Psalms that Connect Us with God – Part 3 — A ‘Time With God’ Devotion

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Good morning. As we cross the middle of the week, I hope that you are enjoying a week in the presence of God, because God is there in your life every day. He’s reaching out to you, whether you listen to Him, whether you notice Him, whether you respond to Him and build and grow your relationship with Him. He’s there waiting, encouraging you to grow in Him.

Because as we heard yesterday in the Psalm we looked at yesterday, our soul is thirsty for God.

Well, each day this week we’re looking at a different Psalm out of the Bible, and these Psalms really reflect a personal relationship with God and a connection with God. As we look at these Psalms that connect us with God, they really are reflecting the heart of King David, who wrote most of the Psalms.

Today, I want to look at a psalm that really is about the goodness of God.

As David sees it in his life, here’s what he says.

Psalm 65.

“Praise is due to you, O God in Zion.

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“And to you shall vows be performed, O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come.”

Interesting way for him to refer to God, isn’t it, oh, you who hear prayer.

He doesn’t always answer it the way you want him to, but he’s paying attention.

He cares about the things that are on your heart.

“Oh, you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. When iniquities prevail against me, when people treat me badly, you atone for our transgressions. Blessed is the one you choose and bring near to dwell in your courts.”

David’s thinking of himself, how blessed he is that God has reached out to him and brought him near to God in God’s courts.

He says, “We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple”.

“By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.

“The one who by his strength established the mountains, being girded with might, who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples, so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs.”

Have you ever stood at the edge of a raging ocean when there’s a storm and just thought, wow.

Or have you ever gone then on another day and just seen it so serene and peaceful and thought of the beauty of what you’re looking at? Have you gone up into the mountains and just looked at the size of that mass of rock that’s there and the beautiful shapes and the trees on it and the snow sometimes and thought this is so awesome, so incredible.

Those feelings you have you can direct towards God, the one who made those things. He goes on to say, “You, God, make the going out of the morning. When the morning goes forth, what is that sunrise, right? You make the going out of the morning and the evening”.

“To shout for joy.”

Sometimes you walk out your door and you look up at the sky and just a smile spreads across your mouth, and you want to call everybody around you in your in in your home and say, “come look at the sky, how amazing. That’s God who put that there”.

“You visit the earth, God, and water it. You greatly enrich it.

“The river of God is full of water.”

What a beautiful picture of how God blesses us and meets us in life. The river of God is full of water.

“You provide their grain, for so you have prepared it. You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers and blessing its growth. You crown the year with your bounty.

“Your wagon tracks overflow with abundance. The pastures of the wilderness overflow. The hills gird themselves with joy. The meadows clothe themselves with flocks. The valleys deck themselves with grain. They shout and sing together for joy.”

It’s a change of perspective, isn’t it? Not to just look out and say, “oh, look at that field full of grain”, but to look out and say, “God has blessed us”.

Grow your personal relationship with God.

I’m John North.

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