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| 956.1 | Psalm 37 | RDGENG::YERKESS | bring me sunshine in your smile | Tue Aug 16 1994 12:48 | 12 |
| If pressed to pick a favourite then it would have to be Psalm 37.
Mainly because it paints such a wonderful future and the things
that we see such as the attrocities in Rwanda will come to an end
and never be experienced again. "Hope in Jehovah and keep his way,
And when the wicked ones are cut off, you will see [it]." Psalm 37
verse 34 NWT.
But all the Psalms are enjoyable to read. Listening to Psalms on
cassette while in a traffic jam can be rather soothing and
refreshing.
Phil.
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| 956.2 | Psalm 88 | DNEAST::DALELIO_HENR | | Tue Aug 16 1994 13:29 | 6 |
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Psalm 88
The psalms are songs. Psalm 88 - even when we're miserable and the heavens
seem to be brass, the Lord still hears us though we may think not.
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| 956.3 | Probably 22 | STRATA::BARBIERI | | Tue Aug 16 1994 13:39 | 22 |
| Hi,
I'm not really sure, but most likely Psalm 22 because this
scripture expounds on the mind of Christ when He hung for
me more so than any other scripture.
I really do like 22 through 24 though. Their order is not
unimportant. Psalm 23 seems to summarize the victory of
faith even when the temptation is the cross "though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death..." Psalm 24 speaks
of a generation who, I believe, endure the cross save they
have a Forerunner - Jacob the generation who seeks His face.
I also like 51 a lot - nice psalm of repentence and as I am
a believer in the law of God, I appreciate 119.
I'll keep reading this to get inputs. There is much of the
psalms I don't know.
Nice topic.
Tony
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| 956.4 | Don't read them just once; pray them constantly | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Tue Aug 16 1994 14:24 | 26 |
| The Psalms are one of the most important books of Holy Scripture, and
for that matter, of all the literature of the world. They consist of
hymns, songs of thanksgiving, lamentations of individuals and of God's
people, petitions, pilgrimage songs, royal songs, wisdom songs, and,
most importantly, messianic psalms.
The Psalms present a unique view into the inner structure of God's
revelation: the Psalter makes known that revelation is not effected
as a monolog by God, but that God has prepared in his chosen people
a partner that is brought into the process of revelation. Revelation
is thus a dialogue: God acts and speaks, and the People of Israel act
and speak in response.
As the ancient prayer book of God's People, the Psalter retained its
importance in the early Church and still does so today. Christians
should be encouraged to constantly pray the psalms, to let the glory
of God, the relationship with God, and the promises of God, fulfilled
in Christ, more fully be impressed upon their minds and spirits.
I present two methods for repeatedly reading the entire Psalter on a
regular and constant basis. You may adapt them in your own way to
your own rule of life, or develop any scheme of your own. Take comfort
in knowing that as you pray the psalms, you are praying together with
millions of Christians all over the world.
/john
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| 956.5 | A Seven Week Cycle | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Tue Aug 16 1994 14:25 | 57 |
| Morning Evening
1 Sunday 146, 147 111, 112, 113
Monday 1, 2, 3 4, 7
Tuesday 5, 6 10, 11
Wednesday 119:1-24 12, 13, 14
Thursday 18:1-20 18:21-50
Friday 16, 17 22
Saturday 20, 21 110, 116, 117
2 Sunday 148, 149, 150 114, 115
Monday 25 9, 15
Tuesday 26, 28 36, 39
Wednesday 38 119:25-48
Thursday 37:1-18 37:19-42
Friday 31 35
Saturday 30, 32 42, 43
3 Sunday 63, 98 103
Monday 41, 52 44
Tuesday 45 47, 48
Wednesday 119:49-72 49, 53
Thursday 50 59, 60
Friday 40, 54 51
Saturday 55 138,139
4 Sunday 24, 29 8, 84
Monday 56, 57, 58 64, 65
Tuesday 61, 62 68
Wednesday 72 119:73-96
Thursday 70, 71 74
Friday 69 73
Saturday 75, 76 23, 27
5 Sunday 93, 96 34
Monday 80 77, 79
Tuesday 78:1-39 78:40-72
Wednesday 119:97-120 81, 82
Thursday 83 85, 86
Friday 88 91, 92
Saturday 87, 90 136
6 Sunday 66, 67 19, 46
Monday 89:1-18 89:19-52
Tuesday 97, 99, 100 94, 95
Wednesday 101, 109 119:121-144
Thursday 105:1-22 105:23-45
Friday 102 107:1-32
Saturday 107:33-43, 108 33
7 Sunday 118 145
Monday 106:1-18 106:19-48
Tuesday 120,121,122,123 124, 125, 126, 127
Wednesday 119:145-176 128, 129, 130
Thursday 131, 132, 133 134, 135
Friday 140, 142 141, 143
Saturday 137, 144 104
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| 956.6 | A Thirty Day Cycle | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Tue Aug 16 1994 14:26 | 34 |
| Morning Evening
Day 1 1,2,3,4,5 6,7,8
Day 2 9,10,11 12,13,14
Day 3 15,16,17 18
Day 4 19,20,21 22,23
Day 5 24,25,26 27,28,29
Day 6 30,31 32,33,34
Day 7 35,36 37
Day 8 38,39,40 41,42,43
Day 9 44,45,46 47,48,49
Day 10 50,51,52 53,54,55
Day 11 56,57,58 59,60,61
Day 12 62,63,64 65,66,67
Day 13 68 69,70
Day 14 71,72 73,74
Day 15 75,76,77 78
Day 16 79,80,81 82,83,84,85
Day 17 86,87,88 89
Day 18 90,91,92 93,94
Day 19 95,96,97 98,99,100,101
Day 20 102,103 104
Day 21 105 106
Day 22 107 108,109
Day 23 110,111,112,113 114,115
Day 24 116,117,118 119:1-32
Day 25 119:32-72 119:73-104
Day 26 119:105-144 119:145-176
Day 27 120,121,122,123,124,125 126,127,128,129,130,131
Day 28 132,133,134,135 136,137,138
Day 29 139,140 141,142,143
Day 30 144,145,146 147,148,149,150
In months with thirty-one days, repeat the psalms for Day 30 on Day 31.
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| 956.7 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Tue Aug 16 1994 14:26 | 22 |
| Some comments on my own usage.
I use the seven week cycle together with a regular program of scriptural
reading which cycles through the entire bible with an OT reading, a reading
from an epistle, and a Gospel reading. I use the psalms for the morning
between the first two readings, and the psalms for the evening between the
second and last readings.
I most commonly use the Coverdale Psalter which was one of the first widely
available English Psalters, about 75 years older than the King James Bible.
But I also read the psalms in other translations, and even in other languages
(French and German). I always try to do a full cycle in the chosen translation
without switching around during a cycle.
If I somehow miss a day, rather than skipping readings, I double up on the
next day to catch back up.
The thirty day cycle will get you reading the Psalter more frequently, and
will more quickly and more deeply impress the Psalms upon you; but it takes
more time each day. You should chose a plan that you can really stick with.
/john
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| 956.8 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Tue Aug 16 1994 14:33 | 26 |
| Another note: The verses in many of the psalms are numbered differently
in different translations. For example, my French and German bibles
often (but not always) number the directions to the choirmaster which
precede many of the psalms as verse 1 or even verses 1 and 2. In other
translations, verses will be combined or separated, yielding different
numbering.
For the psalms which are divided on verse boundaries, look at your bible
and try to figure out were, within one or two verses in either direction,
the logical breaking point is.
Psalm 119 has a common verse numbering in all translations.
The seven-week cycle (in .5) can be accomplished in seven days, as follows:
Pray the psalms listed for: at:
Sunday 6am
Monday 9am
Tuesday 12n
Wednesday 3pm
Thursday 6pm
Friday 9pm
Saturday 12m
/john
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| 956.9 | This is tough... | CSC32::KINSELLA | A tree with a rotten core cannot stand. | Tue Aug 16 1994 20:01 | 10 |
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Hmmm....it's hard to pick a favorite because they speak to different
experiences. I love many psalms. Several come to mind. Psalm 51
talks about forgiveness and having a clean heart before God. Psalm 73
is great in times of depression. The beginning of Psalm 5 is about God
hearing our prayers. Psalm 42 talks of our need for God. But I guess
a favorite since I was in high school (the years are mounting!) is
Psalm 139 which gives a visual of how awesome God our Creator is.
Jill
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| 956.10 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Tue Aug 16 1994 20:13 | 17 |
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An excerpt from Psalm 139:
For you yourself created my inmost parts;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I will thank you because I am marvelously made;
your works are wonderful, and I know it well.
My body was not hidden from you,
while I was being made in secret
and woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes beheld my limbs, yet unfinished in the womb;
all of them were written in your book;
they were fashioned day by day,
when as yet there was none of them.
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| 956.11 | | CSLALL::HENDERSON | Friend will you be ready? | Wed Aug 17 1994 00:13 | 15 |
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re -1
I don't spend nearly enough time in the Psalms, thus had not come across that.
I do frequently pray Psalm 51, and I love Psalm 5.
Jim
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| 956.12 | Our Creator's wonderful works | RDGENG::YERKESS | bring me sunshine in your smile | Wed Aug 17 1994 06:21 | 10 |
| re .10
; Your eyes beheld my limbs, yet unfinished in the womb;
; all of them were written in your book;
; they were fashioned day by day,
This can be likened to the modern understanding of DNA, shows that
the Psalmist wrote this with guidance of God's holy spirit.
Phil.
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| 956.13 | | AIMHI::JMARTIN | | Wed Aug 17 1994 12:00 | 4 |
| Psalm 103 is very inspiring to me...
Bless the Lord..Oh my soul..Bless His Holy Name...
Bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not all His benefits...
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| 956.14 | My Life Psalm | JULIET::MORALES_NA | Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze | Wed Aug 17 1994 13:24 | 33 |
| Psalms 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to
eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear:
though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that
I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the
beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in
the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a
rock.
6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round
about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will
sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me,
and answer me.
8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy
face, LORD, will I seek.
9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger:
thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my
salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take
me up.
11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of
mine enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false
witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the
LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
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| 956.15 | Psalm 8 | POWDML::FLANAGAN | I feel therefore I am | Thu Aug 18 1994 16:56 | 1 |
| Psalm 8 is another favorite.
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| 956.16 | | GUCCI::RWARRENFELTZ | Follow the Money! | Mon Aug 22 1994 10:59 | 3 |
| Nancy:
Psalm 27 is my favorite also...!
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| 956.17 | | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Luke 1.78-79 | Mon Aug 22 1994 16:48 | 4 |
| Selected portions of Psalm 16
Richard
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| 956.18 | I can't pick just 1 | SALEM::RUSSO | | Tue Aug 23 1994 12:46 | 18 |
| >Note 956.13 Psalms 13 of 17
>AIMHI::JMARTIN 4 lines 17-AUG-1994 11:00
> Psalm 103 is very inspiring to me...
> Bless the Lord..Oh my soul..Bless His Holy Name...
> Bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not all His benefits...
This reminded me of Psalm 83:18 NWT "That people may know that you,
whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth."
It's tough to say I have a favorite Psalm, I don't think I do. But I
get strength and encouragement from Psalms 64-67 which remind me of
the privilage I have to approach Jehovah in prayer and that I can rely
on him to hear me and provide the needed strength and direction in times
of trial.
robin
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| 956.19 | | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Luke 1.78-79 | Tue Aug 23 1994 12:53 | 4 |
| I wonder if anyone ever picked Psalm 137 as their favorite.
Richard
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| 956.20 | | POWDML::FLANAGAN | I feel therefore I am | Mon Aug 29 1994 13:21 | 21 |
| I actually found some level of sympathy and understanding for Psalm 137
particularly the part about the plea for God to smash the babies into a
rock in my Women's bible commentary.
The Psalm is written by a person in Agony and strongly desiring
revenge. He is pouring out his heart to God seeking vengence. The
point was that God embraces each of us in our moments of Agony with all
our human emotions including our anger and hostility. God embraces us,
and comforts us, and holds us and allows us to be. Our emotions are
our emotions and are neither Good or Bad. We can be emotionally open
with God without fear of what we are thinking or feeling.
God is not an instrument of vengence and does not kill innocent babies.
Reading the psalms from that perspective gives a whole new perspective.
Can you imagine as a parent calming a hysterical child who wants to
"kill" her brother. Can you imagine holding and comforting that child and
ignoring the emotional plea to hurt the sibling?
Patricia
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| 956.21 | | BIGQ::SILVA | Memories..... | Mon Aug 29 1994 14:36 | 7 |
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Patricia, great note! :-)
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| 956.22 | you said volumes | TFH::KIRK | a simple song | Mon Aug 29 1994 14:50 | 5 |
| I agree. Very good note and food for thought.
Peace,
Jim
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| 956.23 | Heartsongs | CSC32::J_CHRISTIE | Luke 1.78-79 | Tue Aug 30 1994 01:42 | 8 |
| .20 Confirms my belief the the Psalms are really the heartsongs of
the psalmists.
Thanks.
Shalom,
Richard
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| 956.24 | A little background? | DNEAST::DALELIO_HENR | | Tue Aug 30 1994 08:12 | 35 |
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Patricia,
Smashing babies heads againt a rock was the Amalakite method of killing
off the population of those whom they conquered. David (or whoever) is
simply asking God that they reap what they (Amalakites) have sown.
The power of life and death is in the hands of the Lord. Sometimes He
either gives or allows mankind this power over himself.
In the book Mein Kampf, Hitler claimed that he was doing the work of the
Lord in his persecution of the Jews. He used the word "anihilation" as
a solution to the Jewish "problem". This several years before he became
chancellor.
I can't see God as comforting Hitler for his evil deeds.
Jehovah has said that those "curse" the seed of Abraham will be cursed
themselves.
I've had 11 children and I have NEVER heard one of my children express
the fact that they wanted to "kill" one another. We are a very very
close family and that kind of talk would be a shock and a trauma to each
one of us.
The fact that the innocent suffer with the guilty is a "problem" we all
have to face. I don't think bringing Our Heavenly Father onto the red
carpet is a viable solution. For example; in the flood of Noah, possibly
millions of innocent babies drowned. I can understand how one would want
to mythologize the account of the flood, but the Bible plainly says that
God himself was responsible for the deluge and He Himself "closed the door"
to the ark. Rather than "debunk" the Bible, why not take heed to the warnings
against the kinds of wickedness that kindled His wrath to destroy the world?
Hank
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| 956.25 | | POWDML::FLANAGAN | I feel therefore I am | Tue Aug 30 1994 11:39 | 22 |
| Hank,
I respect your point of view on the bible but it is not my point of
view. To me the Noah's Ark story is a myth and any inspiration and
beauty in that story can only be found in it being a myth.
I am glad to hear that you family is such a close family and your
children have never expressed the desire to injure one another. I have
two children and there have been a few instances in which they were
very angry and frustrated with each other and have expressed that anger
in terms of wanting the other to be hurt as much as they were feeling
hurt.
I like Richards word "Heartsong". the Psalms are the heartsong of the
authors. There is great comfort in knowing that God accepts each of us
as we are. The desire for revenge felt in the moment of pain and agony
is not the same thing as carrying out the deed.
Your background information is helpful. I can relate it to the words,
and deeds of many Americans during the War in Iraq.
Patricia
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