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Psalm 19 – His Glory – No Excuses
The beauty of the heavens, the universe, is beyond what we can articulate and declare. The intricacies of the stars, the planets, and the Milky Way when studied…
Psalm 18 – Our Enemy is No Match for Our Strong God
This is our first lengthy Psalm where we won’t be able to go through it verse by verse, but we can pick out parts that we can really dig deep in to…
Psalm 17– When I Awake in Your Likeness
Walking with Jesus is much more than just waiting for Him to come back and whisk us away into heaven. There is a purpose as the verse above says…
Psalm 16 – Our Good Inheritance
We need to put the Lord’s words, His voice, and His worthiness always in the place of highest priority in our lives – so that we can remain stable and remain where we can “not be moved”…
Psalm 15 – Abiding in His Tabernacle
Living in His presence – abiding is the key to our internal and external change – not just TRYING to be better. Just so often, we are doing the opposite – striving, not abiding…
Psalm 14 – Are There Any Who Understand and Seek God?
Let’s begin by stating the obvious as the Psalmist does. We are fools if we do not believe in God. It is more difficult to not believe in God than it is to believe in God…
Psalm 13 – Enlightened Eyes
We do, in a sense, choose God AFTER we hear the gospel – because God wants voluntary lovers, not slaves…
Psalm 12 - Idle vs. Pure Words
It can seem like we, as Christians, are always on the defense, worried about how our beliefs could be misinterpreted and our families and church communities could come under attack...
Psalm 11 – If the Foundations are Destroyed?
Many days and hours are spent trying to silence Christians, keep us distracted, or dismantle our institutions. It is a fearful time where the “upright” need to seek God for wisdom even more than ever…
Psalm 10 – The Man of the Earth Will Oppress No More
Many times, we ask the question, why do bad things happen to good people? It is always the result of sin and evil in the world. This is the result of unrenewed minds to the Word of God acting out in the only way they know how…
Psalm 9 – Promises for the Wholehearted People of God
The overall vision of Psalm 9 is that God has a special plan for His people – those who seek Him, are dependent on Him and that pursue wholeheartedness, that they…
Psalm 8 – God Visited Us
Psalm 8 is a Messianic Psalm that prophesies Jesus’ birth and His dominion over everything in the heavens and on the earth. Even in these first 4 verses…
Psalm 6 – The Voice of My Weeping
Psalm 6 is the first real lament of David against the Lord and where his heart is consumed with thoughts of his enemies. He is depressed. We can feel the anxiety…
Psalm 5 – Heard by God, Joyful in Him
I am a morning person, so I know that those who are not may want to throw things at me as I teach through the first three verses of this Psalm…
Psalm 4 – Safety & Peace in Distress
In that prayer His primary desire is for us to be with Him where He is – beholding His glory. When I stop and mediate on that idea – my life makes sense…
Psalm 3 – I Will Not Be Afraid
This Psalm is a cry to the Lord for HELP when King David in his later years was fleeing from his son Absalom as his kingdom was being threatened…
Psalm 2 – Why do the Nations Rage?
Why do leaders, rulers, and kings have to be so selfish? The Scripture here reminds us that “the people” are caught up in vanity and…
Psalm 23 – He is My Good Shepherd
This is the Psalm that everyone knows, everyone recites by memory, and it is quoted at every funeral and memorial service in America…
Psalm 139 – His Thoughts Toward Me
I absolutely adore Psalm 139. The words bring me to tears almost every time I read them. I have quoted sections of this Psalm over and over again in my life as…
Psalm 138 – Praise Comes From the Words of His Mouth
This is a short psalm, but in eight verses it describes the greatness of our God in a way that we can understand – in simplicity. Today in our post-modern world we are surrounded on every side by the “gods” of this world…