealous fear lest he should have provoked the Lord to hide himself from him, so he prays as one who is dependent upon his Heavenly Father’s smile, and cannot live without it. “Put not thy servant away in anger.” Psa_27:9. Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: The sharpest trial a Christian can know is to be forsaken of his God. As the very pith of the agony of Christ upon the gross lay in his being deserted by his Father, so the extremity of a believer’s anguish is found when he also has to cry, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: “Dismiss me not thy service, Lord.” You know how masters do sometimes discharge their servants in anger; but what a gracious Master you and I have, beloved, or else he would have sent us adrift long ago! “Get you gone,” he would have said, “you disgrace my house, you mar my work,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou, hast been my help y leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake we, then the LORD will take me up... “They carried me when I was a child, and he will carry me now: ‘The Lord will take me up.’ When they steel their hearts against me, because I become a Christian, he will love me, and more than...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help: leave me not, neither forsake me. O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. He prayed, you see, and it looked a little unbelieving when he said, “Leave me not, neither forsake me.” But it was not so, for at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. “My father and my mother are the last to forsake me; they were the first to love me, and they will be the last to leave me, but if they do leave me, then Jehovah will take me up, and he will be both father and mother to me.” Just as it was said to Naomi concerning Ruth, “Thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. “The Lord never will forsake me. Though I pray, ‘Leave me not,’ I know that he will not. Father and mother retain love for their child when that child has lost every earthly friend; but, Lord, if nature should change, and mothers should turn to monsters, still, when my father...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When my father and my mother forsake me, They are not likely to do that; yet, if they should do so, what then?
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then the LORD will take me up. Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. This is a prayer which all Christians have good need to pray, for there are so many enemies who will, if they can, cause us to stumble, so many who watch for our halting, that we need to pray, “Lead me in a plain path, because of mine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
‘Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. “Make it clear what I ought to do; make it so clear that I shall do it. Let me not try to excuse myself, but may my way be so plainly upright and true that even my enemies cannot say anything against me! ‘Lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.’”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me thy way, O LORD, “I am only a child; teach me, Lord. I am fatherless and motherless; take me into thine orphanage, and teach me thy way, O Lord!” Psa_27:11. And lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. “Make my way to he very straightforward! May my life be such that I never have to apologize for it! May there be no places in it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me thy way, O LORD, This is a sweetly practical prayer. Our heart often says, “Lord, let me have my own way;” but when grace has done its work, it talks in another fashion, “’Teach me thy way, O Lord.’ Only let me know what thou wouldst have me be, and do, and feel, and I submit myself to thee, joyfully. But, Lord, I am so weak that, even if...