Psalm 84
How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to the living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever singing your praise! Selah
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
6 As they go through the Valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
the early rain also covers it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength;
each one appears before God in Zion.
8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 Behold our shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!
10 For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
12 O Lord of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you!
Where is our Shield Located?
Our Shield is located where we put our Heart.
We live in the Subtropics of the Houston area. And even in May, people were recovering from a pretty fierce flood. And again last week we had a Tropical Storm closing Montgomery County from Houston's Harris County. The highways and interstates close due to high water and the inability to travel. Signs are not put up. We had a dear family friend find about flooding in the May floods. She followed a car like a Jeep in a foot of water and found water found her tailpipe and her car was totaled. We learned flooding was expected and signs are not posted. Just expect to be very cautious everywhere.
Where is the Shield?
Continuance demonstrates the shield exists. Why does the city continue? To provide for families. To provide a place for love to exist.
We put our Shield where our heart is located. When we put our Trust in God, we find we are sustained, enduring, hopeful, resilient. Because our heart is with Jesus Christ.
When we pray the Lord's Prayer we identify Father God as our Heavenly Father. Why? We are being shown God loves us so dearly we will have to identify God apart from our earthly Dad. And unlike our earthly Dad, God lives in our heart and soul. We invite Father God to know all of us and live and move and have His Being in us.
The 84th Psalm tells us about God's Love for me and for you.
God dwells in you and in me as we say Jesus is Lord. And we are His chosen dwelling place as the Holy Spirit lives in me and in you.
Abba, Father God says:
Our dwelling place welcoming Jesus Christ, God with us is - Lovely.
We Long for God.
And will sing for Joy in this Love and longing.
Even the least of us - sparrows - will understand the Tenderness of God.
Father God would hold our soul as a nest for the heart to be held in this tenderness.
Blessed
Father God is so gentle, the little tiny - without feathers and ability to cope - children - are held in this tenderness to hold forth hope and trust.
God reminds us He is God the Almighty. He is not a waiter or merely exists to be a nest holder. God is a Father with an Altar. King and God from Alpha to Omega.
Blessed are all who find this wholeness of Holiness is where we place our Heart in God's Good Will.
Blessed
With Strength to want His High Way
Hardships become places to find His Blessings, just like these floods in Coastal Texas. Springs, Pools, Living Water, Strength to Strength.
Blessed
To have our prayers heard. Blessed God listens to us.
Blessed
To have a shield and to plan ,with hope, a future in God. To hope God's Heart will keep us in His High Way.
Blessed
To want to be in the Number when the Saints go Marching In.
Blessed
To say Let the Plans of Jesus be established because our Home is in Jesus forever.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
O Lord of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you!
Abba, Father God,
Your willing Blessing renews each day.
The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
In the Name of Jesus we pray our Father God's Willing Blessings and His Peace upon us, covering us, flowing from us having His Love indwelling
Our Amen is in Jesus Christ.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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