Psalm 29
Thunder and Lightning- January 25th, 2017 Our daily bread devotional
The voice of the Lord is awesome. I do feel a very strong feeling in my heart when I hear a pastor preach and the message directly speaks into my situation.
When this happens, it reminds me that I'm small, but loved in a big way. Why would God want to talk to me? Why would he care for me? Still can't answer that, but focusing on that, excessively questioning that would be like staying in bed all day dwelling on why you woke up.
If knowing you woke up is so significant, then do something with your time. God spoke the loudest through Jesus. And through his loud and clear message of Love, his message of salvation, he woke me up. Dwelling on why is pointless. Focusing
Thank you for your text and for directing me to Psalm 103, it is one of my favorites. As far as my health, I have some fairly good days where the pain is controlled with the medication and others that are not, well, not as good. I go for my next five-day treatment next Monday. I was told that patience is required in all of this as full recovery for patients with this condition is slow, but successful in the majority of cases. Carla is doing a little better, but the last bit of the cold is hanging on as colds usually take a week or two to pass. She has to fly out early tomorrow to the Dominican Republic for her work and will be back late the following day. Damaris now has a lady that lives her and is her full-time caregiver. She really likes
In Psalms 34:17-20 it says “When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.” I believe this is a great symbolic allegory of the darkness that slavery birthed into our world. Each of these were bonded together in hopeless but in each case and region had different difficulties that had to face. Each using their life story to be a beacon of hope to others that freedom was within reach
In Psalm 103, God is portrayed as forgiving, strict, paternal, and anthropomorphic. In verse three it states that God “forgives all your iniquity,” conveying that a person's sinful behavior can be forgiven by God. However, while God appears very forgiving and merciful, he is also very strict. This strictness is depicted when he explains that he will only care for those who “keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments” (18), for he creates guidelines and rules which his followers must obey. God is also portrayed as paternal, for humans are described as his “children” (Verse 13) illustrating God as a father figure to humankind.
I chose Jeremiah 31:31-37, and to be honest I do not know why. I found it during my initial research, and I thought it looked like it would be an easy section of scripture to tear apart. I think I was drawn into it because it was full of promises from God, and it is a giant decree from the Lord. While the passage seems fairly easy to understand on the surface, I quickly realized that there was a lot more under the surface.
From the beginning the revelation of God was an accumulation of people’s/man’s expectations of what and who they wanted God to be. “By some, God was expected to work by redirecting the stream of earthly events, mis-lug up as a Messiah a second David who should restore the lost glories of Israel’s golden age. By others the coming of the Messiah was looked for as the appearance of a supernatural celestial being who should not redirect, but put an end, to history; and some held that this would be done by the direct action of God Himself, acting as his own Messiah”( Streitferdt para.1). I agree with the idea that God, who was manifested into a fleshly being, Jesus, did pre-exist before his birth at Bethlehem. In Psalm 110 David says this, “The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool” (KJV Bible). Here David had a revelation about the Mesiah. The Lord (present), indicating to David that there would be a Mesiah (future).
During our reading this week it is found that parallelism helps to give a more detailed picture of the story that is being told. While different types of parallelisms can be analyzed in Psalm 1, however, only the primary ones are listed in this post that consist of synonymous, antithetical, and synthetic (Tullock & McEntire, 2012). The first parallelism that is found in this book is synonymous in verse five states “Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgement, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous (Psalm 1:5, The New King James Version). Synonymous parallelism will show the first portion of the sentence is defined precisely as the second section, although, it may sound a little different. Another parallelism that can
Last fall one of my classmates brought Psalm 91 to my attention. I had been going through a tough time for several years and another cutting event had just taken place. I felt as if I was at the end of my rope. She reached out to me and told me to hang onto this Psalm, that it can be my refuge as I walk through this difficult journey. I like what Kidner says about dangers, “Most of these dangers are of a kind which strike unseen, against which the strong are helpless as the weak” (Kidner, 1973, p. 364). This is how I felt when going through this latest turmoil. I could not physically see the danger, but the pain of the danger enveloped me like a thick and heavy fog. I felt completely helpless and weak, but Psalm 91 gave me an atmosphere
The bible has many motivational verses, but the one that motivates me daily is Psalm 121 verses 1 and 2. “I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help. My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” Everyone has days when you feel like you have lost motivation and need someone or something to give you a push.
The psalms from the Old Testament of the Bible are a vital part of the scripture, stories, and history within it. A collection of 150 poems and songs, the psalms are written in various styles, lengths, and by various authors. Psalm 30 is one of the psalms that most scholars claim they know the author of. This psalm is attributed to David. In psalm 30 David is in need of healing, and a blessing of his temple, resulting in this writing.
One of the scriptural passages that talks indirectly about abortion is found in Psalm 127 3:5. In the writing, children are referred as a heritage of God and as arrows in the hands of a wariors. The two comparisons are what hold the reason behind the church’s views of abortion. The first comparison tells us that children are a heritage of God. By this it means that children are a gift given by god to parents.
We are a very complex machine that consists of many component of self- determination and
The attendance of the Lord as shepherd is present throughout the Holy Bible. Whether being accountable of the primary duty of providing animals with sufficient food and water, protecting the sheep, or just plain caring for the sheep like David, the responsibility of the shepherd is making sure every facet of a sheep’s life is taken care of. The rationale of this paper is to give an exposition of Psalm 23, while reflecting on Psalms as a whole, in order to give adequate evidence for arriving at a conclusion that proves the LORD is the only necessity in an individual’s life in regards to the role of a servant.
Psalms 37:5 Commit everything you do to the LORD, Trust him, and he will help you.
There are 150 psalms in the Book of Psalms that were written over the span of 800 years. Most of the Psalms written were made to be sung. There are two main genres of Psalms, which are laments and hymns. David is know to have written 73 psalms, Asaph wrote 12, the sons of Korah wrote 11, Solomon wrote 2, Moses wrote 1 and 50 are anonymous . Although 50 were anonymous, David was certainly the author of the majority of the Psalms.
In these chapters of Psalms, the psalmist acts as the theologian by describing God in his character and beyond that into his very core. In Psalm 1, the psalmist defines the type of person that pleases God, and therefore indicates who God is by what he delights in. Psalm 2 describes God as the great, almighty God that he is. He sits in heaven knowing all and watches as we believe that we ere humans can come close to the knowledge and that power of the great king in heaven. Psalm 19 describes God as being the creator who makes all things what they are, and essentially defines the idea of General revelation. “The heavens are telling of the glory of God.” (Psalm 19:1) is a short verse but explains the beauty and the power of creation so well.