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1601 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 865.30 (Matthew Henry)
… addresses to him. And then I will hear the heavens; I will answer them (so it may be read); and then they shall hear and answer the earth, and pour down seasonable …
1602 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 877.9 (Matthew Henry)
… sure to meet those in a way of mercy who return to him in a way of duty. If we speak to God in good prayers, God will speak to us in good promises, as he answered the …
1603 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 892.9 (Matthew Henry)
… expected to receive an answer to it.” Note, Our afflictions should put us in mind of God, and thereby put us upon prayer to him. When our souls faint we must remember …
1604 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 901.4 (Matthew Henry)
… brought to the last extremity. (1.) My God will hear me; if the Lord be our God, he will hear our prayers, and grant an answer of peace to them. (2.) “ When I fall, and am in danger …
1605 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 901.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , in answer to this prayer; and we may well take God’s promises as real answers to the prayers of faith, and embrace them accordingly, for with him saying and doing …
1606 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 905.2 (Matthew Henry)
… care to supply the deficiencies of the law for the obviating of those growing threatening mischiefs; the executive power takes no care to answer the good …
1607 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 906.2 (Matthew Henry)
… to answer them, fetch our instructions from God, hear what he says to us for our satisfaction, and have that ready to say to others, when we are reproved, to satisfy …
1608 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 907.2 (Matthew Henry)
… their prayers, and what to pray for, and, in the foresight of troublous times, could lay up a stock of prayers that might then receive a gracious answer, and so …
1609 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 919.9 (Matthew Henry)
… , to quicken prayer, to increase godly sorrow, and to alter the temper of our minds and the course of our lives for the better, they do not at all answer the intention …
1610 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 925.9 (Matthew Henry)
… write to God by prayer, and receive from him answers of peace, and thus keep up a comfortable communion with him. This honour have all his saints. (2.) Their covenant …
1611 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 927.19 (Matthew Henry)
… God to send it. But as you go on thus to profane his sacred things will he regard your persons or your prayers? No, you cannot prevail with him to command it away …
1612 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 936.21 (Matthew Henry)
… answer; they are not to be our judges, they are dust and ashes like ourselves, and therefore we must not have our eye to them: what passes between God and our own …
1613 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 936.41 (Matthew Henry)
… their prayers ( Matthew 6:5; to be seen of men ), in opposition to which we are directed to make the name of God our chief end; let all our petitions centre in this and …
1614 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 936.42 (Matthew Henry)
… into prayer, our hearts should echo to it; does Christ promise, surely I come quickly ? our hearts should answer, Even so, come. Ministers should pray over the word …
1615 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 936.53 (Matthew Henry)
… our duty to plead with God in prayer, to fill our mouth with arguments ( Job 23:4 ) not to move God, but to affect ourselves; to encourage the faith, to excite our fervency …
1616 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 936.55 (Matthew Henry)
… to affix our Amen, so be it. God’s Amen is a grant; his fiat is, it shall be so; our Amen is only a summary desire; our fiat is, let it be so: it is in the token of our desire …
1617 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 936.58 (Matthew Henry)
… up to him pure hands, without wrath, 1 Timothy 2:8. If we pray in anger, we have reason to fear God will answer in anger. It has been said, Prayers made in wrath are written …
1618 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 937.21 (Matthew Henry)
(2.) To encourage our prayers and expectations. We may hope that we shall not be denied and disappointed: we shall not have a stone for bread, to break our teeth …
1619 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 937.53 (Matthew Henry)
… prayer, Lord, Lord : but if inward im pressions be not answerable to outward ex pressions, we are but as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. This is not to take …
1620 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 939.60 (Matthew Henry)
… us to continue instant in prayer, always to pray, and not to faint : and, though the answer do not come presently, yet to wait for it, and to follow providence, even …