February 25 Psalm 47 (ESV) God Is King over All the Earth To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. 47:1 Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy! 2 For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth. 3 He subdued peoples under … More February 25 Psalm 47
Psalm 46 tells us that we all have a need to slow down and just “be still.” We need time for quiet reflection, but oh how little we actually do just that. John Piper, in a 1991 sermon, “God: Refuge for His People, Exalted Among the Nations” explains: One of the reasons we invest our lives in … More Piper: The impact of God’s awesome reality doesn’t hit us and hold us and shape us unless we become still
February 24 Psalm 46 (ESV) God Is Our Fortress To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. [1] A Song. 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present [2] help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, 3 though its … More February 24 Psalm 46
Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness; Psalm 45:6 Charles H. Spurgeon helps us see the importance of God’s eternal throne: What a glad thing it is that he reigns on a throne which will never pass away, for we need both sovereign grace and eternal … More God’s Everlasting Throne
February 23 Psalm 45 (ESV) Your Throne, O God, Is Forever To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil [1] of the Sons of Korah; a love song. 45:1 My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe. 2 You are the most handsome … More February 23 Psalm 45
…for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them. You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob! Through you we push down our foes; through your name we … More Triple help
February 22 Psalm 44 (ESV) Come to Our Help To the choirmaster. A Maskil [1] of the Sons of Korah. 44:1 O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old: 2 you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you … More February 22 Psalm 44
Psalm 43:3-4 Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling! Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. John Piper, in a sermon, … More Authentic joy in God will overflow with praises.
February 21 Psalm 43 (ESV) Send Out Your Light and Your Truth 43:1 Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me! 2 For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of … More February 21 Psalm 43
As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Charles H. Spurgeon writes on Psalm 42 in the Treasury of David: The next best thing to living in the light of the Lord’s love is to be unhappy till we … More Spurgeon: Thirst is a perpetual appetite
