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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…
Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules. A freewill offering—an offering freely given, an offering of praise lifted up to You in the congregation. Today's readings in the Psalms: Morning: Psalm 51 Mid-day: 119:25-32 Evening: Psalm 127 Voices Together is available as an annual…
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. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from…
These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. To join with the brothers in the prison while we may not…
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for 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 food day and…
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted…
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen. You are the Blessed One, the Lord God Almighty, Yahweh, the Giver of Righteousness, and I, Your creation and Your slave, stand in awe and gratitude of Your boundless mercy and love. Today's readings in…
But you, O LORD, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may repay them! By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy will not shout in triumph over me. But you have upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in your presence…
I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. You gently lead me, providing instruction by word and example, interpreting through the Holy Spirit so that I am continuously reminded of all that You said and did. Today's readings in the Psalms: Morning: Psalm 44 Mid-day:…
All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me. They say, "A deadly thing is poured out on him; he will not rise again from where he lies." Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against…
As for me, I said, "O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!" My enemies say of me in malice, "When will he die, and his name perish?" And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity;…
To the choirmaster. A Psalm .of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him; he LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his…
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. Now the acid test—Will I obey? Will I apply the Word of God to all aspects of my life? Knowing right from wrong and having the Holy Spirit to guide me into…
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into…
As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God! When I do recognize that I am poor and needy, then You deliver the transformation that I need. Until then, while I…