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Psalms

Would We Be Able?

PSALM 73:25 – Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.” THEME OF THE DAY: WOULD WE BE ABLE?  The author of today’s scripture was a man named Asaph.  Spend time soon and read his Psalm.  It is emotionally deep and quite instructional for us.  As the Psalms are “the window to…

Where Sin Did Abound, Grace Did More

PSALM 65:1-3 – Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions.” THEME OF THE DAY: WHERE SIN DID ABOUND, GRACE DID MORE.  Ever feel like David in today’s Psalm? There are many moving…

A Thirst For God

PSALM 63:1 – O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.” THEME OF THE DAY: A THIRST FOR GOD.    Donald Whitney wrote a wonderful book titled Ten Questions To Diagnose Your Spiritual Health. It is 131 pages long,…

He Trains Us For War

PSALM 144:1-2 – Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.” THEME OF THE DAY: HE TRAINS US FOR WAR.    How deep is our understanding of…

Sometimes All We Can Do Is Cry

PSALM 137:1 – By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.”   THEME OF THE DAY: SOMETIMES ALL WE CAN DO IS CRY.  Today’s scripture is the opening verse in a short but moving Psalm.  Derek Kidner, in his excellent commentary on the Psalm, wrote “Every line is alive with pain, whose intensity grows with…