Musings on “Songs of Deliverance”

         

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Lord, I rush into Your chamber.

   Exhausted, I fall as dead.

Your melodies

   surround me with peace;

Your songs of deliverance

   fill me with hope.

Once again

   I find my rest in your chamber.

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Heat exhaustion consumes me;

   hot and dry,

   I am left withered.

Like soft rain

   Your songs of deliverance,

   revive my soul.

Your music once again

  renews my life-weary heart.

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During the night watches

   my soul troubles me.

   You seem so distant.

The hardness of my heart

   shuts me in.

   I can’t breathe.

Your songs of deliverance

    rescue my failing heart.

Your Presence near -

   my soul rejoices

   during the night watches.

Marcia

7-29-08

From Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines in glorious radiance. Psalm 50:2 (NLT)

The above verse captured my attention one morning. So I parked there and did a walk about. Why had this verse been highlighted in my thinking? What could it mean for me here now - today? I understood the words from an OT perspective - but what about for “now”?

Thoughts began forming and coming to life.

Zion is the place in Israel that God has chosen for His dwelling place. One day that will be actually come to be. Zion is God’s residence - His habitation - heaven. For believers today Zion is our heart, a temple indwelt by the Holy Spirit of Jesus, a place where God dwells

O LORD, I love the habitation of Your house  And the place where Your glory dwells. Ps 26:8

There are four words in that one verse for a dwelling place. David must have been really emphasizing God’s dwelling place - like home. So what is so important about home - the place where we dwell???

  

Think of home - what makes home - what makes it comfortable? Ideally home, the place where we live and move and have our being should be a place that expresses who we are; a haven; a place to get away from it all; a place to show hospitality etc.

Y  A place of praise: But You are holy, You who inhabit the praises of Israel. Ps. 22:3 (WEB)

Praise: an expression of approval, value, merit, commendation or worship; older meaning was a compliment

Y  A place of glory: O LORD, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells. Ps. 26:8

Glory: honor, glorious, abundance, riches, splendor, dignity, reputation, reverence; Glorious and gracious presence; God manifesting/displaying His Nature - Character

Y  A place of beauty: 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. Ps. 27:4

Y  A place of light: From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light. Ps. 50:2

Light: shines forth; to send out beams; to cause to shine; manifested Himself in a glorious manner; glorious radiance

Y  A place of rest: For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His habitation. "This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it”.  Psalm 132:13-14

Rest: resting place, quietness

Y  A place of provision: "I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her needy with bread."Her priests also I will clothe with salvation, and her godly ones will sing aloud for joy. Ps.132:15-16

God chose Zion - the word Zion means guidepost, way-marker - one that is conspicuous in nature. He chose it and made it public knowledge.

Because of what Jesus did on Calvary and Pentecost — He now makes anyone who believes in Him, His private abode, His chosen habitation: the place where He finds praise, glory, beauty, provision, rest and shines forth His light.

Out of you, most beautiful of places, God sends out Jesus, The Light of the World. He has chosen to manifest Himself through us. He has chosen to live and move and have His being reside in earthen vessels. We chose to live and move and have our being in His Dwelling Place: HIM!

Individually each one of us is His Dwelling Place and collectively we are His Dwelling Place. Maybe we could be called God’s Zion, a conspicuous place of His residing; those “living stones”.

Sit with Me

Come, my child

sit with me

rest your head

against my chest

feel my heartbeat

becoming your own.

                         Sense the rhythm

                         of my breathing

                         slow and easy 

                         in and out

                         never hurried

                         never fast

                         always steady

                         always there.

Come, my child

sit with me

rest your soul

against my life

firm and strong,

soft and gentle

My will to know.

My love to flow.

  

Marcia

10-30-06

His Song of Life

     He’s on the shore

of my heart

inviting me to sing.

    With pleading eyes

and smiling lips

He hums

His Song of Life.

    Its melody

surrounds my soul

with beauty and

with grace.

    I answer back

and join with Him

To sing His Song of Life.

Marcia

12-17-06

Living Water

Living water

flowing freely

Unimpeded

from the throne

Into valleys,

over mountains

Every crevice
filled with life.

Cool, refreshing
on it streams

Never ending,
always there

Till its destiny
it reaches

And its goal
fulfilled.

Marcia

Feb 07, 2007

Released

Hidden once in shadows deep

   unseen by human eyes

Sleeping colors dim and pale

   as covered by a pall

Wait in silence while the light

   creeps up their lonely path

To awaken once again

  the music in their hearts.

Like a phoenix dead and gone

  from the ashes its reborn

Sparks of fire begin to dance

  their songs burst forth with life.

Leaves, trees, plants

   explode with joy anew.

The vibrant colors of the woods

    Again in life released.

Marcia

11-11-06

On a very bright day,  we were driving somewhere as a family. I caught a glimpse of a forest that seemed to be waking up as from a deep sleep.

In the Cool of the Day

In the cool of the day

            when things are soft and quiet,

I sit at your feet

            and hear your voice

            speaking to my heart.

Your language of love and joy and comfort

            fills my heart with Your fragrances

            that captivate my soul to overflowing.

I cannot move. I dare not move.

Eternity sits still

and doesn’t breathe.

Suspended in Your presence

            I sit at your feet

            and hear your voice

            and things are soft and quiet

                        in the cool of the day. 

Marcia

8/25/06

 

A Rhema From The Logos

Devotion this morning from readings for Sunday (tomorrow)

Several months back I decided that Saturday’s Bible readings would come from Sunday’s assigned readings for church.

For Sunday 9/2/2012

    Deut. 4:1-9; Psalm 119:129-136; Eph. 6:10-29; Mark 4:14-23

Follows is my gleanings from them! (Verses that were highlighted for me in my heart as I read the passages)

1)        Deuteronomy 4:1 (amp) Now listen and give heed, O Israel, to the statutes and ordinances which I teach you, and do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, gives you.

Ω       My thoughts: Listen, my Daughter, to what you will be hearing from Me from My Word – heed and walk in what you learn, that this territory (may be spiritual in nature) may become yours.

2)        Psalm 119:134 (amp) Deliver me from the oppression of man; so will I keep Your precepts [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them].

Ω       oppression of man – hurt of any kind

Ω       My thoughts: People can be hurtful intentionally or unintentionally.  I think we can also cause our own oppression by picking up offenses because of our misunderstandings. We can also make assumptions about others or situations that can be untrue which also is able to lead us into oppression.

Ω       We are asking God to deliver us from oppression in order to become freer to follow Him! The key is to be delivered that I can put that energy & attention on Him instead of the hurt/pain. Sometimes the actual circumstance remains unchanged; however, our inner man is changed.

3)        Ephesians 6:12 (erv) 12 Our fight is not against people on earth. We are fighting against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness. We are fighting against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly places.

Ω       My thoughts: Simply to recognize & acknowledge that our battles are not against people or things, but against the enemy our souls – the enemy of the cross!

4)        Mark 7:15 (amp)  There is not [even] one thing outside a man which by going into him can pollute and defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him and make him unhallowed and unclean.

Ω       My thoughts: This is speaking to my heart about those things which are outer things that don’t cause me to miss the mark but my attitudes, responses, actions, thought processes etc that I allow to cause me to miss the mark of the glory of God.

Ω       Romans 3:23 (amp) ^“Since all have sinned and are falling short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives.” Recently I read a Bible note that said the glory of God was also the manifestation or display of His Nature – His Character; therefore, to miss that mark is to miss the opportunity of having Him display Himself through me or to me.