They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
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… Bless his name. Psalm 36 verse 8. Those that take refuge in the shadow of God's wings feast on the abundance of his house. you give them to drink from the river of your delights. In the house of God, in the presence of God, with the people of God, under the word of God, there is an abundance. It's a feast, he says. We're not drinking from a dripping faucet in a place of scarcity. No, we're drinking from more than a fire hose. There's a river of what? Of delights when you're in the presence of God. Psalm 26, 8, Oh, Lord, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells. There's all the language of experience, and we should settle for nothing less than that. Jesus says this is eternal life. And what he says is not just to take note of something that's out there. to know you. That's something that happens in the present, to know you, the one true God in Jesus Christ whom you have sent. Think about Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman. What he says to her is, you drink that well water, you're going to have to come back and back again. …
… The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house and you give them drink from the river of your delights. The river of your delights. And I don't think that means the delights that he gives. I think that means the delights that he has. He gives us drink. He quenches our thirst from the fountain of His delight in Himself. His delight from God's delight in God. Psalm 115 verse 3, Our God is in the heavens. He does all that He pleases. How could He not be happy? He does everything that He pleases. And so He's the happiest being in the universe. How could he be anything but happy? And it pleases this God to please you in him. it makes the happy God happy to make you as happy as humanly possible in him. One of his great pleasures that we read about through scripture is that he raises up, forgives, redeems, adopts, secures, satisfies a people for himself. …
… The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house and you give them drink from the river of your delights. The river of your delights. That's the best kind of river I ever heard of. There's abundance with God. With God, there is always more. There is overflowing. And this is the same God that we get to pray to and ask for from is the same God that Jabez prayed to and asked for more from. So I have some versions of Give Me More that I wanted to give you. Prayers that you could, that my prayer is honestly church that we would grow in praying. and we're all beginners in some sense of in this and I feel like sometimes I'll find a groove of prayer and then I feel like I'm just kind of like getting stagnant and praying the things same things over and over again and I feel like God's shaking me up to to pray in a fresh way to um to ask him more boldly to tell him the things that are going on in my life and that I need and And this has been something that's personally for me been so helpful is praying this. …