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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 21 – Daily Bread from the Psalms
Daily Bread: Thoughts and Prayers from the Psalms ~ Psalm 21 ~ In Psalm 21, unlike some earlier Psalms, David is rejoicing in his VICTORY. God has delivered David from his enemies. Not only was David victorious, but he was once again recognized and exalted as king! It is quite evident that he is happy about this win! Though this may sound like a boast, read the words slowly again. David isn’t bragging about his OWN great strength, or power, or position, he is thanking GOD for these things! AND he is praising the LORD for it all! We now have seen David at his lowest moments, really struggling to…
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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…
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Daily Bread from the Psalms (Psalm 18)
Daily Bread: Thoughts & Prayers from the Psalms ~ Psalm 18 ~ “The word of the LORD is FLAWLESS” ~Psalm 18:30 Think on that. Flawless. Without any contradiction, imperfection, or fault. The Greek is ‘tamim’, meaning without blemish, blameless, whole, without defect. Complete. Perfect. Can you trust them, these words of God? David did! Enough that he bet his life on it! Psalm 18 is the song David sang to the LORD when He delivered him from Saul and his army. We’ve read David’s cries for help…and his frustration as he waited. Now the LORD had answered, and the first words David sang burst with emotion! “I love you,…
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Psalm 17- Daily Bread from the Psalms
Daily Bread: Thoughts & Prayers from the Psalms ~ Psalm 17 ~ Loved greatly and wondrously. Saved. The apple of God’s own eye. Hidden in God. Cherished. Blessed. Provided for. Satisfied. Psalm 17 clearly shows that David KNEW how loved by God he was! Perhaps this is why he could say so confidently, “I call on you, O God, for You will answer me” ! Have you ever pleaded with God to hear your prayers, but wondered whether He really would? Have you wondered whether He was concerned with all the little things that your heart was burdened with? You can be sure that God LOVES YOU, just like He loved…
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