The Bible – the Word of God
What is the Bible? The Message of the Bible The Person of the Bible The Inspiration of the Bible Reasons to Believe in the Inspiration
What is the Bible? The Message of the Bible The Person of the Bible The Inspiration of the Bible Reasons to Believe in the Inspiration
Psalm 9: God Defeats Puny Man
The psalm begins where the last one left off, with praise to God. The focus in this psalm, however, is more towards God's faithfulness in protecting those who look to him for deliverance when their enemies attack them. The psalmist is exultant in how powerful God is compared to which all his enemies are as nothing.
9:1 "I will praise you, O Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders."
Psalm 6
A psalm of someone in deep trouble. This much is clear.
6:1: “O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.”
Psalm 5
5:1: “Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my sighing.”
Another psalm in which the psalmist bares his soul to the Lord. And once again his lament and pain of heart is that so many reject God and do not honor him with the praise and glory he deserves.
It was the weekend and I had a bit too much to drink at my friends 25th birthday party in New York City. I don’t recollect leaving the bar and I when I reached my apt in NYC, three guys including a girl helped me to the apt (they came right inside the apt where I live with my sister). When I woke up in the afternoon, I realized my watch and Ipod on me and so was a $110 in cash from my wallet missing. The shades in my apartment which I had recently purchased for $275 was also missing.
This is the fourth in the series of what the Holy Spirit shared with me concerning the Psalms.
Psalm 4< 4:1:“Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.”
At first, this might seem to be another plea for help from God to deliver the psalmist from his troubling plight. There are, after all, many such psalms and God himself invites us to do this very thing, to turn to him in our troubles and seek his help: He wants to be our God, who helps us in our time of need:
This is the third in the series of what the Holy Spirit shared with me concerning the Psalms.
Psalm 3
We may tend to forget how dire were the circumstances faced by the real people of the Bible. Here in Psalm three, David is in fear for his life, as even his own son Absalom has risen up against him. And Absalom had many with him, those he had craftily stolen away from his father, king David. David shows his real fear and concern for the situation in his cry to God:
3:1“O Lord, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me!”
This is the second in the series of what the Holy Spirit shared with me concerning the Psalms.
Psalm 2
The psalm begins with an incredulous question posed by the godly writer, who sees with the eyes of God beyond time and the limited vision of the world:
2:1: “Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?”
When I read the Bible, God’s Word, I hear the Holy Spirit speak to me and show me things of the Lord, just as Jesus promised: “The Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you” (Jn. 16:15 NIV).
Psalm 1
Being the first psalm imposes the responsibility of giving the first impression for all the psalms. Therefore, we can get a strong indication from God, who inspired the psalmists to write what they did, as to what he considers to be of importance. So what do we see here in this first psalm about that?
This is the second chapter of our eBook
on Prayer Pastoring. The first chapter dealt with step one praying
for mercy. We often have judgements against us that halt our prayers
for ourselves therefore we need God’s mercy. Without mercy our
prayers are hindered. We often mistake opposition as coming from
spiritual warfare but many times it is coming from God himself and we
are reaping what we have sown. This opposition is the judgement of
God. Chapter one explains this process.
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