Please read Psalm 39.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/psa/39/1/s_517001
Meditate on verse 10a.
Remove Your plague from me.
As I write this devotional, we are in the midst of a world-wide plague. By the time you read this devotional, hopefully, the plague will be a distant memory, but if not, this is a psalm to pray in the midst of the plague. And even if you are reading it after the plague is over, there is probably something plaguing you, for that is the nature of our human existence. Thankfully, we serve a Living God who has been sovereign over lots of plagues in the past and is sovereign over the one you experience today.
Pray His Words from Psalm 39:4-8 and 10-12 over your plague as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).
“LORD, make me to know my end and what
is the extent of my days. Let me know how
transient I am. Behold You have made my
days as handbreadths and my lifetime as
nothing in Your sight; surely every human
at their best is a mere breath. Surely every
human walks about as a phantom; surely we
make an uproar for nothing; we amass riches
and do not know who will gather them. And
now, LORD, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me
not the reproach of the foolish. Remove Your plague
from me; because of the opposition of Your hand I am
perishing. With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;
You consume as a moth what is precious to him;
surely everyone is a mere breath. Hear my prayer, O
LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent
at my tears, for I am a stranger with
You, a sojourner like my fathers.
Let me sojourn with You, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 4 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
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