Saturday Psalm & Praise: Psalm 40
Posted By Jacque on October 10, 2009
Psalm 40
1 For the leader. A psalm of David: I waited patiently for ADONAI, till he turned toward me and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up from the roaring pit, up from the muddy ooze, and set my feet on a rock, making my footing firm. 3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will look on in awe and put their trust in ADONAI. 4 How blessed the man who trusts in ADONAI and does not look to the arrogant or to those who rely on things that are false. 5 How much you have done, ADONAI my God! Your wonders and your thoughts toward us -none can compare with you! I would proclaim them, I would speak about them; but there’s too much to tell!
I think he waited patiently for me, but I am thankful he did hear the cry of my heart. After years of seeking his holiness and understanding his ways, he has turned toward me and heard me. And how blessed I am and our children are to receive the fruit of his instruction!
I DO have a new song on my mouth! He IS awesome and worthy to be trusted. I PRAISE him for drawing me closer and giving me his words to share in love about his ways. I am thankful I can discern the difference in his ways and those of the arrogant or false. There IS SO MUCH to tell!!
6 Sacrifices and grain offerings you don’t want; burnt offerings and sin offerings you don’t demand. Instead, you have given me open ears; 7 so then I said, “Here I am! I’m coming! In the scroll of a book it is written about me. 8 Doing your will, my God, is my joy; your Torah is in my inmost being. 9 I have proclaimed what is right in the great assembly; I did not restrain my lips, ADONAI, as you know. 10 I did not hide your righteousness in my heart but declared your faithfulness and salvation; I did not conceal your grace and truth from the great assembly.”
I am truly grateful that there are no more sacrifices necessary to cover my sins. I am thankful that after hiding my sins for 20 years, he called me to him and began my Journey to his narrow paths today. How precious is his Scripture, his Torah, that he would include me in it as his own.
I will continue to proclaim his words and his truths and be a light that he may draw his people to him and to his ways and out of a fallen world. I am so tremendously and utterly thankful for his revelation of the truth of his grace that is so hidden from Believers today. May we be blessed and quickened in our understanding of his ways.
11 ADONAI, don’t withhold your mercy from me. Let your grace and truth preserve me always. 12 For numberless evils surround me; my iniquities engulf me – I can’t even see; there are more of them than hairs on my head, so that my courage fails me. 13 Be pleased, ADONAI, to rescue me! ADONAI, hurry and help me! 14 May those who seek to sweep me away be disgraced and humiliated together. May those who take pleasure in doing me harm be turned back and put to confusion. 15 May those who jeer at me, “Aha! Aha!” be aghast because of their shame. 16 But may all those who seek you be glad and take joy in you. May those who love your salvation say always, “ADONAI is great and glorious!” 17 But I am poor and needy; may Adonai think of me. You are my helper and rescuer; my God, don’t delay!
Oh, if only this could be grasped. THANK YOU FATHER for your mercy and your grace and your truth. May we give YOU the glory and honour of being our God of grace and mercy. May we not give weight to our own doctrines, but adhere to yours alone! Oh to read and know your Scriptures!! Oh, to not add or take away from them!
Then, when the evils surround us and our own sin overtakes us, we would trust in YOU alone! Convict Believers, I pray, to the truth of your Torah, your Scriptures, and show them that it is your way to walk in your commands. Your Laws are light and easy to walk in. They bring us closer to you and your end for our lives.
Thank you and praise to the name of Yehovah!
What praises do you have of our great and mighty GOD today?
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All Scriptures taken from The Complete Jewish Bible by David Stern.
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