Whenever I copy and paste my journal onto this website, I have to monkey around with the graphics and spacing, etc. Tonight I had to eliminate one picture entirely, and the two images that are near each other are actually side by side in my Word document. I also notice some line spacing issues in this one. However, I am going to let it stand as it is rather than spend a lot of time making it look "prettier."
Worship in
WORD:
A psalm. A song. For the
dedication of the temple. Of David.
4 Sing to
the Lord, you saints of his;
praise his holy name.
NIV
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A psalm of David. A song
for the dedication of the Temple.
Praise his holy name.
New
Living Translation ®, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust.
Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved_
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A
Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.
4 Sing
unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his
holiness.
KJV
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Joy Comes with the
Morning
A Psalm of David. A song
at the dedication of the temple.
ESV
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I. Personal/Public Purpose - Title
II. Personal Praise: vs. 1- 3
III. Public Exhortation: vs. 4
- 5
IV. Personal Plea: vs. 6 - 10
V. Personal/Public Praise: vs.
11 – 12
Let me summarize what I have
said in the past two studies. Our praise is to be done individually and
corporately. It is both a private as well as a public exercise. It is
horizontal in nature, as a witness, and in fellowship with one another. It is
vertical in spirit, as it ascribes worthship to our glorious Lord. It is
inclusive, calling on all saints to enjoin in praise to God.
But it is also exclusive. We are not only “saints,” we are “HIS” saints! This stands as both a glorious
fact and a truth that should astound us.
Doesn’t that amaze you?
Sing praise to the Lord, you saints of His
Ps 30:4 NKJV
That we, a motley crew of
imperfect people, should be set apart and called His saints, is astounding and
incomprehensible. This is made evident when Paul calls the factious and carnal
acting believers in Corinth, “sanctified” and “saints.”
2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.1 Cor 1:2-3 ESV
V. 2. Called to be saints; that is, made so by the spontaneous grace of God.—With all, &c. This clause is connected with the word called. It does not mean that the Epistle was addressed to all other followers of Christ, but that they are all called to be saints. The intention of the apostle seems to be, to remind the Corinthian Christians, at the outset, that they, as well as all others, everywhere, who are looking to Jesus for salvation, were chosen and called by the Spirit of God, and transformed into the new image by his power.—Both theirs and ours, both their Lord and ours. These expressions, representing the whole community as one extended brotherhood, are evidently an appropriate introduction to an Epistle addressed to a church which was to be reproved for its internal dissensions.
(from The Abbotts' Illustrated New Testament. Biblesoft Formatted Electronic Database Copyright © 2014 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
It displays the depths of His
grace, the width of His mercy, and the height of His goodness and love.
God’s love is not to be measured by a mercer’s yard, nor His mercy to be weighed in the balances of the merchant! He has riches of Grace surpassing all the wealth which the imagination could ascribe to Him whose name is Love. When He gave His dear Son, His other Self, that He might bleed and die, He gave us proof that there was no penury* of love in the coffers of His heart. “He that spared not His own Son, but freely delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” The measure of mercy, then, is not our conception of God, but God as He really is—and who is he that can tell us how large is His love, how wide is His Grace, how high is His goodness, how deep is His favor?(from Pulpit Sermons of Charles Spurgeon - 63 Volume Collection, Biblesoft formatted electronic database Copyright © 2014 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
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Our sin was(is) great, His grace was(is) greater. Therefore,
there is nothing we can do, no treasury of merit we can add to or draw from,
only the unmerited favor of God in Christ.
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace 8 that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
Eph 1:3-9 NIV ’84
Oh! who shall measure the heights of the Saviour's all-sufficiency!—first tell how high is sin, and then remember, that as Noah's flood prevailed over the tops of earth's mountains, so the flood of Christ's redemption prevails over the tops of the mountains of our sins. In heaven's courts there are today men that once were murderers and thieves and drunkards and whoremongers and blasphemers and persecutors; but they have been washed, they have been sanctified. Ask them whence the brightness of their robes hath come, and where their purity hath been achieved, and they, with united breath, tell you that they have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.Spurgeon. (from New Cyclopedia of Prose Illustrations. Biblesoft Formatted Electronic Database Copyright © 2015 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)
9 Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit God's kingdom? Do not be deceived: no sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals, 10 thieves, greedy people, drunkards, revilers, or swindlers will inherit God's kingdom. 11 Some of you were like this; but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.1 Cor 6:9-11(from Holman Christian Standard Bible® Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005 by Holman Bible Publishers.)
Astounded by Your mercy
And Your strong embrace
By which You immersed me
In Your saving grace
You delivered me from my sin
And gave me a new name
My past has been forgiven
I’ve been delivered from my
shame
Amen
17 I pray that Christ may make His home in your hearts through your faith; so that having your roots deep and your foundations strong, in love, you may become mighty to grasp the idea, 18 as it is grasped by all God's people, of the breadth and length, the height and depth-- 19 yes, to attain to a knowledge of the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, so that you may be made complete in accordance with God's own standard of completeness. 20 Now to Him who, in exercise of His power that is at work within us, is able to do infinitely beyond all our highest prayers or thoughts-- 21 to Him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, world without end! Amen.
Eph 3:17-21 Weymouth
Witness:
Once again, I was going to share something God had taught me
recently. However, I am a poor student, and I forgot to take notes again, so I
have forgotten it already. I can only pray that in my daily routine, God will
once again call it to mind.
This morning I was praying about an upcoming procedure I was going
to have in a few hours from now (Feb. 3 @ 1:00 pm). I had taken my blood
pressure, and it was something like 181/87. I was about to reach for my blood
pressure medicine when I thought I should take a shower and see if that relaxed
me some. After the shower, it had fallen to 131/72. I then debated on taking it
anyway. I have been trying to eat healthily and control it that way. This
medicine tends to make me dizzy and tired. It also can cause my pressure to be
too low.
All this caused me to be in a quandary. Should I take it to be
safe? Would taking it show a lack of faith in God? Then it hit me. It depends
on where my faith was placed. It is not necessarily a lack of faith to take the
medicine I needed. However, if my faith is riding solely, or even partially, on
the medication and not in the Lord, then it is. Whether I take the medicine is
not as nearly as important as the reason I am taking it (because I trust more
in medicine than God, etc. vs. God has graciously provided something beneficial
for me), and the object of my faith in taking it (faith in medicine just in
case vs. faith in God who will use it for my good and wants me to act wisely).
I was also reminded of this truth from Scripture:
P.S. I took my medication 😄
Worship
in Song: The Love of Christ,
by Wes King; How High and How Wide, and How Deep, by Sovereign
Grace
The Love
of Christ
Incomparable kindness to less
than the least
To the broken, the battered, and weak
To all who are hungry there comes a call
To be filled with the fullness of God
It's beyond all you can see
Farther than you'd believe
It's a mystery
My prayer for you is that you would know
Chorus:
How wide, and how long, and how high, how deep is the love
How deep is the love of Christ
The width of two arms outstretched on a tree
The length of the road to Calvary
The height of the crown on a cruel cross
The depth of the pain is the cost
All for you, all for me
All for love did He bleed
All to set us free
My prayer for you is that you would know
Chorus
To the broken, the battered, and weak
To all who are hungry there comes a call
To be filled with the fullness of God
It's beyond all you can see
Farther than you'd believe
It's a mystery
My prayer for you is that you would know
Chorus:
How wide, and how long, and how high, how deep is the love
How deep is the love of Christ
The width of two arms outstretched on a tree
The length of the road to Calvary
The height of the crown on a cruel cross
The depth of the pain is the cost
All for you, all for me
All for love did He bleed
All to set us free
My prayer for you is that you would know
Chorus
Songwriters: Michael W. Smith,
Wes King, Michael Card
The Love Of Christ lyrics ©
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc., CAPITOL CHRISTIAN
MUSIC GROUP
Video: https://youtu.be/BacfjDXP8R0
How High
and How Wide
VERSE 1
No eye has seen and no ear has heard
And no mind has ever conceived
The glorious things that You have prepared
For every one who has believed
You brought us near and You called us Your own
And made us joint-heirs with Your Son
CHORUS
How high and how wide
How deep and how long
How sweet and how strong is Your love
How lavish Your grace
How faithful Your ways
How great is Your love, O Lord
VERSE 2
Objects of mercy who should have known wrath
We’re filled with unspeakable joy
Riches of wisdom, unsearchable wealth
And the wonder of knowing Your voice
You are our treasure and our great reward
Our hope and our glorious King
Credits:
Words and music by Mark Altrogge
© 1990 Integrity’s Praise! Music/Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI)
No eye has seen and no ear has heard
And no mind has ever conceived
The glorious things that You have prepared
For every one who has believed
You brought us near and You called us Your own
And made us joint-heirs with Your Son
CHORUS
How high and how wide
How deep and how long
How sweet and how strong is Your love
How lavish Your grace
How faithful Your ways
How great is Your love, O Lord
VERSE 2
Objects of mercy who should have known wrath
We’re filled with unspeakable joy
Riches of wisdom, unsearchable wealth
And the wonder of knowing Your voice
You are our treasure and our great reward
Our hope and our glorious King
Credits:
Words and music by Mark Altrogge
© 1990 Integrity’s Praise! Music/Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI)
credits
license
all rights reserved
Video: https://youtu.be/181zRxrPf0o
How Deep
VERSE 1
You were broken that I might be healed
You were cast off that I might draw near
You were thirsty that I might come drink
Cried out in anguish that I might sing
CHORUS
How deep is Your love
How high and how wide is Your mercy
How deep is Your grace
Our hearts overflow with praise
To You
VERSE 2
You knew darkness that I might know light
Wept great tears that mine might be dried
Stripped of glory that I might be clothed
Crushed by Your Father to call me Your own
Credits:
Words and music by Stephen Altrogge
© 2006 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI)
You were broken that I might be healed
You were cast off that I might draw near
You were thirsty that I might come drink
Cried out in anguish that I might sing
CHORUS
How deep is Your love
How high and how wide is Your mercy
How deep is Your grace
Our hearts overflow with praise
To You
VERSE 2
You knew darkness that I might know light
Wept great tears that mine might be dried
Stripped of glory that I might be clothed
Crushed by Your Father to call me Your own
Credits:
Words and music by Stephen Altrogge
© 2006 Sovereign Grace Praise (BMI)
credits
license
all rights reserved
Video:
https://youtu.be/xV3P541yRi0
Deep...Wide...High
Lost in Sin and totally depraved
The Lord, His chosen, came to save
Adam’s sin to all humanity did spread
Leaving in its wake, souls that were dead
Dead in sin and deserving wrath
Yet the Lord did walk Golgotha’s path
And died for my sin, then He rose again
Oh, such richness of mercy is beyond my ken
Deep is the grace that saved, oh Lord
Wide is the mercy that broke sin’s chord
How high is Your goodness and love for me
Displayed and secured on the cross of Calvary
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