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{Psalm 30}

When God’s children prosper one way, they are generally tried another, for few of us can bear unmingled prosperity. Even the joys of hope need to be mixed with the pains of experience, and the more surely so when comfort breeds carnal security and self-confidence.
- Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Volume One (Part Two), pg 43


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{Psalm 28}

“It is said,” said Rutherford, speaking of the Saviour’s delay in responding to the request of the Syrophenician woman, “ ‘he answered not a word,’ but it is not said, he heard not a word. These two differ much. Christ often heareth when he doth not answer—his not answering is an answer, and speaks thus—‘pray on, go on and cry, for t

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{Psalm 28}

“Be not silent to me.” Let us next observe what the heart desires from God. It is that he would speak. “Be not silent to me.” Under these circumstances, when we make our prayer, we desire that God would let us know that he hears us, and that he would appear for us, and that he would say, he is our Father. And what do we desire God to say?

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