Tuesday 24 April 2012

The Provision of The Lord-Our Help in Troubled Times! Psalm 34

Psalm 34
1 I will extol the LORD at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.

We are to lift up and exult to the highest place in Our lives and Praise God.
2 I will glory in the LORD;  adoring praise or worshipful thanksgiving: Give glory to God. 
   let the afflicted (those who have mental distress the defeated the troubled) hear and rejoice.
3 Glorify the LORD with me;
let us exalt his name together.
(We are to put God in the Highest Place and exult Him with our Praise by making ourselves meek to make ourselves lower in place to His Being and His will-the choices He makes for our lives are to take precedence and we are to live out His ways of being)
4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.

Through this we know we can trust in the Lord to deliver us and to answer our prayers!
5 Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with shame.

Shame is guilt but when we look to God He removes our guilt and sin and gives us His righteousness and makes us to be radiant.To be bright with Joy and Hope.
6 This poor man called, and the LORD heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him,
and he delivers them.
The Lords angels surround and protect those who exult and praise God.
When we praise God The Father Son Holy Spirit we are made His own and protected because God inhabits the praises of His people He is with us and all His heavenly host with Him are obediant to Him and obey Jesus word and go to work according to the word of God to establish God's word and will His choices for us.So we can stand in faith on the word in Hope and Praise of Jesus and know we can have the salvation and protection and blessing through Jesus.We can have all the promises in scripture given through Jesus's covenant with us He gives us His favour and blessings.
8 Taste and see that the LORD is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

To taste means:
to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
to have or get experience, especially a slight experience: these young men who had only begun to taste life. So when the word says to taste it means to put into your mouth to say to speak to act on and to experience and see the resulting consequence of the goodness we get when we act on God's word. We sow the seed of The Word with our words and act on what the word says do we can have the abundance of blessing God has promised Amen!
9 Fear (Exult with Praise and put His being and will for our lives above all else) the LORD, you his holy people, for those who fear-Exult Him lack nothing.
10 The lions may grow weak and hungry,
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
To seek means to go in search or quest of: to seek the truth.

to try to find or discover by searching or questioning: to seek the solution to a problem.
to try to obtain to come into possesion of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request:
to try or attempt (usually followed by an infinitive): to seek to convince a person.
to go to: to seek a place to rest.
God says through this scripture to seek to obtain and get the results of the blessing by
1. Asking and receiving by asking in prayer
2. Act on what the word says to do and reap good blessings
11 Come, my children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
12 Whoever of you loves life
and desires to see many good days,
13 keep your tongue from evil 
Here is a promise for long life and a quality Good life then we are to speak and act on His word
and we should with conscious thought on purpose choose to live according to God's ways and it gives us long and strong quality of life and blessings.
   and your lips from telling lies.
14 Turn from evil and do good;
seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,
and his ears are attentive to their cry;
16 but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
to blot out their name from the earth.

17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; this shows God hears our prayers!
he delivers them from all their troubles.
18 The LORD is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

19 The righteous person may have many troubles,
but the LORD delivers him from them all;
20 he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.

21 Evil will slay the wicked;
the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
22 The LORD will rescue his servants;
no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.

To take refuge means shelter or protection from danger, trouble, etc.: to take refuge from a storm.
 a place of shelter, protection, or safety.  
anything to which one has recourse for aid, relief, or escape. 
So we can have protection in Jesus He delivers us from and takes us through our troubles and to the place of blessing gives us help provision and provides the way to live and be in Jesus.He rescues us!
We won't be condemmend we won't have judgemnet or disapproval or guilt against us our guilt is removed!Through Christ Jesus we are redeemed amen Praise Jesus!

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