Welcome back to the Word Wednesday Challenge. This week, we take a look at Book 1 of Psalms, which encompasses chapters 1-41. (Next week, we’ll look at chapters 42-72, so get ready!) This week was easy for me, because there is one verse from Psalms that is written right across my heart:
Psalm 34:7 (NIV)–The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them.
One of the few times I ever heard God give me a verse by address, it was this one. Shortly before my husband deployed to Iraq in 2006, I was praying to find a verse. He wanted one to wear on his dogtags while he was gone, but I couldn’t think of one. And then, one day when I was praying about it, “Psalm 34:7” popped into my head. When I looked it up, this is what I found. To this day, it is close to my heart. It’s not just a verse for my husband to wear close to his heart, but a reminder that God had already delivered me, and a promise that He would provide protection. And He did. We were safely reunited a year later.
No, I don’t have a greater universal meaning for y’all this week, but God is so amazing to me because He is so incredibly vast and so intensely personal. Hard to grasp sometimes, but I’m so glad He is.
Care to share what speaks to you in the first 41 chapters of Psalms? Can’t wait to hear it! Share it below or blog it yourself and leave a link here. Have a wonderful week! And don’t forget to check out chapters 42-72.
-JB
Jen says
That story gives me goose bumps. So cool, and so like God! I had a few favorite verses this week, but Psalm 36: 5-6 seemed to encompass them all… and makes me sing the Third Day song. 🙂
Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep.
Like you said, God is so very vast, and it makes our personal encounters with Him all the more amazing!
Jodie says
I was going to say… you had me singing along!
Dawn Lucowitz says
There were a couple verses in this first book of psalms that I really liked, but this one spoke to me the strongest.
Psalm 19:14 – May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
This is one of my daily prayers. I have mouth issues for sure. I don’t have a filter and don’t always say things that are encouraging or kind. I have been working very hard on what comes out of my mouth by being way more aware of what goes into my body. I have changed the types of tv shows I watch, music I listen to and things I read.
One of the things that’s most upsetting to me when the wrong things come out of my mouth is because it had to be somewhere inside me and my heart to begin with. I pray that what is in my heart is only pleasing to the Lord. I pray that the words that come out of me are encouraging and show a my love for our Lord.
Jodie says
Wow. I need to make that my prayer. You’re the voice of conviction this week, because I’ve noticed myself slipping. This could very well be WHY…