Psalms 1-20
{selected by the Lord for strength and hope}
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But first, a word from the Lord and I.
There is a time in a man’s walk with the Lord— where everything is set to test you to the uttermost core of your being; a place where not one thing (hardly) seems to be working out in the fashion you have foreseen in your mind’s eye, been told by God of what will come in your salvation— or what looks like in the timely manner according to your own preferences— is never going to arrive: There is a time when you are crushed under the weight of trials in the presence of the Lord; but what comes out is what the Lord is after.
Will you remain in the secret place with him? Will you continue to praise him, and uphold his truth, uphold his love for you within your vessel, uphold hope, trust, confidence, and faith in him— when he himself fashions his hand to try your life from every direction— as satan desires to sift you, man of God?
I have found myself here— and crushed before him, prostrate on the floor of his throne room, and the floor of my bedroom; and he said— “I have fashioned it so, dear child.” Which, frankly— crushed my heart again. But he said to me….
“Oh dear child, you are not alone in this— many have gone before you on this path of righteousness that tests the servants of the Lord in the earth. Will you serve me when you have an enemy on your tail feathers— set to destroy you, taking blow after blow against your flesh-life and soul? Will you recall those who have come this way before you— and let their voices counsel you even now in the midst of your sifting— too?
Giants of the faith are not born outside of adversity; and well rounded ones are not born from one facet, side, or sector being sifted and tried: but by ALL.
I have fashioned this fiery furnace by my hand over your life. Not all have such fiery trials set out to prove a man— but all have them, in one fashion or another; and you all predestined yourselves (with me) to come through said trials: for you all determined within yourselves— that we, together— would overcome all obstacles to our love.
Do not lose heart in the trials. Do not forsake me— and turn away from me; but turn INTO me: I am here in them all, every trial and sifting of your faith. It is your adversary who brings the trials and sifting— but the work of my hand is in it all to bear up under it all with you; and in due season— crush him in the success of our relationship— as you run to me: keep my truth alive in you, proclaim it, stand firmly in it, turn not to the left or right— but face it all head on with me: knowing that this trying of your faith works patience; so let patience (in you, toward me, and the process) have her perfect work, so that you may be made perfect, entire— wanting nothing.
That’s the hard part— isn’t it, dears? Being in the content place of wanting nothing but my presence in the internal realm of God’s Kingdom within— whilst in the process of going through hell by an adversary; as you are really desiring so much to come to fruition; and trusting me in it all, no matter how devastating everything looks, feels, and seems: it is all, really, testing your faith in me to be who I am— to really love you— even when your lives look like they may have been forsaken by me: this is the testing of your faith in me.
Your lives have not been forsaken; we signed on for a tough boat to row, a hard series of circumstances to overcome— and not just for ourselves— but for the benefit of the whole body. And at some point— in your lives— your trials will cease to be one here or there, and will be one consecutive crushing blow after another; for your enemy seeks to destroy you if he can: but I work all things together for your good. WE are stronger for every battle, and on the other side of your victories— where you do not fall away from me— but INTO me— we have our victorious testimony that crushes the dragon— by the time this cup passes from us.
Recall my life, children, in the mission of the Son— whilst in the soul realm. Jesus was crushed for your lives. He was tested in the wilderness— for your lives. He gave himself— for your lives: do you not do the same (with your own crosses) for the whole body, also? Are you not on the path of the Son, following him, as he leads you through death and burial— and onto resurrection, too, in due season?
There is a time in a man’s life where what he believes will be tested to the hilt (the highest levels); for this man has been chosen to minister the way, the truth, and the life of Jesus Christ to the world, and lead many other souls from death to life: I will test a man thoroughly— and prove a man— entirely; before I will promote a man— eternally.
This is not a temporal realm promotion only— but an eternal one; a promotion and placement that will exist perpetually, and in many realms of creation: you should know the level of testing that will come forth then: 30, 60, 100 fold.
Bear up under the weight— but not the weight of the battles and oppression itself: bear up under the weight of our love, dears. And in due season— both your cup (as Jesus’ was taken from him, when his mission of such suffering and pain of trials was finished) shall pass from you too (did you not ask to drink from his cup?) You shall be promoted, exalted, in due season: the testing of your faith (reliance upon me, and confidence in me) works patience in you; and when patience has fulfilled her perfect workmanship— where our love has endured and thrived, where truth remains, righteousness flourishes, and strength and fortitude are forged in the fiery trials; you will come forth as purified gold, with clean hands, a pure heart, a renewed mind, a tested faith, and a secure relationship with your God— founded in the way, the truth, and the life of Jesus Christ: having been perfected— or made perfect in Christ Jesus; and fit for service and rank to serve the whole— in power, authority, love, truth, righteousness— and demonstration of.
I am making men of you all— mature men. I have a way to use everything for good— trust me, and trust the process. I have a goal, an end vision, full redemption and recovery of creation: and I am forging (that is only available in fire) a workforce army of fiery furnace walking, faith living, unity wrought, conformity achieved, path of Jesus followed— darkness fighting, soldiers of the Lord God and his Kingdom: for we have a war raging on over the souls of men: and I have heard your gut wrenching cries of ‘souls, souls, dear God, dear God, the souls of men who are in need of a church of demonstration and power, of love and of truth, to the saving of the souls of men to the uttermost,’ again, and again before my face. And not only that— I have seen, Janet, the willingness to endure the most excruciating of circumstances and losses in your soul’s physical material existence: I hear the cries of the righteous, and I avenge the pure in heart and devotion. I crush the enemy under our feet, shortly, dear; and in the lives of the others, too.
I do not forsake mine— and my eyes see every situation, battle, praise, honoring, worship, and sacrifice made to me and mine during the testing of your hearts, minds, emotions, beliefs, ways, words, and actions of your souls in this realm: and I repay in justice— for honor and service rendered.
Stay the course— and a crowning awaits you; for I am coming— and with me is my reward.
Praise my name in the earth (soul), and I will hear your voices as you lift up Heaven’s banner to my ears, praise my name, worship in the midst of calamity, woe, pain, suffering, and loss in the soul realm. And my enemies will tremble before our spiritual victory— as we remain in active love relationship during all their attempts to separate our love: and when they realize this— they tremble: for they know that next— is the physical reward and resurrection coming; and with it— power, authority, love, truth, liberation— and demonstrations of.
Don’t let the massive trials stop you from coming to me in it all; and knowing you have an adversary that desires to pain you so hard core— that you would leave my side, and take up his. For he knows— they all know the truth, they have seen it again, and again, and again— throughout time: that after the trials come and go, and our love, your faith in me and my promises remain— their crushing comes next as my mature ones will come forth with healing in their wings— mending broken hearts (for they understand them), encouragement for the weary (for they know it well), strength for the downtrodden (for they understand the crushing), casting out of demons from the oppressed as they remove shackles (for they know this enemy well and seek liberation for all) —as they deliver the truth, love, and presence of God to oppressed men of the earth (soul/body).
THEY KNOW WHAT IS COMING AT THE END OF YOUR TRYING— DO YOU ALL??
Stay the course with me, fall into me, cry, weep for those going through similar trials, pray for them, fall at my feet (I will lift you), kiss my love (come near to it), let me bear up under all of this with you: I have not forsaken you.
I have called you to bear my name in the earth (soul). And I desire to promote you in my Kingdom— do not despise these small beginnings that seem so far from victory in your own eyes and understanding: lean upon my eyes and understanding— not yours (I do feel and know the pain).
The process works— and I only promote those who have been tried to the hilt in all sectors, well rounded by the end result: for this is the way of the Son, and all sons— who will carry forth my name, my ministry, my purposes, my authority, my power, and my works in the earth.
Bear up under the process, seek not to prevent it, stop it, or turn from me in it: and in the end— both of us will be well pleased. I have a future for you— do not despair of life entirely; keep your mind focused on the eventual cup passing; for with all my sons— the cup eventually passes; and what was setup to come forth, all along, will rise to be revealed: do not give up; and soon enough the trials will pass, and the reward will arrive.
I am he who is faithful and true; and I am for you— not against you: remember my word, and take heart dear ones: For your King is coming.”
—The Lord, Your God
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Psalms 1-20
{chosen verses}
“Blessed— is the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord;
In his law he meditates day and night.
He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of living water, who brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf shall not wither; and whatsoever he does— it shall prosper.
For the Lord knows the way of the righteous.
[psalm 1]
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion: Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten you.
Blessed are all of them that put their trust in him.
[psalm 2]
Lord, there are many, and they have increased who trouble me! Many are those that rise up against me. Many there be who say of my soul— There is no help for him in God.
But you, O Lord, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head: for the Lord sustains me. I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me, roundabout: Salvation belongs to the Lord.
[psalm 3]
The Lord has set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.
Stand in awe— and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still:
Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord.
There are many that say— Who will show us any good? Lord, lift up the light of your countenance upon us: for you have put gladness in my heart.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep:
for you, Lord, you only make me dwell in safety.
[psalm 4]
Give ear, Lord; consider my meditation: for unto you I will pray. My voice shall you hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning I will direct my prayer unto you, and will look up.
I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple. Let me, O Lord, in your righteousness; make your way straight before my face.
Let all those who put their trust in you rejoice: let them forever shout for joy— because you defend them: let them also who love your name be joyful in you. For you, Lord, will bless the righteous; and with favour you will compass him as with a shield.
[psalm 5]
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord— heal me; for my bones are vexed.
My soul is also sore vexed: how long, O Lord?
Return, Lord— deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies' sake.
I am weary with groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
My eye is consumed because of grief: Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity— for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. The Lord has heard my supplication.
[psalm 6]
Oh Lord, my God— in you I put my trust. The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord— according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me: establish the just— for the righteous God tries the hearts and reins. My defence— is of God, who saves the upright in heart: God judges the righteous. I will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.
[psalm 7]
O Lord, our Lord— how excellent is your name in all the earth— who has set your glory above the heavens! Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have ordained strength: that you may still the enemy and the avenger.
When I consider the work of your fingers— what is man that you are mindful of him, and visit him? For you have crowned him with glory and honor. You made him to govern over the works of your hands: the beasts of the field, the fowl of the air, the fish of the sea:
How excellent is your name in all the earth!
[psalm 8]
I will praise you, Lord, with my whole heart; I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name— O most High: my enemies shall fall and perish at your presence:
For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sit in the throne judging right. Oh enemy— your destructions have come to a perpetual (ever evolving) end: but the Lord shall endure for ever: he has prepared his throne for judgment, and he shall judge the world in righteousness.
The Lord is also a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. They that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, Lord, have not forsaken them who seek you.
Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer from them who hate me—
you who lifts me up from the gates of death:
That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion:
I will rejoice in your salvation.
The Lord is known by the judgment which he executes: the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.
[psalm 9]
Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the humble: the poor commits himself to you.
Break the arm of the wicked— The Lord is King forever and ever.
You have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear the oppressed.
[psalm 10]
In the Lord I put my trust: how say ye to my soul— Flee as a bird to your mountain?
The wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
The Lord is in his holy temple, his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.
The Lord tries the righteous: but the wicked, and he who loves violence his soul hates: snares, fire, brimstone, and a tempest shall be their cup and portion.
For the righteous Lord loves righteousness; his countenance beholds the upright.
[psalm 11]
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy— now will I arise, saith the Lord;
I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.
The words of the Lord are pure words: like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
You shall keep them— O Lord— you shall preserve them from this generation forever.
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
[psalm 12]
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Hear me and consider me— O Lord, my God; enlighten my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death— lest my enemy say— I have prevailed against him;
Those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
I will sing unto the Lord— because he has dealt bountifully with me.
[psalm 13]
The fool has said in his heart— There is no God: they are corrupt(ed).
The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God: there was none that does good, no, not one.
God is in the generation of the righteous.
You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
Oh that the salvation of Israel comes out of Zion! When the Lord brings back the captivity of his people— Jacob shall rejoice— and Israel shall be glad.
[psalm 14]
Lord— who shall abide in your tabernacle? Who shall dwell in your holy hill?
He who walks uprightly, works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.
He who does not backbite with his tongue, nor do evil to his neighbour, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbour. In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but in whom he honors those who fear the Lord. He who swears to his own hurt, and changes not.
He who puts not out his money to usury, nor takes reward against the innocent: He who does these things —shall never be moved.
[psalm 15]
Preserve me, O God: for in you I put my trust. My soul has said unto the Lord— You are my Lord. And to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight:
The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.
The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a good heritage.
I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
I have set the Lord always before me: and because he is at my right hand— I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.
You will show me the path of life: and in your presence is the fullness of joy;
and at your right hand —there are pleasures for evermore.
[psalm 16]
Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips. Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are equal. You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. By the word of your lips— I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer:
Hold up my goings in your paths, so that my footsteps slip not.
I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear to me, and hear my speech.
Show your marvelous loving-kindness— O you who saves by your right hand— those who put their trust in you— from those that rise up against them.
Keep me as the apple of your eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who oppress me— from my deadly enemies who compass me about.
Arise, O Lord— disappoint him, cast him down:
deliver my soul from the wicked: As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness:
I shall be satisfied— when I awake with your likeness.
[psalm 17]
I will love you, Lord— you are my strength.
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: and so— I shall be saved from my enemies.
The sorrows of death compassed me, the sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me: In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him— into his ears.
The earth shook and trembled; the foundations of the hills were moved and were shaken— because he was wroth. Smoke went out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth— devoured: coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens— and came down: and darkness was under his feet. He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: he flew upon the wings of the wind.
He made darkness— his secret place; his pavilion round about him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning, and discomfited them.
Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me: for they were too strong for me.
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me— because he delights in me.
The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands— has recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
All his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from iniquity.
Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
With the merciful— you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man— you will show yourself upright; with the pure —you will show yourself pure; and with the froward —you will show yourself froward.
For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks. For you will light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God I have leaped over a wall.
As for God— his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those who trust in him: For who is God —but the Lord? Or who is a rock —but our God?
It is God who girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me upon my high places. He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness —has made me great.
You have enlarged my steps under me, so that my feet do not slip.
I have pursued my enemies— and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed. I have wounded them so that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet. For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
The Lord lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
It is God who avenges me, and subdues: he delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent.
Therefore will I give thanks unto you, O Lord— and sing praises unto your name.
Great deliverance gives he to his seed for evermore.
[psalm 18]
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork: Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge: In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun (Son), which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, rejoicing as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven— and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hidden from the heat thereof.
The law of the Lord is perfect— converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure— making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right— rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure— enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean— enduring forever: the judgments of the Lord —are true and righteous, altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover —by them— your servant is warned: and in the keeping of them —there is great reward.
Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults. Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O Lord— my strength, and my redeemer.
[psalm 19]
The Lord hears you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defends you:
sends you help from the sanctuary, and strengthens you out of Zion.
Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice.
Grant according to your own heart, and fulfill all your counsel. We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners [flaunt our flag]: the Lord— fulfill all your petitions.
Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.”
[psalm 20]
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