![]() ![]() ![]() The Lord has given us to know His name as a resting-place and a hiding-place, a sun and a shield.Ĭircumstances and creatures may change but He will be an unchangeable friend. We have therefore cause for continual praise. They have no guide in prosperity, but hurry on as they are instigated by their blinded passions, and are perpetually multiplying mischiefs and miseries to themselves.Īnd in adversity they have no resource, but must feel all the evil of affliction, without inward support, and without deriving any advantage from it. He is the fountain of life, strength, grace and comfort, and of His fulness His children receive according to their occasions: but this is all hidden from the world. To Him all things are possible and before the exertion of His power, when He is pleased to arise and work, all hindrances give way and vanish, like a mist before the sun.Īnd He can so manifest Himself to the soul, and cause His goodness to pass before it, that the hour of affliction shall be the golden hour of the greatest consolation. When means and hope fail, when every thing looks dark upon us, when we seem shut up on every side, when we are brought to the lowest ebb, still our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth. His ear is always open to us: let who will overlook and disappoint us, He will not. When our spirits are almost overwhelmed within us, He knoweth our path. O the blessed privilege of prayer! O the wonderful love, care, attention, and power of our great Shepherd! His eye is always upon us. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.“How little does the world know of that intercourse which is carried on between heaven and earth what petitions are daily presented, and what answers are received at a throne of grace! Howbeit the Levites hastened it not." 2 Chronicles 24:5 KJV copy save And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Isaiah 5:19 chapter context similar meaning "That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!" Isaiah 5:19 KJV copy save That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! 2 Chronicles 24:5 chapter context similar meaning "And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Ecclesiastes 2:25 chapter context similar meaning "For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?" Ecclesiastes 2:25 KJV copy save For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I? Psalms 16:4 chapter context similar meaning "Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips." Psalms 16:4 KJV copy save Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. Isaiah 60:22 chapter context similar meaning "A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time." Isaiah 60:22 KJV copy save A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time. 1 Kings 22:9 chapter context similar meaning "Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah." 1 Kings 22:9 KJV copy save Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah. Jeremiah 1:12 chapter context similar meaning "Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it." Jeremiah 1:12 KJV copy save Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it. Psalms 55:8 chapter context similar meaning "I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest." Psalms 55:8 KJV copy save I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. ![]()
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