#Psalm 89:8

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Psalm 89:8 (NKJV) - O LORD God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O LORD? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

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Psalm 89:1-8 (NLT). [1] “I will sing of the Lord’s unfailing love forever! Young and old will hear of your faithfulness. [2] Your unfailing love will last forever. Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens. [3] The Lord said, “I have made a covenant with David, my chosen servant. I have sworn this oath to him: [4] ‘I will establish your descendants as kings forever; they will sit on your throne from now until eternity.’” Interlude [5] All heaven will praise your great wonders, Lord; myriads of angels will praise you for your faithfulness. [6] For who in all of heaven can compare with the Lord? What mightiest angel is anything like the Lord? [7] The highest angelic powers stand in awe of God. He is far more awesome than all who surround his throne. [8] O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies! Where is there anyone as mighty as you, O Lord? You are entirely faithful.”

“God’s Greatness—A Source of Comfort” by In Touch Ministries:

“Remember that God has the wisdom, strength, and compassion to meet all our needs.”

“David’s heartfelt cries fill the pages of the book of Psalms. Sometimes he makes requests, but many of his conversations with God focus on the Father’s greatness, love, power, and protection. In other words, David’s prayers are full of worship.

Consider these examples of psalms that focus on God’s attributes:

“Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?” (Psalm 139:7). God is everywhere. He’s not limited by time or space—we’re never beyond His awareness or care.

“Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite” (Psalm 147:5). God knows everything. When we pray to Him, He’s already aware of our feelings and needs.

“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His lovingkindness is everlasting” (Psalm 136:1). God’s character is constant. Since we can always trust that He’ll be faithful, reliable, and merciful, we’re able to place our confidence in Him no matter the situation.

When we recall an attribute of the heavenly Father that meets our needs, we place the focus of our prayers on Him rather than the request. And then we’re more likely to pray for His will to be done—and to praise Him for who He is.”

[Photo thanks to Johen Redman at Unsplash.]

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Refuse the Devil's Delivery of Anxious Thoughts and Turn Your Day Around (266) - October 5 2024

Choose your Podcast App to Play this episode According to Proverbs 15:15 (AMPC): ‘All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances].’ This week we focus on guarding our hearts and minds, so that what we think, believe and ponder on remains fixed on that which lines up…

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Who is a Pardoning God like Thee!

Psalm 89: 5-8. And the heavens shall praise Thy wonders, O LORD: Thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about Him. O LORD God of hosts, who is a…

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The Word of the Lord Stands Forever

The grass dries up and the flower fades, and the word of God stands for eternities! — Isaiah 40:8 | Peshitta Holy Bible Translated (PESH) The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated by Glenn David Bauscher Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing; 3rd edition Copyright © 2019. Cross References: Numbers 23:19; Psalm 111:8; Psalm 119:89; Isaiah 46:10; Isaiah 55:11; Matthew 5:18; 1 Peter 1:25

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What does it mean that the grass withers and the flowers fade, but the Word of the Lord endures forever (Isaiah 40:8)?

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the Bible comes alive

Don’t you love have God makes the Scripture come to life or come alive?  It is amazing how He speaks to us and life gets better, stronger and more.

That is something that happened for me recently.  I will point you to a simple passage from Psalms that I read this past weekend.  But first I remind you that daily Bible reading is important to me.  It is something I challenge you to make part of your life.

Listening to God changes you, changes how you see things and gives you wisdom to live.  That is what happened with Psalm 89.

Psalm 89  NLT

1-2  I will sing of the Lord’s unfailing love forever! Young and old will hear of your faithfulness. 2  Your unfailing love will last forever. Your faithfulness is as enduring as the heavens.

5-8  All heaven will praise your great wonders, Lord; myriads of angels will praise you for your faithfulness. 6  For who in all of heaven can compare with the Lord? What mightiest angel is anything like the Lord? 7 The highest angelic powers stand in awe of God.  He is far more awesome than all who surround his throne. 8  O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies! Where is there anyone as mighty as you, O Lord? You are entirely faithful.

13-14  Powerful is your arm! Strong is your hand! Your right hand is lifted high in glorious strength. 14  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Unfailing love and truth walk before you as attendants.

33-34  But I will never stop loving him nor fail to keep my promise to him. 34 No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said.

That is just a little or a few verses of that Psalm.  May you hear God and enjoy Him as the Word comes to life!

Thank you again for praying for the upcoming Cuba mission trip.  Would you consider supporting this work and trip?   If so, please reach out to me via phone or email at pastormh@gmail.com  

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Praise of God's Law pt 5

33. Teach me, O Lord, to follow your decrees; then I will keep them to the end. (Praise be to you, O Lord; teach me your decrees. Psalms 119:12 NIV)

And you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do. Exodus 18:20 ESV)

34. Give me understanding and I will keep your law and obey it with all my heart. (If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5 ESV)

Reproach- the expression of disapproval or disappointment.

(Cry out for insight and understanding. search for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure. Then you will understand what it means to fear the Lord and you will gain knowledge of God. For the Lord grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. Proverbs 2:3-6 NLT)

The same energy we put into pleasing other people, we need to direct that energy and motivation into pleasing Jesus.

35. Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight. (Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long. Psalms 25:4-5)

(Why don't people say to God, 'I have sinned, but I will sin no more'? Or, I don't know what evil I have done; tell me, and I will stop at once? Job 34:32 NLT)

(For you are my rock, and my fortress; and for your names sake you lead me and guide me. Psalms 31:3 ESV)

36. Turn my heart towards your statutes and not toward selfish gain. (He said, "Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel. Joshua 24:23 ESV)

(And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouth they act; their heart is set on their gain Ezekiel 33:31 ESV)

37. Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word (I lie in the dust, completely discouraged; revive me by your word. Psalms 119:25 NLT)

(You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth, you will bring me up again Psalms 71:20 ESV)

(How can a young man keep his way pure? by living according to your word. Psalms 119:9 NIV)

38. Fulfill your promise to your servant, so that you may be feared. (God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said and will he not do it? Numbers 23:19 ESV)

(No, I will not punish you as much as my burning anger tells me to. I will not completely destroy Israel, For I am God and not a mere mortal. I am the Holy One living among you and will not come to destroy. Hosea 11:9 NLT)

39. Take away the disgrace I dread, for your laws are good. (Passion for your house burns within me, so those who insult you are also insulting me. Psalms 69:9 NLT)

(With which your enemies mock, O Lord, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed. Psalms 89:51 ESV)

(They will swallow up death forever! The Sovereign Lord will wipe away all tears. He will remove forever all insults and mockery against his land and his people. The Lord as spoken! Isaiah 25:8 NLT)

40. How I long for your precepts! Preserve my life in your righteousness. (Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O Lord, according to your justice give me life. Psalms 119:149 ESV)

(Please my cause and redeem me; give me life according to your promise! Psalms 119:154 ESV)

(I am overwhelmed continually with a desire for your laws. Psalms 119:20 NLT)

Psalms 119:33-40 NIV

[hiswordsarekisses]

God is the same yesterday today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8) And His Word is “settled forever.” (1Peter 1:25, Isaiah 40:8, psalm 119:89) 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Because the One Who IS The Word was with God in the beginning, and as John chapter One says: “and The Word Was God!” 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 and when He returns He is coming back - still The Word… and He rides the white horse “and on His thigh is written “The Word of God” (Revelation 19:13) - so the old and New Testament can never be separated!!!! Because there is only ONE GOD!!! And not only does He not change -Jesus (The Word) - taught from the Old Testament and clarified it, and established it!!! To not see how the New and Old Testament compliment each other and confirm one another they cannot have read them both. Or even read just the New, because the Old is quoted all the way through it!!! Not one jot or tittle of The Word will pass away until EVERYTHING is accomplished!(Matthew 5:19) 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻💖💖💖

[mental-health-and-jesus]

8-20-2024 | Heart Dive ❤️ Day 126 | Psalms 89: 96: 100: 101: 105: 132:

I Will Sing of His Loving Forever

A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

‘He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.”’ Psalms‬ ‭89‬:‭26‬

“Even if I can’t understand any of it, I trust You anyway God.” ~ ❤️

Sing to the LORD, All the Earth

‘Declare among the nations: “The Lord reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.’ Psalms‬ ‭96‬:‭10‬

“The secret to Beauty in life is Jesus” ~ ❤️

Make a Joyful Noise

A Psalm of thanksgiving.

‘Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.’ Psalms‬ ‭100‬:‭3‬

“What have you thanked God for today?” ~ ❤️

I Will Set No Worthless Thing before My Eyes

A Psalm of David.

‘I will sing of Your loving devotion and justice; to You, O Lord, I will sing praises.’ Psalms‬ ‭101‬:‭1‬

“That’s what true character is, how you act when no one else is looking” ~ ❤️

Tell of His Wonders

‘He remembers His covenant forever, the word He ordained for a thousand generations— the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.’ Psalms‬ ‭105‬:‭8‬-‭9‬

“God was able to show that he was greater than all of gods.” ~ ❤️

The LORD Has Chosen Zion

A song of ascents.

‘May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.’ Psalms‬ ‭132‬:‭9‬

“Ultimately fulfilled through the life of Jesus.” ~ ❤️

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dont know how to really put this into words and its not a very Easter-y post per se but something ive been thinking abt, and especially since Good Friday, is almost... how slender yet hugely significant a thread the passion of Jesus is in the Christian Bible?

my NRSV is 1102 pages (897 without deuterocanon). the Gospels take up 89 of those pages. 8-10% of the Christian Bible is about the life of Jesus (although ofc the rest of the NT is about unpacking what that means). and then the passion itself is an even smaller slice.

i often pray the catholic liturgy of the hours, which is at its core a bunch of psalms and then some other miscellaneous stuff depending on the time of day, and something i oddly appreciate abt it is all this time spent with OT Psalms makes explicitly Christian stuff like the Trinity or Jesus more exciting when it pops up, because you feel their absence a bit?

Christianity is very Jesus-drenched, and obviously that's because he's literally the core and namesake of the religion. but i sorta feel like sometimes it can be too much. Jesus overload. the significance of what it means for God to become human flesh and suffer and die as the culmination of this whole century-long epic of redemption fades a little. we don't always appreciate Jesus as the climax to the story because we start with him as the beginning.

sometimes i go thru phases where I spend most of my Bible reading time in the Old Testament, and for various reasons - it's got a different feel and scope, it speaks to different things (more of an emphasis on societal social justice), it's more dramatic in certain ways, it has nice poetry, it has a very rich tradition of people getting angry with God and pouring out their souls in suffering.

but i think deliberately spending this time away from the NT makes me appreciate what a big deal the Incarnation is - and i feel a bit in awe of the way that all the threads in this massive story of God's work culminate in the life of just one guy and his humiliating, brutal, embarrassing murder. A story that's weaved its way through global floods and plagues and revolution and kingdoms and wars and exile finds its thesis statement in One Man standing before Pilate, beaten by soldiers, dragging his cross through the streets, nailed to a tree.

it's a bizarre kind of narrative understatement. the Bible rejects the temptation of many a long-running franchise to go bigger and bigger, to keep on raising the stakes, and instead sits you down with the most humiliating, degrading, hopeless moment in Jesus' life and says: this is the face of God. This is what God looks like. The Lord is not to be found in whirlwinds nor earthquakes nor fire but in the face of the oppressed, the falsely accused, the suffering.

of course, there's a cosmic dimension to it as well. in a sense as it simultaneously lowers the physical stakes to one man, one soul, the Passion is also raising the cosmic stakes tremendously. 'now is the judgment of the world, now is the ruler of this world cast out - and i, when i am lifted up, will draw all people to myself.'

but on the face of it, the idea that it should be this Holy Week that's the crux of the story - not the great flood, not the destruction of Jerusalem, not the apocalyptic terrors of Revelation - is a bit odd, and for that endless fascinating to me.

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Holy, loving, faithful, gracious, compassionate, merciful, longsuffering God, is righteous, just and true, and so are all His judgments, in all the earth.

Thus says the Lord God: "I will take also one of the highest branches of the high cedar and set it out. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and prominent mountain. On the mountain height of Israel I will plant it; and it will bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. Under it will dwell birds of every sort; in the shadow of its branches they will dwell."

"And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the LORD, have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish; I, the LORD, have spoken and have done it." (Ezekiel 17:22-24)

"Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints! Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your judgments have been manifested." (Revelation 15:3-4)

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Related Bible Readings: Deuteronomy 32:1-4; 1 Samuel 16:6-7; Psalm 19; Psalm 23; Psalm 75; Psalm 89; Psalm 105; Psalm 145; Proverbs 14:34-35; Ezekiel 31; Isaiah 46:12-13; Isaiah 61:8-11; John 7:24; Acts 10:34-48; Revelation 19 and further study Revelation in its entirety.

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Psalms 89:8-13 NKJV

[8] O Lord God of hosts, Who is mighty like You, O Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You. [9] You rule the raging of the sea; When its waves rise, You still them. [10] You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one who is slain; You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm. [11] The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; The world and all its fullness, You have founded them. [12] The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in Your name. [13] You have a mighty arm; Strong is Your hand, and high is Your right hand.

https://bible.com/bible/114/psa.89.8-13.NKJV

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O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

-Psalm 89:8-9

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A Light to lighten the Gentiles

25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. 26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ. 27 And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law, 28 he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said,

29 “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word; 30 for my eyes have seen your salvation 31 that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, 32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”

33 And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him. 34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed 35 (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”

36 And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin, 37 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day. 38 And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

The Return to Nazareth

39 And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. 40 And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him. — Luke 2:25-40 | English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Cross References: Deuteronomy 18:15; 1 Samuel 2:20; Joshua 19:24; Joshua 22:33; 1 Samuel 1:2; 1 Samuel 2:21; Psalm 89:48; Psalm 119:166; Psalm 119:174; Isaiah 8:14; Isaiah 9:2; Isaiah 11:10; Jeremiah 32:11; Matthew 2:12; Matthew 2:23; Matthew 8:10; Matthew 12:46; Mark 15:43; Luke 1:26; Luke 1:68; Luke 1:80; Luke 2:22; Luke 5:33; Acts 13:3; Revelation 6:10

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Testifying to Jesus: Simeon