Daily Bread:  Thoughts & Prayers from the Psalms

~ Psalm 29 ~

“The LORD blesses His People with peace.”

Read or Listen to Psalm 29.

Have you ever wondered what the Psalms must have sounded like being sung by the voices of His People, who are also our people, so long ago?
You can listen to this beautiful piece of Psalm 29 sung in Hebrew  or this version  “Havu l’Adonai” Psalm 29 (in Hebrew)!

And THOUSANDS of years later His people are still singing these precious words!

I bet most of you can still sing the songs that you heard as a child.  It’s almost supernatural the way that song lyrics STICK in our heads.  Psalm 29 was a community song.  It was meant to be sung TOGETHER, and as the Jewish people gathered to worship God, they sang these words.  They declared the power of God, and their children heard, and their grandchildren sang these same words… and so we have just kept singing them!

Fathers sing Psalm 29 with their children…

And we sing it JAZZY-

We sing it still with all the emotion and conviction of David-

 BUT…WHY do we keep singing these “old songs”?
Perhaps it is because the STORMS of this world just keep on crashing in.
They are as loud as standing below Niagara Falls, drowning out what we know is true!  And they shake our faith!

But there is a VOICE THAT IS LOUDER!
It’s the voice that spoke the world into existence and the voice that “shakes the mighty cedars”!
WHO is the One who speaks with this kind of POWER?
He is the same One who David sat and worshipped in the midst of his own storms and declared the words we sing.
The same I Am who Moses encountered on the mountain and set his face aglow!
The One like a Son of Man who stood in the fiery furnace with the 3 Hebrew boys and kept their clothes from even being singed.
The same One who spoke and calmed the sea when the disciples were swept up by the waves.
And the same One who John SAW… the UNVEILED GLORY of JESUS!

“I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me.
And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was someone like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.
The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.
His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.
In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword.
His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. “

To some this booming VOICE and POWER and HOLINESS and GLORY will cause dread, agony, and fear.
But for all of us who KNOW who the voice belongs to… He will STRENGTHEN us and give us PEACE!

Then he placed his right hand on me and said:
“Do not be afraid.
I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One;
I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever!
And I hold the keys of death and Hades.“

And THAT… is something to sing about!
And sing with your children about.
And sing with their children about.

Shalom friends!

~Praying Psalm 30 is next!

~Praying the Psalms Table of Contents~

–Psalm 1
–Psalm 2 & 3
–Psalm 4
–Psalm 5
–Psalm 6 & 7
–Psalm 8
–Psalm 9
–Psalm 10
–Psalm 11
–Psalm 12
–Psalm 13
–Psalm 14
–Psalm 15
–Psalm 16
–Psalm 17
–Psalm 18
–Psalm 19
–Psalm 20
–Psalm 21
–Psalm 22
–Psalm 23
–Psalm 24
–Psalm 25
–Psalm 26
–Psalm 27
–Psalm 28
–Psalm 29
–Psalm 30
–Psalm 31
–Psalm 32
–Psalm 33
–Psalm 34
–Psalm 35
–Psalm 36