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1481 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 489.15 (Matthew Henry)
… hearing prayers?” But observe, (1.) In what method God hears prayer. He first prepares the heart of his people and then gives them an answer of peace; nor may we expect …
1482 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 496.2 (Matthew Henry)
… needs to be thus pressed with our importunity, but he gives us leave thus to express our earnest desire of his gracious answers to our prayers. These things …
1483 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 497.6 (Matthew Henry)
… direct answer it is to our prayers, the more we are obliged to be thankful. David’s deliverances were so, Psalms 18:6. David was found a praying man, and God was …
1484 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 499.4 (Matthew Henry)
… of others for us must be desired, not to supersede, but to second, our own for ourselves. Happy the people that have praying princes, to whose prayers they …
1485 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 499.6 (Matthew Henry)
… bears to his chosen people Israel. That he would help him, in performance of the promises and in answer to the prayers made in the sanctuary. Mercies out of the …
1486 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 499.10 (Matthew Henry)
… ought to offer up to God our hearty good wishes to the good government we are under and to the prosperity of it. But we may look further; these prayers for David …
1487 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 501.16 (Matthew Henry)
… in answer to my prayer.” This may refer to the victory Christ had obtained over Satan and his temptations ( Matthew 4:1-4:11 ), when the devil left him for a season …
1488 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 504.3 (Matthew Henry)
… character, to this call, David here answers, “Lord, I lift up my soul, not to vanity, but to thee.” Note, In worshipping God we must lift up our souls to him. Prayer is the …
1489 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 504.11 (Matthew Henry)
… of prayer, telling us what to pray for and encouraging our faith and hope in prayer, but they are a present answer to prayer. Let the prayer be made according …
1490 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 504.16 (Matthew Henry)
… an answer to David’s prayers ( Psalms 25:4, 25:5 ), Show me thy ways and lead me. We should fix our thoughts, and act our faith, most on those promises which suit our present …
1491 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 507.3 (Matthew Henry)
… taught to expect an answer to our prayers. The scriptures are called the oracles of God, and to them we must have an eye in our prayers and expectations. There …
1492 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 509.3 (Matthew Henry)
… an answer to his prayers ( Psalms 30:2 ): I cried unto thee. All the expressions of the sense we have of our troubles should be directed to God, and every cry be a cry …
1493 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 509.12 (Matthew Henry)
… him to his former prosperity. His prayers were answered and his mourning was turned into dancing, Psalms 30:11. God’s anger now endured but for a moment, and …
1494 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.10 (Matthew Henry)
… but to thee?” Those need not be straitened in their prayers who can plead this; for, if God undertake to be our God, he will do that for us which will answer the compass …
1495 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 510.11 (Matthew Henry)
… his prayers to God might be answered and his hopes in God accomplished ( Psalms 31:17 ): “ Let me not be ashamed of my hopes and prayers, for I have called upon thee …
1496 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 513.6 (Matthew Henry)
… a prayer-hearing God ( Psalms 34:4 ): “ I sought the Lord, in my distress, entreated his favour, begged his help, and he heard me, answered my request immediately, and …
1497 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 513.17 (Matthew Henry)
… an answer of peace to their prayers. All God’s people are a praying people, and they cry in prayer, which denotes great importunity; but is it to any purpose? Yes …
1498 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 517.14 (Matthew Henry)
… our prudence to be silent, or to say little, lest we make bad worse. David could not hope by his mildness to win upon his enemies, nor by his soft answers to turn …
1499 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 518.20 (Matthew Henry)
… hear our prayer and give ear to our cry; for the prayer which by his providence he gives occasion for, and which by his Spirit of grace he indites, shall not return …
1500 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 522.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , in answer to the prayers of the Old Testament; but we are still to pray for God’s light and truth, the Spirit of light and truth, who supplies the want of Christ’s …