PSALM 3 – O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah. But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah.…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Psalms
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,…
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…
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…
PSALM 116:1-4 – I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish. Then I called on the name of…
PSALM 106:13-15 – But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel. But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness and put God to the test in the desert; he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.” THEME OF THE DAY: BE CAREFUL WHAT WE ASK GOD FOR. The opening of today’s…