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Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Psalm 14
14:1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt.
They have done abominable works.
There is none who does good.
14:2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men,
to see if there were any who understood,
who sought after God.
14:3 They have all gone aside.
They have together become corrupt.
There is none who does good, no, not one.
14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and don’t call on Yahweh?
14:5 There they were in great fear,
for God is in the generation of the righteous.
14:6 You frustrate the plan of the poor,
because Yahweh is his refuge.
14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people,
then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad!
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Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Psalm 17
17:1 Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
17:2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.
17:3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
17:4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
17:5 My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
17:6 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
17:7 Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.
17:8 Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
17:9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
17:10 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.
17:11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
17:12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
17:13 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
17:14 from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.
17:15 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
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Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Psalm 24
the world, and those who dwell therein.
2 For he has founded it on the seas,
and established it on the floods.
3 Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill?
Who may stand in his holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart;
who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood,
and has not sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh,
righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of those who seek Him,
who seek your face—even Jacob.
Selah.
7 Lift up your heads, you gates!
Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.
8 Who is the King of glory?
Yahweh strong and mighty,
Yahweh mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, you gates;
yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors,
and the King of glory will come in.
10 Who is this King of glory?
Yahweh of Armies is the King of glory!
Selah.
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Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Psalm 72
For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm. By Solomon.
72:1 God, give the king your justice;
your righteousness to the royal son
72:2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice
72:3 The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people.
The hills bring the fruit of righteousness
72:4 He will judge the poor of the people.
He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
72:5 They shall fear you while the sun endures;
and as long as the moon, throughout all generations
72:6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth
72:7 In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more
72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
72:9 Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him.
His enemies shall lick the dust
72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute.
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts
72:11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him.
All nations shall serve him
72:12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries;
the poor, who has no helper.
72:13 He will have pity on the poor and needy.
He will save the souls of the needy
72:14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence.
Their blood will be precious in his sight
72:15 They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba.
Men shall pray for him continually.
They shall bless him all day long
72:16 Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land.
Its fruit sways like Lebanon.
Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
72:17 His name endures forever.
His name continues as long as the sun.
Men shall be blessed by him.
All nations will call him blessed
72:18 Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds
72:19 Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen
72:20 This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Sunday Mar 12, 2023
Psalm 91
91:1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
91:2 I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust."
91:3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
91:4 He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
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91:5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;
91:6 nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
91:7 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
91:8 You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.
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91:9 Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,
91:10 no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
91:11 For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
91:12 They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash your foot against a stone.
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91:13 You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
91:14 "Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
91:15 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
91:16 I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation."
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Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Psalm 2
1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together,
against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens will laugh.
The Lord will have them in derision.
5 Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
6 “Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me,
“You are my son. Today I have become your father.
8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance,
the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron.
You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
10 Now therefore be wise, you kings.
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry,
and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled.
Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
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Saturday Mar 04, 2023
Saturday Mar 04, 2023
Psalm 41
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
1 Blessed is he who considers the poor.
Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive.
He shall be blessed on the earth,
and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
3 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed,
and restore him from his bed of illness.
4 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me!
Heal me, for I have sinned against you."
5 My enemies speak evil against me:
"When will he die, and his name perish?"
6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.
His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
When he goes abroad, he tells it.
7 All who hate me whisper together against me.
They imagine the worst for me.
8 "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him.
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
who ate bread with me,
has lifted up his heel against me.
10 But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me,
and raise me up, that I may repay them.
11 By this I know that you delight in me,
because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.
12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity,
and set me in your presence forever.
13 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
from everlasting and to everlasting!
Amen and amen.
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Friday Mar 03, 2023
Friday Mar 03, 2023
Psalm 18
For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,
- 18:1 I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
- 18:2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;
- my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
- my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- 18:3 I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised;
- and I am saved from my enemies.
- 18:4 The cords of death surrounded me.
- The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- 18:5 The cords of Sheol were around me.
- The snares of death came on me.
- 18:6 In my distress I called on Yahweh,
- and cried to my God.
- He heard my voice out of his temple.
- My cry before him came into his ears.
- 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled.
- The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,
- because he was angry.
- 18:8 Smoke went out of his nostrils.
- Consuming fire came out of his mouth.
- Coals were kindled by it.
- 18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down.
- Thick darkness was under his feet.
- 18:10 He rode on a cherub, and flew.
- Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
- 18:11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,
- darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- 18:12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
- hailstones and coals of fire.
- 18:13 Yahweh also thundered in the sky.
- The Most High uttered his voice:
- hailstones and coals of fire.
- 18:14 He sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
- Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.
- 18:15 Then the channels of waters appeared.
- The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh,
- at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
- 18:16 He sent from on high.
- He took me.
- He drew me out of many waters.
- 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
- from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
- 18:18 They came on me in the day of my calamity,
- but Yahweh was my support.
- 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place.
- He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
- 18:20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness.
- According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
- 18:21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh,
- and have not wickedly departed from my God.
- 18:22 For all his ordinances were before me.
- I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
- 18:23 I was also blameless with him.
- I kept myself from my iniquity.
- 18:24 Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness,
- according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
- 18:25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.
- With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.
- 18:26 With the pure, you will show yourself pure.
- With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
- 18:27 For you will save the afflicted people,
- but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
- 18:28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh.
- My God will light up my darkness.
- 18:29 For by you, I advance through a troop.
- By my God, I leap over a wall.
- 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect.
- The word of Yahweh is tried.
- He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
- 18:31 For who is God, except Yahweh?
- Who is a rock, besides our God,
- 18:32 the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
- 18:33 He makes my feet like deer’s feet,
- and sets me on my high places.
- 18:34 He teaches my hands to war,
- so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
- 18:35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation.
- Your right hand sustains me.
- Your gentleness has made me great.
- 18:36 You have enlarged my steps under me,
- My feet have not slipped.
- 18:37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.
- Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.
- 18:38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.
- They shall fall under my feet.
- 18:39 For you have armed me with strength to the battle.
- You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
- 18:40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
- that I might cut off those who hate me.
- 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save;
- even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
- 18:42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.
- I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
- 18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.
- You have made me the head of the nations.
- A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
- 18:44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me.
- The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
- 18:45 The foreigners shall fade away,
- and shall come trembling out of their close places.
- 18:46 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock.
- Exalted be the God of my salvation,
- 18:47 even the God who executes vengeance for me,
- and subdues peoples under me.
- 18:48 He rescues me from my enemies.
- Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.
- You deliver me from the violent man.
- 18:49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations,
- and will sing praises to your name.
- 18:50 He gives great deliverance to his king,
- and shows loving kindness to his anointed,
- to David and to his seed, forevermore.
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Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
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Living Life Right
The book we are looking at today, is "Living Life Right".
Do you find that making decisions to follow God closely to live life right is sometimes like walking a tightrope - a balancing act? Well here is some good news! Here in chapter 12 of his magnificent letter of the Bible we know as Romans, the Apostle Paul gives some practical advice for Christians.
Christians who are to live whole lives worthy of following and belonging to God and showing this love of God by loving all others. This involves taking risks particularly in the world today where the existence of God is often denied and who is, at best, ignored.
This book contains 30 days of studies to help you live life right in the 21st century. Come inside and spend some time each day gleaning some clues about living life right as a Christian today and reflecting God's love to all those we come into contact with.
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Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
The normal (Christian) journey of faith
Chapter 7: Organizing Your Devotions
This is a tricky one! It is very much a product of my own experience – failing to organize my own devotions for many years because no one told me how to do it. So it is a very personal argument I am going to present. Please, forgive me for that.
When we start along the Christian path there are plenty of people telling us how we should organize our devotions. The trouble is, or was for me, that they all seem to be written by those wonderful people who are full of energy all day long and have a great ability to organize that energy to good purpose. So they tell us we should bound out of bed at some unearthly hour in the morning; read our Bibles, and pray for an hour or preferably two; then proceed to breakfast and a full day’s work. Waaah! I just don’t operate like that. Perhaps you don’t either. Until I have had my breakfast my mind is out of gear. For you that early necessity may be the first cup of coffee – even worse! We are not all super-man or super-woman, are we?
So, if we are just ordinary, how should we organize our devotional lives?
I believe the answer is that we should think about it very carefully and construct a schedule that suits us in the sense that it is one that we can adhere to without too great difficulty even if it is not at all what the people who write books and articles on the subject say we should do.
Let me give you an example: I had been a Christian for very many years before I realized that by far the best thing I could do was to set aside one evening a week to spend reading my Bible, reading a good commentary on the same passage, thinking about it (the posh word is meditating), praying about all sorts of things and generally getting close to the Lord. The rest of the week my encounters with the Lord were, I must admit, rather thin and short affairs, fitted into the gaps in my very busy life. Sorry, Lord, but that is what worked for me. I was happy with it; I hope You were.
Do you see what I am driving at? Most of us, most of the time, are rather busy people. It may be a workload, not helped by emails and mobile phones. It may be that you are a mother with two pre-school age kids, in which case there are few or no gaps in your days at all until they are both horizontal and your spouse is home and has eaten. Even then you have to dodge the television and bury the phone if you are to get any peace and quiet. But space can be made if you stop and think about how it can be created. However busy we may think we are, however busy we actually are, there are gaps in our week. Your television set will be able to tell you how much spare time you really have!
The sort of personality we are deeply affects how we operate in this area. A few years ago we joined in a small group of 8 people, 4 couples, for prayer and mutual support. We managed to get into some deeper sharing than is usual in our culture. To our surprise we discovered that of the 8 of us, all of whom could have been counted as senior Christians, long on the road of faith, only 2 could claim anything like a well organized spiritual life with daily prayer, Bible reading and meditation. Both these 2, who did not include me, were people who quite clearly by the nature of their work were accustomed to a neat, well controlled and organized daily work experience and both had personalities that fitted well into that sort of situation. The other 6 of us were much more haphazard in our spiritual lives. 8 people constitutes a very small sample from which no statistically sound conclusions can be drawn, but it made me, and I think the other 5 non-achievers, wonder.
A good, God honouring daily prayer life does not come easily. Ever since that experience of the 2 and the 6 I have wondered when people talk about praying for this and that, whether they really do – if they are honest.
So much for the organization side of things. Now – what should we organize? Here are some ideas, not all of which you could reasonably use in one session. First: Bible reading. I am surprised at how many apparently senior Christians use comparatively ‘thin’ Bible study notes. They are a good way to start into the Bible (along with the Study Bible I mentioned earlier) but must surely rate as the ‘milk’ Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians 3 and the ‘basic teaching’ the writer to the Hebrews talks about in Hebrews 6. Commentaries on the Bible will usually provide deeper things to think about and meditate on. We, my wife and I, find the NIV Application Commentary series very good in the way they not only explain the text but lead one’s thoughts forward to deeper understanding and meditation – all of which advice is dependant, of course, on whether you are in a position to get hold of them. Then, of course, there is all the material Dave puts into these Partaker notes, which are usually also deep and thought provoking (this particular series is not designed to do quite that) and will be available to you since you are reading this!
For prayer, again subject to availability, there are many sets of Prayer Notes provided by many of the mission societies and some churches and it is good to use them. My wife uses a book of fairly old hymns to lead her on in the way of Worship prayer and to avoid the temptation to make a time of prayer just a list of the things one would like to happen. Being a well organized person she has a bundle of Prayer Letters from various full-time workers on the Mission field and she reads and uses the top one of these each day before putting it to the back of the bundle.