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It’s For You!

Psalm 27: 7 - 9 Hear me as I pray, O Lord. Be merciful and answer me! My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.” And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.” Do not turn your back on me. Do not reject your servant in anger. You have always been my helper. Don’t leave me now; don’t abandon me, O God of my salvation!

Help and Hope

I am reminded, today, that psalms are actually songs. As we think about this as music, there is tendency, perhaps, to try to categorize the psalms generally but also this one specifically. One wouldn’t likely call it a ditty, maybe a lament instead. Would you expect this . . .

The Big, Bad Wolf

Psalm 34: 4 I sought the Lord, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. Fear is a pernicious emotion. It draws us into ever deeper dread, and it draws to us all sorts of negative experiences. Once fear gets a foothold in our spirits, it invites all its little buddies to […]

No Answer

Isaiah 50: 2 Why was there no man when I came? When I called, why was there none to answer? Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom? Or have I no power to deliver? I can tell you why there was no one to answer when God called. We were not listening. Though […]

Great and Mighty Things

Jeremiah 33: 2 – 3 Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name, “Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Come on! It is time to shout! […]

Here I Am

Isaiah 58: 9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry, and He will say, “Here I am.” There are no ands, ifs or buts about today’s verse. It is very plain. When you call, God will answer. Don’t you get the notion from reading this verse that God is standing […]

Make a Wish

1 Kings 3: 5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, “Ask what you wish me to give you.” Wouldn’t we all like for God to appear to us with the promise to grant whatever we wish? That is what happened to Solomon. As you probably know, […]

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