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A setback will cause you to either doubt or trust the Lord. Woe to him who only trusts the Lord when everything is going well. You can get mad at Him or move closer to Him. Woe to him whose initial reaction is bitterness towards the Lord when everything does not go their way. The…
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What if someone had you followed to your house and attempted to kill you twice? What if that someone was your father-in-law? How would you respond? This describes how King Saul treated his son-in-law David. 1 Samuel 19 tells us the story to which Psalm 59 refers. The introduction to Psalm 59 again tells us…
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A leadership crisis will destroy a nation, business, church, and family. Leaders who do not respect, obey, implement laws, and govern according to God’s Word cannot help but act in selfishness, lawlessness, and sinfulness. Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.” In…
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When the enemy surrounds you and backs you into a corner, the best thing to do is worship the Lord. The introduction to Psalm 57 tells us it was written about the time David fled from Saul into the cave. David hid from Saul a couple of times in a cave (1 Samuel 22:1; 24:3). …
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When we are in trouble, why do we foolishly return to evil practices and places thinking they have somehow changed and will now bring us comfort and peace when our past experiences have proven to us they never can? Why don’t we instantly seek the Lord? The introduction to Psalm 56 tells us it is…
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What do you do when a friend betrays you? Psalm 55 tells us. Is it wrong to ask God to listen to your prayers? If so (and it is not), David is in big trouble (and he is not). Psalm 55 is another example of David asking the Lord for deliverance from his enemy. Although…
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As I grew up in church, we sang a song called “Just a little talk with Jesus”. One line in there said, “Let us tell Him all about our troubles. He will hear our faintest cry and we will answer by and by.” As a kid, I thought, “I don’t have any troubles to tell…
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Although Psalm 53 is Psalm 14 with a couple of minor changes, there is much to be learned and applied. David still believes it is foolish to believe God does not exist. He says, “The fool says in his heart, there is no God” (v. 1a). That’s still true today. Only a fool would not…
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It’s one thing to do evil. It’s quite another to be proud and brag about it. In Psalm 52, David calls out Doeg the Edomite and most likely King Saul as well for their evil acts found in 1 Samuel 21-22. With an evil heart, Doeg told King Saul, who was trying to kill David,…
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When you are confronted with sin, how do you respond? David was, “A man after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14; Acts 13:22). He wrote almost half of the Psalms. With God’s help, he defeated Goliath (1 Samuel 17) and was king over Judah and Israel over forty years (2 Samuel 5:4-5). 1 Kings 15:5…
stephen R Harrison 