August 2024

Daily Devotional for Saturday, August 31 Asaph’s Command “Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth,” Psalm 78:1.   When I was in the Army during basic training, the drill sergeants would preface most instructions with a loud and thunderous “Listen up.” Of course, that was […]

Daily Devotional for Friday, August 30 Asaph’s Song “I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings,” Psalm 77:11, 12.   The children of Israel witnessed many wonders and works of the Lord; not only

Daily Devotional for Thursday, August 29 Asaph’s Sorrow “I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God,

Daily Devotional for Wednesday, August 28 Asaph’s Confidence “But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob,” Psalm 75:9.   Psalm 75 is a song of deliverance, a song of the triumph that will come; therefore it is a psalm of faith. Ultimately, God is going to protect His

Daily Devotional for Tuesday, August 27 Asaph’s Frustration “O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt,” Psalm

Daily Devotional for Monday, August 26 Asaph and the Exalted One “My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. But it is good

Daily Devotional for Sunday, August 25 The Aged David’s Cries to God “Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come,” Psalm 71:18.   Growing old is not for the faint of

Daily Devotional for Saturday, August 24 David’s Concern and Confidence “Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord . . . Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified,” Psalm 70:1,4.  

Daily Devotional for Friday, August 23 David’s Request and Song “Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies,” Psalm 69:18.   “My treat, get whatever you want.” Have you ever gone to a restaurant with someone and he tells you this? It is difficult to know what to do.

Daily Devotional for Thursday, August 22 David’s Suffering “Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none,” Psalm 69:20.   There is no instant cure for a heart that has been broken by unwarranted