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1421 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 33.17 (Matthew Henry)
… as to make use of our own prudence. “Help thyself, and God will help thee;” God answers our prayers by teaching us to order our affairs with discretion. To pacify …
1422 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 34.12 (Matthew Henry)
… his prayers. Note, Creature-comforts are comforts indeed to us when they are granted as answers to prayer, and are tokens of our acceptance with God. Again, It …
1423 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 56.13 (Matthew Henry)
… of our duty, we ought to have recourse to God, and lay open our case before him by faithful and fervent prayer. If we retreat, let us retreat to him, and no further …
1424 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 59.6 (Matthew Henry)
… earnestly to him, to remand the frogs, Exodus 8:12. Note, We must pray for our enemies and persecutors, even the worst as Christ did. In answer to the prayer of Moses …
1425 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 61.9 (Matthew Henry)
… to the good affections of the Egyptians, inasmuch as, while the judgment came in obedience to his summons, the removal of it was in answer to his prayers. He never …
1426 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 65.8 (Matthew Henry)
… of our troubles, yet to get above our fears, so that they may only serve to quicken our prayers and endeavours, but may not prevail to silence our faith and hope …
1427 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 67.6 (Matthew Henry)
… retired to pray, and that the appearance of the glory of the Lord ( Exodus 16:10 ) was in answer to his prayer. They are called to come near, as Isaiah 1:18; Come, and let …
1428 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 68.4 (Matthew Henry)
… folly to answer passion with passion, for that makes bad worse; but soft answers turn away wrath. He showed them whom their murmurings reflected upon, and that …
1429 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 70.4 (Matthew Henry)
… themselves to obey the voice of God, and take it as a great favour to be made a kingdom of priests to him. They answered together as one man, nemine contradicente …
1430 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 79.9 (Matthew Henry)
… relation to God, as those that are not ashamed to own it, and in a conversation in the world answerable to it. It must likewise be engraven like the engravings …
1431 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 84.12 (Matthew Henry)
… encourage our faith, but excite our fervency in prayer. (5.) He concludes with an argument taken from God’s glory ( Exodus 33:16 ): “ Wherein shall it be known to the …
1432 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 94.2 (Matthew Henry)
… , our peace-offering; for through him alone it is that we can expect to obtain mercy, and an answer of peace to our prayers; and in him an upright prayer shall …
1433 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 131.3 (Matthew Henry)
… answer to that prayer: so near is the relation between prayers and promises. Prayers prevail for promises, and promises direct and encourage prayers. Some …
1434 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 132.1 (Matthew Henry)
… in answer to the prayer of Moses; they shall not all be cut off, but the decree goes forth ratified with an oath, published to the people, again and again repeated …
1435 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 132.23 (Matthew Henry)
… slow to anger. Thus when our Saviour prayed, Father, glorify thy name, he was immediately answered, I have glorified it, and will glorify it yet again, John 12:28 …
1436 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 134.21 (Matthew Henry)
… to withdraw immediately from the tents of the rebels. 1. God bids Moses speak to this purport, Numbers 16:24. This was in answer to Moses’s prayer. He had …
1437 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 143.6 (Matthew Henry)
… do to our people; and we may contribute something towards it by our prayers, and by our endeavours in our places to bring the wickedness of the wicked to an end …
1438 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 158.17 (Matthew Henry)
… , ready to answer their enquiries and resolve them by his oracle, ready to answer their requests and to grant them by a particular providence. When they had …
1439 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 177.8 (Matthew Henry)
… and answer our prayers for success? Psalms 66:18. See 1 Samuel 7:3 .
1440 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 188.4 (Matthew Henry)
… God’s answer to his prayer sufficed him, and now he spoke no more of that matter, Deuteronomy 3:26. Thus our blessed Saviour prayed that the cup might pass from …