19 Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;
20 they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.
22 You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent.
Lord, don’t be far from me.23 Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! 24 according to your righteousness.
26 Let them be...
másSurrender yourself to the Lord, and wait patiently for him (Psalm 37:7)
In the mid-17th century, a man named Nicolas Herman joined the Carmelite monastery in Paris, France. Wounded from fighting in the European Thirty Years’ war, and suffering a sustained leg injury, he took the monastic name “Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection.” He worked in the monastery kitchen and eventually became the head cook. Amid the chaos of food preparation and the clanging of pots and pans, Brother Lawrence began to practice a simple method of prayer that helped him return to an...
másBlessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust,
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and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,
and your thoughts which are toward us.
They can’t be declared...God is our refuge and strength,
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a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes,
though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
3...https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-10-13-when-it-rains-r25
God is our refuge and strength,
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an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
...- Psalm 46 includes three selahs – a written direction, which scholars suggest is a musical interlude - a pause.
- When we pause, we give ourselves space to hear the voice of our heavenly Father saying, ‘be still, and know that I am God’ (verse 10).
- The ‘knowing’ described here in the Hebrew is the kind gained through seeing. In verse 4, the writer sees a city, a ‘holy habitation’ sustained by a ‘river’ – a prophetic glimpse of heaven also found in John’s vision in Revelation.
- As we pause, may we hear the voice of God and glimpse the reality of his kingdom...
10 “Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations.
I will be exalted in the earth.”
11 Yahweh of Armies is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge.https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-05-7-umbilical-r25
He says, ‘Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.’‘Be still, and know that I am God; (Psalm 46:10)
The journey of life is absolutely a sacred journey, but we don’t know that when we’re younger. We don’t want to think about life in terms of a sacred journey, because we don’t know for certain where we came from, and we don’t know for certain where we’re going….
In the everyday maelstrom of life, people don’t want to think about any of that. They just want to get through their day…. But when we get to the halfway point in our lives, we begin to realize that all the things that we have accumulated don’t...
másClap your hands, all you nations;
shout to God with cries of joy.
For the LORD Most High is awesome,
the great King over all the earth.Awe is the sensation of being completely overwhelmed, by the sheer magnitude and magnificence of something or someone that we turn our attention towards, so give us grace today to pay attention today in such a way that we glimpse something of your glory.
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