DISCOURSE: 569 DAVID’S SUCCESS IN PRAYER AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO US Psalms 40:1. _I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 570 CHRIST A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Psalms 40:9_. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart: I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I hare not concealed... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 571 CONSOLATION TO THE DISTRESSED Psalms 40:17. _I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me._ THAT part of the Holy Scriptures which most fully opens the exercises of the heart is the book of Psalms. There we see a man of God unbosoming himself before his Maker, and declaring all... [ Continue Reading ]