Reasoning from God’s Attributes Psalm 77:1–20 Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God? Psalm 77:13 What Asaph the psalmist remembers about God when he reflects on the years of his working is in the stanza comprising verses 13–15. This is all about God, just as the opening stanzas of…
Pleading with God Psalm 74:1–23 Arise, O God, defend your cause. Psalm 74:22 Psalm 74 is a model for prayer because of the way it pleads with God. Or, as Charles Spurgeon said, it is an example of how we can pray to God with arguments. The psalmist wants God to take his hand out…
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Faithful and Righteous Psalm 71:1–24 My tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long. Psalm 71:24 To deal with the limitations of old age, David looks to the past to remind himself of God’s faithfulness and power. He looks to the future to remind himself of the work yet to be done….
The church must select, train, and develop leaders who shepherd not from a place of personal promotion but from a posture of self-sacrifice.
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Poor and Needy Psalm 70:1–5 But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! Psalm 70:5 The last verse of Psalm 70 is what I call the psalmist’s most basic belief or persuasion. It has two parts: (1) he is “poor and needy,” and (2) God is his “help and . . . deliverer.” The…
The Shining Face of God Psalm 67:1–7 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us. Psalm 67:1 The language of this verse is drawn from the great Aaronic blessing of Numbers 6. The text says that God told Moses to have Aaron bless the people, saying,…
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