A devotional of Psalm 149 1 Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly! Music is a powerful medium that God endowed us with. Novelty of any kind strikes fresh cords in our nervous system and causes shockwaves in our brains as neuronal activity gears …
A devotional of Psalm 148 Today we get to wear God’s polar glasses and try on praise from their perspective. We saw last time that he is a God who pans opposites so that no one falls outside his parameters. Young and old, male and female, free and slave, kings and subjects, heights and depths, …
A devotional of Psalm 147 This song underscores a theme in my mind – Jah is is a God of opposites. His eyes have a micro and a macro lens. 1 Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. …
Psalm 146-150 marks the grand finale of the psalms which crescendo in praise, upon mounting praise, upon high, high praise! A devotional on Psalm 146 1 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! 2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I …
A devotional on Psalm 144 1 Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; 2 he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. This section of this …
A devotional of Psalm 139 1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. Our greatest need is to be sought after and to be known. Only God perfectly pursues us, understands us, knows us. Thank you Father for that marvelous truth. He sees us exactly as we are, he accepts and loves us, …
A devotional on Psalm 138 1 I will praise you, O Lord, with my whole heart; before the gods I will sing your praise; What a grand way to wake up every day! What a noble declaration and resolution! Praise here is the word yadah illustrated by casting a stone or an arrow. It is …
A devotional of Psalm 137 This is a most visceral of psalms. It evokes deep anguish at its beginning, meager hope in its midst, and disgust by its end. 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. Have you ever sat down and wept? Sometimes you have …
A devotional of Psalm 134. 1 Behold, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who stand by night in the house of the Lord! It has been suggested that this was the parting blessing as the pilgrims left the temple. They called this section out to the priests who remained in the temple …