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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...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
O magnify the Lord with me,.... The psalmist invites the humble ones, who he knew would rejoice at the goodness of God to him, to join with him in ascribing greatness to the Lord, which is meant by magnifying him; for he cannot be made great by men, only declared how great he is, and that can only be done in an imperfect manner; and let us exalt...
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.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I sought the Lord, and he heard me,.... Not that he sought the Lord publicly in his house and ordinances, for he was now at Gath; but privately by prayer and supplication; and that not vocally, but mentally; for he was in the midst of the servants of the king of Gath; yet earnestly, diligently, and with his whole heart, being in great distress;...
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...
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.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They looked to him, and were lightened,.... That is, "the humble" ones, Psalms 34:2; and so this is a reason why they should join in praising and magnifying the Lord; these "looked" up to God in prayer and by faith, when in distressed and uncomfortable circumstances, for help and deliverance, and a supply of every needful good thing; and they were...
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!