4 of 8,187 Why this ad? Vocalocity - #1 Business Phone System - Small Business VoIP. Affordable, Reliable & Scalable with your business + Business Boosting Features Print all In new window Daily Journey from the John Ankerberg Show Inbox x Daily Journey 4:42 AM (13 hours ago) to me View this Message in a Browser | Forward to a Friend | Unsubscribe oneplace Logo Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter oneplace Home More Devotionals More Newsletters Bible Study Tools Who is Jesus? Monday, June 17, 2013 June 17 Psalms 33; Acts 1:1-14 Thought From Today’s Old Testament Passage: [Psalm 33] David, … has found him a prayer-hearing God (v. 4): "I sought the Lord, in my distress, entreated his favour, begged his help, and he heard me, answered my request immediately, and delivered me from all my fears, both from the death I feared and from the disquietude and disturbance produced by fear of it.’’ The former he does by his providence working for us, the latter by his grace working in us, to silence our fears and still the tumult of the spirits; this latter is the greater mercy of the two, because the thing we fear is our trouble only, but our unbelieving distrustful fear of it is our sin; nay, it is often more our torment too than the thing itself would be, which perhaps would only touch the bone and the flesh, while the fear would prey upon the spirits and put us out of the possession of our own soul. David’s prayers helped to silence his fears; having sought the Lord, and left his case with him, he could wait the event with great composure. "But David was a great and eminent man, we may not expect to be favoured as he was; have any others ever experienced the like benefit by prayer?’’ Yes,…Many besides him have looked unto God by faith and prayer, and have been lightened by it, v. 5. It has wonderfully revived and comforted them; witness Hannah, who, when she had prayed, went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. When we look to the world we are darkened, we are perplexed, and at a loss; but, when we look to God, from him we have the light both of direction and joy, and our way is made both plain and pleasant. Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Bible (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers), 1997 (computer file)
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