Daily Devotional

Poem about a Royal Wedding                             verse 1 

My heart is inditing (overflowing) a good matter

I speak of the things which I have made touching the king

      my tongue is the pen of a ready writer 

King is to ride out to victory                                verse 2- 5 

You are fairer than the children of men – grace is poured into your … Read More

Victory comes in the power of God                     verse 1- 3 

We have heard with our ears – O God – our fathers have told us

what work YOU did in their days – in the times of old

How YOU did drive out the heathen

with YOUR hand and planted them

How YOU did afflict the people – and cast … Read More

LORD asked to deliver the Psalmist                              verse 1 

Judge me – O God – and plead my cause against an ungodly nation

O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man 

Psalmist asks questions of LORD                                 verse 2 

For YOU are the God of my strength

WHY do YOU cast me off?  

WHY go I mourning because of the oppression … Read More

Deep desire to know God intimately                   verse 1- 3 

As the hart pants after the water brooks

so pants my soul after YOU – O God

My soul thirsts for God

for the LIVING God

When shall I come

and appear before God?

My tears have been my meat day and night

while they continually say to me

                        Where … Read More

David praises LORD for deliverance                  verse 1- 3 

Blessed is he that considers the poor

the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble

The LORD will preserve him – and keep him alive

and he shall be blessed on the earth

and YOU will not deliver him

to the will of his enemies

The LORD will strengthen him on … Read More

David is given a new song to sing                                  verse 1- 3 

I waited patiently for the LORD

and HE inclined to me – and heard my cry

HE brought me up also out of a horrible pit – out of the miry clay

and set my feet upon a rock – and established my goings

HE has put a NEW … Read More

David tried not to pray for help                          verse 1- 2 

I said – I will take heed to my ways – that I sin not with my tongue

I will keep my mouth with a bridle – while the wicked is before me

I was dumb with silence – I held my peace – even from good

and my sorrow … Read More

David chastened with sickness by the LORD      verse 1- 8 

O LORD – rebuke me not in YOUR wrath

neither chasten me in YOUR hot displeasure

      for YOUR arrows stick fast in me 

and YOUR hand presses me sore

There is no soundness in my flesh because of YOUR anger

neither is there any rest in my bones because of … Read More

Fret not about the wicked                                    verse 1- 2 

Fret not yourself because of evildoers

neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity

      for they shall soon be cut down like the grass

                  and wither as the green herb 

Trust in the LORD                                              verse 3- 4 

Trust in the LORD – and … Read More

Total Depravity of man                                       verse 1- 4

The transgressions of the wicked say with my heart

that there is no fear of God before his eyes

for he flatters himself in his own eyes

            until his iniquity be found to be hateful

the words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit         

                        he hath left off to be … Read More