Free AI web copilot to create summaries, insights and extended knowledge, download it at here

Abstract

sheep that go astray. You’ve made us a little lower than angels — close to being like little gods. You make us rulers in life, but we are often content with being ruled. We don’t live as victors but rather as victims.Psalm 9Lord, I worship and praise you with a full heart. Even if I don’t always see it immediately, you take things over and make them good, or at least better. You know what is right for us even if we don’t have a clue. You always greet us at your door with a hug and we experience more of your love, grace, and peace. The world kicks us around but you patch us up and make us better. I worship and praise you for your love and salvation. Even though I don’t deserve it, everything you do is for my honor, glory, and good.Psalm 10God, sometimes I feel like you ignore me. I don’t sense your presence when I need you. So I listen to other people who don’t speak the truth but only human opinion. Some even say that you are dead. They don’t care what you think, so why do I listen to them? They are content with the status quo of life, and they tell me that you are indifferent to me and couldn’t care less. They say I’m an orphan but I know I’m not. Your grace and justice win out in the long run and everything else is brought to nothing eventually. I know you are my Father and I’m your son, and live in your house, even while I’m here on earth — because the gospel says I have become your house.Psalm 11In you Lord, we are safe. Even when confronted with people who are not upright in heart towards us, we can take refuge in you and find strength with you. Lord, you in your holy temple, which in the New Testament, Paul tells us is inside our hearts. The gospel tells us we are your ‘temple’ and ‘building’ (I Cor 3:16–17). God, in the Old Testament you examined people for personal righteousness under the law (Deut 6:24–25), but not in the New.In the New Testament, you look for the righteousness of Jesus in us, his free gift to us, and he does not our personal SELF-righteousness under the law (Rom 5:17, II Cor 5:21, Phil 3:9). It is Christ’s righteousness in us that makes our hearts remain totally open to you. You are righteous and you love righteousness, but not our own righteousness that Isaiah says is ‘filthy rags.’ You love your Son Jesus and his righteousness in us. If we live in his righteousness, Jesus says you love us as much as you do him (John 17:23). God, you want us to live life right, and in your power, and the way we do this is living in the power of you

Options

r gospel.Psalm 12Oh, Lord, sometimes it seems like the godly are so scarce. Sometimes I feel like Elijah who said he alone stood for you. You corrected him saying you had 7,000 others close to Elijah who also stood with you. Elijah just didn’t know it, and sometimes I don’t know it either.Lord, so many people, especially leaders, say they can talk us into anything, and they control the world. I know this isn’t true, and that you are in control. Protect us from these evil people, because we stand with you. David said your words, God, were flawless in the Old Testament, and this is even truer today in the gospel of Jesus, the power of God (Rom 1:16).Psalm 13Lord, I know your word says it isn’t true, but sometimes I feel like you totally ignore me. I carry around a huge weight and burden that sometimes I can’t carry. Some people I know think I’m stupid for following you as I try to do, even though I sometimes mess up, and don’t live as I should.I submit myself to you in everything, and especially to your righteousness in me (Rom 10:3). When I do, Jesus says he takes my heavy burden and gives me his rest, and he says his yoke is easy and his burden is light, and that my burden is simply to learn of him and to learn to follow him as he often says (Matt 11:28–30).Psalm 14Words that are not from you, Lord are like poisonous gas. Jeremiah says you search far and wide for those of us whose hearts are linked to yours. I try to link my heart with yours, and I know this is how you see me. Jesus says he is like the Shepherd looking for one lost sheep (Luke 15:4–7). But he says that many leaders are only hirelings who really don’t care about their sheep. They only give people a meal of fast food that doesn’t stick with them, and often they don’t even pray over it. You empower us if we stick with you and turn to Jesus as our Shepherd. Any person is a fool who says there is no God.Psalm 15Lord, who can dwell with you? You are so far in heaven above us. We have trouble finding you. But when we speak your truth from our hearts, you are the truth and you live in that truth — you live in us. When we believe your gospel truth and receive it into our hearts, it grows good things from us, and we live life better by accident than we ever could on purpose (‘The Parable of the Sower,’ and Col 1:5–6). Because we live in your truth, we are established in your ways, and in ways, we can’t even begin to imagine.</article></body>

Gospel Worship in the Psalms: 2

“All Things Were Made New” in the Gospel. We Have “A New and Living Way.” Here, Live the Psalms in Light of Gospel Truth.

Psalm 6

I need acceptance, forgiveness, and love so very much. I’m so bombarded with other thoughts due to other people around me that I associate with. My thoughts are often mixed-up. At times I have a hard time going to sleep at night when my thoughts are on things of the world and not on you, Lord. I know you have to discipline me like a child, and I know you never do so in cruel ways. You’re always gracious with me even if correcting me. You may not always answer me in the way I wish you would, but you do always answer me, and I trust whatever you do in my life, and whatever happens in it.

Psalm 7

Lord, the world seems so dark, and it tries to set traps for me and keep me bound and captive to its ways. But you are always there for me, trying to get me to see things your way, in gospel light and not in darkness. I know your ways are best, but I’m often too influenced by worldly thinking to hear you. In your family, everything is new from the way things are in the world. You give us a new and living way to live that others don’t know.

You keep us on ‘The Gospel Road,’ paved with your grace, and with guard rails of your love and peace. Whatever tough times I experience in life, I know you will get me through them if I believe in your truth and live seeking your ways. I thank you, God, for making life right, and better than it could be by any other means — even if I don’t always live in the light of what is right. But I always want to. I am devoted to you, Lord, and trust you in my heart, even if my actions don’t always give evidence of this.

Psalm 8

Lord, your name is a household word, even if too many people use it in vain. Most of us, as children, know the song, “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” But then we become teenagers who think we are going to live forever, that we are the cat’s meow, and that we know everything we need to know. We wander off instead of living in wonder about you. Isaiah says we are like sheep that go astray. You’ve made us a little lower than angels — close to being like little gods. You make us rulers in life, but we are often content with being ruled. We don’t live as victors but rather as victims.

Psalm 9

Lord, I worship and praise you with a full heart. Even if I don’t always see it immediately, you take things over and make them good, or at least better. You know what is right for us even if we don’t have a clue. You always greet us at your door with a hug and we experience more of your love, grace, and peace. The world kicks us around but you patch us up and make us better. I worship and praise you for your love and salvation. Even though I don’t deserve it, everything you do is for my honor, glory, and good.

Psalm 10

God, sometimes I feel like you ignore me. I don’t sense your presence when I need you. So I listen to other people who don’t speak the truth but only human opinion. Some even say that you are dead. They don’t care what you think, so why do I listen to them? They are content with the status quo of life, and they tell me that you are indifferent to me and couldn’t care less. They say I’m an orphan but I know I’m not. Your grace and justice win out in the long run and everything else is brought to nothing eventually. I know you are my Father and I’m your son, and live in your house, even while I’m here on earth — because the gospel says I have become your house.

Psalm 11

In you Lord, we are safe. Even when confronted with people who are not upright in heart towards us, we can take refuge in you and find strength with you. Lord, you in your holy temple, which in the New Testament, Paul tells us is inside our hearts. The gospel tells us we are your ‘temple’ and ‘building’ (I Cor 3:16–17). God, in the Old Testament you examined people for personal righteousness under the law (Deut 6:24–25), but not in the New.

In the New Testament, you look for the righteousness of Jesus in us, his free gift to us, and he does not our personal SELF-righteousness under the law (Rom 5:17, II Cor 5:21, Phil 3:9). It is Christ’s righteousness in us that makes our hearts remain totally open to you. You are righteous and you love righteousness, but not our own righteousness that Isaiah says is ‘filthy rags.’ You love your Son Jesus and his righteousness in us. If we live in his righteousness, Jesus says you love us as much as you do him (John 17:23). God, you want us to live life right, and in your power, and the way we do this is living in the power of your gospel.

Psalm 12

Oh, Lord, sometimes it seems like the godly are so scarce. Sometimes I feel like Elijah who said he alone stood for you. You corrected him saying you had 7,000 others close to Elijah who also stood with you. Elijah just didn’t know it, and sometimes I don’t know it either.

Lord, so many people, especially leaders, say they can talk us into anything, and they control the world. I know this isn’t true, and that you are in control. Protect us from these evil people, because we stand with you. David said your words, God, were flawless in the Old Testament, and this is even truer today in the gospel of Jesus, the power of God (Rom 1:16).

Psalm 13

Lord, I know your word says it isn’t true, but sometimes I feel like you totally ignore me. I carry around a huge weight and burden that sometimes I can’t carry. Some people I know think I’m stupid for following you as I try to do, even though I sometimes mess up, and don’t live as I should.

I submit myself to you in everything, and especially to your righteousness in me (Rom 10:3). When I do, Jesus says he takes my heavy burden and gives me his rest, and he says his yoke is easy and his burden is light, and that my burden is simply to learn of him and to learn to follow him as he often says (Matt 11:28–30).

Psalm 14

Words that are not from you, Lord are like poisonous gas. Jeremiah says you search far and wide for those of us whose hearts are linked to yours. I try to link my heart with yours, and I know this is how you see me. Jesus says he is like the Shepherd looking for one lost sheep (Luke 15:4–7). But he says that many leaders are only hirelings who really don’t care about their sheep. They only give people a meal of fast food that doesn’t stick with them, and often they don’t even pray over it. You empower us if we stick with you and turn to Jesus as our Shepherd. Any person is a fool who says there is no God.

Psalm 15

Lord, who can dwell with you? You are so far in heaven above us. We have trouble finding you. But when we speak your truth from our hearts, you are the truth and you live in that truth — you live in us. When we believe your gospel truth and receive it into our hearts, it grows good things from us, and we live life better by accident than we ever could on purpose (‘The Parable of the Sower,’ and Col 1:5–6). Because we live in your truth, we are established in your ways, and in ways, we can’t even begin to imagine.