The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.Yet Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, Even a prayer unto the God of my life.
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… And that's a good thing to do. In fact, the psalmist writes in Psalm 42, verse 8, Through each day the Lord pours His and feeling love upon me, and through each night I sing His songs, praying to God who gives me life. They're singing praises to God. And the other prisoners were listening. By the way, this word for listening means to listen very carefully or literally to listen with pleasure. I don't think anyone had ever heard anyone sing in this dungeon before. Now were Paul and Silas doing a two-part harmony? You know, Lena McCartney, Everly Brothers, something like that? I don't think so. But the fact that they were giving glory to God in such adverse circumstances really caused others to pay attention, listening with pleasure. If you've ever been maybe driving along and you have the radio on and you're listening to music, and a song you like comes on so you turn it up. Oh, I want to hear this. I love this song. …
I was at a funeral a couple of months ago, and I heard a pastor say on that occasion that there are two ways that the Bible speaks. Most of the time, the Bible speaks to us. That is, instructing us, exhorting us, teaching us. But there are times in our lives where the Bible speaks for us as well, discerning our hearts and drawing out the hidden depths of our emotions and our feelings and psalm 42 is is much like that you can probably feel it as you read it it speaks to us in many respects but it can also speak for us as well it's a psalm that's written by a troubled soul for other troubled souls and that's the theme of the sermon this morning, a troubled soul. Now, you might be here and you might be thinking, well, you know, it's Easter season, it's springtime, and we have our spring luncheon after the service today. The masters are going on. That theme of troubled soul doesn't quite seem to fit this morning, or maybe it doesn't even quite fit my season of life right now. I really don't have a troubled soul, I would say. …
I." This comfort may serve us when we suffer great tribulation. May you, my Friend, be spared this trial if God so wills. But should it come, you will all the better understand me. They that "do business in great waters" know that our troubles are, at times, so pressing that we lose our heads and are not able to cope with our trials. Forebodings fill the air and our sinking spirits chill the very marrow of our life. We become like distraught men or, as David put it, we reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at our wits end. Then, ah then, the voices of our comrades in the boat are of little value—and even the echoes of former words from the Lord are of small account—nothing will serve but the present and sure consolations of the Lord Jesus. We must hear Him say, "It is I," or we shall faint outright. Then is the soul braced to breast the next billow and while she cries, "All Your waves and Your billows have gone over me," she is still able to add, "Yet the Lord will command His loving kindness in the daytime; and in the night His song shall be with me." When Jesus is with a man, troubles have lost their power to trouble him! …