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e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] messenger contact window live messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype:cowboys62 yahoo:OADDISONGETHERS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 9:05 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Saturday June 20 > Psalm 81-85 (The Message) > > Psalm 81 > An Asaph Psalm > 1-5 A song to our strong God! a shout to the God of Jacob! > Anthems from the choir, music from the band, > sweet sounds from lute and harp, > Trumpets and trombones and horns: > it's festival day, a feast to God! > A day decreed by God, > solemnly ordered by the God of Jacob. > He commanded Joseph to keep this day > so we'd never forget what he did in Egypt. > I hear this most gentle whisper from One > I never guessed would speak to me: > > 6-7 "I took the world off your shoulders, > freed you from a life of hard labor. > You called to me in your pain; > I got you out of a bad place. > I answered you from where the thunder hides, > I proved you at Meribah Fountain. > > 8-10 "Listen, dear ones-get this straight; > O Israel, don't take this lightly. > Don't take up with strange gods, > don't worship the latest in gods. > I'm God, your God, the very God > who rescued you from doom in Egypt, > Then fed you all you could eat, > filled your hungry stomachs. > > 11-12 "But my people didn't listen, > Israel paid no attention; > So I let go of the reins and told them, 'Run! > Do it your own way!' > > 13-16 "Oh, dear people, will you listen to me now? > Israel, will you follow my map? > I'll make short work of your enemies, > give your foes the back of my hand. > I'll send the God-haters cringing like dogs, > never to be heard from again. > You'll feast on my fresh-baked bread > spread with butter and rock-pure honey." > Psalm 82 > An Asaph Psalm > 1 God calls the judges into his courtroom, he puts all the judges in the > dock. > > 2-4 "Enough! You've corrupted justice long enough, > you've let the wicked get away with murder. > You're here to defend the defenseless, > to make sure that underdogs get a fair break; > Your job is to stand up for the powerless, > and prosecute all those who exploit them." > > 5 Ignorant judges! Head-in-the-sand judges! > They haven't a clue to what's going on. > And now everything's falling apart, > the world's coming unglued. > > 6-7 "I commissioned you judges, each one of you, > deputies of the High God, > But you've betrayed your commission > and now you're stripped of your rank, busted." > > 8 O God, give them their just deserts! > You've got the whole world in your hands! > Psalm 83 > An Asaph Psalm > 1-5 God, don't shut me out; > don't give me the silent treatment, O God. > Your enemies are out there whooping it up, > the God-haters are living it up; > They're plotting to do your people in, > conspiring to rob you of your precious ones. > "Let's wipe this nation from the face of the earth," > they say; "scratch Israel's name off the books." > And now they're putting their heads together, > making plans to get rid of you. > > 6-8 Edom and the Ishmaelites, > Moab and the Hagrites, > Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, > Philistia and the Tyrians, > And now Assyria has joined up, > Giving muscle to the gang of Lot. > > 9-12 Do to them what you did to Midian, > to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon Brook; > They came to a bad end at Endor, > nothing but dung for the garden. > Cut down their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb, > their princes to nothings like Zebah and Zalmunna, > With their empty brags, "We're grabbing it all, > grabbing God's gardens for ourselves." > > 13-18 My God! I've had it with them! > Blow them away! > Tumbleweeds in the desert waste, > charred sticks in the burned-over ground. > Knock the breath right out of them, so they're gasping > for breath, gasping, "God." > Bring them to the end of their rope, > and leave them there dangling, helpless. > Then they'll learn your name: "God," > the one and only High God on earth. > Psalm 84 > A Korah Psalm > 1-2 What a beautiful home, God-of-the-Angel-Armies! I've always longed to > live in a place like > this, > Always dreamed of a room in your house, > where I could sing for joy to God-alive! > 3-4 Birds find nooks and crannies in your house, > sparrows and swallows make nests there. > They lay their eggs and raise their young, > singing their songs in the place where we worship. > God-of-the-Angel-Armies! King! God! > How blessed they are to live and sing there! > 5-7 And how blessed all those in whom you live, > whose lives become roads you travel; > They wind through lonesome valleys, come upon brooks, > discover cool springs and pools brimming with rain! > God-traveled, these roads curve up the mountain, and > at the last turn-Zion! God in full view! > 8-9 God-of-the-Angel-Armies, listen: > O God of Jacob, open your ears-I'm praying! > Look at our shields, glistening in the sun, > our faces, shining with your gracious anointing. > 10-12 One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, > beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches. > I'd rather scrub floors in the house of my God > than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin. > All sunshine and sovereign is God, > generous in gifts and glory. > He doesn't scrimp with his traveling companions. > It's smooth sailing all the way with God-of-the-Angel-Armies. > Psalm 85 > A Korah Psalm > 1-3 God, you smiled on your good earth! You brought good times back to > Jacob! > You lifted the cloud of guilt from your people, > you put their sins far out of sight. > You took back your sin-provoked threats, > you cooled your hot, righteous anger. > 4-7 Help us again, God of our help; > don't hold a grudge against us forever. > You aren't going to keep this up, are you? > scowling and angry, year after year? > Why not help us make a fresh start-a resurrection life? > Then your people will laugh and sing! > Show us how much you love us, God! > Give us the salvation we need! > > 8-9 I can't wait to hear what he'll say. > God's about to pronounce his people well, > The holy people he loves so much, > so they'll never again live like fools. > See how close his salvation is to those who fear him? > Our country is home base for Glory! > > 10-13 Love and Truth meet in the street, > Right Living and Whole Living embrace and kiss! > Truth sprouts green from the ground, > Right Living pours down from the skies! > Oh yes! God gives Goodness and Beauty; > our land responds with Bounty and Blessing. > Right Living strides out before him, > and clears a path for his passage. > > > > > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
