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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, as when the melting fire burneth, Or, much better, “as when the brushwood burneth”; for if God does but come to his people, they are ready to catch the flame, like the dry heather which is soon ablaze; and his enemies also...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence! When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou comest down, the mountain flowed down at thy presence. O Lord, come again! Thou didst come in the past; repeat thy former acts, and let us see what thou canst...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. God is ready to help. He has everything in preparation before our needs begin. He has laid in supplies for all our wants. Before our prayers are presented, he has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: God does not wait for us to return to him. He meets us. He comes to us the moment that we turn our feet towards his throne. While we are, like the prodigal, a great way off, he sees us, and has compassion upon us, and runs to meet us. Isa_64:5. Behold,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. It is not a flattering picture that the prophet draws. Even our righteousnesses are like filthy rags, fit only for the fire; what must our righteousnesses be like? We, ourselves,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: That is a wonderful description of prayer. When a man rouses himself from sinful lethargy, and stirs himself up to take hold of God in prayer, he will become an Israel, a prince prevailing with God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. But now, O Lord, thou art our father; Adoption does not come to an end because of sin. Regeneration or sonship does not die out; it cannot die out. I am my father’s son, and so I always shall be; and if I am my heavenly Father’s son, I shall never cease to be so....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Be not wrath very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. The holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is...