Archive for January 2020
Breaktime: Call on God
Call on God 15 and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” Psalm 50:15 Something happens when we start a day of trouble with prayer, or as the writer states, calling on God. We all have areas of worry and distress, and for some, we simply don’t know where…
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“Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High, Psalm 50:14 Life can be stressful enough, no doubt, without adding one more thing we need to sacrifice. Many of us give much of our time to the place of exhaustion. We give of our talents until reaching the place where we are empty. We…
Read MoreBreaktime: God is Not Dependent
God is not Dependent 12 If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. 13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Psalm 50:12,13 God is overall! The Psalmist is trying to make it clear that God knows all and all…
Read MoreBreaktime: It’s All God’s
I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, 10 for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. Psalm 50:9-10 All objects, from animals, money, or grain that are being brought as a sacrifice, already belong to God. God is the one who owns it…
Read MoreBreaktime: It’s all God’s
It’s all God’s I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, 10 for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. Psalm 50:9-10 All objects, from animals, money, or grain that are being brought as a sacrifice, already belong to God. God is the one…
Read MoreBreaktime: Sacrifices that Matter
Sacrifices that Matter I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me. Psalm 50:8 It wasn’t what the people brought before God that was bothering God. As we will see, it was their heart that was distant from God. They were making the sacrifice, but that…
Read MoreBreaktime: Bragging on God
Bragging on God And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for he is a God of justice. Psalm 50:6 Even the heavens are calling out His name as the elders are bent before our God in Holy awe. There is something that happens when we encounter God’s righteousness for God is right, and all of heaven…
Read MoreBreaktime: The Best Day Ever
The Best Day Ever 5 “Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” Psalm 50:5 God’s people are the ones who live sacrificially for we are the ones who live for something greater than ourselves. We are willing to follow and hold nothing back as the greatest sacrifice we can give…
Read MoreBreaktime: The Vision of the Light
The Vision of the Light He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people: Psalm 50:4 Again, the author is seeing the final judgment day and proclaims; there is a day coming when all the earth will be summoned. Everyone will receive a summons to appear before the court of justice…
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