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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:171-172 Our Great Heritage
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:171-172 Click to listen to this devotion. 171 May my lips overflow with a song of praise,for you teach me your statutes.172 May my tongue sing about your word,for all your commandments are righteous. Tehillah is the word in verse 171 I have translated “song of praise.” It is the Hebrew […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:169-170 my prayer for mercy
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:169-170 Click to listen to this devotion. These verses begin the final stanza of the Psalm, in which the initial words begin with the letter tav. Many of these are translated with “May…” because the letter tav is the mark of the third person imperfect or jussive verb form, which is […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:167-168 The lens of the cross
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:167-168 Click to listen to this devotion. 167 My soul keeps your testimonies,I love them very much. To say “my soul” instead of “I” is a common thing in Hebrew, especially in poetry. Here in the Great Psalm there are eight examples. The human soul shares almost all of the characteristics […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:164-166 Seven Times in a Day
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:164-166 Click to listen to this devotion. 164 Seven times in a day I praise youfor your righteous judgments. The ancient church and the Medieval church took this verse to mean that Christians should do the same thing. In other words, they took the verse to be prescriptive rather than descriptive. […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:161-163 believe, and be saved
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:161-163 Click to listen to this devotion. This stanza consists of Hebrew words beginning with the letters Sin or Shin. There are elements of every theme of the Great Psalm in this second-to-last part, but especially the love of God’s word and the repentant return to the word. 161 Princes persecute […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:159-160 The eternal word
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:159-160 Click to listen to this devotion. These verses close off the Resh-stanza, the twentieth of the twenty-two stanzas of the Great Psalm. The main theme of this part of the Psalm has been life among God’s enemies, and loathing their wicked words and work. But here in the final two […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:157-158 Do not be loath to loathe
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:157-158 Click to listen to this devotion. 157 Many are the foes who pursue me,but I have not turned aside from your testimonies.158 I look at the treacherous and I loathe them,for they do not keep your word. The believer loves all of the good things God gives: peace, joy, forgiveness, […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:156 the only voice in a silent house
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:156 Click to listen to this devotion. 156 Your compassion is great, O LORD,Give me life according to your laws. The poet has begun to repeat himself. The second half of the verse is almost the same as the same part of verse 154. It will be repeated again in verse […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:153-155 Eleven points of truth
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:153-155 Click to listen to this devotion. The Resh stanza is the twentieth of twenty-two stanzas or octaves in the Great Psalm. In the pattern I have observed, after each stanza where sanctified living is the theme (Delta, Heth, Lamed, and the first part of the Ayin stanza), the Psalm is […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:150-152 God’s word is sufficient
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:150-152 Click to listen to this devotion. 150 Those who pursue wicked plans are near,but they are far from your law.151 Yet you are near, O LORD,and all your commandments are true. There is a neat contrast in verse 150: the wicked are near to me but far from your law. […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:147-149
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:147-149 Click to listen to this devotion. 147 I rise before dawn and I call for help.I have put my hope in your word.148 My eyes greet the night watches,that I may meditate on your saying.149 Hear my voice according to your mercy;preserve my life, O LORD, according to your judgments. […]
God’s Word for You – Psalm 119:145-146 the life of sanctification
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUPSALM 119:145-146 Click to listen to this devotion. Here we come to the Qoph stanza. Once again the poet emphasizes sanctified living, which is putting the word of God into practice by knowing it, believing it, obeying its statutes and laws and loving its gospel promise. In this stanza we will also […]
