In the Treasury of David, Spurgeon quotes David Dickson on Psalm 44:6- For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me. The less confidence we have in ourselves or in anything beside God, the more evidence have we of the sincerity of our faith in God. … More How sincere is your faith?
Here’s some encouragement from John Piper to learn from the Psalmist: Get inside this man’s heart now and learn from him to do what he is doing. This is how you learn from the saints who have walked with God a long time and know him well. His prayer takes him through four stages. Stage … More Learning to Pray Like David
Dr. Sam Storms of Enjoying God Ministries comments on Psalm 42-43: What is one to do when all you’ve had for breakfast is tears, followed by a late night snack of sorrow? The answer of the psalmist sounds as strange as the question: Preach to your soul! Take yourself in hand, look yourself in the eyes, and … More Preach to yourself!
The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health. 4 As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!” Spurgeon comments on Psalm 41:3-4 in the Treasury of David: Grace is the best of restoratives; divine love is the noblest stimulant for a languishing … More The BEST Medicine–Grace
Psalm 40:1-2 I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 2 He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. Dr. John Piper, in a message, “In the Pits With a King:” So perhaps what … More In the Pits With a King…
C.H Spurgeon wrote a daily devotional based on two Scripture readings each day, called “Morning and Evening.” Here are his comments on Psalm 39:1- “I will take heed to my ways.” FELLOW-PILGRIM, say not in your heart, “I will go hither and thither, and I shall not sin;” for you are never so out … More A Temptation in Every Mercy; A Snare in Every Joy
Psalm 38:10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me. C.H. Spurgeon comments: Sweet light departed from his bodily eye, and consolation vanished from his soul. Those who were the very light of his eyes forsook him. Hope, the last lamp of night, was ready to go … More Spurgeon Battled Depression
John Piper, in a sermon, “Battling the Unbelief of Envy”: This is a great Psalm for talking about how to fight envy because it starts off with the main point of “Don’t be envious.” Then I count six solid reasons for why not to be envious in the first 11 verses. What I’m trying to … More Using Psalm 37 to Battle the Unbelief of Envy
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep…. Psalm 36:6 Charles H. Spurgeon, in The Treasury of David, comments: Thy judgments are a great deep. God’s dealings with men are not to be fathomed by every boaster who demands to see a why for every wherefore. The Lord is … More Like the great deep
Are these prayers/Psalms really examples for us to follow? Or are they expressions of our sinful desires for vengeance? C. S. Lewis struggled greatly with psalms like Psalm 35: “The hatred is there – festering, gloating, undisguised – and also we should be wicked if we in any way condoned or approved it, … More David’s Imprecatory Outbursts….”Get ’em, God!”
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