Category: “Listening to God” Devotional

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Psalm  84 (ESV)

My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
² My soul longs, yes, faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to the living God.

³ Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my King and my God.
⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever singing your praise! Selah

⁵ Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
⁶ As they go through the Valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
the early rain also covers it with pools.
⁷ They go from strength to strength;
each one appears before God in Zion.

⁸ O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
⁹ Behold our shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!

¹⁰ For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹ For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
¹² O Lord of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you!

 

REFLECTION:

1. In a way, Ps. 78-83 describes the journey through a desert. God’s people were weak and struggling. They were victims of enemies that had drained them and their land of every resource, and left them destitute and dying. It’s no wonder that Asaph cried out again and again, appealing to God to restore the blessings once enjoyed by his people.
2. Now, suddenly, with Ps. 84, another psalmist reminds us that no matter how desperate our situation, in any desert God’s people may find themselves in, there is an oasis. In Old Testament times, God’s people directed their feet upward. Approaching Jerusalem, buoyed up by the thought that they would soon appear before God in Zion, His people went “from strength to strength.”
3. Our days may be filled with troubles and our hearts may ache, yet we can know the blessedness of those “whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.” (v5, The Voice) As pressures mount, we can be reminded that “No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.” (v11)
4. The more difficult our days, the more we need to draw strength from God, and experience the blessing that is ours now through trust.

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

How Lovely Is Your Tabernacle – www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_gTwwDsRs

 

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Psalm 83 (ESV)

O God, Do Not Keep Silence

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

1 O God, do not keep silence;
do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
² For behold, your enemies make an uproar;
those who hate you have raised their heads.
³ They lay crafty plans against your people;
they consult together against your treasured ones.
⁴ They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
⁵ For they conspire with one accord;
against you they make a covenant—
⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,
⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸ Asshur also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of the children of Lot.Selah

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian,
as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
¹⁰ who were destroyed at En-dor,
who became dung for the ground.
¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
¹² who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves
of the pastures of God.”

¹³ O my God, make them like whirling dust,
like chaff before the wind.
¹⁴ As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
¹⁵ so may you pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your hurricane!
¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame,
that they may seek your name, O Lord.
¹⁷ Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;
let them perish in disgrace,
¹⁸ that they may know that you alone,
whose name is the Lord,
are the Most High over all the earth.

 

REFLECTION:

1. This psalm is an impassioned appeal to God to crush the nations that conspired and attacked Israel. This psalm is also a prayer of intercession—interceding for people to have knowledge of God’s final vindication and for this to result in conversion prior to that final day.
2. The surrounding nations wanted to destroy the people of God (v4).  Yet, the psalmist saw this more as an attack on God Himself.  He refers to them as “your enemies” (v2) and stated how “against you they make a covenant.” (v5)
3. The prayer of this Psalm is that God’s enemies will be routed.  “O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.” (v13). However, this is not merely a plea for destruction, but it is also intercession for conversion.  “Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Lord… that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.” (vv16, 18).
4. Who are your opponents right now? Are your enemies also God’s? Do you pray for vengeance or for the grace to love your “enemies” and for their conversion?

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

Do Not Keep Silence – www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceoaYkWaw6E

 

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Psalm 82 (ESV)

Rescue the Weak and Needy

A Psalm of Asaph.

1 God has taken his place in the divine council;
in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
² “How long will you judge unjustly
and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
³ Give justice to the weak and the fatherless;
maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
⁴ Rescue the weak and the needy;
deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

⁵ They have neither knowledge nor understanding,
they walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

⁶ I said, “You are gods,
sons of the Most High, all of you;
⁷ nevertheless, like men you shall die,
and fall like any prince.”

⁸ Arise, O God, judge the earth;
for you shall inherit all the nations!

 

REFLECTION:

1. The word “gods” in verse 1 and verse 6 refers to the strong ones in Israel, namely, the human rulers or authorities. They were appointed to this high position to give “justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” (vv3-4)
2. Privilege carries responsibility. The greater the privilege, the greater the responsibility. While God has given us great privileges, His is the ultimate responsibility. Thus the psalmist was sure that God who holds men responsible will “rise” and “judge the earth” (v8).
3. What responsibilities do you have to the “weak and the needy”? What about your cell group or church? What can you individually, and as a group, do to fulfill this responsibility?

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

They Belong to You – www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR_1wSvgQtg

 

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Psalm 81 (ESV)

Oh, That My People Would Listen to Me

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. Of Asaph.

1 Sing aloud to God our strength;
shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
² Raise a song; sound the tambourine,
the sweet lyre with the harp.
³ Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our feast day.

⁴ For it is a statute for Israel,
a rule of the God of Jacob.
⁵ He made it a decree in Joseph
when he went out over the land of Egypt.
I hear a language I had not known:
⁶ “I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.
⁷ In distress you called, and I delivered you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
⁸ Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
⁹ There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
¹⁰ I am the Lord your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹ “But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.
¹² So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.
¹³ Oh, that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
¹⁴ I would soon subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.
¹⁵ Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him,
and their fate would last forever.
¹⁶ But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

 

REFLECTION:

1. The psalmist had cried out to God for restoration. Yet, in this psalm, he explicitly recognized the fact that God is always willing to deliver and to bless. It was Israel’s own failure (their stubborn hearts, v12) to listen to the Lord and submit to Him that led to disaster. God, speaking through the psalmist, said, “If only My people would hear My voice and Israel would follow My direction! Then I would not hesitate to humble their enemies and defeat their opposition Myself.  (vv13-14, The Voice)”
2. We too can cry out to God when we are in distress. But we need to examine our lives and see if our own unwillingness to obey is keeping God from giving us the blessing we so desperately desire.
3. Has God ever lifted a burden from your shoulders? What was it? What happened? Are you carrying a burden now? Read verses 6-8 as God shouting at you, or whispering in your ears His love for you, and His desperate desire to carry off your burdens.

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

Psalm 81 – www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdgZQEiKKk4

 

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Psalm 80 (ESV)

Restore Us, O God

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony. Of Asaph, a Psalm.

1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
you who lead Joseph like a flock.
You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
² Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,
stir up your might
and come to save us!

³ Restore us, O God;
let your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁴ O Lord God of hosts,
how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?
⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears
and given them tears to drink in full measure.
⁶ You make us an object of contention for our neighbors,
and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷ Restore us, O God of hosts;
let your face shine, that we may be saved!

⁸ You brought a vine out of Egypt;
you drove out the nations and planted it.
⁹ You cleared the ground for it;
it took deep root and filled the land.
¹⁰ The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches.
¹¹ It sent out its branches to the sea
and its shoots to the River.
¹² Why then have you broken down its walls,
so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
¹³ The boar from the forest ravages it,
and all that move in the field feed on it.

¹⁴ Turn again, O God of hosts!
Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
¹⁵     the stock that your right hand planted,
and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.
¹⁶ They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down;
may they perish at the rebuke of your face!
¹⁷ But let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!
¹⁸ Then we shall not turn back from you;
give us life, and we will call upon your name!

¹⁹ Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

 

REFLECTION:

1. The psalmist appealed to God to deliver and restore as the Shepherd of His people Israel. The title “Lord of hosts” suggests God’s ability to deliver His people whenever He chooses to do so. But the Lord’s silence implied that He was angry with them. As a shepherd, God had fed His people, but He had given them tears to eat and to drink rather than nourishing food. Their condition led their neighboring nations to mock them.
2. Starting in verse 8, the psalmist pictured Israel as a vine that God had transplanted from Egypt to Canaan. He cleared the land of Canaan for her by driving the native people out. Israel had taken root in the Promised Land and, as a vine, had spread out in all directions. It had become strong and luxuriant under God’s blessing. However, God had broken down the wall that protected it, and its neighbors were now consuming it.
3. God’s people are similar to a grapevine, in that God has called us to be a blessing to others. However, if we do not walk in trust and obedience, God may PRUNE us back and limit our fruitfulness in order to increase our ultimate productivity. We experience blessings as we become a blessing to others. If we depart from God, we need to call on Him to restore our fruitfulness and commit ourselves to Him again.
4. Have you experienced God’s pruning in your life? Have those experiences helped improve the productivity of the fruit of the Spirit in your life?

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

Revive Us – www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ZOfuO-z_o

 

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Psalm 79 (ESV)

How Long, O Lord?

A Psalm of Asaph.

1 O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;
they have defiled your holy temple;
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
² They have given the bodies of your servants
to the birds of the heavens for food,
the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.
³ They have poured out their blood like water
all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.
⁴ We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those around us.

⁵ How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?
⁶ Pour out your anger on the nations
that do not know you,
and on the kingdoms
that do not call upon your name!
⁷ For they have devoured Jacob
and laid waste his habitation.

⁸ Do not remember against us our former iniquities;
let your compassion come speedily to meet us,
for we are brought very low.
⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of your name;
deliver us, and atone for our sins,
for your name’s sake!
¹⁰ Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants
be known among the nations before our eyes!

¹¹ Let the groans of the prisoners come before you;
according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!
¹² Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors
the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!
¹³ But we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will give thanks to you forever;
from generation to generation we will recount your praise.

 

REFLECTION:

1. The psalmist Asaph recounted the violence done to Jerusalem by pagan nations and called on God to pay them back. He acknowledged that the disaster came because of their “former iniquities” (sins of our ancestors, v8, the Voice). He called on God to forgive His people and restore the nation for His own glory. He then asked God to pay back the nations, for in crushing Judah, they have, in fact, insulted the Lord.
2. As we look at the society we are in, we see Christians and churches become objects of scorn and derision too. The psalmist prayed: “How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever?” (v5)
3. This is a prayer of desperation.  It is also a prayer of faith.  The psalmist believes God has the power to transform the situation.  He looks forward to the time when God will answer their prayer, then “we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.” (v13)
4. Are you saying “How long” right now? What makes you impatient?

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

For the Glory of Your Name – www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPffyxS1w8I

 

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Psalm 78  (ESV)

Tell the Coming Generation

A Maskil of Asaph.

⁵⁶ Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God
and did not keep his testimonies,
⁵⁷ but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;
they twisted like a deceitful bow.
⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
⁵⁹ When God heard, he was full of wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
⁶⁰ He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
⁶¹ and delivered his power to captivity,
his glory to the hand of the foe.
⁶² He gave his people over to the sword
and vented his wrath on his heritage.
⁶³ Fire devoured their young men,
and their young women had no marriage song.
⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows made no lamentation.
⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
like a strong man shouting because of wine.
⁶⁶ And he put his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷ He rejected the tent of Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸ but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.
⁶⁹ He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.
⁷⁰ He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹ from following the nursing ewes he brought him
to shepherd Jacob his people,
Israel his inheritance.
⁷² With upright heart he shepherded them
and guided them with his skillful hand.

 

REFLECTION:

1. This psalm teaches present and future generations to learn from the past, and it stresses the grace of God. It recounts their history. In the wilderness, God’s people were judged when they willfully put the Lord to the test. Even though later generations forgot His miracles and were disloyal to His covenant, God was merciful to them. Despite the love displayed in the Exodus and Conquest, Israel continued to rebel against the Lord, and was justly punished.
2. But then, in today’s passage, despite Israel’s faults, God chose David to shepherd His people. The lesson of the psalm is clear. In David, Israel was granted a fresh start. God’s people had to learn from their past, and follow David’s example of faithfulness to the Lord if they hoped to avoid future disaster.
3. What stories of God’s past dealings with you can you remember in times of temptation, forgetfulness and doubt you still face?

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

Psalm 78 – www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0Fytu8eO8

 

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Psalm 77 (ESV)

In the Day of Trouble I Seek the Lord

To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.

1 I cry aloud to God,
aloud to God, and he will hear me.
² In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord;
in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying;
my soul refuses to be comforted.
³ When I remember God, I moan;
when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah

⁴ You hold my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵ I consider the days of old,
the years long ago.
⁶ I said, “Let me remember my song in the night;
let me meditate in my heart.”
Then my spirit made a diligent search:
⁷ “Will the Lord spurn forever,
and never again be favorable?
⁸ Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
Are his promises at an end for all time?
⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

¹⁰ Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

¹¹ I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
yes, I will remember your wonders of old.
¹² I will ponder all your work,
and meditate on your mighty deeds.
¹³ Your way, O God, is holy.
What god is great like our God?
¹⁴ You are the God who works wonders;
you have made known your might among the peoples.
¹⁵ You with your arm redeemed your people,
the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

¹⁶ When the waters saw you, O God,
when the waters saw you, they were afraid;
indeed, the deep trembled.
¹⁷ The clouds poured out water;
the skies gave forth thunder;
your arrows flashed on every side.
¹⁸ The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
your lightnings lighted up the world;
the earth trembled and shook.
¹⁹ Your way was through the sea,
your path through the great waters;
yet your footprints were unseen.
²⁰ You led your people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

 

REFLECTION:

1. The psalmist spoke of fervent, anguished, and continual prayer which brought him no comfort at all. Sometimes prayer, the means by which we cast our burdens on God, actually increases the pressure we feel. When an answer to prayer is delayed we begin to wonder if God will ever show us favour again.
2. The psalmist then recalls “the deeds of the Lord”, His “wonders of old” and “mighty deeds”. The key here is not simply that God is all-powerful, but that God has, in the past, used His power to redeem His people.
3. It is the same for us. When distress drives us to doubt, we are to recall what God has done for us in Christ. Jesus’ resurrection demonstrates God’s power. But it is the fact that the Son of God died and was raised for us that seals our confidence and hope.
4. Name three things you’re grateful for. Reflect on your response. (How long did it take you to think of things you’re grateful for? Did they come to mind quickly or slowly? How conscious are you of God’s good gifts?)

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

I Will Remember – www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNi28gReLf4

 

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Psalm 76 (ESV)

Who Can Stand Before You?

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

1 In Judah God is known;
his name is great in Israel.
² His abode has been established in Salem,
his dwelling place in Zion.
³ There he broke the flashing arrows,
the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah

⁴ Glorious are you, more majestic
than the mountains full of prey.
⁵ The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil;
they sank into sleep;
all the men of war
were unable to use their hands.
⁶ At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
both rider and horse lay stunned.

⁷ But you, you are to be feared!
Who can stand before you
when once your anger is roused?
⁸ From the heavens you uttered judgment;
the earth feared and was still,
⁹ when God arose to establish judgment,
to save all the humble of the earth. Selah

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man shall praise you;
the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.
¹¹ Make your vows to the Lord your God and perform them;
let all around him bring gifts
to him who is to be feared,
¹² who cuts off the spirit of princes,
who is to be feared by the kings of the earth.

 

REFLECTION:

1. The psalmist wrote that the Lord is to be feared by those who see His works among His own people. And the natural response would be: “Who can stand before you?”
2. God was characterized by majesty, power, and righteousness expressed in His judgment of sinful men (vv4-9). Thus “the wrath of man shall” bring God praise (v10). “For the wrath of man will end in praise of You, and whatever wrath is left You will wrap around Yourself like a belt.” (The Voice)
3. The cross of Jesus Christ bore all the “wrath of man”. Jesus took the cup and accomplished God’s plan of salvation for us all.

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

You Indeed Are Awesome – www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntXCtAH9gA4

 

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Psalm 75 (ESV)

God Will Judge with Equity

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

1 We give thanks to you, O God;
we give thanks, for your name is near.
We recount your wondrous deeds.

² “At the set time that I appoint
I will judge with equity.
³ When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants,
it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah
⁴ I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn;
⁵ do not lift up your horn on high,
or speak with haughty neck.’”

⁶ For not from the east or from the west
and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,
⁷ but it is God who executes judgment,
putting down one and lifting up another.
⁸ For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup
with foaming wine, well mixed,
and he pours out from it,
and all the wicked of the earth
shall drain it down to the dregs.

⁹ But I will declare it forever;
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
¹⁰ All the horns of the wicked I will cut off,
but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

 

REFLECTION:

1. This thanksgiving psalm anticipates a victory in Israel when God as Judge would destroy the wicked and establish the righteous. God judges when He decides the time is right, and He judges fairly.
2. God as the Sovereign Judge forces His enemies to drink all the wine of judgment that He has prepared for them. One may choose to act against God by doing evil, but then he or she has to accept the consequences of rebellion against God and harming His people.
3. The psalmist concluded by praising God publicly, and in song, for judging His enemies. The horns symbolize strength. Israel’s enemies would lose their strength, but God’s people would grow stronger.
4. Though we might encounter hardship from others, we have the confidence that God will judge and is near to His people.

 

PRAYER:

Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

 

HYMN:

We Give Thanks – www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPwR-6H6KNY