God is Able When I consider the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings (angels) And crowned him
Glory Restored When I consider the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings (angels) And crowned him with
God Never Gives Up ‘Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there’ Psalm 138:7,8 David was not trying to get away from God. Reading through the whole psalm
Declare His Glory The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge Psalm 19:1,2 Towards the end of the book of Job, God challenges the man over his limited, finite wisdom. God asks Job how the
Shout to Him!! Clap your hands, all you nations; Shout to God with cries of joy. How awesome is the Lord Most High, The great king over all the earth Psalm 47:1,2 Jack Hayford tells a helpful story about shouting to God … “It was at a Sunday morning service some years ago, and for
If Only By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign land? Psalm 137:1,4 We understand this to be a psalm written by one of the Hebrew captives deported to Babylon when Jerusalem fell. The psalmist is saying
Christ’s Rightful Place Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is he, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty – He is the King of glory. Psalm 24:9,10 David is no doubt remembering times when the city turned out in
Faith Maintenance “Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me. I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail looking for my God”
The Comforter Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless I looked for sympathy but there was none, for comfort but I found none. Psalm 69:20 Anyone familiar with the psalms knows how often David found himself being persecuted. Many of the psalms express his difficulty that God allows it to go on.
Praise Anyway! God is Able Psalm 35:1,2 How are we to handle imprecatory psalms – psalms where the writer calls down God’s judgement on his enemies? We naturally think of Jesus’ command to forgive our enemies. One helpful solution is to replace the psalmist’s “enemies” in our thinking and reading with the Christian’s greatest enemy,
