Category: Bible Reading
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How to Hear God – Psalm 25
Would you like to be able to truthfully say “The Lord told me …”? “Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long” (Psalm 25:5-6 NIV). Though I’m a classic introvert, I use…
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He Made it and it’s all His – Psalm 24
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it …” (Psalm 24:1 NIV). What a powerful statement. The musicians and singers of this psalm-song had to have jumped into this rousing declaration, punching it from the start. I can imagine clapping and dancing, because (as I would…
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Willingly into Dark Places – Psalm 23
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1 ESV). It’s such a simple statement, and somehow this, along with all of this psalm, invokes a deep sense of peace in my soul. God is all the things a shepherd is, protector, provider, leader–everything I need. I shall not want. It doesn’t say…
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Will God give me what I ask for? – Psalm 21
I was bored with Psalm 21 when I first got into it. I read that God is doing amazing things for a king, but what does that have to do with me? It just wasn’t drawing me in, until I got to verse 4. “He asked you for life, and you gave it to him—length of…
