In The Word Read Psalm 142, 143 Prayer for Help in Trouble. Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. I cry aloud with my voice to the Lord; I make supplication with my voice to the Lord. I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my trouble before Him. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. […]
Month: December 2015
UNSELFISH PRAYERS
In The Word Read Psalm 140, 141 Prayer for Protection against the Wicked. For the choir director. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men; Preserve me from violent men Who devise evil things in their hearts; They continually stir up wars. They sharpen their tongues as a serpent; Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah. Keep me, O Lord, […]
ALL KNOWING AND SEEING
In The Word Read Psalm 139 God’s Omnipresence and Omniscience. For the choir director. A Psalm of David. O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a […]
AT THE APPOINTED TIME
In The Word Read Daniel 11:21-12:13 In his place a despicable person will arise, on whom the honor of kingship has not been conferred, but he will come in a time of tranquility and seize the kingdom by intrigue. The overflowing forces will be flooded away before him and shattered, and also the prince of the covenant. After an alliance […]
GOD IS IN CONTROL
In The Word Read Daniel 11:2-20 And now I will tell you the truth. Behold, three more kings are going to arise in Persia. Then a fourth will gain far more riches than all of them; as soon as he becomes strong through his riches, he will arouse the whole empire against the realm of Greece. And a mighty king will arise, and he will […]
THE LORD FIGHTS FOR US
In The Word Read Daniel 10:1-11:1 Daniel Is Terrified by a Vision In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar; and the message was true and one of great conflict, but he understood the message and had an understanding of the vision. In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks. I did not […]
FRUIT OF REPENTANCE
In The Word Read Daniel 9:20-27 Gabriel Brings an Answer Now while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the […]
A SPIRIT OF REPENTANCE
In The Word Read Daniel 9:1-19 Daniel’s Prayer for His People In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans— in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah […]
A SPIRIT OF RELIGION
In The Word Read Daniel 8 Vision of the Ram and Goat In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar the king a vision appeared to me, Daniel, subsequent to the one which appeared to me previously. I looked in the vision, and while I was looking I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam; […]
MAKING GOD’S PLAN CLEAR
In The Word Read Daniel 7 Vision of the Four Beasts In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and related the following summary of it. Daniel said, “I was looking in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great […]