Free & Fit - Summer with the Psalms - Sunday 15th August Psalm 105
Summer with the Psalms
Sunday 15th August Psalm 105
Opening Prayer
Holy and righteous God, you created us in your image. Grant us grace to contend fearlessly against evil and to make no peace with oppression. Help us, like those of generations before us, resist the evil of slavery and human bondage in any form and any manner of oppression. Help us to use our freedoms to bring justice among people and nations everywhere, to the glory of your Holy name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Psalm 105:
“O give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the people.”
Psalms 105:1 AMP
Psalm 105 in full:
Reflection:
Today the shared experiences of the Psalms are common through modern day Charismatic and Pentecostal Churches. The Psalms and the New Testament are often shared resources for new believers. I personally first encountered this through Evangelism in London with Evangelist Rico Tice at a Christmas outreach where we invited Oxford Street shoppers off the street and invited them to Church and gave them free Psalm and New Testament books for free.
As a gift to them and an invitation to a Carol Service at a local Church at Christmas. It was a great way to offer a less traditional and lighter way to entice people to read the Bible. Especially a great way to offer a more relational, emotional and more relatable invitation to read the Hebrew scriptures.
This experience, alongside seeing similar Bibles being offered at a variety of different locations including guests at the Gloucester Retreat centre of Wycliffe Bible Translators, Christian pop up book stores, established Book stores, Church book stores, other Biblical translation focused ministry organizations at Christian festivals and a few traditional Christmas Church evangelistic events offering them to people on mission.
This reminds me of the fact that the Psalms are often the first texts to be translated into different languages for new believers when first reading Old Testament scriptures. In fact, for thousands and perhaps millions of Christians around the world the Psalms are their first experience of reading any Biblical text.
It is my belief that due to the nature of the depth, variety and honesty within Gods promises in the Psalms (Psalm 23), our thanksgiving (Psalm 100), our repentance (Psalm 51), our transformation - whaling into dancing (Psalm 30) and various lamentations of frustration and recognition of our own human limitations (Psalm 91) of the Psalmist makes the Psalms the most human account of our indifference to God. That although we are created in Gods image, we are simply not God.
Through the Psalms we can exalt, praise, abandon and turn back to God. “For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.”
Psalms 100:5 NRSV
Let us close in prayer with Psalm 105:49
“So that they might observe His precepts And keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them]. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)”
Psalms 105:45 AMP
Closing Prayer:
Father God we thank you for the privilege to Praise you, to come to you our great Fortress, our great Lord Almighty and our great Rock and Refuge our ever present help in times of trouble. Be with us now, forever and always in Jesus name. Amen
“So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:26 NLT
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