| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 55 secs | 0 Comments
David has a very honest and open heart. He tells the Lord what he feels and what he is thinking and then the Lord speaks to him and helps him to see things as he should! When we talk to the Lord we can be honest and we can be ourselves. He wants us to […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 48 secs | 0 Comments
Not quite the shortest psalm and one that requires a bit of thought to make sense of, so read it again a bit slower to hear what David the psalmist is saying. This is one of the songs of Ascents in the book of Psalms, a song of ascending to worship in the house of […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 21 secs | 0 Comments
This is one of the “Song of Ascents” a Psalm for singing on journeys to festivals to Jerusalem. It’s a travelling Psalm, asking the Lord to bless the journey! The first two verses are on of those chiasms – an arrow where the main point is in the middle not at the end as we […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 19 secs | 0 Comments
Psalm 110 The Most Important Psalm? Do you have a favourite Psalm? Maybe Psalm 19, or 23, or 119, or 139? This Psalm is possibly the most important of them all. Certainly it is the one quoted or referred to most often in the New Testament. Matthew, Mark, Luke, Paul, Peter, and the writer of […]
| By Andy Moyle | 1 min 54 secs | 0 Comments
In this psalm King David opens with this phrase, which has become very popular with modern song writers. It is an instruction to himself, to his soul, encouraging himself to worship the one true God. He instructs himself to “Bless the LORD”. The word “bless” in the Hebrew language comes from the word “Kneel” in […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 33 secs | 0 Comments
Shout for joy…make a joyful noise…shout joyfully, all different translations making it clear that this is not about singing, it isn’t about ensuring the sound we make is beautiful, it is about throwing caution to the wind, letting go of our ‘Britishness’ and letting the joy in our hearts overflow in a way that we […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 45 secs | 0 Comments
The opening verse uses two phrases about God – ‘Lord’ and – ‘the rock of our salvation’ when calling us to worship him. Another psalm of David the great worshipping king, who put God first as King and who realised the majesty and power of God in creation around him (v3-5). When David uses the […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 24 secs | 0 Comments
Psalm 42 – As the deer pants for the water. How many of you having just read this Psalm, now have the familiar worship song going through your minds? – Or am I just showing my age? Psalm 42 is the first of what is described as Book 2 of the Book of Psalms. It […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 12 secs | 0 Comments
I loved Psalm 40 since the tender age of 15 when I heard U2’s version of the first 3 verses on the album “Under a Blood Red Sky.” Here’s a more recent live version… I’d never dug past v3 until today and what depths there are. It’s really split in two, with the second […]