{"id":3421,"date":"2020-06-09T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T00:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2020-06-09T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T00:37:25","slug":"hobart-herd-devotional-psalms-37-6-7-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3421","title":{"rendered":"Hobart Herd Devotional – Psalms 37 – 6-7-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 37 \u2013\n6-7-20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   This Psalm is very precious to me as it\ncontains my life verse: \u201cDelight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the\ndesires of your heart.\u201d(Psalms 37:4)  The\nfirst message that I ever preached in Homiletics class in Bible School was from\nPsalms 37:3-7.  The 4 main points were:\nTrust, Delight, Commit, and Rest.  These\ntruths have come back to help me many times in my 40 plus years of preaching\nand teaching.  So many times I have been\ndiscouraged and ready to quit only to be reminded that I can trust, delight,\ncommit and rest in the Lord.  It is His\nWord, Life, and Gospel that I am called to preach and the results are in His\nhand.  He truly is the Lord of the\nHarvest!  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   This long chapter is a reminder that we\ndon\u2019t need to fret when it seems like the wicked are winning.  As I walk with the Lord I see the Lord\u2019s\nfaithfulness in bringing about His righteous punishment on the evil of this\nworld.  Verse 8 reminds me not to get\nangry and upset over the seeming victories of the evil wickedness of my world,\nbut trust that the Lord will make it right. \nOver and Over these verses talk about how the plots and plans of the\nwicked are turned around against them. \nGod laughs at their futile attempts to put Him down and destroy His\nplans.  It reminds me of Satan\u2019s plan to\nkill the Messiah\/Savior and thus destroy God\u2019s plan of redemption of sinful\nman.  How did that work out for\nSatan?  God used him to put His Son on\nthe Cross and in so doing provide the sacrifice for the sins of all mankind and\nthe Eternal life through His resurrection power that brings us salvation.  I can put my trust in the finished work of\nthe Lord Jesus Christ, asking forgiveness and repenting of my sin, I can have\neternal life.  So the very destructive\nacts of Satan in the Crucifixion, God used to bring me eternal life.  Never think that Satan and sin will win\nout.  God will use their own wickedness\nand its consequences to bring them all to justice and judgment.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Psalms\n37:38-40, 38   But transgressors will be altogether destroyed;\nthe posterity of the wicked will be cut off. \n39  But the salvation of the\nrighteous is from the LORD; He is their strength in time of trouble.  40  And\nthe LORD helps them, and delivers them; He delivers them from the wicked, and\nsaves them, because they take refuge in Him.(NAS)  These verses sum up the end results of our\nFaithful God.  Praise God He Help,\nDelivers, Saves and provides refuge and strength for in our times of trouble.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Father, thank You that I can Trust, Delight,\nCommit, and Rest in You.  I can never\nthank you enough for providing me with redemption, forgiveness, salvation and\neternal life through the death, burial and resurrection of Your Son the Lord\nJesus Christ.  May I learn to not allow\nthe frustration and anger against the wickedness to overwhelm my heart and\nattitude.  Your faithfulness is new every\nmorning, and I can trust in You to bring victory and justice.  In Jesus Name, Amen!  Pastor Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 37 \u2013 6-7-20    This Psalm is very precious to me as it contains my life verse: \u201cDelight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.\u201d(Psalms 37:4)  The first …<\/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\/3421"}],"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=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}