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1521 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 564.7 (Matthew Henry)
… after our prayers, and stay for an answer. Now observe here, (1.) What it is that he promises himself from God, in answer to his prayers: He will speak peace to his people …
1522 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 565.4 (Matthew Henry)
… answer his prayers, because he had inclined him to pray. [1.] To be constant in prayer: I cry unto thee daily, and all the day, Psalms 86:3. It is thus our duty to pray …
1523 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 567.11 (Matthew Henry)
… continue to do so; in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee .” Note, Though our prayers be not answered immediately, yet we must not therefore give over praying …
1524 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 569.15 (Matthew Henry)
… of our restoration to thy favour? We are thy servants, thy people ( Isaiah 64:9 ); when wilt thou change thy way toward us?” In answer to this prayer, and upon their profession …
1525 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 570.14 (Matthew Henry)
… will answer their prayers: He shall call upon me; I will pour upon him the spirit of prayer, and then I will answer, answer by promises ( Psalms 85:8 ), answer by providences …
1526 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 578.8 (Matthew Henry)
… referred to ( Psalms 99:8 ): “ Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God ! and, at their prayer, thou wast a God that forgavest the people they prayed for; and, though thou tookest …
1527 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 581.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , if our prayers be not pleasing to God, they will be to no purpose to ourselves. Let this therefore be in our eye that our prayer may come unto God, even to his ears …
1528 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 581.8 (Matthew Henry)
… consider our own meanness and vileness, our darkness and deadness, and the manifold defects in our prayers, we have cause to suspect that our prayers will …
1529 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 581.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , 1. To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and to make it appear that he answers to his name, which he himself proclaimed, The Lord God, gracious and merciful; and …
1530 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 587.3 (Matthew Henry)
… be ours; and therefore we must pray for its deliverance, and reckon that we are answered if God grant what we ask for his church, though he delay to give us what …
1531 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 594.3 (Matthew Henry)
… order to that, Give us our daily bread, etc. This also must satisfy us, if our prayers be not answered in the letter of them. Whatever becomes of us, unto thy name …
1532 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 594.7 (Matthew Henry)
… , in answer to those that consult them; the crafty priest must speak for them. In Baal’s image there was no voice, neither any that answered. They see not the prostrations …
1533 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 595.1 (Matthew Henry)
… made to God in that distress, Psalms 116:4. III. The experience he had of God’s goodness to him, in answer to prayer; God heard him ( Psalms 116:1, 116:2 ), pitied him ( Psalms …
1534 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 595.3 (Matthew Henry)
… , notwithstanding our unworthiness and our infirmities in prayer, and therefore why may we not? God answers prayer, to make us love it, and expects this from …
1535 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 595.6 (Matthew Henry)
… makes our condition bad let us not by our own imprudence make it worse. [2.] In his trouble he had recourse to God by faithful and fervent prayer, Psalms 116:4. He …
1536 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 597.7 (Matthew Henry)
… his prayer ( Psalms 118:5 ): “ He answered me with enlargements; he did more for me than I was able to ask; he enlarged my heart in prayer and yet gave more largely than …
1537 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.41 (Matthew Henry)
… our own. Eternal life must be expected as the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, Jude 1:21. “Lord, I have by faith thy mercies in view; let me by prayer prevail to have …
1538 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.119 (Matthew Henry)
… is to be dreaded and deprecated by every one of us; and, if in sincerity we pray against it, we may receive that promise as an answer to the prayer ( Romans 6:14 ), Sin …
1539 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.129 (Matthew Henry)
… exerted to the utmost, in his prayers. Then we are likely to speed when we thus strive and wrestle in prayer. 3. That he directed his prayer to God: I cried unto thee …
1540 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.130 (Matthew Henry)
… away our ear from hearing the law, we cannot expect an answer of peace to our prayers, Proverbs 28:9. This purpose is used as a humble plea ( Psalms 119:146 ): “ Save me …