Jayne Posted October 17, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 107 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3,815 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 4,797 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted October 17, 2019 Quote …...I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will perform my vows to you, 14 that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble. We've all made promises to God when we were in trouble. Not all have kept those promises. I think it's why Jesus said not to make vows. We don't keep them. And it's why, in my opinion, that when the Old Testament spoke of Nazarite vows made by men and women that God gave specific instructions as to how to keep them - to keep them in your memory. Let's think twice before we make a rash vow to God. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne Posted October 19, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 107 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3,815 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 4,797 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 DAY 80 - PSALM 67 [Book 2] Make Your Face Shine upon Us To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah 2 that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. 3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! 4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah 5 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! 6 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us. 7 God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne Posted October 19, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 107 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3,815 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 4,797 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 Quote May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah 2 that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. 3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Verse 1 repeats the prayer from Aaron to the Hebrew people in Numbers 6:24-26. But David extends the idea and tells WHY it's important that we prayer for God to be gracious and to bless us. It's not for our comfort or just to have a good life. It's for God to become KNOWN to the nations. So that his "power" is known. And what kind of power - says David? His "saving power". Sometimes when I pray for people to be healed or come through a bad time, I pray for God to receive glory from it. I think I'll start including that God's "saving power" will be known to people when he heals, saves, and provides for his people. That's what this life is about - being drawn into salvation by God through Jesus Christ - and sharing that with all we can. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubilea Posted October 20, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,515 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 3,121 Days Won: 11 Joined: 06/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted October 20, 2019 8 hours ago, Jayne said: Sometimes when I pray for people to be healed or come through a bad time, I pray for God to receive glory from it. I think I'll start including that God's "saving power" will be known to people when he heals, saves, and provides for his people. I do the same thing, Jayne, and I'm going to follow you and start adding verse two as well. Thanks for that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne Posted October 20, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 107 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3,815 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 4,797 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) DAY 81 - PSALM 68:1-14 [Book 2] God Shall Scatter His Enemies To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him! 2 As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God! 3 But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy! 4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him! 5 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. 6 God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land. 7 O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah 8 the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel. 9 Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad; you restored your inheritance as it languished; 10 your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy. 11 The Lord gives the word; the women who announce the news are a great host: 12 “The kings of the armies—they flee, they flee!” The women at home divide the spoil— 13 though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold. 14 When the Almighty scatters kings there, let snow fall on Zalmon. Edited October 21, 2019 by Jayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne Posted October 21, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 107 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3,815 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 4,797 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted October 21, 2019 DAY 82 - PSALM 68:15-35 ...O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan! 16 Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the Lord will dwell forever? 17 The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary. 18 You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there. 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah 20 Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death. 21 But God will strike the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways. 22 The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea, 23 that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.” 24 Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary— 25 the singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines: 26 “Bless God in the great congregation, the Lord, O you who are of Israel's fountain!” 27 There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali. 28 Summon your power, O God, the power, O God, by which you have worked for us. 29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings shall bear gifts to you. 30 Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war. 31 Nobles shall come from Egypt; Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God. 32 O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praises to the Lord, Selah 33 to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice. 34 Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies. 35 Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne Posted October 22, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 107 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3,815 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 4,797 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted October 22, 2019 (edited) DAY 83 - PSALM 69:1-9 [Book 2] [I'm breaking this up into 4 sections] Save Me, O God To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. Of David. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. 2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. 3 I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God. 4 More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore? 5 O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you. 6 Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord God of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. 7 For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face. 8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons. 9 For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. Edited October 23, 2019 by Jayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alive Posted October 22, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 22 Topic Count: 194 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 11,053 Content Per Day: 6.56 Reputation: 9,010 Days Won: 36 Joined: 09/12/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/09/1956 Share Posted October 22, 2019 If I understand what you are saying, I agree 100%. There are a series of events that the Lord orchestrated in my life that had specific purpose, but over the years have been very helpful for faith building. Especially, during difficult times and even when doubt creeps in. I have learned to see those things as great examples of His mercy and grace and His attention to even a lowly sparrow. Praise His name...He is ever faithful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne Posted October 22, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 107 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3,815 Content Per Day: 1.29 Reputation: 4,797 Days Won: 2 Joined: 03/31/2016 Status: Offline Author Share Posted October 22, 2019 Quote For zeal for your house has consumed me, Some versions say "the zeal for your house has eaten me up". What "eats us up"? A zeal for the things of God or a zeal for self-seeking? David was consumed with wanted to build a Temple for God. He was consumed with the things of God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alive Posted October 22, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 22 Topic Count: 194 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 11,053 Content Per Day: 6.56 Reputation: 9,010 Days Won: 36 Joined: 09/12/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 01/09/1956 Share Posted October 22, 2019 5 minutes ago, Jayne said: Some versions say "the zeal for your house has eaten me up". What "eats us up"? A zeal for the things of God or a zeal for self-seeking? David was consumed with wanted to build a Temple for God. He was consumed with the things of God. I suspect it means something along the lines of 'everything else fades away compared to'. A single-mindedness. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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