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Psalm 23 – Daily Bread from the Psalms
Daily Bread: Thoughts and Prayers from the Psalms ~ Psalm 23 ~ Do you long to be fully known? Understood? Accepted? Loved? I do. And I suspect we all really do. Most often I have read and prayed Psalm 23 thinking of the way the God provides and cares for me. However, I don’t think I had a picture of the intimacy of relationship that these words painted until just recently. “He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out… I am the Good Shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father— and I lay down…
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Psalm 20 – Praying the Psalms Daily Bread (Psalm 20
Daily Bread: Thoughts & Prayers from the Psalms ~ Psalm 20 ~ Have you ever needed some plain old ENCOURAGEMENT ?!? Psalm 20 brings it! Though this Psalm was sung by the People of God for their King, David, it can encourage our hearts today with the same truths! The first thing that stuck out to me in today’s reading was the use of the word “WE”. While God is the ONE we call to, I am not in the battles of this world alone. You aren’t either. WE are in this battle together. What else? The LORD saves and He answers. We can trust Him. We will get knocked…