Psalm 145:11-21

For Reading and Meditation:     Psalm 145:1-20

We ended yesterday by saying that the fact God knows everything ought to strengthen our faith and cause us to bow in adoration before Him. Yet how little do we reflect on this divine perfection. Those who are inclined to rebel against God hate this aspect of His Being and would do away with it if they could. They wish...

For Reading and Meditation:     Psalm 92:1-15

How does contemplation of God expand the soul? "The soul," says one theologian, "is at home only when it is in God." He meant, of course, that as the soul was made for God it can only function effectively when indwelt by God. Contemplation of God is like breath to the soul; it inflates it and causes it to be fully...

REAL prayer is calling upon God. He is our Father: we are His children. We have nothing; He has all things to bestow, and is willing to give them. From a sense of need, we call on the Lord for a supply; from a sense of weakness, we call on Him for strength; from a sense of guilt, we call on Him for pardon. Being diseased, we cry for health; being troubled, for comfort and peace; being in distress, for relief and deliverance. We go out of self to Jesus, accepting His invitation, to plead His...

ALL who know the Lord love Him, and none can love Him until taught by His Spirit. If we know God in Christ, as our covenant God, and enjoy our interest in Him, we shall love Him supremely, above our tranquillity, natural relations, earthly possessions, gifts and reputation. We discover in Him, greater glory, more real worth, pre-eminent beauty, and superior excellence. Those who love Him are preserved by Him. He preserves them in trouble, from its natural effects; in the world, from its...

"He will fulfill the desire of them that fear Him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them." Psalms 145:19

His own Spirit has wrought this desire in us, and therefore He will answer it. It is His own life within which prompts the cry, and therefore He will hear it. Those who fear Him are men under the holiest influence, and, therefore, their desire is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Like Daniel, they are men of...

That call upon him not because they think it a decorous thing, not as an act of homage merely, but because they need what he alone can give, and believe that he will give it to them, if they ask wisely and in faith.

They call upon him in truth, who make nothing of themselves, everything of Christ. They call upon him in truth, who overlook none of his attributes, but view him as his word reveals him. " If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall...

Let us look at these persons whose desires are to be fulfilled. They are worthy to be looked at; for there is not their like upon the earth. The desires of other men are their torments, the keenest elements of their misery; taking them up to all high mountains only to cast them deeper down. Other men find their desires, however comely and angelic they may at first appear, however they may descend to them upon a rainbow as from heaven, at last to be demons, domiciled in their soul to make it...

There is such a revelation of the holiness of God in all places of his dominion, that it is the manifest duty of all men to look to him alone and to give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For he is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works, and not merely in the work of man's redemption. There is no idolater who is not compassed about by the tokens of the unity and holiness of God. God does not lay aside any of his perfections when he works his wondrous will in heathen...

Psalms 145:14

"The LORD upholds all those who fall - and lifts up all who are bowed down."

The God of the Bible - is the God of the weak and the unfortunate. The Bible is a book of love and sympathy. It is like a mother's bosom to lay one's head upon, in the time of distress or pain. Its pages teem with cheer for those who are discouraged. It sets its lamps of hope to shine in darkened chambers. It...

Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who trust in You in the presence of the sons of men! You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the plots of man; You shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.If you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear. § The Lord is near...