Psalm 28

Getting into it, deeper.

Just some thoughts – You can’t sell if you can’t sell to yourself. People are rejected due to lack of knowledge – knowledge and passion of the products, technical details, environmental aspects, etc.

It always helps to know more.

I’m on a quick break, so I’ll try to get this done and posted in a much smaller time than usual.

Thank You, Lord, for the reading of Your Word.

Rejoicing in Answered Prayer

A Psalm of David.

Well, now. I asked for help. I asked for what’s new.

Thank You, Father, for answered prayers.

Let us rejoice.

1 To You I will cry, O LORD my Rock: Do not be silent to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

The love of God is seen in the presence of God… and, as always, we give thanks and praise to Jesus Christ. By His birth, death, resurrection and ascension, He has guaranteed our complete, full, absolute and forever salvation – we have been made completely righteous, we have been fully reconciled, we have been made absolutely new, and we also have God as our Father, present with us forever.

Because of God’s love and presence, we are able to cry to Him, we are able to lift our supplications, our hands to Him and His sanctuary… And He shall not be silent towards us; He hears us.

We enjoy the love and presence of the Lord by way of knowing that at any given moment, we can cry out to Him, we can speak out, knowing that He hears us, He listens to us, and He responds – not according to our expectations and preferences, but according to His infinite power, eternal wisdom, and everlasting love.

3 Do not take me away with the wicked And with the workers of iniquity, Who speak peace to their neighbors, But evil is in their hearts.

4 Give them according to their deeds, And according to the wickedness of their endeavors; Give them according to the work of their hands; Render to them what they deserve.

5 Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them And not build them up.

Once we were as the wicked; We were full of evil, overflowing from our hearts with deceitful peace laced with wrath. And as we were full of evil, we intentionally disregarded all the Lord has done, is doing, and will do; as such, we were deserving of the full repercussions of our wickedness, deserving of God destroying us and taking out all hope.

6 Blessed be the LORD, Because He has heard the voice of my supplications!

7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.

8 The LORD is their strength, And He is the saving refuge of His anointed.

9 Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; Shepherd them also, And bear them up forever.

But, yes, Lord! We give glory to You! We give thanks to our Father, because that is no longer our burden – we have taken on the easy yoke of Christ!

We rest, knowing through Christ we have a Father who is always with us, loving us with an everlasting love. We move in a state of rest, we possess powerful peace knowing that it is the Lord who is our Strength, and it is the Lord who is our Shield.

Give praises to the Lord, and bless His holy name, for He is trustworthy!

We trust in Him, and we are helped.

We trust in Him, and we are not put to shame.

We wait on Him, and we renew our strength.

We acknowledge Him in all things, and He establishes our thoughts, and directs our steps.

By the power of the Holy Spirit, we cry out to the Lord,

and for His Name’s sake, He responds mightily!

Thank You, Father! Thank You, Lord, for Your faithfulness, for Your outstanding, infinitely superior Truth, real and seen in our lives.

Thank You for hearing us, thank You for ALWAYS hearing us; Thank You, because that in itself is already such a great testimony of Your grace and goodness in our lives – You ARE the God who hears us, You are Jehovah Rohi!

Thank You for not only hearing us, but as a Father, You are the God who hears and listens! Thank You for reading between the lines, and going deeper into what we’re saying, more than what You’re hearing!

Thank You, Father, because You see all that we don’t dare show the rest of the world, and You continue to love us, moving in our midst so it is as it is written – we move in paths growing brighter and brighter, unto the new day!

Thank You, Lord! Thank You, Jesus, for making all this possible, and for guaranteeing it all – it is not by who we are, or what we do, but all because of You that we are just so joyful, so at peace and in Your powerful presence!

You are worthy of all glory and praise. You are worthy of all our adoration and our worship.

Our burdens and our problems, our plans and our regrets, ALL we are is in the palm of our hands, and we trust in You. Be glorified to the maximum in all that is happening, Lord!

Halleluyah, and amen.

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