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A SONG OF DELIVERANCE PAST, PRESENT, and FUTUREPsalm 40 PRAYING THE PASSAGE: God's faithfulness to deliver us from trials in the past gives us confidence to praise him through trials in the present.Deliverance Remembered Psalm 40:1 I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.2 He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and s...

PRAYER POINTS | Extraordinary Gifts in Ordinary PlacesPsalm 1281 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD,who walks in his ways! We are invited to receive all of who God has revealed himself to be, to believe in his self-revelation, to be transformed by Spirit's power, to live awed over his mercies. This is the fear of the Lord. Jerry Bridges Properly fearing God is more ...

This past week was a historic one for the city of Louisville. The eyes of the nation were upon us, as the turmoil, anguish, and division that have swirled in recent months hit us very personally. Such moments reveal our utter dependence upon the Lord and drive us to our knees to seek God's perspective and to ask for His mercy. Below is an excerpt from our Pastoral Pr...

"GUILT. What a horrendous burden. Sometimes people carry a tremendous weight of subjective guilt-i.e., of felt guilt-when they are not really guilty. Far worse is the situation where they carry a tremendous weight of objective guilt-i.e., they really are guilty of some odious sin in the eyes of the living God-and are so hardened that they do not know it." D.A. Carson "Dav...

PRAYING THE PASSAGE (PSALM 51): "For about three thousand years now David has been teaching sinners the ways of God's forgiveness and mercy through this written lament. Although it was an intensely personal prayer, it was deposited in the sanctuary to be used by others also in need of forgivenessChristians have made use of this psalm in their confessions of sin, and right...

"A fierce delight and pride in the great march of God gleams through every line of this little poem-a masterpiece whose flights of verbal fancy would have excluded it from any hymn book but this. Here is the exodus not as a familiar item in Israel's creed but as an astounding event: as startling as a clap of thunder, as shattering as an earthquake." Derek Kidner "No human...

Wasn't planning it, wasn't expecting it! Wasn't expecting what? Wasn't expecting 2020 to come in like a tsunami and wreck everything we'd been planning and working towards: 1 Addis Ababa church plant, 2 missionary families relocating to Ethiopia from the USA, 3 missions ...

PRAYING THE PASSAGE:"No human mind has ever been able to equal, much less to excel, the grandeur of this Psalm." Charles SpurgeonFather, I want to start by thanking you for your Word. It is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Ps. 119:105). Thank you for guiding our church this week through Psalm 114 and for helping us know this grand psalm that reveals our grand God....

PRAYING THE PASSAGE: Exodus 35-40 "Exodus is the unforgettable story of the Israelites epic journey from captivity in Egypt to covenant with God at Mt. Sinai. And their journey from slavery in Egypt to the land of promise is meant to inform our journey from captivity to sin to the heavenly city."Father, as we as a church family journey through a fallen world to our heaven...

Things To Pray For In September By Dave Taylor on Sep 01, 2020 02:48 am