{"id":3235,"date":"2020-05-04T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2020-05-04T14:36:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T21:36:32","slug":"hobart-herd-psalms-6-7-5-4-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"Hobart Herd – Psalms 6-7 – 5-4-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 6 \u2013 5-3-20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Have you ever been in so much pain that you\nthought God must be punishing you?  That\nseems to be the background to Psalms 6. \nHe describes pain so strong that his bones were hurting him.  We don\u2019t have an event in David\u2019s life to\nconnect directly, but we know from these verses that David felt like God must\nbe punishing him in anger.  Having had\nnumerous bouts of kidney stone attacks, I know that pain can seem like a punishment\nfrom the Lord\u2019s anger; most of the time it is just a consequence of diet and\ngenetics of your family.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Then you add on the enemies that King David\nhad in his life, from Saul, to family that turned against him, it seemed that\nthe pain of David\u2019s heart was a strong as his physical pain.  I think we have all been in the position of\nhaving painful family and \u201cfriendships\u201d that turn against us and the pain is\nmaybe even greater then if we had been physically hurting.  How do we move from pain and crying out to\nthe Lord to the healing power of faith through prayer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   First we realize that we have a God whose\nlovingkindness, mercy and grace is always there for us.(vs. 4)  We must realize that God hears our cries of\npain and our prayers.  Only He can\ndeliver us.  Verse 9 says, \u201cThe LORD has\nheard my supplication, the LORD receives my prayer.\u201d(NAS)  The two words we will focus on are\n\u201csupplication\u201d and \u201creceives\u201d.  \nSupplication refers to a call for gracious favor in which God would\nstoop to our cry.  The word receives\nmeans to accept that call and cry for gracious favor.  I am so glad that when I call on the Lord, He\nstoops to my cry and accepts me with gracious favor.  Truly when I call on Him in pain, I can know\nwithout a doubt that He hears, stoops, and offers His healing touch of grace to\nme heart and life.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Father, thank You for hearing me when I cry\nout in pain.  I know that some of my pain\nis of my own making, but Your gracious lovingkindness still stoops to hear my\ncay and bring healing by Your grace.  May\nI never take for granted the power of prayer in my distress, and may I always\nremember in faith that You care for me. \nTake away the despair of pain, whether it be physical or relational and\nbring me to Your loving arms for refuge and strength.  In Jesus Name, Amen!  Pastor Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hobart Herd \u2013 Psalms 7 \u2013 5-4-20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  If you have ever been slandered or had\nenemies that seek to destroy you constantly, you are in the company of King\nDavid.  David called out for God to\nrescue or deliver him many times in the Psalms, and this is the first time this\nword is used.  One of the keys that is\npointed out is that David took refuge in the Lord during this terrible time of\nattack.  This was probably written while\nDavid was hiding out from Saul, and many of his enemies were taking the\nopportunity to talk and slander him while he was down and out.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   David calls out to God to punish him if he\ndeserved it, but as far as he knew, he was an innocent man of integrity that\nsought to love and serve God faithfully. \nDavid was told by his friends to just take Saul out and take over the\nkingdom, but David recognized God\u2019s anointed call on Saul and would not take\nadvantage of his position of already being anointed and called to be the next king\nof Israel.  David trusts God to vindicate\nhim and judge his enemies because God is a Faithful, Righteous Judge.  Psalms 7:9-10, 9 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the\nrighteous; for the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.10  My shield is with God, who saves the upright\nin heart.(NAS)  I can trust in a\nrighteous God who tries the hearts of men and is a Shield for those whose\nhearts are right with Him.   I want to\ngive thanks today for His righteous judgment on our sinful enemies, and His\nshielding of our hearts and lives as we serve Him in faithful righteousness.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Father, thank You for having my back.\u00a0 I can entrust to You my ways when I know that You are a God that knows all things and will make all things right.\u00a0 May I repent of the things that I have done wrong so that I can trust in You as my Shield.\u00a0 Thank You for shielding my heart and protecting me from the hate and anger against my enemies.\u00a0 Truly I can trust in You and love those that despitefully use and talk about me.\u00a0 Guard my heart and give me Your love for others.\u00a0 In Jesus Name, Amen! Pastor Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 6 \u2013 5-3-20    Have you ever been in so much pain that you thought God must be punishing you?  That seems to be the background to Psalms 6.  He describes pain so strong that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}