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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. “Lord, do not let me get into difficulties, so that I shM1 not know what to do, for my foes are so sharp-eyed that, if they can find a fault in me, they will; and even if there be no fault, they will make one. Therefore, Lord, ‘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. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. “Cruelty is their very breath. Lord, save me from their cruelty!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Men say that” seeing is believing,” but that is not true; but believing is seeing. So David says, “I had fainted, unless I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. It is their delight to be cruel, to say unkind, unjust, untruthful things which lacerate the heart; and the more some people can tear good men’s reputations to pieces, the more pleased they are. I must say that it is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. David found enemies, and as will you, and the holier you are, the more shall you have of them. Birds pick the ripest fruit; the highest towers cast the longest shadows; and so is it that the highest holiness is generally...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. Am I addressing anyone who is being slandered? Has somebody borne false witness against you? Well, be very thankful that it is false. I do not quite understand why it is so often said, “You see, it is such a downright...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I had fainted, ,unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. “I had fainted, unless I had believed.” You have the choice between these two things, you must either faint or have faith. Faith is the blessed smelling-bottle that will often prevent a fainting fit. Get but a sniff of the promises, do but know how...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I had fainted, unless I had believed — That is the smelling bottle for a fainting soul: “I had fainted unless I had believed.” You must do the one or the other; you must either believe or else faint, but if your faith is strong you cannot faint. O thou who art of feeble faith, it is little of a marvel that thou faintest! Would God that thy faith...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The goodness of the LORD is the land of the living. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Why did David put that little sentence in and say, “Wait, I say”? It is a repetition, but not a vain one, for it is his own personal testimony, as much as if he had said, “I have waited on the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. With troubles without, and fears within, and slanderers and enemies of all sorts around him, the Christian had almost fainted; but faith puts the divine smelling-bottle to his nose, and as soon as ever the nostril perceives the sweet perfume of God’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. That is the point to be noted; there is no getting over fainting except by believing, for believing saves us from swooning, and makes us strong: “I had fainted, unless I had believed.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. He is worth waiting upon. God help us all to wait on him, for his dear name’s sake! Amen.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the LORD: I think I hear David say this short sentence to each one in this great assembly tonight, “Wait on the Lord.” Psa_27:14. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, David says it from his own experience, and thus, as it were, puts his name and seal at the end of the Psalm: “Wait, I say,”- Psa_27:14. On...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Wait on no one else; wait only on him, and then you shall not be discouraged or faint-hearted; wherefore, “wait, I say, on the Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: Here is a man of God giving us the benefit of his own experience; he waited upon God, and now he bids us do the same, that we may be blessed as he was. At our prayer-meeting before we came in here, one dear friend thanked the Lord that, for more than sixty years, he had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock: be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. Oh! if God did not hear prayer, we should become like dead men — ay, like lost men. Our fall or despair would be terrible indeed. “Lest, if thou be silent to me, I become Like them that go down into the pit.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. Is that the way you pray, dear friend? I know there are some that, if they have uttered certain good words — got through a form of prayer — are perfectly satisfied. As to whether God hears them or not, that does not trouble them. But if you...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. We are often afraid lest we should get numbered with them. “Oh! were it not for grace divine, Their fate so dreadful had been mine.” “Gather not my soul with sinners,” is the prayer of many a godly man. When...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. And a just mind feels that such ought to be the case. God is a judge, and he will punish sin, and gracious men do not wish that it should be otherwise. Even to that terrible side of God’s...