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David quieted himself by not looking for things that would change his attitude about everything being about him, To everything being about the Lord. David use a nursing child growing up and then being weaned from his mother to grow independently.

I am reassured by the fact that no matter what the situation that I am going through being a child of God assures me the protection from the Almighty, so I am so thankful to have the Lord God in my life

the Psalm teaches us when we sense we have the reality of God in life to squelch any fears that we have. we only have to ask for his protection and desire to be his presence, because as long as we are in His presence nothing can harm us. God has also given us power to fight off our attacker all we have to do is speak deliverance from our attackers in the name of Jesus. This Psalm that we have absolute covering of God by those who are His children, and makes me glad to know that I have received His salvation and His protection

David talks about two images as he refer to God one being being a rock that cant be broken or overtaken and wings which has the ability to surround and cover us in any situation. And as I think about these verse it gives me great peace to know when I call on God He is there to fulfill His will in me. Thank You Lord

O God, My God You are my shield and my buckler, It is you that I lay hold of. I sing praises to You. I offer my thanksgiving for what you have done, even in my wicked ways. I thank you O God for your grace and your mercy. It was You O God who called me out of the darkness and into your marvelous light and I honor You for that, My God I do not take it lightly what you have done for me, So I ask in the name of Jesus that You sanctify me right know to do your very good work. I praise you today Lord for what You are doing and what are going to do in my Life and I give you the highest praise in Jesus name amen Hallelujah. my prayer deals with the fact of my wicked ways, God has turned me around, I now have in me the desire to open my mouth and talk to God and God says in 2 chronicles 7:14 if we would only humble ourselve and pray and turn from our wicked ways then He will hear from heaven. I can take this scripture as a blueprint to grow in God- We must humble ourselve and pray if we are looking for any restoration that will last-I dont want temporary restoration, I want permenant restoration

We must humility to relize that all things comes from God and We must have faith in the God to walk into our destiny, When one of those quailities are missing it set us up to rely on self instead of relying on God.

I respond with joy and gladness, I am so thankful that God has a plan for me, And I pray that I do nothing that will separate God from me. I desire to do the work of Lord and pray that my will is His will

Because if we can just learn to praise in the midst of situation, it is a call that signal to God that in spite of situation we will the Lord through our situation. If we can learn anything from David is that problem will arise, but we must continue to praise as an instrument that we are praise our everything in God.

David knew that if there was any saving grace it would only come through God and this is a lesson for all christians to learn from and that is to still speak to God even in our sinful ways, we still need God in our lives we still need His salvation an His Grace. David recognize that he had sin against and was extremely sorrowful for it and he knew his turn around came by asking of God for grace and mercy, and because of God grace and mercy we have the opportunity to ask for his forgiveness and establish a rightful relationship with the father

I see 4 reason for us to praise 1. His Salvation 2. His Righteousness 3. His Mercy 4. His Faithfulness. As expected we can never enough praise for what he has done, But I do try my best effort and praise God for what he has done in my life, At times in life the enemy may to play trick on your mind to steal your praise, But I have to think the battle is only in the mind, so have to get my mind right so I can give God the Highest praise. Hallelujah

We are commanded to worship because is the Great God who has created and blessed us throughout the earth. Everything has God done for us and we recognize and give our praise and worship for what he has done. God wanted David to reflect on how the earlier generation who had personal seen God work and did not worship wound up a lost generation and we that are left should not forget what God has done and worship Him. The first part of this psalm start with worship and this a lesson that we all should do and that is start each day by worshiping the Lord

This psalm teaches us that God deserves all of our praise to the fullest, God has done great things in our life and deserves our thanks our praises to Him for everything. We should praise God everywhere we should not hide what God has done for us, we should let the whole earth and heavens praise God for who he is and like the last verse says everyone who has breath should praise the Lord, That means to me if you are breathing praise Him!!!!!. When I think about this Psalm it makes me think of who God is and what He has done and what He will continue to be in my life and when I think of that I can only think that He deserves my praise.

What attracts me is the idea of brothers and sister Christ coming together to worship the Lord. With so many interpretation of the bible, it seems we get in our own way and not allow God to minister to us for understanding and we cut God off with our attitudes. if we genuine desire to have unity, we must suppress our flesh and let God arise in us to have the unity that David is talking about in this text. You can have unity and still not be pure, unity comes from agreeing together and purity comes from lineing up with the Father and man a times have made there own agenda which sometimes are not a pure agenda. Reconcilitation are important to Jesus because it show him our heart for righteousness and if we can be united in it we can do more for the lost sheep that He is trying to reach through His disciples walk

I would instruct my children that in order to be with God we have to our best to obey his word with a clean heart and not try to devise way to get around God word. God can not be fool, so if you accept God Accept His word and live by them.

The psalms spirit somewhat feels challenge by the circumstance he is under and finds himself looking for the only truth and that is God, He knows is there and that God is on his side. The psalmist is therefore building up him to keep his faith in God ], because that is the only that he will be able to make it through with victory. He uses past situation that God has brought as a tool to remind that God is still able. 3. Me personally from time to time find myself in that same situation and also find myself using the same solution by holding onto the word of God. 4.I came to understand through prayer anything is possible, So the best thing I come to is to bring all of my issue to God through prayer

If there is to anything meaningful in life, it is the desire to be in the presence of Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, So I must continually stay in his word and meditate on His word if desire to seek the face of God. David knows that to have faith in God will bring the goodness of God into his life, And that is lesson for all mankind to live off of, It is better to wait on the Lord than trying to do it your way

We see that when ponders the thought of what God has done and fact that no matter what man think God already knows your thought, so no matter what we do God has his hand on his children to guide His children, and David finally close his psalm by asking God to test his heart to show God that he really believes what he is declaring

The common thread that is see is the awesome power of God, and when you sit back and think what God has done and you take His word to live by, it can be refreshing to the soul. and if apply what verse to myself I can only pray the things that I do are acceptable in God sight

This psalm teaches us that God name and glory is above all in creation in the heavens and the earth 2. and with his creation he gave man authority to rule over his creation 3. even in our midst of disobedience God sent only begotten son to save us, because he loves us that much 4. so it is our responsibility to give God all the praise honor and glory for what he is doing in our lives