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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears, It was a very poor way of seeking the Lord when he had got into the hand of the Philistines, and was planning in his own mind a disgraceful way of escaping from them. It was not that calm quiet calling upon God that one would have liked to see in David. Still, God heard him,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. Blessed be his name for this. Are there not many of you, dear friends, who can bear the same testimony — personal proof of a prayer-hearing God? You tried him, for you sought him. You tried him, and you found him true, for he delivered you from all your fears.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. Should not the prayer-hearing God be praised? If he hears the cries of his people, should he not also hear the praises of his people? It is not one only to whom God has thus listened, but many can say with the psalmist, “I sought the Lord, and he heard me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. And who were they? Why, all the people of God — the whole company of the saints in heaven, and the saints on earth. It can be said of them all, “They looked to him, and were lightened.” As there is life in a look, so is there light in a look. Oh! you that looked to Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They looked unto him. “All these people that have come at my call to join me in praising the Lord: “They looked unto him,” — Psa_34:5. And were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. No, not one of them; if they looked to God, light shone from God upon their faces, and their faces glowed with the holy radiance, so they had no reason to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. “They looked unto him,” — a whole army of them, an innumerable company, — “They looked unto him and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.” There never was a face that was ashamed of being turned Christward and Godward.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. Only a look, and their burden was gone. Only a look! What great things hang on little things! Faith is but a look, yet it brings life, pardon, salvation. Heaven comes that way. Only a look!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. It is God’s delight to hear the cry of poor men. Sometimes, he passes by the rich and great, and gives heed to the poor and desolate. It is our need that has the loudest cry with God; if...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. Who was he? He was a poor man — any poor man — nothing very particular about him, but he was poor — a poor man. What did he do? He cried. That was the style of praying he adopted — as a child cries — the natural expression of pain. Poor man, he did not know how to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. David’s deliverance had been so special that he could not help feeling that some special deliverer had been employed on his behalf; “the angel of the Lord” had been sent to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. Here David speaks of himself again, but he refers to himself in the third person: “This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. The angel of the Lord does not merely come to help his people, but he stays with them. He encampeth. He has pitched his tent, for he means to tarry. The guardians of God forsake...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. It is no wonder, then, that they are delivered, for the angels are always handy. They are waiting round about God’s people. Lo, they are not at a distance to fly swiftly and come for our rescue, but God has set a camp of angels round about all his people. Are we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. The great Angel of the covenant, the Lord Jesus Christ, surrounds with his army the dwellings of the saints, and takes care to have them in safe keeping.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. God’s children are always attended like princes, legions of angels form their body-guard. The angel of the Lord, and companies of holy angels with him, pitch their celestial tents round about them that fear God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. That is the language of experience. Some of us have lived by trusting God for many years, and, instead of growing weary of it, we would invite others to do the same. Oh! taste and see that the Lord is good. You cannot know his goodness without tasting it. But there was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. You may not only believe that God is good, but it may become a matter of experience with you: “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” You cannot see the goodness of God to perfection without tasting it, so use the sense of taste as well as that of sight. Some people...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the LORD, ye his saints; For there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing. We are often in want because we are not seeking the Lord, but are seeking what we think we...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. It is the grandest of benedictions. It is the sum and substance of the gospel. “Blessed is the man that trusteth in him.” By the way of works we are cursed but by the way of believing we are blest. Are you trusting? Dear heart, are you trusting? Is it a feeble trust?...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Do try him, dear friends, and prove for yourselves how good and gracious he is: “O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.” “Oh, make but trial of his love; Experience will decide How blest are they, and only they, Who in his truth...