Book of Psalms Prayer quotes

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1.                Psalm 4:1
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by stringed instruments. Answer me when I call to you, O God who declares me innocent. Free me from my troubles. Have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

2.                Psalm 6:9
The LORD has heard my plea; the LORD will answer myprayer.

3.                Psalm 17:1
A prayer of David. O LORD, hear my plea for justice. Listen to my cry for help. Pay attention to myprayer, for it comes from honest lips.

4.                Psalm 28:2
Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

5.                Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD! Listen to my cries for help! Don’t ignore my tears. For I am your guest— a traveler passing through, as my ancestors were before me.

6.                Psalm 44:20
If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods,

7.                Psalm 54:2
Listen to my prayer, O God. Pay attention to my plea.

8.                Psalm 55:1
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by stringed instruments. Listen to myprayer, O God. Do not ignore my cry for help!

9.                Psalm 61:1
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by stringed instruments. O God, listen to my cry! Hear my prayer!

10.           Psalm 63:4
I will praise you as long as I live, lifting up my hands to you in prayer.

11.           Psalm 66:19
But God did listen! He paid attention to my prayer.

12.           Psalm 66:20
Praise God, who did not ignore my prayer or withdraw his unfailing love from me.

13.           Psalm 69:13
But I keep praying to you, LORD, hoping this time you will show me favor. In your unfailing love, O God, answer myprayer with your sure salvation.

14.           Psalm 84:8
O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, O God of Jacob. Interlude

15.           Psalm 86:1
A prayer of David. Bend down, O LORD, and hear my prayer; answer me, for I need your help.

16.          
Psalm 86:6
Listen closely to my prayer, O LORD; hear my urgent cry.

17.           Psalm 88:2
Now hear my prayer; listen to my cry.

18.           Psalm 90:1
A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!

19.           Psalm 102:1
A prayer of one overwhelmed with trouble, pouring out problems before the LORD. LORD, hear myprayer! Listen to my plea!

20.           Psalm 116:1
I love the LORD because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy.

21.           Psalm 118:21
I thank you for answering my prayer and giving me victory!

22.           Psalm 119:170
Listen to my prayer; rescue me as you promised.

23.           Psalm 120:1
A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. I took my troubles to the LORD; I cried out to him, and he answered my prayer.

24.           Psalm 130:2
Hear my cry, O Lord. Pay attention to my prayer.

25.           Psalm 134:2
Lift up holy hands in prayer, and praise the LORD.

26.           Psalm 141:2
Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

27.          
Psalm 141:5
Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; And let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head; Let not my head refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall myprayer continue.

28.           Psalm 142:1

I cry with my voice unto Jehovah; With my voice unto Jehovah  do I make supplication.

29.             Psalm 143:1
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; give ear to my supplications: In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

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Psalm 85: God's Restoration

My oldest daughter, Flopi, loves Art. She will soon be leaving for college to continue her studies in Art. She always is looking for great masterpieces. This week, she was looking on the internet about “La Pietà” (pity). It is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture made by Michelangelo. She mentioned to me how the statue of the “The Madonna” was attacked in 1972.

She was really surprised that I remembered it so well. When that event happened, it was in May 1972. It was one of my best friend’s “quincieñera- birthday party” on a Pentecost Sunday. A mentally disturbed geologist named Laszlo Toth strode into the St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome and attacked the statue with his hammer shouting, "I am Jesus Christ."

This was a very sad episode because many visitors took part of the marble that flew off. Many returned the parts, but many others didn’t- including Mary’s nose. It had to be recreated from a chunk of marble cut out of her back. I was in high school and remembered the newspaper, TV and all the news talking about the episode.

I even had a project in art about the subject.

Immediately, I also remembered a sermon that I heard many years ago. The Pastor said something that called my attention, the museum in that opportunity did not place the statue in storage. By the contrary, they called the best expert of the world to fix and restore the masterpiece.

In this same way, God restores us from our failures or even out of our sins and brings good to us by his Mercy and Grace. Restore is to bring back to a former, original, or normal condition. God is the only one who can restore us.

Psalm 85 is a Psalm of Restoration.

Since there is an allusion to captivity, many Bible scholars suppose this psalm was written at the time of Zerubbabel (Ezra.3:4) or more probably during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (Neh. 2-4).

 The subject of this psalm is “Restoration”, not only historically but prophetically because it speaks about God’s restoration to us. Today!

 ¹ LORD, you were favorable to your land; 
   you restored the fortunes of Jacob. 
² You forgave the iniquity of your people; 
   you covered all their sin. 
                         Selah*
³ You withdrew all your wrath; 
   you turned from your hot anger.

 ⁴ Restore us again, O God of our salvation, 
   and put away your indignation toward us! 
⁵ Will you be angry with us forever? 
   Will you prolong your anger to all generations? 
⁶ Will you not revive us again, 
   that your people may rejoice in you? 
⁷ Show us your steadfast love, O LORD, 
   and grant us your salvation.

 ⁸ Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, 
   for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; 
   but let them not turn back to folly. 
⁹ Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, 
   that glory may dwell in our land.

 ¹⁰ Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; 
   righteousness and peace kiss each other. 
¹¹ Faithfulness springs up from the ground, 
   and righteousness looks down from the sky. 
¹² Yes, the LORD will give what is good, 
   and our land will yield its increase. 
¹³ Righteousness will go before him 
   and make his footsteps a way.

We can divide the Psalm in three deferent parts:

Verses 1 to 3 look to the past

Restoration involves God’s favor (v. 1).

Restoration involves God’s pardon (v. 2).

Restoration involves God’s patience (v.3).

 Verses 4 to 7 look at the present

Our God of salvation is able of our reinstatement (v. 4).

Our God righteous is capable of our restoration (v. 5).

Our God of joy is competent of our re-establishment (v. 6).

Our God is kindheartedness and  capable of our restitution (v. 7).

Verses 8 to 13 turn to the future

Restoration comes with peace for the Godly (v. 8).

Restoration comes with deliverance for the God fearing (v. 9a).

Restoration comes with the glory of God’s presence on the earth (v. 9b).

Restoration comes with the reign of the Messiah King (vv. 10,11).

Restoration comes with  wealth (v. 12).

Restoration comes with clear direction and way (v. 13).

Here same commentaries about verse 12:

"Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good. Being himself pure goodness, he will readily return from his wrath, and deal out good things to his repenting people. Our evil brings evil upon us, but when we are brought back to follow that which is good, the Lord abundantly enriches us with good things. Material good will always be bestowed where it can be enjoyed in consistency with spiritual good. And our land shall yield her increase. The curse of barrenness will fly with the curse of sin. When the people yielded what was due to God, the soil would recompense their husbandry...The whole world also shall be bright with the same blessing in the days yet to come, --The Treasury of David

and, under this, the deserted land shall be productive, and men be "set," or guided in God's holy ways. Doubtless, in this description of God's returning favor, the writer had in view that more glorious period, when Christ shall establish His government on God's reconciled justice and abounding mercy.-- Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good
Meaning not merely temporal good, as rain in particular, as some think, because of the following clause; but that which is spiritually good, his good Spirit and his grace, grace and glory: nor will he withhold any good thing from his people; every good and perfect gift comes from him:

and our land shall yield her increase;
such who are like to the earth, which receives blessing of God, and oft drinks in the rain that comes upon it, and brings forth herbs to the dresser of it, ( Hebrews 6:2 ) , these increase with the increase of God, bring forth fruits of righteousness, and grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ; though the whole may be interpreted of the incarnation of Christ, which agrees with what goes before and follows after; see ( Psalms 67:6 Psalms 67:7 )-- John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

The Lord shall give - good - הטוב hattob, The Good thing - what is the supreme good, the summum bonum, for which man has searched in vain through all his generations. Those who are reconciled to him through the Son of his love shall enjoy the favor of their God; to have which is the supreme happiness of man.

Our land shall yield her increase - There shall be neither dearth nor barrenness; for truth, which springs out of the earth, shall yield an abundant harvest, in the conversion of all nations to the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ- - Adam Clarke

In your prayers for this 2012, just remember:

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Psalm 51:12

For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!  Jeremiah 30:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17

Joel 2:25  (MSG)

 ^25-27 "I'll make up for the years of the locust, 
   the great locust devastation—
Locusts savage, locusts deadly, 
   fierce locusts, locusts of doom,
That great locust invasion 
   I sent your way.
You'll eat your fill of good food. 
   You'll be full of praises to your God,
The God who has set you back on your heels in wonder. 
   Never again will my people be despised.
You'll know without question 
   that I'm in the thick of life with Israel,
That I'm your God, yes, your God, 
   the one and only real God.
Never again will my people be despised.

 This is His promise for you and for me. Remember He never give up on us.

I will quote a friend  Elder Marvin,

“In 2012, this will be the year of REHOBOTH (meaning a place of enlargement and flourishing). You shall enjoy

(R)RECOVERY (You shall Recover ALL that you have lost without Fail)
(E)ENLARGEMENT (God will Enlarge your coast and expand your territory)
(H)HIGHER GROUND (God will take you to a Higher Ground)
(O)OVERCOMING VICTORIES (God will fight for you and you shall Overcome)
(B)BLESSING (You shall be blessed, be a blessing and be favored by all)
(O)OPEN DOOR (He will cause your door of breakthrough to be opened)
(T)TURN-AROUND (He will Turn your situation around & change your story)
(H)HARVEST (Great Harvest shall be yours in the year 2012)”

* “Selah (Hebrew: סֶלָה‎, also transliterated as selāh) is a word used frequently in the Hebrew Bible, often in the Psalms, and is a difficult concept to translate. (It should not be confused with the Hebrew word sela‘ (Hebrew: סֶלַע‎) which means "rock.") It is probably either a liturgico-musical mark or an instruction on the reading of the text, something like "stop and listen". "Selah" can also be used to indicate that there is to be a musical interlude at that point in the Psalm.^[1] The Amplified Bible states Selah as "pause, and think of that".—Wikipedia Read moreRead more

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Help me God! I am in need.

My Little One, Victoria, is twelve years old and has Down syndrome. She is very functional and active, the most beautiful girl in the world.

One time, I received an email from the Down Syndrome Parents Association about how God was very angry with human kind, because all of them wanted to be the most beautiful, the most intelligent, and was fighting between one another because of it and no one who had The Lord in his heart. Jesus who was sitting at His side, asked him,

“What are you going to do about it? By your Word, you can destroy them; it is your promise,”

“No,” said God the Father, “I will create another human kind. All of them will have the same face, they will not be the most intelligent at all- but they will have my heart and they will show my love.”

“How will you call them?” Jesus asked.

“I will call them Down syndrome.”

“But to whom are you going to give them as sons and daughters?”

“I will give them to very special parents,” said God the Father, “The ones who love me more.”

“Why them?”

“They know how to smile at problems and still love me.”

Victoria was only 31 week along the pregnancy. The day that she was born, a nurse entered my room with a boom box and began to play a song.

I thought, “This lady is confused.”  But when she pushed play, I began to cry.

She shared with me that she had a daughter with Down syndrome, the miracle blessing that she was, and how her daughter pushed her and her older brother to go to church even when she was tired after working the whole night before service.

She told me that she had no other choice than to dress herself and take her to the Church because her daughter was all ready.

I never will be thankful enough for that visit in the Hospital. Here is the song by Bruce Carroll " Sometimes Miracles Hide" 

Many times I see Victoria and I see the heart of God. Down syndrome children are very functional, they can walk, speak, be potty trained, swing, run horses and all that the most typical children can do, but it will takes more time to achieve their goals. They are the most loving people, they have God's love. 

"Perseverance is not a long race. It is many short races one after another." - W. Elliot

When Victoria was born, I was concerned about if she will be able to know the lord as a Savior and Lord like the daughter of my nurse friend. Many times I prayed the same prayer request. That the Lord will open Victoria’s heart.

 One Sunday at the end of the service, Pastor was calling to pray. That particular service he was calling to pray for salvation. As a member of the prayer ministry, as was at the altar and many people came to the altar to receive the Gift of Eternal life.

One of the teens that were there for prayer approached me and to my surprise she had Down syndrome.

She asked me if I can pray with her.

So, I ask her if she want to receive Jesus in her heart. She answered:

“Me?  No, I received Him when I was little. This is for my father that I came today, he is not saved and I want to ask Jesus to touch his heart. So everybody in my family is going to heaven, my sisters, my brother my mom are saved. The only one that is not saved yet is him.”

We prayed for his father, and then I cried and thanked Jesus.  I thank the Lord for the revelation and for letting me be a witness of how much is in the heart of special person.

 I know it today because Victoria asks me everyday, “Are we going to Church?” She loves to pray and praise the Lord. She loves the Children Ministry and her pastor.

Our special children do not have the typical body. They do not have the typical mind. But their spirit is perfect in the presence of the Lord, and they Know Him by Name, and the HE smiles to them.

The Lord blessed us with five children, four are ‘normal’. I really don’t like the term ‘normal’. Let’s put it like this, they don’t have physical or mental impediments but all of them have special needs.

 In Victoria you can see it, but everyone have a special need, you and I are no exceptions.

When you are praying today, remember them, confess them, keep them in your heart. Put them in you desktop, in your mirror, in your refrigerator. 
When we pray, we don't need to remember to God His Word. His Word  becoming alive, it no longer Logos, now it Rhema for us.

Peter 5:7

Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully. 

Matthew 6:33

Seek the Kingdom of God, above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

Psalm 37:4 

4 Take delight in the LORD,

   and he will give you the desires of your heart

Jeremiah 30:17

“For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,” says the Lord. 

Philippians 4:19

“And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” 

Matthew 11:28

Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 6:34

So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

2 Corinthians 9:8

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything; you may have abundance for every good deed;

  

In the same way that I take care of my special child because she is in need, our Heavenly Father knows and takes care of your needs.

Talk with Him, let Him know what your necessities are today and how much you need His help. 

Can you see that every special need must be handled with prayer?


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