Monday, September 27, 2021

Psalm 39 - Praying God's Word

 

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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