Psalm 142:2 – I pour out my complaints in his presence and tell him my troubles. I think complaining has a bad rep. I blame the Israelites for that. All the murmuring and complaining. I think what makes one acceptable to Yahweh and the other not is the spirit in which it is done, “But …
Psalm 117 -Praise the Lord, all you nations! Praise him, all you people of the world! His mercy toward us is powerful. The Lord’s faithfulness endures forever. There was an awesome choir that sang this son. But I can’t find the version. The only thing with this one, I definitely remember how it went. Psalm …
Psalm 90:15 – Make us rejoice for as many days as you have made us suffer, for as many years as we have experienced evil. Is it wrong of me to want to change this to – make us rejoice twice as many days? I don’t want a half and half life. I want a …
Psalm 81:10 – I am the Lord your God, the one who brought you out of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. So there are some visual that have me like what?! And then I immediately thought of a baby bird being fed. Can I be honest? I still have to …
Psalm 71:20 – You have made me endure many terrible troubles. You restore me to life again. You bring me back from the depths of the earth. I just like it. I’m touched by this. Huh. Psalms 71 starts with “never let me be put to shame” and ends with “those who wanted my downfall …
Psalm 69:13 – May my prayer come to you at an acceptable time, O Lord. O God, out of the greatness of your mercy, answer me with the truth of your salvation. Why am I amazed at this scripture? David said, let his prayer come to Yahweh at an acceptable time. His enemies are more …
Psalm 62:9 – Common people are only a whisper in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a whisper in the wind. No one sees “common people.” We see important people but are they truly important? At …
Psalm 42-43 David was clearly going through some rough times here and he keeps encouraging himself – why am I discouraged? I will praise the Lord. In our discouragement, acknowledge it and then still praise Yahweh. Psalm 51:6 – Yet, you desire truth and sincerity. Deep down inside me you teach me wisdom. Yahweh desires …
Psalm 35:13 – But when they were sick, I wore sackcloth. I humbled myself with fasting. When my prayer returned unanswered, This is David. A man after Yahweh’s heart and at times his prayers weren’t answered. It wasn’t that Yahweh told him to wait, it wasn’t answered or as the KJV says, “it returned to …
Psalm 22:17 – I can count all my bones. People stare. They gloat over me. Wow. Now I’m sure if he meant this literally, but I can imagine that there would have been some lean times when David was on the run from Saul. So it’s very possible. So many time when reading about the …
