Category: Daily Devotion

Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! Psalm 81:13 – This week is our church’s Vacation Bible School and my role is to lead the games for all the groups of kids. This is likely, especially for the little boys, going to be one of their favorite…

  Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine…Psalm 80:14 – The people of Israel are the “vine” spoken of in this verse. The image given is that the Lord took this vine out of oppression and slavery and into a beautiful land and planted it.…

  Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low. Psalm 79:8 – When you look at the story of Israel in the Old Testament, a situation the nation found itself in more than once was being oppressed and conquered by another…

  I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the…

  Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints were unseen. Psalm 77:19 – Since I live so close to the church I work at, most of the time I simply walk to church in the morning. After a heavy rain though, the one street I have to…

  At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity. Psalm 75:2 – God chooses when the punishment of evil in the world will come. Ironically I was in a prison this week talking with an inmate about this exact topic. The inmate, who has now been radically saved by Jesus, and…

We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long. Psalm 74:9 – Asaph, the writer of this psalm, served King David and King Solomon is seasons when Isreal as a nation was safe and secure, so exactly what calamity Asaph is speaking…

All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence. ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭73‬:‭13‬ ‭- The psalmist found himself in a tough, low spot, and sadly it’s a spot many believers can find themselves in as well.  The psalmist wrote about how he saw the wicked of this world thriving in this…

  Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen! Psalm 72:18-19 – Our psalm was written by King Solomon, likely writing in such a way to lift high the earthly king of…

  I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. Psalm 71:22 – After a chapter of calling upon God to remember him when he was weakened, David shifts to tell the Lord that with everything…