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(1) He who loves God desires his presence. Lovers cannot be long asunder, they soon have their fainting fits, for lack of a sight of the object of their love. A soul deeply in love with God desires the enjoyment of him in his ordinances, in Word, prayer, and sacraments. David was ready to faint away and die when he had not a sight of God. “My soul faints for God.”…

A Paraphrase on the Lord’s Prayer, in Scripture Expressions 2. Hallowed be Your Name And now, what is our wish? What is our request? (Esther 5:6) What do we want You to do for us? (Matt 20:32) This is our heart’s desire and prayer in the first place: (Rom 10:1) Father in heaven, let Your name be sanctified. We pray that you may be glorified as a holy God. (Lev 10:3)…

A Paraphrase on the Lord’s Prayer, in Scripture Expressions 1. Our Father in heaven (continued) Enable us to come to You with humble boldness and confidence, (Ephesians 3:12) as to a Father, a tender Father, who spares us as a man spares his son who serves him; (Malachi 3:17) and as having an Advocate with the Father, (1 John 2:1)  who yet has told us that the…

A Paraphrase on the Lord’s Prayer, in Scripture Expressions The Lord’s prayer being intended not only for a form of prayer itself, but a rule of direction, a plan or model in little, by which we may frame our prayers; and the expressions being remarkably concise and yet vastly comprehensive, it will be of good use sometimes to lay it before us, and observing the…

From Paul’s prayer in Eph 1:15-23 we learn that Paul’s prayer life is anchored in the adoration of God. Paul has been singing the praises of the God of all grace. In vv.1-14 we have a backdrop that explains and glories in God’s plan of salvation – from election before time began to the final salvation of which the indwelling Spirit is the guarantee. The continual refrain…

These were Job’s perplexing questions (Job 23:1-9). Sometimes they are also our questions. Where’s God? And what’s He doing? And sometimes our answers are, “I do not know. And. I do not know.” But Job provides us with better answers. God knows where I am. “He knows the way that I take” (23:10a). Although I don’t know where God is and I may not even know where I am, God…

There is no attribute more comforting to His children, than that of God’s sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials — they believe that sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that sovereignty overrules them, and that sovereignty will sanctify them all. There is nothing for which the children of God ought more earnestly…

In this meditation John Owen brings us face to face with the glorious mystery of the incarnation which we celebrate at Christmas: But had we the tongue of men and angels, we were not able in any just measure to express the glory of this condescension; for it is the most ineffable effect of the divine wisdom of the Father and of the love of the Son, — the highest evidence…

My God, Thou art all my good in times of peace, my only support in days of trouble, my one sufficiency when life shall end. Help me to see how good Thy will is in all, and even when it crosses mine teach me to be pleased in it. Grant me to feel Thee in fire, and food and every providence, and to see that Thy many gifts and creatures are but Thy hands and fingers taking…