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10/30/2016

Daily Devotions: by Christina Farris

Psalms 109:1-31 KJV
(1) To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
(2) For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
(3) They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
(4) For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
(5) And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
(6) Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
(7) When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
(8) Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
(9) Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
(10) Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
(11) Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
(12) Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
(13) Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
(14) Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
(15) Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
(16) Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
(17) As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
(18) As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
(19) Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
(20) Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
(21) But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
(22) For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
(23) I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
(24) My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
(25) I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
(26) Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
(27) That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
(28) Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
(29) Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
(30) I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
(31) For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

If I read the Psalms as an adversary committee of always having a right attitude with God, this Psalms would be lacking. David is one angry dude. He angry at his enemies, tired of going against people that have no respect for his authority as a leader or king. David goes on a rant and speaking against his enemy in a Psalms. He showing his display of what he wants done to his enemies. He wants God to revenge his enemies. He wants his enemy sin to devour them. To become to a point of reproach.

God’s word also says to love your enemy. David words of destruction to his enemy might sound in contrary to New Testament. Yet when it all said in down sometimes worse people in life in order to see them straighten out must come to the end of their rope or made low. Not something people should try and do but allow God do. David angry thoughts are expression of this kind of love from God. The type of love from God that allows man to come to his own destruction before either casting him out or delivering him from destruction to save his soul.

If you have children and they rebel do you allow their evil to consume them or do you yank them into your control. It really depends on the age of the child. If the child to young to leave home, you might yank them back into line instead of allowing their mistakes to consume them. Yet your sheltering arms is a place of refuge when they come to their senses that there pathway is not the one to take. Not always is their parents arms to help a child change no matter the age, but there is a loving God that desires to change you into what you ought to be. To test your limits to stretch your wings to fly. To enable one to go beyond their own imagination. God is not a God that says you can not He is a God that challenges your human ability to allow God’s ability to enable you to do more then you thought possible. Change from wickedness to good is a challenge in itself. To change one life style is challenge, but with God it is only a piece of cake.

David knew God could change his enemies, but he wanted them on his side not warring against him. His plea to God of destruction of his enemies is based on what God can do to either destroy or help evil men. To pray for our enemy we only had coals to their head. But not to pray for our enemies to have God correction might be a form of a curse on your enemies for they need the Lord.

Dear Heavenly Father give us the grace to love our enemies enough to pray for them, that you will change them by bring them to a place they understand that they need you too. That the warring against the saints will not continue. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study for Devotion:Matthew 5:43-45 KJV
(43) Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
(44) But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
(45) That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.