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1501 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 …
1502 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 …
1503 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 …
1504 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 …
1505 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 525.9 (Matthew Henry)
… of our little names. When we pray, Father, glorify thy name, we ought to exercise faith upon the answer given to that prayer when Christ himself prayed it, I have …
1506 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 529.12 (Matthew Henry)
… , in answer to our prayers, delivers us, as he has promised to do in such way and time as he shall think fit, we must glorify him, not only by a grateful mention of his …
1507 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 534.3 (Matthew Henry)
… my prayer.” If we, in our prayers, sincerely lay open ourselves, our case, our hearts, to God, we have reason to hope that he will not hide himself, his favours, his comforts …
1508 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 534.8 (Matthew Henry)
… . His prayers against them, which we are both to stand in awe of and to comfort ourselves in, as prophecies, but not to copy into our prayers against any particular …
1509 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 534.15 (Matthew Henry)
… tribulation to those that have troubled his people, and this in answer to the prayers of his people: God shall hear and afflict them, hear the cries of the oppressed …
1510 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 539.6 (Matthew Henry)
… as answers to their prayers in particular. If we improve what interest we have at the throne of grace for blessings for the public, and those blessings be bestowed …
1511 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 540.9 (Matthew Henry)
… . “The prayers that went along with those vows; those thou hast graciously heard and answered,” which encouraged him now to pray, O God! hear my cry. He that never …
1512 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 544.5 (Matthew Henry)
… prayer ! thou canst answer every prayer, for thou art able to do for us more than we are able to ask or think ( Ephesians 3:20 ), and thou wilt answer every prayer of …
1513 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 544.10 (Matthew Henry)
… answer us, O God of our salvation ! This may be understood of the rebukes which God in his providence sometimes gives to his own people; he often answers them …
1514 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 545.13 (Matthew Henry)
… by prayer we must wear with praise. Mercies in answer to prayer do, in a special manner, oblige us to be thankful. He has not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy …
1515 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 547.26 (Matthew Henry)
… in answer to their prayers. (2.) Where God’s most remarkable outgoings are, even in the sanctuary, in and by his word and ordinances, and among his people in the …
1516 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 548.5 (Matthew Henry)
… cried to his God, and the more death was in his view the more life was in his prayers; yet he had not immediately an answer of peace given in, no, nor so much of that …
1517 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 549.5 (Matthew Henry)
… to quit all rather than hazard our salvation, is a good evidence of our interest in it and title to it. 2. Let us then be assured that, if it be not our own fault …
1518 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 551.3 (Matthew Henry)
… grace to their children, but may by prayer bring them to the God of grace, and shall not seek him in vain, for their prayer shall either be answered or it shall …
1519 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 551.5 (Matthew Henry)
… peace to the prayer. As by the prayer of faith we return answers to God’s promises of mercy, so by the promises of mercy God returns answers to our prayers of …
1520 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 558.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the answers of prayer ( Psalms 79:13 ): So we will give thee thanks for ever. Observe, 1. How they please themselves with their relation to God. “Though we are oppressed …