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Blessings of Being Confident In The Lord

My heart is confident in you, 

O God;
    
no wonder I can sing your praises with all my heart!

Wake up, 

lyre and harp!
    
I will wake the dawn with my song.

I will thank you, 

Lord, 

among all the people.
    
I will sing your praises among the nations.

For your unfailing love is higher than the heavens.

Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

Be exalted, 

O God, 

above the highest heavens.
    
May your glory shine over all the earth.


Psalm 108:1-4

Blessings of Praying For Our Children

There once was a man named Job 

who lived in the land of Uz. 

He was blameless—

a man of complete integrity. 

He feared God and stayed away from evil. 

…Job would purify his children. 

He would get up early in the morning 

and offer a burnt offering for each of them. 

For Job said to himself, 

“Perhaps my children have sinned 

and have cursed God in their hearts.” 

This was Job’s regular practice.


Job 1:1, 5

Blessings of Knowing The Importance of Israel

O God, 

do not be silent!
    
Do not be deaf.
    
Do not be quiet, 

O God.

Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies?
    
Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?

They devise crafty schemes against your people;
    
they conspire against your precious ones.

“Come,” 

they say, 

“let us wipe out Israel as a nation.
    
We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”

…they will learn that you alone are called the Lord,

that you alone are the Most High, 

supreme over all the earth.

Psalm 83:1-4, 18