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Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don`t know.
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Prayer Unlocks Promises
Commentators agree that God's command, "Call unto me," is a universal invitation for believers. God's promises are not given to make prayer obsolete, but, as Matthew Henry notes, to stimulate and encourage it. John Calvin suggests that when we feel stuck in sorrow, it is often because we have neglected to call upon God, who is always ready to answer and reveal His will.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Mighty things - Or, as in the margin. The words are probably a quotation from (Isaiah 48:6).
19th Century
Anglican
The second time, while he was yet shut up. —The discourse that follows belongs to the same period as the preceding chapter, and presents t…
16th Century
Protestant
This prophecy refers to the same subject; and it was not to be wondered at that God spoke so much of the same thing, for it was necessary to make t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Call unto me, and I will answer you This is spoken not to Jerusalem, and the inhabitants of it; but to the prophet, …
Those who expect to receive comforts from God must call upon Him. Promises are given, not to eliminate prayer, but to stimulate and encourage it. T…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he offers consolation especially to the two tribes, and particularly with regard to Jerusalem, where the seat of the kingdom and th…
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