Here’s how the study works: Read the chapters mentioned in the heading during the week and share any words, thoughts, verses that stood out to you. Having a week for several chapters creates the opportunity to revisit them and make additional comments as you feel inclined as well as make comments on other people’s insights.
6:4 Turn, Lord, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.
Because David knew God loved him he felt secure and because he felt secure he knew God would hear and provide a means of escape. Consequently he felt confident in calling out to God.
6:4 Turn, Lord, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.
Because David knew God loved him he felt secure and because he felt secure he knew God would hear and provide a means of escape. Consequently he felt confident in calling out to God.
7:9 Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure—you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.
We want God to bring to an end to the violence of the wicked and for the righteous to be secure, meanwhile God probes minds and hearts. He is more interested in motives and attitudes than in our security.
7:9 Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure—you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.
We want God to bring to an end to the violence of the wicked and for the righteous to be secure, meanwhile God probes minds and hearts. He is more interested in motives and attitudes than in our security.
8:2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
God sees children as important. “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are” (1 Corinthians 1:27-28). God has made children powerful in praise.
8:2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
God sees children as important. “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are” (1 Corinthians 1:27-28). God has made children powerful in praise.
9:16 The Lord is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.
We are known by our acts or work or actions not by our words.
9:16 The Lord is known by his acts of justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.
We are known by our acts or work or actions not by our words.
10:1 & 17 Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?… You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry.
Sometimes we think God is standing far off. Yet he often waits so the motives of the heart are exposed.
10:1 & 17 Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?… You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted; you encourage them, and you listen to their cry.
Sometimes we think God is standing far off. Yet he often waits so the motives of the heart are exposed.