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Ordinary Prayer: Psalm 20
Psalms 20 and 21 are prayers for the king. It strikes me that they are connected in thought with David’s Psalm 18 in which he recounts and praises God for God’s deliverance from Saul. Here is a paraphrase of Psalm 20. In it I was taken with the line in…
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Ordinary Prayer: Psalm 19
The psalms are not the high-culture language of a life lived looking down on others. They are the down to earth lyrics of God’s people. The Psalms are words penned by some of them most famous Old Testament saints, and they have worked their way into the hearts of the…
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Psalm 15: Who May Go and Stay?
Psalm 15 is hard news. It may come across as a such high standard of righteousness that its promises to be with God are unattainable and beyond hope of reaching. We read it, and move on rather than letting it do its work in us in prayer. So here are…
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Psalm 14: Ordinary Prayer
This is a paraphrase of Psalm 14 which you may read HERE. In the inmost place of who they are, They say, “There is no God.” Not because they doubt, But they imagine unthinkable things, And do what no good person would think to do. From the heights the Lord looks…
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Psalm 13 an Ordinary Prayer
This is the next installment in my psalms paraphrase project titled, Ordinary Prayer. In Psalm 13, which you may read HERE, David tells a story of personal struggle in which begins with his admission of his experience. It moves on to his cry to the Lord, and it concludes with his…
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