Spurgeon's Sermons: Volume Forty

It is so now and it will be a fact all through this year, God will hear the desire of the humble. It is a fact of the olden times, but it is also a fact of present import and of the future, too. Notice how the Psalmist puts this fact-"Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble." David does not say, "You have heard the prayer of the humble." He means that, but he also means a great deal more. Sometimes we have desires that we cannot express-they are too big, too deep-we cannot clothe them in language. At other times we have desires which we dare not express-we feel too bowed down, we see too much of our own unworthiness to be able to venture near the Throne of God to utter our desires-but the Lord hears the desire when we cannot or dare not turn it into the actual form of a prayer. I know you have sometimes said, "I wish I could pray like So-and-So." Often you have thought, "If I could only put a great many beautiful sentences together into goodly shape, then I might be heard." Do not talk so foolishly If you cannot put two words together correctly, if your desire is right, God will hear the desire-