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Psalm 15 Blameless - Songs For Saints: Weekly Psalm Devotions We don't like getting blamed for things, but so often it is easy to  apportion blame to others! God's desire for us is to make us blameless - even for the things we  actually have done wrong. That's why Jesus came, to take the blame, the  sin and the guilt that is ours. The Psalmist writes about living rightly  align...

Psalm 14 - The Lord protects His People! Songs For Saints: Weekly Psalm  Devotions While the world is a mess - God is by your side! God's offer of  forgiveness, love and life have only to be received by us, to know his  care and his protection. We are safe from harm, from hurt and from  judgement when we entrust ourselves to Jesus. Psalms express every experience of life, every...

Psalm 13-God is Good.  Songs For Saints: Weekly Psalm Devotions When you pray, but it feels like it's not getting through, where do you turn? Even the great King David found prayer a challenge. Somtimes he wasn't sure which way to turn. But despite all that he, and we oursleves, can hang on to one abiding truth: God is good! All the time! So keep trusting! Psalms express every experience of l...

Psalm 11 - God's Flawless Words. Songs For Saints: Weekly Psalm Devotions You can't believe everything you hear, or see, can you? So it's hard to make sense of the world we live in, so much of the time. So where can we look? Our Psalms tells us we can look to God, because his words are flawless. We can look ot him to help, to act  on our behalf, to speak to us. And it was to show us this that...

Psalm 11 Confidence in the Lord  - Songs For Saints: Weekly Psalm Devotions  Not everyone likes you all the time! Not very bit of advice is good advice! So how do you live confidently? The Psalmist suggests the best way is by keeping our confidence resting in God. To ahev confidence means we have someone to confide in; and the one we confide in is someone we can trust. So no-one better t...

A Prayer in the Dark! Perhaps the world seems a dark place to you sometimes. But when we get a true perspective of God and his kingdom, there is another perspective available to us. Because the kingdom of God is a kingdom of light. And Jesus is, or can be, the light of your world, if you ask him to be. Not only do Psalms express every experience of life, every  emotion and situation human bei...

Enjoy this weekly Sixthirtythree SONGS FOR SAINTS devotional based on  the Psalms.  This is a song that encourages us to really let go when we worship our amazing God. In the Old Testament some of the words for praise suggest various bodily postures, like kneeling or dancing, lifting hands, or lying prostrate. Explosive praise! When we really understand how great and glorious, how loving...

Enjoy this weekly Sixthirtythree SONGS FOR SAINTS devotional based on  the Psalms. This wonderful Psalm sets us straight about who God is! He is King over all the earth. So big, so great , so wonderful that it’s a amazing that he is interested in us. Yet he is, in fact he cares really deeply for each and every individual. No-one is insignificant to God. He gives us his glory, his love and cal...

Enjoy this weekly Sixthirtythree SONGS FOR SAINTS devotional based on  the Psalms.  An attack has been made against our poet today and he turns to God about it. In the face of this unjust accusation he turns to ask God his opinion, for his judgement. And instead of fearing what God, te judge,  will say to him, he finds that God is there to protect him. And so he is for each of us to...

Songs For Saints: Weekly Psalm Devotions When things don’t go the way we’d like them to, and they drag on too long, we can often wonder, “How long will this last?”  Prayer gives us an opportunity to ask this very question to God too. The psalm encourages us to trust God’s love and faithfulness rather than our righteousness, or our cleverness to resolve our difficulty. But know, as you pray yo...

King David, our psalmist, is weeping before God. Yet his great discovery is that as a lover of God he is welcomed into God’s very real presence. And so he knows that he can look to God to lead him through the hard, difficult path that he is walking. In fact he can enjoy the house of God, the family place for all God’s children. The place of God’s favour! Songs For Saints: Weekly Psalm Devotions&nb...

Does prayer always feel like a conversation with God? Or, when things are difficult, do we feel God hasn't got anything to say to us? God wants us to be honest and real with Him. Sometimes he responds with a challenge about the quality of our lives rather than addressing "our" issues! God can ask awkward questions. Yet the psalmist realises that the key to a conversation with God is recognising hi...

Enjoy this weekly "Devotion in the Psalms"  Not only do Psalms express every experience of life, every emotion and situation human beings can face, they point us also to the God who made us and loves us. And so we are encouraged and strengthened in our faith. What’s more we see glimpses of Jesus our Saviour and the hope and life he offers us through his saving death and resurrection. My prayer is...

Enjoy this weekly Sixthirtythree SONGS FOR SAINTS "Devotion  in  the Psalms" Not only do Psalms express every experience of life, every  emotion and situation human beings can face, they point us also to the  God who made us and loves us. And so we are encouraged and strengthened  in our faith. What’s more we see glimpses of Jesus our Saviour and the hope and life  he...

Enjoy this weekly Sixthirtythree SONGS FOR SAINTS "Devotions in  the Psalms" Not only do Psalms express every experience of life, every  emotion and situation human beings can face, they point us also to the  God who made us and loves us. And so we are encouraged and strengthened  in our faith. What’s more we see glimpses of Jesus our Saviour and the hope and life  he offe...

The Future! What a mystery, but what a hope for those of us who know and love Jesus. This episode will encourage you to keep looking forward in faith and living now in that same faith. The faith that God knows who you are and what He has for you today and tomorrow, until Jesus returns. And his return is the great hope that the One Big Story of God, through His Book the Bible, is to take people fro...

Family: it can mean so many different things to different people. It can be a great experience or a horror story; a story of nurture, encouragement and security or of neglect, rejection and abuse -and all stages in between. Of course in the Bible we see similar family experiences to these played out in the lives of some of the characters.  But the purpose of this episode is to show how family is G...

The Bible story is full of forgiveness - from beginning to end! In this episode I unpack not just our need for forgiveness, but what an amazing gift from God it is. In fact it is the opening of the door of God’s favour for us. God is forgiving, it’s part of his nature because he knew we would need it. Forgiveness means we can begin to live a new quality of life - the eternal kind of life - here an...

One of the major themes of the One Big Story of God’s interactions with humanity is His desire to show us favour, grace and mercy. Despite the tendency of people to ignore God, rebel against Him and consistently to turn away from Him, He shows us His love. God’s Favour is the theme in this episode. Soak yourself in the goodness of God and be transformed!  Blessings, Philip https://sixthirtythree.c...

“One Big Story” is the story of God, and the story of His Book - Bible. But it's other stories too. This series unpacks the great overarching themes of this story.  Episode 3 looks at our second Theme: People of the Bible. There are in the order of 3000 people mentioned in the Bible, some are just a name mentioned once, others are significant "big" characters  In this episode we focus on a few "bi...

Episode Two looks at how God permeates the whole of His Book If we consider God to be the author of the Bible and also its key character, it sounds like it's the autobiography of God.  But of course it is far more than that as we shall see - it’s a great resource for our lives too. In this episode we see how God interacts with so many people, who He is and how He deals with people, and how, i...

Episode Two looks at how God permeates the whole of His Book If we consider God to be the author of the Bible and also its key character, it sounds like it's the autobiography of God.  But of course it is far more than that as we shall see - it’s a great resource for our lives too. In this episode we see how God interacts with so many people, who He is and how He deals with people, and how, in Jes...

Bookends starts the One Big Story journey. From the Bible books of Genesis to Revelation we trace six key themes that are uncovered throughout God's Book. God creates people for relationship; he loads them with His favour and then forgives when they fail and fall short. He draws them into families, then a nation and finally a Kingdom through His Son Jesus. Then he offers them a future beyond their...

Bookends starts the One Big Story journey.  From the Bible books of Genesis to Revelation we trace six key themes that are uncovered throughout God's Book. God creates people for relationship; he loads them with His favour and then forgives when they fail and fall short. He draws them into families, then a nation and finally a Kingdom through His Son Jesus. Then he offers them a future beyond thei...

Songs and Prayers for Real People The Psalms have always provided God's people with a rich resource for prayer and praise. This series of readings from the Psalms will encourage and help you in expressing your faith in God, trusting Him in the ups and downs of life; and keep you looking to Him as your Rock, Saviour, Father and Provider. Blessings, Philip https://sixthirtythree.co.uk/connect