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The fifth book of Psalms tells a beautiful story of how God protects his people while they are in exile, and then gently leads them home, where they will be with Him forever, enjoying the blessings of His care for them as those who are part of His Kingdom.
The last four psalms of book four work together to display a beautiful picture of giving thanks that helps us to see the final step in restoring our confidence in God.
In Psalm 101, David shows how our worship doesn’t just come from our words of praise, but also from a life that flows out of a pure heart. There are things around us that could corrupt our heart though. What are they, and how do we shield our heart from them?
Today we’re going to look at the second step of restoring your confidence in God during difficult times. Once we take the first step of remembering God’s goodness and faithfulness, the next step is to have the right response toward what we remember. What is that response? Praise!
In Psalm 90, Moses uses the differences between how God interacts with time and how we interact with time to help us see the importance of trusting God, even when his provision and care for us isn’t necessarily on the same timeline as us.
While Book 3 describes the crisis of faith that Israel endured in the exile, Book 4 describes the way to move forward in your faith once again. It does that by calling us to look back to remember God’s faithfulness. And as we remember who God is, our response of worship and praise compels us…
When you find yourself in trouble, calling on someone to help you is critical in finding rescue. In those times, who do you call on? What do you say? In the same way that WE use the psalms to help us in times of trouble, in Psalm 86, David uses scripture to help him as…
What happens when you find yourself in a place where it seems like you’ve lost everything? And worse, it’s something you know you deserve? Today we’re going to look at what led the children of Israel to this very point. Psalm 79, tells the story of those who suffered this great loss. In their story,…
Psalm 73 is the story of one man’s journey through a time when he had lost the proper perspective of those around him, of himself, and of God. In this Psalm, he tells us how that mistaken perspective affected his heart and caused him to almost lose his faith in God. But we’re also going…
What happens when it seems that nothing in your life is visibly displaying the goodness of God? Wherever you look is distress, and it seems that there’s no way His promises will come true? When your faith is on a thread? Book 3 of Psalms walks us through those times, but it also shows us…
