Monday, July 13, 2015

Psalm 145 ... Prayers to God & Promises from God to the Church

1 I will extol thee, my God, O king;
and I will bless thy name
(The Word) for ever and ever.
 

2 Every day will I bless thee;
and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.
 

3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
and his greatness is unsearchable.

 

4 One generation shall praise thy works to another,
and shall declare thy mighty acts.
 

5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty,
and of thy wondrous works.
 

6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts:
and I will declare Thy greatness
.
 

7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness,
and shall sing of thy righteousness.
 

8 The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion;
slow to anger, and of great mercy.
 

9 The Lord is good to all:
and his tender mercies are over all his works.

 

10 All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord;
and thy saints shall bless thee.

 

11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom,
and talk of thy power;
 

12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.
 

13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.
 

14 The Lord upholdeth all that fall,
and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.


15 The eyes of all wait upon thee;
and thou givest them their meat in due season.
 

16 Thou openest thine hand,
and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

 

17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways,
and holy in all his works.
 

18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him,
to all that call upon him in truth.
 

19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him:
he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him:
but all the wicked will he destroy.
 

21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord:
and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.



Comments by Joan Boney ...

3 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
and His greatness is unsearchable.


Heb. 1:1 ...  1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also HE (God) made the worlds;



Everything that was made was made by THE WORD (who came in the flesh by the name of Jesus Christ).

Jn. 1 ... 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Jn. 1 ... 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life;

There is no life without HIM ... The Word (Jesus) created all life ... and HE created all the necessary things to sustain life on this earth.  He created the ground life stands on.  He created the sea life lives in.  He created the air life breathes.  He created the plants and all animals and man.  HE created life.

Without HIM there is no life.

And the Holy Spirit also was there in the beginning ...

Genesis 1 ... 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

All was created by The Word ...

Genesis 1 ... 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 

3 And God said, Let there be light:and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good:and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
 

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
 

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear:and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:and God saw that it was good. 

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind:and God saw that it was good. 13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
 

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth:and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night:he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness:and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 

20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind:and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
 

24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind:and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind:and God saw that it was good.
 

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
 

29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat:and it was so. 

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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I Jn. 1 ... 3 All things were made by Him (The Word); and without Him (The Word) was not any thing made that was made. 4 In Him (The Word) was life;

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Psalm 145 ... 

6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts:
and I will declare Thy greatness
.


How much we who are of God desire to speak about HIM, of HIS Works.

Most humans delight in the works of men of this world, in their achievements ... and in their own achievements ... and they love to speak of the works of humans and exalt humans.

We really desire to speak of God's works for nothing can measure up to God's works.

How delightful is the following story to me ... Nothing I know of compares with this.

Judges 7 ...

1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod:so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 

2 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. 

3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. 

4 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there:and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. 

5 So he brought down the people unto the water:and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. 6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men:but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. 

7 And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand:and let all the other people go every man unto his place. 

8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets:and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men:and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
 

9 And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. 10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:11 And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. 

Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host. 

12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude. 

13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. 14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel:for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
 


15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.  

(After Gideon heard the dream,he spoke in past tense ... the battle to Gideon was already over before it even began, for the dream showed him the victory.)

16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 

17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise:and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do

18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
 

19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch:and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. 

20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal:and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon. 21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp:and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. 

22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host:and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath. 

23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
 

24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. 25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

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Psalm 145 ...

21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord:
and let all flesh bless His holy name (The Word) for ever and ever.