Category: Daily Devotion

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…

  I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. Psalm 34:1 – While many of the psalms don’t have any sort of description about the psalm, when they do be sure to take note of them for it helps in understanding the fullness of the message. The description for…

  Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. Psalm 33:1 – As I read this psalm, I can’t help but be challenged in my posture of worship. How often am I truly shouting my praise? Not meaning I’m standing in church screaming at the top of my lungs, but is…

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭32‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ – Within these two verses we see David experiencing something that we too may be familiar…

Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God. Psalm 31:5 – While we can find many psalms alluded to or quoted in other parts of scripture, Psalm 31 is among the most recited in scripture. Jonah, Jeremiah, Paul, Stephen, and even Jesus Himself speaks of this psalm in their recorded…