 | 1853 - 1144 pages
...mistaken, before we are likely to have a revival, at least professing Christians must sincerely pray, " Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth : keep the door of my lip?." Some chronic ailments must be cured ; Christians must love one another ; must weep more than... | |
 | Edward Berens - 1832 - 70 pages
...always treat thy holy name, and all that belongs to thy honour and service, with respect and reverence. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth ; keep the door of my lips. Mercifully forgive the innumerable offences of my tongue. Bless with the grace of thy Holy Spirit all... | |
 | Jean Frédéric Ostervald - 1833 - 434 pages
...suffer us to be drawn away by the wicked, which is the design of this excellent prayer : Set a watch, 0 Lord, before my mouth : keep the door of my lips....work iniquity : and let me not eat of their dainties. II. David teaches us to receive with pleasure and thankfulness the warnings and corrections of good... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...prayer be set forth before thee as incense, and the lifting-np of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 22 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth ; keep the door •of my lips. 23 Incline not my heart to •anyevil thing,to practise wicked works. with men that work iniquity:... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 432 pages
...word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment' — and not pray, 'Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth : keep the door of my lips !' If your connexions and intercourse afibrd you more opportunities and excitements to speak, so much... | |
 | R. A. Torrey - 2000 - 82 pages
...can and will, in answer to believing prayer. If one will earnestly and believingly pray with David: "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips" (Psa. 141:3), God will do it. Many and many an unruly tongue has been brought into subjection in this... | |
 | Saint Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria), Norman Russell - 2000 - 298 pages
...of which it is capable, the divine David sings: 'Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord, keep watch over the door of my lips? Incline not my heart to any evil words' (Ps. 141:3~4). For to be able to keep silent and to maintain a tight control over the tongue... | |
 | W. Arden Clarke - 2001 - 383 pages
...to God for the motives that prompt me to action . . .Let the prayer of the psalmist be his prayer: 'Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door...my lips, incline not my heart to any evil thing.' Ps. 141:3,4 as found in 7T 258-9. In counseling for the advancement of the work, no one man is to be... | |
 | Catherine L. Albanese - 2001 - 550 pages
...opened the Scripture, as it happened, at the 141st Psalm, fixing my eye on the 3d verse, which reads: "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, keep the door of my lips." My sermon, such as it was, I applied wholly to myself, and added an exhortation. Two of my congregation... | |
 | Colin D. Standish, Russell R. Standish - 2002 - 244 pages
...unrighteousness. 2 Peter 2: 10-1 5 David's prayer was that the Lord would keep his heart from any evil thing. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise...iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties. Psalm 141:4 All the urging and encouragement of Christian friends and families to reverse or avoid sinful... | |
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