He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, and shall not despise their prayer. (Psalm 102:17) For the people of Israel, the height of their existence was in the days when they were a united people, when the Temple stood on Mount Moriah, and more importantly, when...

So the nations shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. For the Lord shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory. (Psalm 102:15-16) The Bible has much to say regarding the restoration of the kingdom of Israel and the future of...

You will arise and have mercy on Zion. For the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come. For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to her dust. (Psalm 102:13-14) In the previous devotion, we addressed the unique connection between God's...

You will arise and have mercy on Zion. For the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come. For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to her dust. (Psalm 102:13-14) Each time I've traveled to the land of Israel with a group, there is always a...

You will arise and have mercy on Zion. For the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come. (Psalm 102:13) When the time came for Messiah to be taken up into Heaven, His disciples gathered on the Mount of Olives, presumably unaware of what was about to happen. I...

But You, O Lord, shall endure forever, and the remembrance of Your name to all generations. You will arise and have mercy on Zion. For the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come. (Psalm 102:12-13) For several verses prior to these, David describes the intense...

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; incline Your ear to me; in the day that I call, answer me speedily. (Psalm 102:2) I think it is fair to say that most of us, at some point or another, have had days -- or even seasons -- when our suffering was so...

A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the Lord: Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You. (Psalm 102:1) As we begin, let us first take note of the heading given to this particular psalm, which tradition says was...

He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house; he who tells lies shall not continue in my presence. Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord. (Psalm 101:7-8) In the words of one Jewish...

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; the one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, him I will not endure. (Psalm 101:5) In the previous devotion, David declared that he had no interest in following in the ways of the wicked lest their...

I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me. (Psalm 101:3) At some point during their sojourn in Egypt, the people of Israel began to stray away from the faith of their fathers and embrace the ways of the...

I will behave wisely in a perfect way. Oh, when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. (Psalm 101:2) When the patriarch Abraham was ninety-nine years old, God appeared to him and changed his name from Abram to Abraham. It was on this...