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1401 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1019.3 (Matthew Henry)
… of our love to God must be brought to the test; and it behoves us to inquire with earnest, preserving prayer to the heart-searching God, to examine and prove us …
1402 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1091.3 (Matthew Henry)
… ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued …
1403 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1104.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of prayer. Though set and solemn prayer may not be seasonable when other duties are to be done, yet short pious prayers darted out, always are so. We must use holy …
1404 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1106.5 (Matthew Henry)
… to have our mercies restored by God, after great danger of their removal; and this should make them more valued. What is given in answer to prayer, should …
1405 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1112.3 (Matthew Henry)
… seasons our discourse, and keeps it from corrupting. It is not enough to answer what is asked, unless we answer aright also.
1406 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1117.3 (Matthew Henry)
… by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, to atone for our sins and to ransom our souls. We should join in prayer and praise one with another. We should set a good …
1407 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1134.4 (Matthew Henry)
… away, our trust and hope must be in God. We must diligently use the means, and if no other should be at hand, abound in prayer. Yet, though prayer prevails, it does …
1408 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1146.4 (Matthew Henry)
… secured to them; and all things pertaining to salvation are freely given in answer to prayer. Let us seek for grace, that we may serve God with reverence and …
1409 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1152.4 (Matthew Henry)
… in prayer. God never says to any of the seed of Jacob, Seek my face in vain. Where there may not be so much of miracle in God's answering our prayers, yet there may …
1410 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1155.2 (Matthew Henry)
… answers to their profession. But how few know the right measure and bounds of those two necessaries of life, food and raiment! Unless poverty is our carver …
1411 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1165.5 (Matthew Henry)
… us. Our prayers must always be offered in submission to the will of God. In some things they are speedily answered; in others they are granted in the best manner …
1412 Matthew Henry's Concise Bible Commentary, p. 1179.4 (Matthew Henry)
… God answered the prayers presented in his holy temple now opened.
1413 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 8.29 (Matthew Henry)
… preached to, but prayed for, that wicked world, and would have turned away the wrath; but his prayers return into his own bosom, and are answered only in his own …
1414 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 16.10 (Matthew Henry)
… gracious answer to this complaint. To the first part of the complaint ( Genesis 15:2 ) God gave no immediate answer, because there was something of fretfulness …
1415 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 18.20 (Matthew Henry)
… his prayer for Ishmael, meant that he would have the covenant made with him, and the promised seed to come from him, then God did not answer him in the letter, but …
1416 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 20.21 (Matthew Henry)
… after our prayers, and observe the success of them. We must direct our prayer as a letter, and then look up for an answer, direct our prayer as an arrow, and then …
1417 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 25.10 (Matthew Henry)
… established to him, Job 22:28. According to his faith, so was it unto him. The answer to this prayer was, (1.) Speedy— before he had made an end of speaking ( Genesis 24 …
1418 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 25.11 (Matthew Henry)
… by prayer we must wear with praise; for mercies in answer to prayer lay us under particular obligations. (2.) He had as yet but a comfortable prospect of mercy …
1419 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 25.25 (Matthew Henry)
… and prayer ought to be both our business and our delight when we are alone; while we have a God, a Christ, and a heaven, to acquaint ourselves with, and to secure …
1420 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 28.13 (Matthew Henry)
… sold to him ( Genesis 27:36 ), and conceived malice against him for what he had now done, Genesis 27:41. Those are not likely to speed in prayer who turn those resentments …