[Pastor Ralph]

Exercise. For one of the psalms in this lesson -- or another psalm with a similar theme -- do one of the suggested exercises to help you experience the Psalms (www.jesuswalk.com/psalms/psalms-exercises.htm). These include such things as praying a psalm, meditating, reading to a shut-in, paraphrasing, writing your own psalm, singing, preparing a liturgy, and memorizing. Then report to the forum what the exercise meant to you personally or share what you've written with others.

[Tabatha]

Exercise. For one of the psalms in this lesson -- or another psalm with a similar theme -- do one of the suggested exercises to help you experience the Psalms (www.jesuswalk.com/psalms/psalms-exercises.htm). These include such things as praying a psalm, meditating, reading to a shut-in, paraphrasing, writing your own psalm, singing, preparing a liturgy, and memorizing. Then report to the forum what the exercise meant to you personally or share what you've written with others.

PSALM 51



Oh Lord, I am weak
I have stumbled over rocks in the road.
I fell down and dirty did get
Thy best I did miss and your laws I did break
I am sorry dear Lord!
FORGIVE ME I PRAY!!!
have mercy upon me, O GOD
According to Thy Lovingkindness
According to Thy multiplied mercies!
Blot out my sins, Oh Lord
Wash me throughly from my trangressions
And my sin is ever before me!
Ever! Ever!... It's before my eyes!
Oh God... my failure I cannot forgrt
Day and night it haunts me, O Lord
against THEE....Thee only, have I sinned
And done this evil in Thy sight!
Wash me,and I shall be whiter than snow
Make me to hear once again joy and gladness, Oh Lord!..,
That the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice.
Hide Thy Face from my sins
And blot out all mine iniquities!
Create in me a clean heart, O God.......
And renew a right Spirit within me!
Cast me not away from Thy presence
And take not Thy Holy Spirit from me!
Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation
And uphold me with Thy free spirit!
Then will i teach transgressors Thy ways,
And sinners shall be converted unto Thee
For I have found out how human and weak I am, O Lord!
Deliver me, O God of my salvation,
And Thy Praise I will sing!
O Lord, open my lips and my mouth shall shew forth Thy Praise!
Sacrifices Thou dost not ask .........But a broken spirit.
A broken and a contrite heart, O God Thou wilt not despise.
I humbly ask of Thee, FORGIVE ME I PRAY,
And Thy Praises I will sing
And in Thy Path will I walk the rest of my days!

[charisbarak]

Ps. 2

How the nations are raging in war against each other even today!
The leaders are using their own people to take over other nations.
They are making their plans to take over all nations, especially God's Chosen Israel.
They are not coming together but for to fight against God.
They don't want to acknowledge Jesus Christ, nor be under His rule.

Oh, how God laughs at their foolishness--making something of themselves when they are not--thinking they can outsmart, out-fight God.

He then gets angry--He has given His only Son, Jesus Christ, all the nations to rule as He will in Zion at His holy hill. The earth is the Lord's possession & inheritance.

Warning!!
You kings of the earth, be wise!! Fear Him!! Worship Him!!
He's coming soon & you will lose your life forever!!

Joy & blessing will come to those who trust & take refuge in Him!!

[csreeves]

Exercise. For one of the psalms in this lesson -- or another psalm with a similar theme -- do one of the suggested exercises to help you experience the Psalms (www.jesuswalk.com/psalms/psalms-exercises.htm). These include such things as praying a psalm, meditating, reading to a shut-in, paraphrasing, writing your own psalm, singing, preparing a liturgy, and memorizing. Then report to the forum what the exercise meant to you personally or share what you've written with others.

After mediating this Psalm 22 I begin to wonder if the Old Testmant and New Testament continually reflect each other where the Messiah is the winner in both.

[masika]

When I read these Psalms that talk of the Messiah, Am very grateful because the Messiah died for my sin. God did not spare His own Son, Jesus, from dying on the Cross. If Jesus had lived, the rest of humankind would have died. God sent His only Son to die so that we could be spared from eternal death we deserved and instead receive eternal life.

[Don W]

I haven’t written any songs with words from these Psalms, but I would like to quote one of my favorite hymns called “The Passion Chorale” that was made famous by one of my favorite composers J. S. Bach who harmonized it from music written by Hans Leo Hassler.

“O sacred Head, now wounded, with grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded with thorns Thine only crown;
How pale Thou art with anguish, with sore abused and scorn,
How does that visage languish, which once was bright as morn!

What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered was all for sinners’ gain;
Mine, mine was the transgression, but Thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior; ‘Tis I deserve Thy place;
Look on me with Thy favor, assist me with Thy grace.

What language shall I borrow to thank Thee, dearest Friend,
For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end?
O make me Thine forever, and should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never; never outlive my love to Thee. Amen.”



(And how appropriate it seems to be to me as I’m a little bit behind in finishing these Bible studies on the Psalms, but I thought, sang and meditated on this hymn today at the start of the Lent Season leading up to Christ’s death and Easter, His glorious resurrection!!!!!! Amen!)

[allyann]

Exercise. For one of the psalms in this lesson -- or another psalm with a similar theme -- do one of the suggested exercises to help you experience the Psalms (www.jesuswalk.com/psalms/psalms-exercises.htm). These include such things as praying a psalm, meditating, reading to a shut-in, paraphrasing, writing your own psalm, singing, preparing a liturgy, and memorizing. Then report to the forum what the exercise meant to you personally or share what you've written with others.

Psalm 110: 4a "The Lord has taken an oath and will not break His vow;"
God's word is true. He is a God that cannot lie. He has promised us eternal life if we are obedient to His Word. If we a faithful to serve Him, then He will be our God and Father and we will be His beloved children. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. He could have sent His Son into the world to condemn the world, but instead He sent Him to suffer and bleed so that through Him, the world may be saved. God promises to be with us always, not just in the good times, not just on sunny days, but through all of our trials and tribulations. Always means forever and that is what God vowed to us, "Lo, I am with you always."

[servant for Christ]

Exercise. For one of the psalms in this lesson -- or another psalm with a similar theme -- do one of the suggested exercises to help you experience the Psalms (www.jesuswalk.com/psalms/psalms-exercises.htm). These include such things as praying a psalm, meditating, reading to a shut-in, paraphrasing, writing your own psalm, singing, preparing a liturgy, and memorizing. Then report to the forum what the exercise meant to you personally or share what you've written with others.

These psalms are awesome. For me to know and realize that God's ways are not my ways, that His ways are a lot higher and better, is just amazing. To know that God had a plan from the beginning, that Jesus was willing to give His life to bring that plan into action. I use to say that God's love was awesome, which it is, but not it is so amazing. I can see the ways God is moving in my life, and it is so amazing to know what an awesome God I do serve. I praise God for His salvation, for the relationship that I can have with Him through Christ.

[Paul G]

Exercise. For one of the psalms in this lesson -- or another psalm with a similar theme -- do one of the suggested exercises to help you experience the Psalms
These include such things as praying a psalm, meditating, reading to a shut-in, paraphrasing, writing your own psalm, singing, preparing a liturgy, and memorizing. Then report to the forum what the exercise meant to you personally or share what you've written with others.

Exercise - I think of the song, "The Old Rugged Cross", and meditate on it -

On a hill far away, stood an old rugged Cross
The emblem of suff'ring and shame
And I love that old Cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain

So I'll cherish the old rugged Cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged Cross
And exchange it some day for a crown

Oh, that old rugged Cross so despised by the world
Has a wondrous attraction for me
For the dear Lamb of God, left his Glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary

So I'll cherish the old rugged Cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged Cross
And exchange it some day for a crown

In the old rugged Cross, stain'd with blood so divine
A wondrous beauty I see
For the dear Lamb of God, left his Glory above
To pardon and sanctify me

So I'll cherish the old rugged Cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged Cross
And exchange it some day for a crown

To the old rugged Cross, I will ever be true
Its shame and reproach gladly bear
Then He'll call me some day to my home far away
Where his glory forever I'll share

So I'll cherish the old rugged Cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged Cross
And exchange it some day for a crown