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1521 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 …
1522 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 …
1523 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 …
1524 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 …
1525 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 …
1526 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 …
1527 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 …
1528 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 …
1529 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 …
1530 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 …
1531 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 …
1532 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 …
1533 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 …
1534 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 …
1535 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 …
1536 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 …
1537 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 598.132 (Matthew Henry)
… his prayers, and were helpful to them, were, 1. Hope in God’s word, which encouraged him to continue instant in prayer, though the answer did not come immediately …
1538 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 605.3 (Matthew Henry)
… to be redressed. We have here, 1. A prayer for the perfecting of their deliverance ( Psalms 126:4 ): “ Turn again our captivity. Let those that have returned to their …
1539 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 611.1 (Matthew Henry)
… an answer to it. In singing this psalm we must have a concern for the gospel church as the temple of God, and a dependence upon Christ as David our King, in whom …
1540 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 617.3 (Matthew Henry)
… their prayers. (2.) The sweet communications he then had from God: Thou strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. This was the answer to his prayer, for God gives …