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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Thanksgiving for deliverance from death- Psalm 116

This psalm was on my reading schedule this week, and it struck me hard that I have personally taken this heart, but I just pray I will more effectively communicate this on the street, and that is:

JESUS DID NOT COME TO EARTH TO MAKE BAD PEOPLE GOOD,
   HE CAME TO MAKE DEAD PEOPLE LIVE

As you sing this psalm in your heart, may you rejoice as the Lord does in the death of his saints because they will be in His presence in Heaven, and may you feel the fire within to desire that the Lord use you to reach the lost before their death leads to eternity without Him.


1
 I love the LORD, because He has heard
         My voice and my supplications.
 2 Because He has inclined His ear to me,
         Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live. 
         
 3 The pains of death surrounded me,
         And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; 
         I found trouble and sorrow.
 4 Then I called upon the name of the LORD:
         “O LORD, I implore You, deliver my soul!” 
         
 5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;
         Yes, our God is merciful.
 6 The LORD preserves the simple;
         I was brought low, and He saved me.
 7 Return to your rest, O my soul,
         For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. 
         
 8 For You have delivered my soul from death,
         My eyes from tears, 
         And my feet from falling.
 9 I will walk before the LORD
         In the land of the living.
 10 I believed, therefore I spoke,
         “I am greatly afflicted.”
 11 I said in my haste,
         “All men are liars.” 
         
 12 What shall I render to the LORD
         For all His benefits toward me?
 13 I will take up the cup of salvation,
         And call upon the name of the LORD.
 14 I will pay my vows to the LORD
         Now in the presence of all His people. 
         
 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD
         Is the death of His saints. 
         
 16 O LORD, truly I am Your servant;
         I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; 
         You have loosed my bonds.
 17 I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
         And will call upon the name of the LORD. 
         
 18 I will pay my vows to the LORD
         Now in the presence of all His people,
 19 In the courts of the LORD’s house,
         In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. 
         
         Praise the LORD!

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