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Psalms 51:11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Are you praying these prayers, dear friends, as we are reading them? I am sure you are if you have ever enjoyed the presence of God, if the Holy Spirit is your daily companion. And if you have lost that heavenly company, if you have lost that comfortable presence, I know...

Psalms 51:11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Cast me not away from thy presence; — “Dismiss me not thy service, Lord.” “Chase me not out of doors; banish me not from where thy face may be seen: ‘Cast me not away from thy presence.’” Psa_51:11. And take not thy holy spirit from me. “For, if thou do so, I am utterly undone. I shall go from bad to worse; I shall never repent; I shall never...

Psalms 51:11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me, “O Lord, do not thrust me into a dungeon, and say, ‘Thou shalt never be a favoured child of mine again.’ ‘Take not thy Holy Spirit from me. That I should dread beyond everything else.”

Psalms 51:11-13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. One of our proverbs says, “A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind;” and he who knows by bitter experience what sin is, talks tenderly and...

Psalms 51:11-14

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways: and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy...

Psalms 51:11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Do not fling me away as a man pulls up a weed by the roots and throws it on a dunghill. “Take not thy Holy Spirit from me.” Oh! how often will the child of God have to pray this prayer? The Holy Spirit is in him, and he knows it, but he grieves the Spirit; and when his heart...

Psalms 51:11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy spirit from me. I have put thee away from my presence by forgetting thee, but put me not away from thy presence. I have been filled with an unholy spirit, but oh! take not thy Holy Spirit from me.

Psalms 51:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And uphold me with thy free spirit. “I have fallen foully; let me not fall again. Henceforth, I cannot trust myself; do thou uphold me. I have made free to sin. Lord, send me a freer spirit, that I may be free to follow after righteousness.”

Psalms 51:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. “Make me happy, O Lord, but oh, make me steadfast! In delivering me from my sin, deliver me from ever going into it again. Make me like a burnt child that keeps clear of the fire. O my God, come back to me!”

Psalms 51:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; — “I had it once, Lord; restore it to me, bring it back.” Psa_51:12. And uphold me with thy free spirit. “That I shall not turn aside again. O lift me up, and keep me up, and help me to rise higher and higher!”

Psalms 51:12-13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

And uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy way’; There are no such teachers of righteousness as those who have smarted under their own personal sin; they can indeed tell to others what the ways of God are. What are those ways? His ways of chastisement,-how he will smite the wandering; his ways of mercy,-how he will...

Psalms 51:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. I did know it once. What joy it is—the joy of thy salvation. Give it me back, O Lord. I cannot live on the old mercy. The recollection does not satisfy. It only makes me hunger. “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.”

Psalms 51:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. David longs for his Lord to some back to him. When God flogs his children, they still cling to him, and they cry to him. They do not wish to run away, and hide themselves from him. No, their only comfort is to weep upon their Father’s bosom, and to wait for the kiss of...

Psalms 51:12-13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee. “I will tell others what thou hast done. Thy free grace, thy pardoning mercy, shall not be hidden away in my breast; but I will begin to be a preacher of thy love; ay, and I shall have...

Psalms 51:13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; He would turn preacher if God would but bless him. He would tell others what great things God had done for him. Psa_51:13. And sinners shall be converted unto thee. He felt sure that, if he once told his tale of love, others would he melted, and would turn to God; and no doubt it was the case.

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