Sep 6, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
I will cry out to God Most High, to God who performs all things for me. (Psalm 57:2) All our lives we have heard the oft-repeated phrase, “God helps those who help themselves.” In fact, one religion-based pollster cited this as one of the most widely known Bible...
Sep 5, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; and in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, until these calamities have passed by. (Psalm 57:1) Understanding when and why this psalm was written (Saul lay sleeping in a cave unaware of...
Sep 4, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” A Michtam of David when he fled from Saul into the cave.(Psalm 57) As stated in the introduction, this psalm is entitled “Do Not Destroy” — which in Hebrew is אל תשחת al tashchet. It is inspired by the events that...
Sep 3, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
I will render praises to You, for You have delivered my soul from death. Have You not kept my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? (Psalm 56:12-13) Is there a time when we are justified in withholding praises from God? Of course...
Sep 2, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
You number my wanderings; put my tears into Your bottle. Are they not in Your book? When I cry out to You, then my enemies will turn back; this I know, because God is for me. (Psalm 56:8-9) In an earlier psalm, David stated that “The steps of a good man are ordered by...
Sep 1, 2025 | All Posts, Daily Bread: Genesis |
Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You. In God (I will praise His word). In God I have put my trust; I will not fear. What can flesh do to me? (Psalm 56:3-4) Several years ago, my family and I found ourselves in a very frightening situation. It was so frightening,...
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