You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.
Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.
Psalm 63:1-4 (NIV)
Nearer My God to Thee
Nearer my God to Thee nearer to Thee
Even though it be a cross that raiseth me
Still all my song shall be
Nearer my God to Thee
Nearer my God to Thee nearer to Thee
… getting alone with God is one way of saying, “I choose you above others. I want to seek and know You and hear from You more than anyone else.”
Kendricks, The Battle Plan for Prayer, p. 112
LEANING
O LORD, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?
Psalm 13:1 (NLT)
Whenever you look into David’s Psalms, you may somewhere or another see yourselves. You never get into a corner but you find David in that corner. I think that I was never so low that I could not find that David was lower; and I never climbed so high that I could not find that David was up above me, ready to sing his song upon his stringed instrument, even as I could sing mine.
Charles Spurgeon
Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You.
Psalm 143:8 (NKJV)
LEARNING
The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Psalm 97:5 (NASB)
You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; The earth feared and was still when God arose to judgment, To save all the humble of the earth.
Psalm 76:8-9 (NASB)
Only through Christ are we safe with God.
Kendricks, The Battle Plan for Prayer, p. 35
LETTING GO
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Psalm 51:10-12 (NIV)
That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
Romans 10:9-10( NASB)
Stop your anger! Turn off your wrath. Don’t fret and worry— it only leads to harm.
Psalm 37:8 (TLB)
LANDING
He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
Psalm 40:2 (NIV)
But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Psalm 3:3 (ESV)
LOVING
Bless the Lord oh my soul and all that is within me bless His holy name.
Psalm 103:1 (NASB)
I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever.
Psalm 145:1 (NIV)
What Would Your Personal Psalm Look Like if it Was Written?
What are you going to do with the words you have heard today?