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Psalm 34 – Daily Bread From the Psalms
Daily Bread: Thoughts & Prayers from the Psalms ~ Psalm 34 ~ Are you afflicted? Poor in spirit? Troubled? Take heart! The eyes of the LORD are on you! Come with me and let’s “taste and see” just how GOOD the Lord is! This is David’s exhortation to all who would sing this Psalm along with him. Psalm 34 was written by David when he was in quite a bind. Saul wanted to kill him, and David was on the run. He escaped and hid where no one would ever think to look. What is the least likely place you could think of for David to go? Yep. He…
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Psalm 33 – Daily Bread From the Psalms
Daily Bread: Thoughts & Prayers from the Psalms ~ Psalm 33 ~ “For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.” ~Colossians 1:16 ALL things have been created THROUGH Him, and FOR Him! Did you catch that?! That means me…and you…and our kids…and their kids…and your nice neighbor…and your not-so-nice neighbor…and the pompous politician…and the angry news anchor…and the angsty teenager…and the addict…and the abuser… and well, you get the picture. For “from heaven the LORD looks down and sees ALL mankind; from His dwelling…
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Psalm 25 – Daily Bread from the Psalms
Daily Bread: Thoughts & Prayers from the Psalms ~ Psalm 25 ~ “Trust in and rely confidently on the Lord with all your heart And do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know and acknowledge and recognize Him, And He will make your paths straight and smooth [removing obstacles that block your way].” ~Proverbs 3:5-6 (AMP) In Psalm 25, David rehearses and declares what he knows about the Lord… namely, that He can be fully TRUSTED. Trust is defined here as having a bold confidence in, or placing complete hope in one. David’s life had been anything but predictable. Surely, he couldn’t even…
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Psalm 24 – Daily Bread from the Psalms
Daily Bread: Thoughts & Prayers from the Psalms ~ Psalm 24 ~ “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. “ ~John 1:1-4 Everything rightly belongs to the Lord. That means the whole of the earth. Seas, and lands, and animals, and the skies. And, everyone who has ever lived on this earth belongs to Him as well. Why? Because we are HIS creation. Who is this One to whom…
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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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