Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.

Lord, my plea is that those promises in which I have placed all my hopes and that form the basis for my life, are indeed from You and by You. I have no other ground upon which to stand

This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.

Lord, when will I learn the truth and certainty of this statement? That when I am afflicted and beset by troubles, it is then that Your promises shine like a brilliant beacon to give me life and hope. But it is during these times that my self-pity blinds my eyes to the brilliance and beauty of Your promises, I wallow in despair. Lord, help me.

Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.  This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life. The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law. When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.  Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law. Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.  I remember your name in the night, O LORD, and keep your law.  This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.

Lord, You, the God of All Comfort, have graciously and generously provided Your Word for my comfort and guidance. My heart overflows with gratitude, knowing that as I listen to the teaching of the Holy Spirit, I will live in the region of righteousness, peace and joy that is life in Your Kingdom.

One of my principal challenges is to come to You for wisdom and guidance in all situations, no matter how minor, before setting off on my own course of action. Lord, help me to learn this lesson.

Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your statutes continually!

To walk in the light of Your Word, continually and without stumbling. Now that is a goal to be treasured and sought after with all my heart, mind, soul and strength. Lead me, Holy Spirit

Today's readings in the Psalms:

Morning: Psalm 58

Mid-day: 119:81-88

Evening: Psalm 134

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Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

What reason do I have to be sad? My hope is in the Lord. What excuse do I have for enduring the turmoil of depression? Praise the Lord, His mercy extends forever. He alone is my salvation, He alone is my God. It is well, it is well with my soul.

Today's readings in the Psalms:

Morning: Psalm 57

Mid-day: 119:73-80

Evening: Psalm 133

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Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling! Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.

My joy is in Your Presence, my exceeding joy is to praise you; it is Your Truth and Your Light that leads me into the Presence and that casts me down in worship and causes me to erupt in praise. Hallelujah.

Today's readings in the Psalms:

Morning: Psalm 56

Mid-day: 119:65-72

Evening: Psalm 132

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Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me! For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Lord, I must not be in mourning when the Evil One assaults me, You do not reject me but are with me to guide me when I listen and obey, to hold my hand and instruct me as I timidly step out in faith. Why do I let the oppression of the Evil One frighten and depress me? I must rejoic.e that I am blessed to suffer for Your Namesakes.

Today's readings in the Psalms:

Morning: Psalm 55

Mid-day: 119:57-64

Evening: Psalm 131

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Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him. Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Lord, that I would receive that same clarity of vision that Stephen had; to see You standing at the right hand of the Father interceding for me. That that vision would be with me to sustain and encourage me in my time of trial as it did Stephen.

Today's readings in the Psalms:

Morning: Psalm 54

Mid-day: 119:49-56

Evening: Psalm 130

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I say to God, my rock: "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?" Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Lord, I have two dear friends who are going to court this morning to watch and wait while their son is indited on drug dealing charges. Surely those around them who know of their faith are wondering, “Where is their God now? Why is He allowing something like this to happen to these people if He is supposed to love and care for them?” Even they may be wondering this morning as they set out on that long trip, where You are in all this.

My prayer is that they are able to praise You, to recognize Your Hand at work in their son's life and in theirs as You support and carry them through this season of distress. That in all this evil and filth, You will be glorified according to the picture painted in Ezekiel 36:22-23, 36 Lord, that through this, my friends can once again praise You, their salvation and their God.

Today's readings in the Psalms:

Morning: Psalm 53

Mid-day: 119:41-48

Evening: Psalm 129

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Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

As the problems have been mounting recently, problems on all fronts with equipment problems from water heaters to computers, with the sudden transfer of the majority of our men to another prison, financial and health concerns, family issues, I sometimes feel that I am under a waterfall of cascading trials. But yet Your steadfast love is indeed with me by day through all these woes and You have provided me with sweet sleep in Your arms each night. Thank You for Your song of deliverance.

Today's readings in the Psalms:

Morning: Psalm 52

Mid-day: 119:33-40

Evening: Psalm 128

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I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

Isn't it amazing, that while I was a slave to sin, I despised those holy commandments but now as one who has been transformed by faith, I find myself consumed with love for and fascination with those very same commandments? They teach me how to live in the Kingdom. They guide my life constantly and completely. Praise You, LORD, for Your great gift.

I will also speak of your testimonies before kings and shall not be put to shame, for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.

"For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being," Romans 7:22 Why did Paul and the Psalmist who wrote the 119th both find delight in the Law of God? Is it not that it is within the boundaries defined by the Law that they found the righteousness, peace, and joy of life in the Kingdom? Is it not, likewise, that it is there that my life is satisfied, that I find freedom from anxiety and wisdom and discernment to direct my life? Yea and amen, it is so.

I will keep your law continually, forever and ever, and I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts.

The relationship between the Law of God and my walk as a disciple of Jesus Christ. When the Law is my docent to life, that life is lived in the widest of places, a land flowing with milk and honey.