Category: Daily Devotion

  In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah 9 But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies. Psalm 44:8-9 – While we aren’t certain on the exact time period this psalm was referring to, it’s clear Israel was in a state of…

  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. Psalm 43:3-4 – This psalm is an…

  Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. Psalm 42:7 – Imagine being caught out in the waves of the ocean. As you continue to try to swim to the surface for air, the powerful waves keep crashing in over you keeping you…

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!” Psalm‬ ‭41‬:‭4‬ ‭- In this psalm we see David navigating two difficult situations. The first was some sort of sickness in his body. We don’t know exactly what sort of ailment plagued David, but it seems…

In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭40‬:‭6‬ ‭- Now for someone in the Old Testament to say the Lord didn’t want sacrifices and offerings from them, that should draw some questions from us. Why would…

  Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers. Psalm 39:12 – We see in this start of this psalm David struggling to remain sinless in whatever his situation was. He knew if he…

My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off. Psalm‬ ‭38‬:‭11‬ ‭- We find David in the psalm speaking to the Lord from a dark place in his life. He had chosen to fall prey to the temptation of sin and the result of that choice was tearing…

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. Psalm‬ ‭37‬:‭25‬ ‭- We learn from this verse that this wasn’t a psalm written by David in his early years. This is a psalm filled with the wisdom of a man who had…

  How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. Psalm 36:7-8 – Spurgeon shared a story connecting to this psalm…Once a father brought his family into their brand…

  For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life. Psalm 35:7 – I learned today that this sort of psalm is called an “Imprecatory” psalm, which means it’s a psalm where the writer is pleading for God to defeat the enemies of His people. David clearly is pleading…