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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. When a man gets God’s hand on him, I warrant, you that he will want no other burden. This hand of God goes with him wherever he goes, it is like his own shadow. Whenever you meet with persons who are self-righteous, you may pray God to lay his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. God was with his hand pressing him heavily, forging his sin home upon him, making him say, My sin is ever before me.” Oh! the misery of sinning to a child of God. Do not dream that we can ever have any pleasure in sin; the worldling may, but the believer never can. ‘To him it is a deadly viper that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: The mere touch of God’s finger would be enough to crush us, but when he comes to deal with us in conviction, and lays his heavy hand upon us, it is indeed terrible. We are then like Gideon’s fleece when he squeezed all the moisture out of it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Being confessed, it was forgiven; being acknowledged, it was blotted out.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. When he tried to pray, it was a dried-up prayer; he tried to make a psalm, but it was a dried-up song; he tried to do some good, for he was still a good man, but it was all withered without the Spirit of God. His moisture was gone out of him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Oh, how swift is the divine compassion! Quick upon the heels of confession came that word from Nathan, “The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.” I can fancy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin, unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sins. Selah. “And thou forgavest” — blessed “and.” How very simple it was! The floods of divine wrath were swelling; he just pulled up the sluices of confession, the floods ran away, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. You see, as long as he covered his sin, God did not cover it, but when he no longer tried to hide it, but made an open confession of it, then God blotted it out, and covered it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid, I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. He made to the Lord a full, childlike confession of his sin, iniquity, and transgressions, evidently putting his heart’s trust in the mercy of God; and, soon, all the burden...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. He must come to confession, full, spontaneous, unreserved: there must be a resolution. “ I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, “ a firm determination to hide...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. All gone, gone for ever, gone at a stroke. Oh! what a mercy this is, that, when once we will take the place of sinners and plead guilty, then it is that we are absolved at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. O blessed termination of a terrible condition of heart! Confession pulled up the flood-gates of his soul, and God caused the black stream to flow away and disappear. Friend,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. He must come to confession, full, spontaneous, unreserved; there must be a resolution. “I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord”; a firm determination to hide...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place; He had talked, in the first verse, of his sin being covered. Now he not only hides his sin beneath the divine covering, but he hides himself beneath the divine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. The fact that God hears us at the first and gives us a great deliverance when we, are; under a sense of sin, makes us pray to him as long as ever we live. We shall never forget how God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place: thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah. Surely, if God has given us the pardon of our sin, he will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place ; — See where alone a sinner can find a safe shelter, in his God. Christ Jesus, the Son of God, is the appointed Judge of all mankind, yet it is to him that we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the flood; of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. For this (because of this), and for this blessing, “ shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found.” The pardoning God must be sought. There is an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. The man that has so prayed as to find complete forgiveness, he is the man that will never leave off praying as long as he lives. The one gain which covers everything, the gain of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: If thou, O Lord, dost hear a sinner cry unto thee, then surely thou wilt hear thy saints when they cry unto thee yet more and more! If seekers become finders, then others will become seekers, too.