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My Comforter

Read Psalm 86. Today we finish our month of prayer and meditation through Psalm 86 with a look at verse 17: “Send me a miraculous sign to show me how much You love me, so that those who hate me will see it and be ashamed. Don’t they know that You, Lord, are my comforter, the One who comes to help me?” (TPT). What a comfort our Lord is in all times, in all situations!

When I first ventured out…

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Sign Sender

Read Psalm 86. In today’s verse, the Psalmist is asking for a sign — “Send me a miraculous sign to show me how much You love me, so that those who hate me will see it and be ashamed. Don’t they know that You, Lord, are my comforter, the One who comes to help me?” (v. 7 TPT). 

God is a sign sender. We see many verses in the Old Testament that prophesy and are seen referenced again, coming to…

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Giver of Strength

Read Psalm 86. Today’s verse is Psalm 86:16: “Bring me to Your grace-fountain so that Your strength becomes mine. Be my hero and come rescue Your servant once again!” (TPT). 

Remember, we are cursed when we rely on human strength. Jeremiah 17:5 says, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strengthand turn their hearts away from the…

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Full of Abounding Truth

Full of Abounding Truth

Read Psalm 86. Today’s verse says, “But Lord, Your nurturing love is tender and gentle. You are slow to get angry yet so swift to show Your faithful love. You are full of abounding grace and truth” (Psalm 86:15 TPT). Note again, the verse says “grace and truth” — you have to have a balance of both. We will be focusing on the abounding truth.

When I read “grace and truth,” it immediately takes…

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Full of Abounding Grace

Full of Abounding Grace

Read Psalm 86. Today’s verse says, “But Lord, Your nurturing love is tender and gentle. You are slow to get angry yet so swift to show Your faithful love. You are full of abounding grace and truth” (Psalm 86:15 TPT). It is important to note that the verse says “grace and truth” — you have to have a balance of both. We will be focusing on the abounding grace.

Grace is the unmerited favor of…

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Faithful Love on Display

Faithful Love on Display

Read Psalm 86. Today’s verse speaks about God’s faithful love being on display. “But Lord, Your nurturing love is tender and gentle. You are slow to get angry yet so swift to show Your faithful love. You are full of abounding grace and truth” (Psalm 86:15 TPT). Love is not simply a word. Love is a verb. God displays His love for us again and again. We can recount the ways He loves us if we look…

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Slow to Anger

Read Psalm 86. Today, we are going to look at verse 15, which speaks about how God is slow to anger. When we consider the word “anger,” let us take into consideration that this word translates as “aph” and it’s referencing the type of anger that gets you into a huff— the kind that has you breathing heavy through your nose, ready to boil over and do things you will regret later. This is the anger…

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Nurturing Love

Read Psalm 86. Today, we will be looking at God’s nurturing love (Psalm 86:15). The beginning of today’s verse describes God with words translated as merciful, full of compassion, gracious, tender, and kind. The sad truth is that many people think of God as vengeful, and avoid God because of the fear of His wrath. However, the truth is that yes God is a God who will pour out His wrath, a God who…

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Deliverer from Death

Read Psalm 86. Today, we are going to look at how God delivers us from death. In Psalm 86:13, we read: “You love me so much and You placed Your greatness upon me. You rescued me from the deepest place of darkness, and You have delivered me from a certain death” (TPT). 

The Bible speaks about the wages of sin resulting in death (Romans 6:23). When we think of death, we should consider both…

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Rescuer from Darkness

Read Psalm 86. Today, we are going to look at how God rescues us from darkness. In Psalm 86:13, we read: “You love me so much and You placed Your greatness upon me. You rescued me from the deepest place of darkness, and You have delivered me from a certain death” (TPT). God is the only one who can rescue from the deepest places of darkness because, “God is light; in Him there is no darkness at…

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Placer of Greatness

Read Psalm 86. Today, we are going to look at how God is a placer of greatness. In Psalm 86:13, we read: “You love me so much and You placed Your greatness upon me. You rescued me from the deepest place of darkness, and You have delivered me from a certain death” (TPT). A few days ago, we looked at the greatness of God. Now, we look at how this transfers— we recognize that God has placed His…

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Love of God

Read Psalm 86. Today, we are going to focus on LOVE. There are four different types of love. There’s storge or affection; this is the love that we have for family — family love. There’s philia or friendship; this is the love that we have for our friends — friend love. There’s eros which is an erotic bond; this is what we usually say is “being in love” — sexual love. Finally, there’s charity or…

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Truth of God

Read Psalm 86. Today, we are focusing on God’s truth. In Psalm 86:11, the Psalmist’s request for teaching is so that he can walk in God’s truth. Love rejoices with the truth (1 Corinthians 13:6). The Holy Spirit guides us to all the truth (John 16:13). We are blessed to delight in His truth (Psalm 1:1-2).  His truth is purifying (John 17:17). His truth is also freeing (John 8:31-32). The Bible…

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Ways of God

Read Psalm 86. Today, we are looking at the ways of God. In Psalm 86:11, it says: “Teach me Your way, O Lord, that I may walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name” (ESV). This verse from Psalm 86 is the verse that kicked off this month of study. The Passion Translation breaks down the way of God as how He works and how He moves. 

How does God work?God works in mysterious ways. We…

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Greatness of God

Read Psalm 86. The prayer I said before eating as a child began: “God is good. God is great.” God is great. Psalm 86:10b says, “What greatness belongs to You” (TPT). Today, we will look at the greatness of God.

God is great. He is incomprehensible. We cannot fully know Him. Psalm 139:6 says, “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it” (ESV). In Romans 11:33, we…

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Wonders of God

Read Psalm 86. Today, we will focus on how our great God does wondrous things. The word “pala” means that something is extraordinary or surpassing. When we consider the wonders, typically we we think about the parting of bodies of water, the feeding of multitudes, the ground opening up and swallowing Korah, the manna, the plagues, etc. Yes, these are extraordinary. 

The Reverend Billy Graham…

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Deserving of Worship

Read Psalm 86. Yesterday, we looked at how God is Creator of all. Our devotion ended with us being in awe of Creator God, and that awe resulting in worship. Today, we focus on the worship that God alone deserves (see Psalm 86:9). Philippians 2:9-11 says: “For this reason God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow— in…