Psalm 65:2,5 O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come….. By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas; Charles Spurgeon said: Prevalence with God in wrestling prayer is sure to make the believer … More The God Who Hears…Psalm 65
I Will Lift Up My Hands! (Psalm 63:4) Sam Storms Jul 13, 2007 Series: Meditations on the Psalms On more than one occasion I’ve been asked: “Sam, why do you lift your hands when you worship?” My answer is two-fold. First, I raise my hands when I pray and praise because I have explicit biblical … More I Will Lift Up My Hands! (Psalm 63:4)
John Piper: Hell is insufficient to save anybody. I mean hell cannot scare anyone into heaven, because heaven is a place for those who love God, not for those who just fear hell. This is what we hear in Psalm 63. 1 O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; … More Heaven is a place for those who love God, not for those who just fear hell
Psalm 60:1 O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us. To be cast off by God is the worst calamity that can befall a man or a people; but the worst form of it is when the person is not aware of it and is indifferent … More Ever Feel Rejected by God?
I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations. For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth! Psalm 57:9-11
Psalm 56
C.H. Spurgeon comments on Psalm 55:6 “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest…” We are all too apt to utter this vain desire, for vain it is; no wings of doves or eagles could bear us away from the sorrows of a trembling heart. Inward grief … More Ever want to fly away? Escape?
In “The Treasury of David”, Spurgeon condenses Matthew Henry: God, in this Psalm, “speaketh twice,” for this is the same almost verbatim with the fourteenth Psalm. The scope of it is to convince us of our sins, to set us blushing, and to set us trembling because of them: there is need of “line upon … More Great sin, great Savior!
Psalm 52: 8-9 I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly. C. H. Spurgeon comments, “Eternal mercy is my present confidence. David knew God’s mercy to … More Eternal mercy!
According to Dr. Sam Storms of Enjoying God Ministries, Psalm 51 has a special message for several groups of people. He introduces his article, When Mercy Scrubs Clean the Soul, like this: First, Psalm 51 is for those who have never come to grips with the horror of human sin and the magnitude of … More Is the message of Psalm 51 for YOU?
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