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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. If you do but trust in his holy name, you shall one day rejoice in him. Trust him in the dark, and you shall see the light. Trust him in famine, and you shall surely be fed.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee. That is a good prayer with which to close our reading; let us all present it at the throne of the heavenly grace.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according us we hope in thee. Let us each one pray that prayer now: “Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.” Amen. Now turn to the 1st chapter of the 1st General Epistle of John, that you may see what an apostle had to say concerning joy. This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. “Others may do what they please, and murmur, and complain, and be filled with dread and apprehension of the future; but I will bless the Lord at all times. I can always see something for which I ought to bless him. I can always see some good which will come out of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will bless the LORD at all times: “Whether the times are dark or light, whether I feel well or ill, whether the Lord deals with me graciously or severely, I will bless him at all times.” Psa_34:1. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. What a blessed mouthful! If we could but carry out this resolve of David, we should not find so much...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. What a sweet resolve! Oh, that every one of us who knows the Lord would make that resolve, and keep it all our days: “I will bless the Lord at all times;” in dark times and bright times, as long as ever I live. “His praise shall continually be in my mouth;” that is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. After any very great deliverance we feel prompted to special gratitude, and it appears to us as if we never should leave off praising God. I wish that perpetuity were real, but, alas! it often happens that the next cloud that sweeps the skies brings back our doubting,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will bless the LORD at all times: “At dark times, and bright times when I am alone, and when I am in company; when I feel like doing it and when I do not feel like doing it: ‘I will bless the Lord at all times.’” Psa_34:1. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. “I will not only feel it in my heart, but I will give expression to it with my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof and be glad. Boasting is generally annoying. Even those that boast themselves cannot endure that other people should boast. But there is one kind of boasting that even the humble can bear to hear — -nay they are glad to hear it. “The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: All men are more or less given to boasting but it seems to be specially characteristic of Englishmen and Americans. Well, there is a right way of boasting; if you can truly say, “My soul shall make her boast in the Lord,” you may boast away as much as you like. Psa_34:2. The humble shall hear thereof, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: We do not like boasters, but we would encourage every child of God to boast in the Lord as much as he pleases. Psa_34:2. The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. There is nothing that humble people dislike more than to hear others boasting: yet there is nothing that they like more than to hear anyone...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: What is there else to boast about? But what a proper subject for boasting the Lord is, because it is legitimate boasting? We can never exaggerate —we can never speak too well or think too well — of God. He is high above our thoughts, when they are at the best, so that we may make them as big as we may, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. “I will ride the high horse when I begin to talk of the goodness of God: ‘My soul shall make her boast in the Lord;’ and whereas boasters are generally very vexatious to humble-minded people, this kind of boasting shall please them: ‘the humble shall hear...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. He cannot do enough of it himself. He wants others to come in and help him. First, he charges his own heart with the weighty and blessed business of praising God, and then he invites all around to unite with him in the sacred effort. “Magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his name...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. Let each one of us throw his stone upon the cairn to make the heap as high as possible, for every one has some peculiar cause for gratitude and thanksgiving.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O magnify the LORD with me- There is a sweet contagion about the praise of God, we want others to help us to spread it everywhere, so we say, with David, “O magnify the Lord with me,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And let us exalt his name together. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. There is nothing that is so effective as personal testimony to the Lord’s saving power. How often is the skill of a physician commended by the grateful testimony of the patients who have been healed by him! So, shall not the prayer-hearing...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. It is too grand a theme for one. One little heart can scarcely feel it all One feeble tongue cannot tell it out. Come, then, ye saints that know his name, magnify the Lord with me.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. Come, my brethren and sisters, I cannot perform this happy service alone; it is too much for me all by myself. This bunch of grapes is too heavy to be carried by one. “O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. That was David’s testimony. That is mine. Brother, that is yours. Is it not? Sister, is not that yours too? Well, if you have such a blessed testimony, be sure to bear it. Often do you whisper it in the mourner’s ear, “I sought the Lord. and he heard me.” Tell it in the...