Category: Weekly praying with the psalms archive
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Praying with the Psalms
Click here to read the psalm This psalm has three acts. The first act has God coming to us in very imaginative language. The second act, God’s law is professed to be the giver of wisdom, even to the simple. And act three is a plea for God’s protection from…
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Praying with the Psalms
Click here to read psalm 18 This psalm is a hymn of thanksgiving for a military victory but can also be our victory over evil because of God’s love for us. God reaches out to save us if we keep the ways of the Lord, His laws and decrees. If…
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Praying with the Psalms
Click here to read psalm 17 This psalm is a prayer of pleading. Asking God for relief from oppressors. The author lists their innocence verses their foes. As the requests continue for God’s attention to their needs, the phrase we have heard over the years was to keep us as…
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Praying the Psalms
Click here to read Psalm 16 Take refuge in the Lord, he is your only good. Other gods just bring on sorrow. Only good comes from God. Even at night we are counseled by God. I am glad, and secure which leads me to rejoice. Since we are not abandoned…
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Praying with the Psalms
Click here to read psalm 15 Psalm 15 gives us a guide to dwelling on God’s mountain. Such great imagery! Praying with your imagination has never been easier. There are also definitive directives to doing what is right and speaking truth from the heart. If we act this way, God…
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Praying with the Psalms
Click here to read Psalm 14 …the poor have the Lord as their refuge. God looks on creation to see if there is but one wise person. We can obtain wisdom without being rich, rich by any measure. Being poor in spirit and without all the distractions that make us…
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Praying with the Psalms
Click here to read psalm 13 Once the author has completed his cry for help he then expresses trust in God’s mercy. There is also gratitude for bountiful treatment by God. This is a somewhat curious use of the word bountiful in this context. This was however an agricultural society.…
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Praying with the Psalms
Click here to read Psalm 12 This psalm speaks of silver being refined seven times. When silver (and gold for that matter) are heated to the point of melting, the impurities rise to the top. A practiced silversmith can skim the impurities off and leave the pure silver. This is…
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Praying with the Psalms
Click here for psalm 11 This psalm has one of my favorite lines to pray with. Verse 5 states that the Lord tests the wicked and the righteous. God still rains down fiery coals on the wicked because He is just but He is also merciful. That means that we…
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Praying with the Psalms
Click here to read Psalm 10 The first few verses outline the impact that the wicked have on the faithful. It might also equate to the violence against the earth and the misuse of its natural resources. We pray that God will rise up to save us and we praise…
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