Month: April 2021

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

1 I WAITED PATIENTLY for the Lord;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
2 He lifted me out of the Slimy Pit (Jeremiah 38),
out of the mud and mire;
HE SET MY FEET ON A ROCK
AND GAVE ME A FIRM PLACE TO STAND.
3 HE PUT A NEW SONG IN MY MOUTH,
A HYMN OF PRAISE TO OUR GOD.
Many will see and fear the Lord
and put their trust in him. Psalm 40:1-3

In Monday’s blog on Psalm 37:7, David spoke about BEING STILL BEFORE THE LORD AND ‘WAITING PATIENTLY’ FOR HIM. I said it could take time for us to ‘get still’, to let our hearts become calm before God. David repeated this thought at the beginning of Psalm 40, Waiting Patiently for God, NO DOUBT ONE OF THE SECRETS OF DAVID’S LIFE!

In the second verse he speaks about the Lord lifting him out of the Slimy Pit and the mud and mire, exactly like the prophet Jeremiah in yesterday’s blog. David probably wasn’t in a literal Pit, but his situation felt like that and some of us may also feel trapped in the mud and mire. The good news comes in the next lines of his praises to God;

HE SET ‘MY FEET’ ON A ROCK
AND GAVE ‘ME A FIRM PLACE TO STAND’.
3 HE PUT A NEW SONG IN ‘MY MOUTH’,
A HYMN OF PRAISE TO OUR GOD. (Worth repeating)

God intervened for David personally, my feet, my mouth and gave me firm standing. God rescued David and Jeremiah and He can do it for us. We don’t have to be overcome by circumstances, God can lift us up to Himself. Jesus is the Rock, the firm place to stand. We may be where we are because of our own actions, or maybe the enemy is trying to keep us from knowing the Father’s love for us but God wants to help. Remember the story of the Prodigal Son, far from His Father in a distant land but he turned and came back and the Father embraced him.

The third verse moves from the individual to the ‘Many’;

3 Many will see and fear the Lord
and PUT THEIR TRUST IN HIM.

In my Bible there are cross references to the Book of Exodus, for putting their ‘Trust in Him’. Israel were an enslaved people and God had to win their trust Exodus 4:5, 14:31 and He did so by sending powerful signs and wonders. There was a major confrontation between the witchcraft power in Egypt and the power of the Lord through His people.

I believe that the picture of Israel as an enslaved people, powerless against the rulers of their time, is exactly were many are in the world today. God is going to intervene again with powerful signs and wonders to bring out ‘a people for Himself’. Many will see and put their trust in the Lord! Egypt may also be in a bit of a mess after this encounter.

God bless and keep you today.

One whose walk is blameless is Kept Safe. Proverbs 28:18

In Jeremiah chapters 38 and 39, we see God’s safekeeping of a man called Ebed-Melech (servant or works ‘abad’ and Melek ‘God’). This man was a Cushite/foreigner and likely a eunuch, so he could never have been in the congregation of the Lord (Deut 23:1) but he attracted God’s Favour and his story is recorded for us to read today.

The prophet Jeremiah had spoken God’s word to the people who were besieged in Jerusalem, judgement was on them. They didn’t want to listen and so they put Jeremiah in a dried up cistern, out of sight, in the ground. The Word gives a vivid, shocking description of Jeremiah’s plight;

… it (cistern) had no water in it, only mud and Jeremiah sank down into the mud. Jeremiah 38:6

Maybe there have been times in our lives when we felt forgotten, out of sight and sinking into the mud. God’s Word spells it out, this was his situation. The men who had put him there wanted no more of Jeremiah or his words. ‘But God’; God overruled those who put him there; God lifted Jeremiah out. The foreigner, Ebed- Melech, who may have been known by his title, ‘servant of the king’ and not by a name went to ask for his release.

8 Ebed-Melech went out of the palace and said to him, 9 ‘My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread in the city.’

God overruled the fate decreed by men for His prophet, the king told his official to rescue Jeremiah.

10 Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the Cushite, ‘Take thirty men from here with you and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.’

Ebed-Melech didn’t just go and pull him out of the pit, he brought rags to pad under his arms, to protect him while he being lifted out. He acted with kindness to the prophet.

Then we read God’s Word to Ebed-Melech;

16 ‘Go and tell Ebed-Melech the Cushite, “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to fulfil my words against this city – words concerning disaster, not prosperity. At that time they will be fulfilled before your eyes. 17 But I will rescue you on that day, declares the Lord; YOU WILL NOT BE GIVEN INTO THE HANDS OF THOSE YOU FEAR. 18 I WILL SAVE YOU; you will not fall by the sword but will escape with your life, because you trust in me, declares the Lord.”’ Jeremiah 39

Only God could guarantee to save one individual’s life in a city about to fall in battle. Once again, GOD CHOSE (His ways are not man’s ways Isaiah 55) someone who would have been looked upon as inferior, like Rahab in Jericho and the woman at the well of Sycar.

Ebed-Melech Rescued Jeremiah and God Remembered him at the fall of a city. We never know how and when God will repay what is done for others and not for self.

God bless and remember your help to His people today.

The opening chapters of the book of Numbers, unsurprisingly, have lots of numbers.

God told Moses to number the individual tribes and Judah with 74,600 was clearly largest. The men over 20 years old and able to serve in the army (able bodied) were counted, with a total number of 603,550 in all Israel.

Numbers 2 gives the order of the tribes ordained by God when they settled in camp. There were three tribes at each point of the compass and the Tabernacle (things of worship) was in the centre. God’s Tabernacle and the Holy furnishings were always at the centre of the people, whether marching or in camp. There was one other group who were not included in the list of the tribes, the Levites. The 3 families of the Levites were numbered separately, on a different register, so to speak. They totalled 8,580 men over thirty years old.

53 but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the Testimony. Numbers 1

The Levites were in effect a protective shield between the Holy God of Israel and the people. Under the Old Testament Covenant only the priests and Levites could approach the presence of God in the Tabernacle. Today the Lord is our righteousness, His perfect sacrifice offered once for all.

King David had mighty warriors, all known by name who were close to him. There were the Thirty, then the Three and lastly Abishai, Chief of the Three, though not one of them. Jesus sent out the seventy, had the twelve apostles, then Peter, James and John and John was the beloved disciple. We are all accepted in the Beloved, Jesus, but some may have to walk more closely and more carefully with the Lord to fulfill their call. I remember Peter Wagner, possibly in his book, ‘The Prayer Shield’, included a little diagram with several steps. He believed that intercessors were several steps higher, closer to God, to hear things from Him and pray His will into being. Peter Wagner had a significant international ministry, yet he recognised others were called to be closer to God than him.

It’s interesting that men could fight in the army from 20 years but could only serve before the Lord from 30 years. Joseph entered Pharaoh’s service aged 30, Genesis 41:46 David became king at Hebron aged 30, 2 Samuel 5:30 and Jesus Himself began His public ministry at 30, Luke 3:23. God does look for maturity in His servants and there are certain positions that He will not allow people to step into until they are ready. People may be highly gifted, but there is something about maturity that can’t be rushed.

9 Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are the Israelites who are to be given WHOLLY to him. Numbers 3

The Levites were wholly/entirely given to serve at the Tabernacle, they were completely given over to the things of God. We can’t be casual about the service of the Lord, He still wants our hearts for Himself and His work. Maybe some of us are being called to a closer walk with Him today and that may mean being set apart wholly to Him.

God bless and keep you this day.

Lessons from the life of David, who faced many tough and challenging situations.

BE STILL BEFORE THE LORD
AND WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM;                                                        DO NOT FRET… Psalm 37:7 NIV

7 Be still before the Lord; wait patiently for Him and ENTRUST YOURSELF TO HIM;
Do not fret (whine, agonize) because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes. AMP

7 Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently LEAN YOURSELF UPON HIM; AMPC edition

I like the early part of Psalm 37, one of David’s many poems. This verse has two short phrases, ‘Be Still’ and ‘Wait Patiently’, both are Before God. The three words which begin the next line are in total contrast, ‘Do Not Fret’. Resist the temptation to take things into your own hands, not always easy in difficult times.

It seems a simple instruction to ‘Be Still before the Lord’, but Stillness Doesn’t Come At Once, especially in this age of rampant, mobile technology. Our minds are so full of the sounds and images that are continually bombarding  our senses, that we may well find it difficult to disengage and Be Still. The fact is, it TAKES TIME TO BE STILL and that may be in short supply in this age of accelerated living. In reading through the psalms, especially David’s psalms we see that he had little choice but to turn to God and cry out for help – David had to wait and had to seek God! His life was often at stake and he called to God to help him.

The accompanying phrase is to ‘Wait Patiently’ for Him. The amplified versions are to ‘Entrust and Lean Yourself upon Him’. God is the focus of these instructions, to Be Still and Wait Patiently on God, something our flesh hates! For many believers today it’s become much Easier to Work than to Wait, but recent world events have halted man’s activities.

There is a beautiful picture of Isaac, son of Abraham, waiting for the return of the chief servant (type of the Holy Spirit) to bring him his bride, Rebekah, in Genesis 24.

62 Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev. 63 He went out to the field one evening to meditate, and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching. Genesis 24

The meaning of the word meditate is not certain, but Isaac was waiting alone in the field in the evening, after the work of the day was over. His bride to be, was coming to him and he couldn’t have accelerated the process. God knew Isaac had to have a bride and she was chosen and brought to him.  Isaac Waited for Rebekah away from the camp in the Still of the evening and then she arrived and comforted him after the death of his mother Sarah.

May God give us grace to draw apart in stillness and wait before Him for those things He alone can do for us.

God bless and keep you today.

Can we find something to thank God for and Declare in the midst of our troubles? David did!

Psalm 34 is a remarkable song of praise to David’s God.

The Title states, ‘When he pretended to be insane before Abimelech (Philistine king) who drove him away and he left’. Can we imagine the fear and pressure he must have experienced to have to pretend he was insane, but he escaped. David had gone over to his enemies to escape king Saul who hunted him to take his life.

So in the middle of all this David wrote a psalm of praise to his God. In the NIV the word ‘troubleS, always plural’ is used three times(verses 6, 17, 19). He didn’t ignore his troubles but he kept looking to God for His help to overcome them and so should we!

I will extol the Lord AT ALL TIMES;
HIS PRAISE WILL ALWAYS BE ON MY LIPS.
2 I will glory in the Lord;
let the afflicted (troubled) hear and rejoice.
3 GLORIFY THE LORD WITH ME:                                                     LET US EXALT HIS NAME TOGETHER.

David was determined he would praise God always and he exhorted others to join with him. Praising God in times of trouble will change our whole perspective, it will help us to Look Up to Him and not Down to our problems.

I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
5 THOSE WHO LOOK TO HIM ARE RADIANT;
their faces are never covered with shame.
6 This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
HE SAVED HIM OUT OF ALL HIS TROUBLES.
7 THE ANGEL OF THE LORD ENCAMPS AROUND THOSE WHO FEAR HIM,
AND HE DELIVERS THEM.

David faced some tough challenges but God delivered him. Paul said of his life as an apostle that at times he despaired of life itself, ‘BUT GOD’. Don’t give up, nothing is too difficult for the Lord. Isaiah 59:1

David was writing from the background of his own personal troubles but the Holy Spirit used his words to look down the centuries(David lived 900 years earlier) to Christ on the cross;

The righteous man may have many troubles,
but the Lord delivers him from them all;
20 He protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.

No other religion and no other religious writings predict the future with such unerring accuracy as the Bible. Biblical Prophecy is completely unique in predicting the coming of Messiah and His return again to rule.

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Who is speaking into our lives today? Who or what are we continually listening to? Do they know God or just speak of themselves and the things of the world?

Our friends, the company we keep and those things we choose to allow into our lives will determine our futures.

24 DO NOT MAKE FRIENDS with a hot-tempered person,
DO NOT ASSOCIATE with one easily angered,
25 OR YOU MAY ‘LEARN’ THEIR WAYS
and GET YOURSELF ENSNARED.  Proverbs 22

You may not be easily angered or quick tempered in the beginning but as you continue TO WALK WITH THEM some of their character will rub off or attach itself to you. Jesus said, ‘the scripture cannot be broken’, it will happen.

Paul expands this truth in his letter to the Corinthians ;

33 DO NOT BE MISLED(Fooled): ‘BAD COMPANY CORRUPTS GOOD CHARACTER.’ 1 Corinthians 15

Paul warned the early Church, that those they kept company with, would affect their very character and life. We may not be aware of the changes that are taking place, they may happen so slowly, but they will happen. Perhaps we need to look at those around us in our lives and ask ourselves do we want to be like them in the future?

The wisest and perhaps wealthiest king who ever lived was Solomon and the Bible tells us that God loved him;

24 Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The Lord loved him; 25 and because the Lord loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah (loved by the Lord). 2 Samuel 12

Solomon had huge Favour from the Lord in his early life.

Solomon’s wives

11 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter – Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. 2 They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, ‘You must not intermarry with them, because they will SURELY TURN YOUR HEARTS after their gods.’ Nevertheless, Solomon HELD FAST TO THEM IN LOVE. 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, AND HIS WIVES LED HIM ASTRAY. 1 Kings 11

SOLOMON STARTED WELL BUT DIDN’T FINISH WELL, HE WAS LED ASTRAY BY THOSE CLOSEST TO HIM.

The wisest king who ever lived, wasn’t immune to the influence of those who were in his life. He held fast to them but they were not people who knew or loved the Lord God. Solomon chose his wives over the Lord and suffered for it.

In a recent blog we looked at Paul’s advice to a young Timothy in the Church at Ephesus. Paul instructed Timothy how to deal with problems in the Church;

15 Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. 16 WATCH YOUR LIFE AND DOCTRINE CLOSELY. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. 1 Timothy 4

Paul was telling Timothy that the spiritual life of the Church had to rise and he was the one being called to raise it. He needed to watch his life(what he did) and his doctrine(what he believed) CLOSELY. It all started with his own life.

God may well have seasons when He sifts or even shakes us free from people and things in our lives. He always works for our benefit and His plans.

God bless and keep you today.

Life is precious, don’t take it for granted.

12 Remember your Creator
in the days of your youth,

6 Remember him – before the silver cord is severed,
and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
and the wheel broken at the well. Ecclesiastes 12:1,6

Last night I received a message from an old school friend telling me that four people from our year had passed away since Christmas(none were Covid); it was a big wake up call.

I have always enjoyed the story in John 7 of Jesus talking with the Samaritan woman at the Well of Sycar. It’s interesting in the verse above that it mentioned both the ‘spring and the well’ in connection with God’s gift of Life. Jesus was seldom alone, but He was when He spoke to this lady. I believe this was the only time Jesus ministered to exclusively Samaritan people and many of them believed He was the Messiah.

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of WORSHIPPERS THE FATHER SEEKS. 24 God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.’

25 The woman said, ‘I know that Messiah’ (called Christ) ‘is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.’

26 Then Jesus declared, ‘I, the one speaking to you – I am he.’ John 4

God the Father is seeking worshippers to be with Him and we can all play a part in helping some to find Him.

34 ‘MY FOOD,’ said Jesus, ‘IS TO DO THE WILL OF HIM WHO SENT ME AND TO FINISH HIS WORK. 35 Don’t you have a saying, “It’s still four months until harvest”? I tell you, OPEN YOUR EYES AND LOOK AT THE FIELDS! THEY ARE RIPE FOR HARVEST. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying “One sows and another reaps” is true. 38 I SENT YOU TO REAP WHAT YOU HAVE NOT WORKED FOR. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labour.’

Jesus likened ministry to His daily food, something that sustained Him in His life here. He told the disciples to ‘open their eyes’, the harvest fields were ripe! There is a joy in talking to people about God, we may just need some encouragement and more confidence to begin. Finally He said that we’re part of a sequence or chain, some sow and others reap, but He has sent us to reap.

Like my former school friends, people are only here for a certain time and they need the Lord just as much as we did. We can Help some to find Him if we’ll ask Him to guide us.

May we be in the right place at the right time each day and may God give us WORDS OF LIFE to speak to those we meet.

God bless and keep you today.

There is still the youngest. 1 Samuel 16:11

Saul, the first king of Israel had failed to wait for Samuel to come and offer the sacrifice to the Lord when the Philistines we’re facing them for battle. It’s so often in the pressurised situations that our hearts are revealed. God rejected Saul and told Samuel to go and anoint one of the sons of Jesse of Bethlehem to be king after Saul. Samuel knew Saul would kill him if he heard about it, so he pretended to go and sacrifice to the Lord (ironically Saul’s downfall).

Samuel consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to attend the sacrifice 1 Samuel 16:5 The sons began to pass before Samuel, Eliab the eldest first. Samuel thought he was God’s chosen but God said, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him… Man looks at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart’. Something in Eliab’s heart caused God to pass over him. So all seven sons of Jesse who were present were called forward and rejected. The eighth and youngest or least, David the shepherd, was called for and anointed to be king. God did exactly the opposite of what man would have done in His choice, He chose the least, David, because of the young man’s heart. God passed over seven to get to the man, or youth, whom He had chosen.

In the New Testament Paul did something similar with Timothy, whom he affectionately referred to as, ‘my true son in the faith’. 1 Timothy 1:2 Paul gave Timothy instructions for leading the Church in Ephesus;

11 Command and teach these things. 12 Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are YOUNG… 1 Timothy 4

Timothy was Paul’s choice and presumably the Lord’s to lead this Church, but Paul was aware that some people wouldn’t accept him because of his youth. Judging by outward appearances will often take us to the wrong conclusion, because God doesn’t choose as we do. God looks at the heart! Timothy, like David, may have lacked experience but his heart was right towards God and that was much more important.

15 Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, SO THAT EVERYONE MAY SEE YOUR PROGRESS. 16 Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Timothy had to Progress, grow into the calling on his life and so did the young shepherd boy David. God’s choice may not result in perfection straight away, but if we support those whom God has chosen, then we will see blessings. ‘You will save both yourself and your hearers’.

God may well call a new generation for these days to help bring in the final harvest of humanity. Young people who have a real heart for God need encouragement and support to fulfill their callings, which may appear daunting to them. We need to stand together and stand with those whom God will raise up in our day.

I tell you, now is the time of God’s Favour, now is the day of salvation. 2 Corinthians 6:2

God bless and keep you today.

6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near. Isaiah 55

I was thinking of this verse recently and God’s invitation through the prophet Isaiah to seek and call on Him. Even this simple statement is quite amazing, that Almighty God tells us to come to Him. (In the world we never get directly to the person at the top, but God tells us to approach Him). The chapter begins with the word ‘Come’ four times in the first verse, NIV.

1 Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.

The invitation is initially to the thirsty, those wanting and needing to drink. They’re the only people who can truly appreciate His offer! Then the scripture extends the offer to those who can give nothing in return, ‘no money’ and the contrast is even better, they’ll get ‘wine and milk’.

2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labour on what does not satisfy?
LISTEN, LISTEN TO ME, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.

God is calling people to Himself, away from this world’s brief attractions. He warns us they will not satisfy and that we will have wasted our money and our labour for Nothing. Twice in succession, we’re told to LISTEN to Him and we’ll eat the best from His table. This is God’s appeal to those who don’t know Him, but what of His own people? Israel, didn’t follow the Lord but turned to other gods to worship them and forget the Lord, who’d brought them out of captivity and slavery in Egypt. They spent their money and labour on the false and foolish, despite becoming more and more subject to their enemies. Turning away from God and not listening to Him, will leave us at the mercy of this world.

We may think we’ll be alright going off and having a brief dalliance with someone or something outside the Lord but remember in the end nothing else will satisfy, only God.

8 ‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,’
declares the Lord.
9 ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

His thoughts and His ways are the only ways to know lasting blessing on our lives.

56 This is what the Lord says:

‘Maintain justice
and do what is right,
FOR MY SALVATION IS CLOSE AT HAND
AND MY RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL SOON BE REVEALED.
2 Blessed is the one who does this –
the person who holds it fast,

We’re living in uncertain days now and we’ll need the Lord more than ever. His thoughts and His ways will be the only safe path through the times ahead;

6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near. Isaiah 55

Surely Isaiah’s word speaks to us also in these days.

God bless and keep you today.

God doesn’t want any of His children to be put to Shame. Psalm 25

David was yet again pleading with God for His mercy and His help to rescue him from many enemies. He begins this psalm (it’s an acrostic poem, each verse begins with the successive letter in the Hebrew alphabet) by repeating the word translated ‘Shame’ in NIV, three times in three verses;

1 In you, Lord my God,
I put my trust.
2 I trust in you;
do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
3 NO ONE WHO HOPES IN YOU
WILL EVER BE PUT TO SHAME,
but shame will come on those
who are treacherous without cause.

The word translated ‘Shame’ has different meanings, it can also be written, ‘shall never be Shaken’, which is a good word for believers to confess; I or we will never be Shaken. In the original Hebrew it’s also written, ‘will not be in Haste’ and once again there’s wisdom for us.

The word appears several times in the book of Isaiah;

16 So this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone,
a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation;
the one who relies on it
WILL NEVER BE STRICKEN WITH PANIC. Isaiah 28

The Precious Cornerstone is the Lord and Isaiah prophesies by the Spirit that the one who relies on the Lord will Never be Panic Stricken, another blessing for believers. The significant truth here is that what David asked and believed for in Psalm 25, then repeated by the prophet Isaiah, is connected with the Lord Himself. These words are quoted directly three times in the New Testament;

33 As it is written:

“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who believes in him WILL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME.” Romans 9

11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him WILL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME.” Romans 10

6 For in Scripture it says:

“See, I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him
WILL NEVER BE PUT TO SHAME.” 1 Peter 2

God has repeatedly stated that He doesn’t intend for His children to be covered in Shame. David obviously felt at great risk from his enemies but he called out to God again and again to rescue him. He actually repeats the same request in psalm 25:20, but he ends with a final prayer to God for all his people;

22 Deliver Israel, O God,
from all their troubles!

David never gave up on God, he continued to cry out to Him in the worst situations, even after he’d sinned, he believed God cared and would help him. May we know today how much He Loves us as His very own children.

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