Homilist Psalm 80:18 So will not we go back from you: quicken us, and we will call on your name. Man requires spiritual quickening before he can pray. He must be quickened — I. With the sense of the DIVINE PRESENCE. Who can pray without the vivid realization of the Divine personality, the Divine presence, and the Divine entreatability? II. With the sense of MORAL OBLIGATION. Who will pray without feeling the strongest convictions of duty to love, serve, and honour the great God? III. With the sense of SPIRITUAL NEEDS. Sense of dependence underlies all prayer, all religion, all worship. This sense which, alas! is deadened within us, must be quickened before we can pray. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.WEB: So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name. |
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