Closer To Heaven
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I’m rather sick of love—of the word, at least. It’s been overused. Burned out. “Love” has come to mean whatever someone wants it to mean. That’s surely true in popular music, where the word appears in nearly every love song. But it’s equally true, I would argue, among Christians. I remember a church member who […] Source: https://atoday.org/editorial-love-is-not-all-we-need/
Mi ergerò.
Approfondimento della lezione della Scuola del Sabato numero 6 – I trimestre 2024 con Mariarosa Cavalieri, Michele De Giovanni e Franco Evangelisti. RISORSE COLLEGATE ⤵ 📖 𝗜𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲:
https://uicca.org/1-trimestre-2024-lezione-6 📩 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗼:
https://uicca.org/1-trimestre-2024-lezione-6 🔗 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶 𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼:
https://www.missiontothecities.org Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ZGom_vwpQ
Mi ergerò. Introduzione della lezione della Scuola del Sabato numero 6 – I trimestre 2024. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLD33d3tBOY
Daily Lesson for Sunday 4th of February 2024
Read Psalms 18:3-18; Psalms 76:3-9,12; and Psalms 144:5-7. How is the Lord portrayed in these texts? What do these images convey about God’s readiness to deliver His people?
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These hymns praise the Lord for His awesome power over the evil forces that threaten His people. They portray God in His majesty as Warrior and Judge. The image of God as Warrior is frequent in the Psalms and highlights the severity and urgency of God’s response to His people’s cries and suffering.
“The Lord thundered from heaven, / And the Most High uttered His voice, / Hailstones and coals of fire. / He sent out His arrows and scattered the foe, / Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them. / Then the channels of the sea were seen, / The foundations of the world were uncovered /At Your rebuke, O Lord, / At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils” (Psalms 18:13-15, NKJV).
The sheer determination and magnitude of God’s action should disperse any doubt about God’s great care and compassion for the sufferers or about His ability to defeat evil. We just need to wait for Him to do it.
In the end, even when God’s people, such as David, were involved in war, deliverance did not come from human means. In his many battles against the enemies of God’s people, King David praised God as the only One who achieved all the victories. It would have been easy for David to take credit for what happened, for his many successes and triumphs, but that was not his frame of mind. He knew where the Source of his power came from.
Although David states that the Lord trains his hands for war (Psalms 18:34), nowhere in the Psalms does he rely on his battle skills. Instead, the Lord fights for David and delivers him (Psalms 18:47-48).
In the Psalms, King David, who was known as a successful warrior, assumes his role as a skilled musician and praises the Lord as the only Deliverer and Sustainer of His people (Psalms 144:10-15). Praise and prayer to the Lord are David’s sources of strength, which are more powerful than any weapon of war. God alone is to be trusted and worshiped.
Whatever gifts and skills and success you have had in life, why must you always remember the Source of them all? What danger do you face if you forget that Source?
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Matthew 21:22 – "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Tag someone in need of prayer and kindly share your prayer requests here. https://bit.ly/3GdFXpR Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k9gUHtD24k
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