John Hall

Read Psalm 31-35

“How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered!” Psalm 32:1 What makes you Happy? What gives you Contentedness or Satisfaction? What is it that you see in others and inwardly Desire and want? That is how the word “blessed” is used above. David begins the Psalm with this statement, then goes […]

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Read Psalm 26-30

“One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple.” Psalm 27:4 Just as each Psalm is Unique, sometimes each paragraph or “stanza” is

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Read Psalm 21-25

“My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” Psalm 22:1 Each time I read through this Psalm, and other passages like it, I try to picture what the writer was going through. We’ve read earlier in the year where David suffered immense persecution by both King Saul and his son Absalom! Much of what

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Read Psalm 16-20

“You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.” Psalm 16:11 If you remember from yesterday, the Psalms are a Collection of Songs where each one is unique. As you read through them Day by Day, you will encounter

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Read Psalm 11-15

“Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases to be, for the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.” Psalm 12:1 Again, by way of Introduction (I promise I will be more brief today), the Book of Psalms is unlike any other Book in the Bible. It is actually a Collection of Songs, which were,

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Read Psalm 6-10

“My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.” Psalm 5:3 For many years now, I have read through the Psalms, five at a time, except for Psalm 119, which I take 2 days to read through. If you do

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Read Psalm 1-5

Psalm 1 By way of Introduction to the Book of Psalms, here are Spurgeon’s Comments at the beginning of his Treasury of David: “The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it

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Read Job 38-42

“Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?”” Job 38:1-2 As the Book of Job comes to a close and Job’s 4 friends rest their case, God Speaks! And for the next 4 Chapters, God takes Job to task for his limited

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Read Job 35-37

“Then Elihu continued and said,” Job 35:1 As I said yesterday, Elihu is quite the character; speaking at times wisely, then foolishly; humbly, then arrogantly. On your first time reading through Job, you really don’t know what to expect; he is Very Unpredictable! What little we do know about him is found at the beginning

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