19 To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.
If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.
So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.
Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.
And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.
The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.
When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.
Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.
They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.
Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands;
That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts; So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love, May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is, And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete. Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,
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Commentary on Psalms 145 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 145
The five foregoing psalms were all of a piece, all full of prayers; this, and the five that follow it to the end of the book, are all of a piece too, all full of praises; and though only this is entitled David's psalm yet we have no reason to think but that they were all his as well as all the foregoing prayers. And it is observable,
David's psalm of praise.
Psa 145:1-9
The entitling of this David's psalm of praise may intimate not only that he was the penman of it, but that he took a particular pleasure in it and sung it often; it was his companion wherever he went. In this former part of the psalm God's glorious attributes are praised, as, in the latter part of the psalm, his kingdom and the administration of it. Observe,
Psa 145:10-21
The greatness and goodness of him who is optimus et maximus-the best and greatest of beings, were celebrated in the former part of the psalm; here, in these verses, we are taught to give him the glory of his kingdom, in the administration of which his greatness and goodness shine so clearly, so very brightly. Observe, as before,