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Archive for July, 2008

• Psalms Meditation – July 21

  (sorry for the delay. houseofchinn’s internet was out on monday.)
  
  “I Will Call to Mind the Deeds of the Lord”

  Read Psalm 77:11-20

  Troubles exacerbated by self-pity are brought under the operations of grace. The spirit, rescued from morbid introspection, …
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• Psalms Meditation – July 19

  “Sing to God”

  Read Psalm 68:32-35

  “This superb hymn is unsurpassed, if not unequaled, in grandeur, lyric fire, and sustained rush of triumphant praise. It celebrates a victory; but it is the victory of the God who enters as a …
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• Psalms Meditation – July 18

  “I Sink in Deep Mire”

  Read Psalm 69:1-3

  Focused prayer is accurate and clear about two things: that man’s need is desperate, and that the remedy lies in God. Man’s need for help and God’s will to save are joined.…
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• Psalms Meditation – July 17

  “A Broken and Contrite Heart”

  Read Psalm 51:15-19

  Tears of penitence and gladness can flow from the same ducts. Contrition before God is not a fearful cowering of the kind we observe in an abused animal, but an honest openness …
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• Psalms Meditation – July 16

  “Create in Me a Clean Heart”

  Read Psalm 51:10-19

  If sin brings us to our knees where God can forgive us, mercy puts us on our feet again so that we can praise God and witness to his ways. Guilt …
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• Psalms Meditation – July 15

  “My Soul Waits in Silence”

  Read Psalm 62:1-7

  Silence sinks a shaft to bedrock. It is the soul’s means for descending through the gravel of rebellion and doubt to the solid, quiet reality of God’s word.

  PRAYER: “Be still, …
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• Psalms Meditation – July 14

  “The Rock That is Higher Than I”

  Read Psalm 61

  Did David pray this as a fugitive from Kim Saul’s madness while at the same time praying for the king’s wholeness? Prayer that asks for personal help (“lead thou me …
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• Psalms Meditation – July 13

  “The Voice of the Lord Shakes the Wilderness”

  Read Psalm 29:5-11

  The psalmist takes the most forceful instances of power and glory that he experiences–thunder, lightning, earthquake, storm–and uses them as metaphors of God’s word: in such a way the …
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• Psalms Meditation – July 12

  “The Eye of the Lord”

  Read Psalm 33:13-19

  Not only did the Lord make everything (v. 6-9), he takes care of it. He did not create the world and then walk off and leave it; he watches over it wisely …
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• Psalms Meditation – July 11

  “I Will Confess”

  Read Psalm 32:1-5

  If we hold our sins inside, hoping to hide them, they fester and poison our whole system. The only one who can do anything about sin is God. Confession is the act that brings …
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