Tuesday 30 July 2024
Slept so long 8 hours last night, and I usually feel bad when I sleep too long even though 8 hours is what we ought to have as humans so they say but I don't agree with this because I felt more alive during the times I only slept 4-5hours a day during my watchman days.
Scriptures
Psalm 109
English Standard Version
Help Me, O Lord My God
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1 Be not silent, O God of my praise! 2 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues. 3 They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. 4 In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.[a] 5 So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand. 7 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin! 8 May his days be few; may another take his office! 9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow! 10 May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit! 11 May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil! 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children! 13 May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation! 14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out! 15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
16 For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death. 17 He loved to curse; let curses come[b] upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far[c] from him! 18 He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak[d] into his body like water, like oil into his bones! 19 May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day! 20 May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my life!
21 But you, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name's sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me! 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.23 I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat. 25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.
26 Help me, O Lord my God! Save me according to your steadfast love! 27 Let them know that this is your hand; you, O Lord, have done it! 28 Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad! 29 May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!
30 With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord; I will praise him in the midst of the throng. 31 For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.
Song of Songs 6:4-12
English Standard Version
Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other
He
4 You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me—Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young.7 Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.8 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.9 My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, pure to her who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.
10 “Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?”
She
11 I went down to the nut orchard to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom. 12 Before I was aware, my desire set me among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.
ObservationThe Psalms of David are the prayers of my heart, David was pure honest before GOD, when he was angry he asked GOD to punish his enemies. David was as human and was not pretentious before GOD. I believe GOD loved that about him, HE smiles at David everytime he prayed honest and blatant prayers.
ApplicationI am praying this prayer: But you, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name's sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me! 22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me. I am asking GOD to deal with me and all my desires, but my anger sometimes I cannot utter them to GOD in prayers, I do not pray against my enemies, but I do ask GOD to deal with the liars and deceiving prophets who entice my mother to do things that are not according to HIS will. But I am asking GOD to deal with my desires of having a husband ever since I have been desiring this, I do not want this to be an idol anymore that will ensnare me just as the wealth of Gideon has ensnared their family. I want to be free from it, at the same time I keep talking about it so that I will eventually lose interest or grow tired from it. Yet the LORD gives me a word in Song of Songs 6:12 Before I was aware, my desire set me among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince. And this is a wonderful thing to happen if GOD is using my desire to set me among the chariots of my noble people until GOD fulfills these desires HE placed in my heart then it is a good thing to ask these desires from GOD.
PrayerDear AVI,O LORD MY GOD My King! Great are YOU Almighty ONE who is ruler of owner of everything especially of my heart. Yes GOD YOU OWN MY HEART! So do with it as YOU please. I want to grow tired, or stop liking Stephen for the mean time that I have to wait for YOUR Promise. I don't want this desire to harm me or make me feel sad or helpless and insecure. So Please do it for me. I want to be free from helplessness and insecurity because these are negative feelings. I pray O GOD that YOU will be my confidence and strength, in quietness and confidence is my strength, my rest, bring me to that place of peace myGOD myKing. IN the Name of JESUS I pray AMen
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