Psalms
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Divine Hardship
Psalm 57:1 Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy! I look to you for protection.I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings until the danger passes by. By the 57th Psalm a pattern starts to develop. God has given us a personal diary of King David. We don’t find any Dear Abby’s or New Year’s
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A Broken and Contrite Heart
Psalm 51:16-17 16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it;You are not pleased with burnt offering.17 My [only] sacrifice [acceptable] to God is a broken spirit;A broken and contrite heart [broken with sorrow for sin, thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise. If you have ever heard the phrase,
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Sacrifice of Thanksgiving
Psalms 50:23 “He who offers a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving honors Me;And to him who orders his way rightly [who follows the way that I show him],I shall show the salvation of God.” (AMP) The last time I checked, we are not sacrificing goats, bulls, and lambs in order to atone for our sins. All those
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Heart over Hammer
Psalm 40: 6-8 “6 You take no delight in sacrifices or offerings. Now that you have made me listen, I finally understand[a]— you don’t require burnt offerings or sin offerings.7 Then I said, “Look, I have come. As is written about me in the Scriptures:8 I take joy in doing your will, my God, for your instructions are written on my heart.”
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The Ladder on the Wrong Building
Psalm 39: 6-7 6 Surely a man goes about as a shadow!Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather! 7 “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you. The definition of vanity is, “excessive pride in or admiration of one’s own appearance or achievements.” We have
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The Silent Killer of the Soul
Psalm 32:3 “When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all day long.” Sin has a way of getting to us. In the Garden of Eden, when God made man in His own image, it didn’t include sin. In fact, when sin came into the picture after Adam and Eve ate the
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I Lack Nothing
Psalm 23:1 “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.” As I was growing up, we went to church every Sunday and most of the time on Wednesday also. I had youth group on Wednesday night with my brother while my parents went to Wednesday night church. We heard plenty of messages from a variety
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The Danger of Willful Sin
Psalm 19: 12-13 12 How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults.13 Keep your servant from deliberate sins! Don’t let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin. We all have that point of no return, the point at which something inside says, “Are
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Distress and Deliverance
Psalm 18:6 “In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.” When I was a young man, my brother and I were kind of obsessed with hunting. We would dream about it, read magazines
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It Ain’t a Little Kitty Show
Psalm 17: 12 “They are like a lion eager to tear me apart, like young lions hiding in ambush.” I was never a fan of horror movies. Growing up, you could almost write the script within the first few minutes of the movie starting. It got to where the only thing that was scary
Let It Go 