Post by Woody Williams on Feb 18, 2006 6:56:25 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Psalm 8
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O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God,
and crowned them with glory and honour.
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under their feet,
all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Devotional
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Prayer is often a cry in the night. The most basic prayer and often
the beginning point of prayer is "help." That is what we have in this
psalm. David laments his illness. It effects not only is body but his
whole being. He feels the threat of death.He perceives the hot breath
of God's anger on the back of his neck. He is afraid that he will die
and not be able to remember God. He ends his prayer with a strong
word of trust in God, that his prayer has been heard and that God
will answer.
Prayer
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Help me to always be "real" when I pray, O Lord. Amen
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O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God,
and crowned them with glory and honour.
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under their feet,
all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Devotional
----------
Prayer is often a cry in the night. The most basic prayer and often
the beginning point of prayer is "help." That is what we have in this
psalm. David laments his illness. It effects not only is body but his
whole being. He feels the threat of death.He perceives the hot breath
of God's anger on the back of his neck. He is afraid that he will die
and not be able to remember God. He ends his prayer with a strong
word of trust in God, that his prayer has been heard and that God
will answer.
Prayer
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Help me to always be "real" when I pray, O Lord. Amen