2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

3 I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies

I love these three verses the first verse I use in my prayer to the Lord before my games. Lord you are my stregth. My foundation and rock. God is my protector and the foundation of my life. God I call upon you to keep me from enemies that can pull me away from Him

This passage is so beautiful and so so true.

Whenever I find myself in any situation where I see no way out of without serious problems from others, I need to remember this passage. He can rescue me, if He sees fit…the phrase “too strong for me” really demonstrates God’s absolute power.

God gives us the strength to do what we cannot. This verse reminds me of a book I read once called “The Bronze Bow.” The book takes place in Israel during Jesus life. The main characters discover that God does give them strength to withstand trials. I would definitely recommend the book. But enough of that. The thing to take away from this verse is that God strengthens us. Remember, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

How awesome is that?? He can say that he has been blameless and kept himself from sin?? He also says he has not turned away from his decrees! Wouldn’t that be awesome to be able to honestly say that??!! I want to follow David’s example in this! No Compromise!!!

It is so great that our God will protect us when we need him. I’m so glad that our God is watching over us and listens to our prayers. we need to grow in our relationship with christ because he is all of the things mentioned in this verse.

Wow. WE do not want this God angry at us. We say that and then each and every day, multiple times a day we sin. That angers him so much. Not only that, but it hurts him too. We don’t want that. I know I don’t. I know that I need to pray for God’s mercy and be thankful that he does not unleash his powerful wrath upon us like we deserve. He is so forgiving and merciful. This psalm clearly shows how powerful his wrath is, and I know that I sure am thankful that he rescues me from it.

The very beginning of this psalm stuck out to me. We need to be reminded that the Lord is there to protect us and he is with us through everything, to realize he is our strength and that we can lean on him through anything and everything. This is also a good reminder to reflect on how we show God we love him and thank him for being our deliverer and for being our rock, we need to being letting the Lord know daily that we love him through our prayers and actions.

6 In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.

I need to remember this verse more often after looking at this morning when I was so frightened by a nightmare I had had. Seriously, The first thing I should do is call out to Him who is my refuge and my safety, my shelter when fear beats around me. I like what Dacid follows up with after this verse though! He gives us plenty of reasons to fear the Lord, so if we’re fearful of Him, why do we cry out? It’s because of this fear that we dooooo! We acknowledge that He is the almighty God and we submit to whatever He wants us to do. We have an understanding that he does help the humble, like it says in here, and He will be there for us, those that are called His own. I have no fear about my next nightmare because I have the Lord! :D

This verse is so encouraging. Even when we lose all hope and are ready to give up on something, God will still be there with us, “keeping our lamp burning.” He will show us the way, and we can do all things through him. The amount of things that we can do with God on our side is endless and truely incredible!

i love these verses! nothing else can satisfy us and strengthen us the way that God can, there is no one like him. these verses are such a great reminder of that

This is one of my favorite verses! I memorized it in college and think on it all the time because if I want my way, I remind myself that God’s way is perfect, mine is not. I might seek input from friends, but God’s Word is flawless…I need to trust in him!

This is a great psalm showing how great and mighty God really is. We need to follow David’s example in this verse by constantly pursuing the Lord even in hard times. We need to not turn to worldly things when we are feeling down, but we need to put our trust in the Lord because without Him we can not do anything. We need to constantly be praising the Lord for who He is.

Wow, this whole passage is awesome! God is so perfect and holy, its huge to think about! God’s will is always the right one and works out for the best. Relying on yourself never works and we need The Lord to guide us, and we need to be obedient to what he commands of us. He will never leave nor forsake you, and that to me is really encouraging to know! He is a shield! God is so amazing and powerful. God and his word is what we need to be in daily, and to mediate on his word and just grow closer to him!

God is so great! Whatever we are going through in our lives, we can take refuge in God. He is the foundation of our lives and we need to fully rely on Him.

When I was in Uganda last summer, this verse got recited a lot on my team! Whenever we found ourselves in a situation that seemed hard or unsure, we would say to each other, “With my God I can scale a wall!”

This song makes God look so big and powerful. Do I have the confidence that David did, where I can look at the future and say, “Bring it on!” because I am so confident in God?

This is a pattern i have seen in Davids psalms. Whenever he is struggling or is going through a trial, he prays to God. His first reaction is to ask God for help in his time of need. That needs to be our reaction too. Instead of doing it by ourselves, we need to trust that God is in control and do things according to His plan.

It just blows my mind to think how God would even want to have a relationship with us when we are so below Him. I like how this verse says “drew me out of deep waters” because our sin brings us down away from God and it reminds me how God, even though we’re sinners reached down and gave us a way out from all our sin and being so separated from Him by sending His Son.

In the opening verses of this psalm, David is crying out for deliverance. The LORD answers His prayers and saves Him, and David makes sure that He thanks and praises Him for it. How often do we ask for things in prayer, only to neglect this aspect once we receive what we want? We need to make sure that we are daily thanking God for how He works in our lives and answers our prayers.

His way and his word is perfect! How awesome and encouraging! I can trust fully in his plan for my life and the path he leads because his way is perfect. I have been given his flawless word as a guide to living a pleasing life to the Lord. Remembering this, I confess the times that I have desired to listen to my own plans or thoughts rather than obeying God’s Word. I must fully depend on the flawless Word of God, knowing that his way and his will is perfect.

1 I love you, O LORD, my strength.

So simple but straight to the point. It’s very evident that David loves God by both his words and actions. He draws his strength from God, not from other people or the world or himself but from the Lord.

2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

God is everything to Him. I really need to follow his example and place everything wholeheartedly with God and praise him all the time. David praises God through everything. He relies and depends on God so much thanking him for his salvation, strength, and shelter. Like Ben said that we want to make God our life, not our number 1 priority in life. We live for Him. That verse Paul wrote down has been stuck in my head all day (To live is Christ and to die is gain) Not to be lukewarm, but on fire for Jesus Christ. To love and live for Jesus Christ so much that when we die, it will be our greatest moment ever.

3 I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.

This is a really reassuring verse for me. David calls on the Lord and is saved from all those who are out to get him during this tough time. Our Lord sustains and stregthens us. He’s so much bigger than our enemies (If God is for us, who can be against us?)

46 The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior!

yayyy! praise the Lord. God is good :D

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is God really what keeps us going during the day? is it Him we rely on and trust when we are struggling and having a tough day? like david, we need to be trusting in God during our trials (in davids case fighting enemies and leading Israel) and not look to worldly things or ourselves when we are in trouble. it is God who keeps us running and it is Him who turns our darkness into light. we need to follow Him and rely on Him in all things, for He is our Creator, Redeemer, and Rock!

46 “The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior!
47 He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me,
48 who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from violent men you rescued me.
49 Therefore I will praise you among the nations, O LORD; I will sing praises to your name.”

Here David basically summarizes the entire thing. He was being pursued by Saul and other enemies, and it seemed like all hope was lost. He was in a desperate place where he probably had very few friends, but an abundance of enemies who wanted him dead. But he didn’t give up hope. He had faith in the LORD and cried to Him in his time of need. And God heard his prayer and came to his rescue in power and glory. He saved David from all those violent, wicked men who were his enemies. And David says that because of that–because God has saved him–he will praise the LORD.

God may not be needing to physically save us today from people who want to hurt or kill us, but He has saved us, and in an even greater way. He has provided us with Jesus, through whom we can be saved from *eternal* death, facing God’s righteous wrath. Do we respond to the fact that God has saved us by proclaiming that we will joyfully praise Him with all our heart? I hope that we are following David’s example and responding to God’s salvation not only with faith in Jesus, but with thanksgiving, worship, and praise to His name for His glory!

A couple of my ultimate favorite verses in the Bible. It is true, we are created by Him and when we are in need, God is there. He is perfect and we must serve Him and worship Him all the days of our life. What we are is God’s gift to us, Who we become is our gift to God.

God’s way really is perfect and it should be the only way. Unfortunatly not everyone wants to follow His commandments. I can tell you that following His commandments are the best thing for you. For me, and the others who got baptized today can agree, following God’s law truely is an amazing path and it is full of love and excitement. True, there will be persecution and trials to follow, but you will always have God on your side as well as your pastors and fellow believers in Christ.

31 For who is God besides the LORD ? And who is the Rock except our God?

Like Billy said, we need to be sure we dont have idols in our lives. Idols can range anywhere from friends or sports…to self esteem and feelings. Idols are a big deal, and we need to be sure that we have none in the way of God. Like Ben said in todays sermon…yes, make God your number uno priority…but most importantly…MAKE GOD YOUR LIFE.

49 Therefore I will praise you among the nations, O LORD; I will sing praises to your name.
I love love love love love this verse!!!!It reminds me of the sermon at the beach night a few weeks ago…about worship. When we worship to our Lord, in song, do we hold back because our voices might not be as good as others?Do we hold back because of distractions?I know that i used to…it was so convicting to find out that i was holding back praise to the King of the Universe because i feared what others thought of my voice…how stupid is that!? And worship isnt the only type of praise to God. I noticed that in prayer, i was lame sauce…i would fall asleep half way through my prayer that i made time for at the verrryyy end of the day in bed. Is that the way to treat my Creator?NO!I was pretty selfish. So this verse is an excellent verse to run through our heads if we get distracted during worship or prayer!

maranatha!!!!

This verse is important because it reminds us about having idols put before us. We are commanded to have no idols, and God hates it when anybody disobeys one of his most important and crucial commands. Without God we would be nothing, and that would mean we value things higher than God, making them idols. We need to idolize the Lord!!!

Yes! God has said yes to David’s prayers, and has delivered him from evil. This Paslm and the previous Psalms looked at together are sooo important. Of course we all know how important trusting God is, but sometimes we sin and don’t trust Him and worry or stress. But instead of worrying about it, David constantly and continually prayed for the Lord to deliver him form all of the bad things happening to him, and look what God did! He certainly heard David, and gave him what he asked for because he was clean before God. This is a situation we all need to look at, and keep in our brains forever!!

This was a great reminder for me today to rejoice in the Lord always!! No matter how frustrating my sister may be, I still need to rejoice and be thankful for who God is and what he gives me!! Praise be to the Creator who gave me a twin sister!! :D

49 Therefore I will praise you among the nations, O LORD; I will sing praises to your name.

These two verses stood out to me for it reminded me that we need to praise God ALL THE TIME. Even when things are bad, I know I can rest easy for God is somehow working something in my life to draw me closer to Him.
Verse 46 reminded me that God is my Rock which means that He is the stable point in my shaky human life and I can always cling on to Him whenever it seems as though the world is crashing down around my ears.
In verse 49, David is saying that he will , ‘. . .praise you among the nations,’ I interpreted this as David saying that he didn’t care what people thought of him for declaring his faith and love for God. This made me realize that I cannot be afraid of what my friends will think when I mention God or if I lose them as friends because of it. That is as bad as denying that I know God. God, help me to stand up for you in the face of my enemies even though it’s hard, because I know it is what you want me to do.

Wow! This is a really great psalm. The entire passage talks about how mighty and powerful God is. God delivered David from all of his enemies, including Saul, because David turned to God and trusted in the Lord to save and protect him. Just as this verse describes, the Lord is my refuge, my rock, my deliverer, my stronghold, my salvation, my shield. Who wouldn’t want to take refuge in that? This verse really reminds me of 2 Samuel 22:2. God is a fortress and a stronghold that will never let us go. God is faithful and will deliver us from sin but we need to trust in him and take refuge in him. The Lord is my refuge.

GOD hears us when we cry out, he answers our cries of distress. When we are in trouble, he comforts us, in danger he protects us. He does so every day, night, and time. GOD is our comfort.

i lovee this versee, it reminds me that i can do anything through Christ. In hard or stressfl situations i need going ot God to be my first instinct. I have been working on putting Christ as number one in everything i do and seeing alll these verses is very encouraging! i know that if i ask and let Him Christ will walk me safly through my life

When I read verse 16 I started singing the song: “Hes got the whole world in His hands,” and the even cooler thing is He has the universe and life and time in His hands. God is so great NOTHING can stop HIM!!! We we cry out to Him in our time of need, He hears us and will rescue us. God can handle ANYTHING! I mean He had to kill His own son with His wrath. He loves us through His son and remember that we are His sheep He looks after. God is so great that we need to call on HIM all the time! Talk to Him all the time! And LOVE Him all the time! I Like the first 3 verses of this chapter:

1 I love you, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
3 I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.

THE LORD IS THE ROCK!!! In Philippians 4:13 it says that we can do anything with Christ, because He strengthens us. Also, in verse 2, it talks about how David takes refuge in GOD. In the past Psalms, I believe every time David shows that he takes refuge in GOD. I think David is trying to make a point that we too need to take refuge in God!

In verse 30:
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.

Refuge(according to dictionary.com) means: a place of shelter, protection, or safety. David is so smart and is right. We need to take refuge in God, for He will protect and guard us. :D

***TAKE REFUGE IN THE LORD!!!***

In times of trouble we need to call on the Lord! We need to pray! We just need to trust in the Lord that He will help us, that He would be our refuge. Even though times even though they might hurt, often times our relationship with the Lord will become stronger!

7 The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook; they trembled because he was angry.

I am just thinking about earthquakes in the past that has happened. It could be that the Lord was angry like in verse He was and then it says the earth quaked! It’s just really interesting to me…

20 The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not done evil by turning from my God.

Through those tough times that David was facing, He did not let His emotion get to him, I easily let my emotions get to me at sometimes! The Lord saw David’s righteousness and kept the ways of the Lord and the Lord rewarded David! This verse is a great encouragment to be righteous and live blamelessly like David did!

The Lord can do anything.

I need to think about this in my battles, whether I feel like I can win it or not. Usually when I ask God to help me or give me strength, it is after I am already in some trouble. I definitely need to ask Him for strength and wisdom BEFORE something happens, because maybe that might even prevent it from happening!

Hope to be more like Paul, Timothy, and Epaphroditus! :)

I like verse 30,”As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.”

I like this verse because it tells of GOD’s protection for HIS people. We may not do the right thing always but even though we still struggle with sin GOD will protect us because HE loves us. HE holds it for everyone who takes refuge in HIM. HE will protect us from everything until HE calls us home to be with HIM forever.

CYA

David was said by God to be man after His own heart. David was considered the greatest king of Israel. He was a sinner just like you and me he committed adultery. Why is he a man after God’s own heart? Whenever he fell into a pit of sin he immediately got right back up. He trusted the LORD with His whole heart and didn’t trust himself. He was a listener and a doer. Lord please let me be like David every day of my life.

48 who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from violent men you rescued me.
49 Therefore I will praise you among the nations, O LORD; I will sing praises to your name.
50 He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing kindness to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.

I love how this Psalm encompases David’s whole life as the anoited of the Lord to be king of Isreal. We can see that God was Daid’s continual strength for David’s entire life; from David’s youth as a harp player for king Saul to his leadership as king of Isreal in his old age, David never wavered in his faith in God’s divine protection and love. In every aspect of his life David gave God the glory for his acomplishments. Can we do the same? At the end of our lives can we say that “24 The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.”? Let’s be like David and find the source of our strength in God, obey Him through faith, and give Him the ultimate glory He deserves. Our God is great!

This verse sums up how God is our everything–He is the reason we are alive and without God, we are nothing. He is my Protector and Savior.

36 You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn.

This verse reminded me of how as Christians we are not supposed to follow the wide road well traveled but the narrow, less traveled road…which God will help lead us through.

i really love how even though this guy gains all this power, i think, he gives all the glory to God. In my life it should be the same way, when something good happens to me, i should give all the glory to God!

2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

This verse just kind of sums up to me that God is my EVERYTHING.

20 The LORD has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.

This is another awesome thing about being a righteous christian: we get rewarded for it! But if we arent righteous, God will “deal” willl deal with us in his own ways which sounds very scary to me.

Here David is writing that God gives him strength. He talks about how he can do great things through the LORD’s power in him. In this verse, he writes that as he trains his hands for battle, he is able to bend a bronze bow. Bronze is a hard metal and can’t really be bent. Yet David writes of how through God’s power he can bend a bow of bronze. In reality, nobody can do anything good on their own, for everyone has turned away from God to living for themselves in sin. Yet God is all-powerful and forever strong and mighty. Through His great power can anybody do anything good. This is why I need to nto be overconfident in what I think I am good at or what I think I can do, for it is only through the LORD’s strength. I need to pray to God for strength, and when am able to do something good, I need to praise God and give all the glory and credit to Him.

The is such anawesome verse! God is my rock, he is my firm foundation when things get tough, and he is my safe fortress for my protection. Only with Gods help are we truly saved. The Lord has forgiven us of our sins and has given me salvation.

This verse is great! It makes sense David calls God his rock and fortress, in whom he takes refuge because this directly after he was delivered from Saul’s pursuit. David asked God and He answered. God is the unbreakable fortress because in him we can trust!

See everyone at Compass soon!

30 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.

One thing about God that is definitely worth thinking about is how he is perfect. He is holy in that he is without sin. He is just in that every judgment he makes is right.

32 It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect.

What’s really exciting is that as we know God and think about who he is, we become like him! God is perfect and he will make us like him in that way. He is our Heavenly Father and we will grow up to be like him as his children.

Let’s pray that God will give us the strength to be like him today!

See you at True North and baptisms…Double It Up! Praise the Lord for what he is doing at our church!

Don’t forget to invite your friends to Revival Remix Wednesday night at 6:30!

OUr God is an awesome God and I am so thankful to be a child of God. Evangelism night was awesome last night. The gospel was preached and God was glorified. We know that his word does not return void, and we trust that God is doing a work in the people who heard truth last night. See you at Church, True North and then later at the Baptisms.

Ps 79:9 Help us, O God our Savior, for the glory of your name; deliver us and forgive our sins for your name’s sake.

Here’s a lasting truth: God saves us for His glory alone – He doesn’t do it because of our value. I’m grateful for that mercy! And I want to share that with others today!

Have a great week – I’ll be out of electronic range all this coming week so I’ll catch up with all your postings next Sunday! Please pray that God’s word is preached properly at Camp Tahquitz for the scouts and dads going and that Troop 12 is a testimony to those who don’t know God this week! For His glory alone!