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Praise Yahweh – Psalm 150
Here is the end of the Psalms. God’s people sing about God and to God. Song and verse are the creative expression of our love for Him. Beware the religion that does not sing. Praise the LORD! Praise
Continue reading...Two Edged Swords in Their Hands – Psalm 149
Is the church a cruise ship or a battleship? From the perspective of Scripture, we should be more a battleship, prepared in the martial arts of fighting against principalities and powers and the forces
Continue reading...Praise Yahweh From the Heavens and the Earth – Psalm 148
There are heavenly beings and earthly beings. We do not often think of the heavenly beings, which include God’s angels and fallen angels, as well. We don’t always think of all the earthly
Continue reading...His Understanding Is Beyond Measure – Psalm 147
How are we instructed to understand God’s attributes, His characteristics? The psalmist says God’s understanding is “beyond measure.” That means we can think of His intelligence
Continue reading...Put No Trust in Princes – Psalm 146
Why do we give so much trust and devotion to human leaders? Do we feel we can somehow control them more than we can God? We certainly cannot control God, and that makes us afraid to trust Him. But
Continue reading...I Will Extol You – Psalm 145
The ESV Study Bible note on this psalm is instructive: This is the last of the psalms of David, and it introduces the hymns of praise that finish the Psalms. This hymn (or “song of praise,” see title)
Continue reading...Blessed Is the People Whose God Is Yahweh – Psalm 144
Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I
Continue reading...I Stretch Out My Hands to You – Psalm 143
At the risk of being too autobiographical, I was here in my illness. The only way through was talking openly and honestly to God about it. After all, He already knew my heart, so why not be honest
Continue reading...You Are My Refuge – Psalm 142
I was sick and miserable to the point of feeling very alone, though I had my precious wife and the presence of Jesus with me. I was brought very low, not by persecutors, but by illness. But the Lord
Continue reading...Let a Righteous Man Strike Me – Psalm 141
There is a strange “delicacy” being offered the righteous by those who would also seem to be righteous. They are fighting, we are told, for the soul of our nation. They are fighting for
Continue reading...Guard Me, O Yahweh, From the Hands of the Wicked – Psalm 140
Though in one sense Jesus can say we are all evil (Luke 11:13), there are also those who are evil to such an extent that they threaten the lives of the righteous. To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Deliver
Continue reading...Search Me and Know Me – Psalm 139
This psalm is an expression of what the apostle John talks about in his first letter, walking in the light (1 John 1:7). It is willingly exposing myself to God’s truth and light so that my darkness
Continue reading...Yahweh Will Fulfill His Purpose for Me – Psalm 138
David knows there are “gods” that are not really God, but spirit beings who pretend to be God. He sings to the God of gods. And he has a future perspective that one day the kings of the
Continue reading...By the Waters of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept – Psalm 137
This is a psalm of imprecation. Imprecation means “A curse; the act of invoking evil upon anyone; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on anyone.” By the waters of Babylon, there
Continue reading...His Steadfast Love Endures Forever – Psalm 136
Antiphonal reading is when one group reads one portion and another group answers in response. This psalm seems set up for antiphonal reading. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast
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