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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Psalm 88:10-13 Do the ghosts of the dead rise up
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 88:10-13 10 Do you perform a miracle for the dead? Do the ghosts of the dead rise up and praise you? Selah 11 Is your mercy declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction? 12 Are your wonders known in the darkness? Is […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 88:6-9 in dark places, in deep places
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 88:6-9 6 You have set me in the pit of the lowest places, in dark places, in deep places. 7 Your hot wrath presses against me. You have battered me with all your waves. Selah Heman compares his suffering with someone who is in the grave. The […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 88:3-5 my soul is full of troubles
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 88:3-5 3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life approaches the grave. From here to the end of the Psalm, Heman complains that his life is rushing away toward the approaching grave. His troubles are overwhelming. This emotion of dread is very real and all-consuming; Solomon compared […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 88:1-2 God of my salvation
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 88:1-2 Psalm 88 Darkness Is My Friend A song. A psalm. By the Sons of Korah. For the choir director. According to mahalath leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. This strange heading is unique in all of the Psalms. It seems to be a double heading, and in his […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 3:15 the peace of Christ
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 3:15 15 Let what rules in your hearts be the peace of Christ, to which you were also called as one body. And be thankful. The sinful heart tends to let sin or unbridled emotion reign, to listen to the advice of Emily Dickinson: “the heart wants what it wants” […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 102:23-28 You laid the foundations of the earth
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 102:23-28 23 Along the way, he broke my strength; he cut short my days. 24 So I said: “Do not take me away, O my God, in the midst of my days.” With these words, the afflicted king prays that God will not end his life so soon. Our time […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 102:18-22 He set free those condemned to death
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 102:18-22 18 Let this be written for a future generation, that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD: Sometimes one hears the claim that wherever the Hebrew verb bara’ occurs with God as the subject, it always refers to something being created out of nothing. Since bara’ […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 102:14-17 The marks of the church
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 102:14-17 14 Your servants love her very stones; even her dust moves them to pity. This lovely verse can be applied in four ways to the house of the Lord, particularly when we acknowledge that the true Zion is not a city in Canaan near the Dead Sea, […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 102:8-13 a lengthening shadow
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 102:8-13 8 All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name to curse. 9 For I eat ashes as my bread and mingle my drink with tears 10 because of your great wrath, for you have picked me up and thrown me aside. The king […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 102:3-7 I am like a pelican
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 102:3-7 3 For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like hot coals. 4 Blighted like grass and withered is my heart. I forget to eat my food. 5 Because of my loud groaning my flesh is tight against my bones. 6 I am like a pelican, like an […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 3:13b-14 As the Lord forgave
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 3:13b-14 13 As the Lord forgave you, you should do the same. 14 Above all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. And be thankful. As further examples of putting our faith into action, Paul adds these three: Forgive, love, and be thankful. His […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 102:1-2 A prayer of an afflicted man
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU PSALM 102:1-2 PSALM 102 A prayer of an afflicted man. When he is faint, and before the LORD he pours out his lament. This Psalm is counted among the seven “penitential psalms,” but this one is more a prayer for help than it is a prayer for forgiveness. It has been […]
