{"id":46490,"date":"2018-08-22T06:40:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=46490"},"modified":"2018-08-22T06:40:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:40:04","slug":"your-dwelling-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/22\/your-dwelling-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Dwelling Place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Psalms 91<\/p>\n

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most Highwill abide in the shadow of the Almighty.I will say to the LORD, \u201cMy refuge and my fortress,my God, in whom I trust.\u201dFor he will deliver you from the snare of the fowlerand from the deadly pestilence.He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand,\u00a0but it will not come near you.\u00a0You will only look with your eyes\u00a0and see the recompense of the wicked.\u00a0Because you have made the LORD your dwelling place\u2014\u00a0the Most High, who is my refuge\u2014\u00a0no evil shall be allowed to befall you,\u00a0no plague come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot. \u201cBecause he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name. When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is always good to be\u00a0 reminded of peace and rest found in God.\u00a0 <\/span>This Psalm encourages me to stay on course and cling to, rely on and trust in God.\u00a0 <\/span>Spurgeon has great thoughts on this Psalm.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery child of God looks towards the inner sanctuary and the mercy-seat, yet all do not dwell <\/i>in the most holy place; they run to it at times, and enjoy occasional approaches, but they do not habitually reside in the mysterious presence.\u201d<\/p>\n

We must walk very close to a companion, if we would have his shadow fall on us.<\/p>\n

Men proclaim their doubts, and even to boast of them, who glory in casting suspicion upon everything;\u00a0 <\/span>it becomes the duty of all true believers to speak out and testify with calm courage to their own well-grounded reliance upon their God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are foolish and weak as poor little birds, and are very apt to be lured to our destruction by cunning foes, but if we dwell near to God, he will see to it that the most skilfull deceiver shall not entrap us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is impossible that any ill should happen to the man who is beloved of the Lord; the most crushing calamities can only shorten his journey and hasten him to his reward. Ill to him is no ill, but only good in a mysterious form. Losses enrich him, sickness is his medicine, reproach is his honour, death is his gain. No evil in the strict sense of the word can happen to him, for everything is overruled for good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow angels thus keep us we cannot tell. Whether they repel demons, counteract spiritual plots, or even ward off the subtler physical forces of disease, we do not know. Perhaps we shall one day stand amazed at the multiplied services which the unseen bands have rendered to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are blessings that some believers miss out on, simply because they are always fretting and do not trust God as they should. Here the psalmist quotes God as saying that the blessings are for those who love God and acknowledge his name (v. 14), call upon him (v. 15), and seek satisfaction in what he alone can provide.\u201d (Boice)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psalms 91 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most Highwill abide in the shadow of the Almighty.I will say to the LORD, \u201cMy refuge and my fortress,my God, in whom I trust.\u201dFor he will deliver you from the snare of the fowlerand from the deadly pestilence.He will cover you with his pinions, and … Continue reading “Your Dwelling Place”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3147,5618,475,6193,4009,6192,777,3767,1360,316,1769,3438,502,612,1424,7812,4699,2299,48,7816,7815,6197,6451,56,5911,4518,2300,33,5551,533,6198,3697,1684,113,5750,3440,2318,6,7814,7813,3437],"class_list":["post-46490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-abide","tag-almight","tag-angels","tag-arrow","tag-calls-to-me","tag-cover-you","tag-darkness","tag-deadly","tag-deliver","tag-destruction","tag-dwelling-place","tag-dwells","tag-eyes","tag-faithfulness","tag-find","tag-fortess","tag-guard-you","tag-holds-fast","tag-honor-him","tag-i-will-answer-him","tag-it-will-not-come-near-you","tag-long-life","tag-look","tag-love","tag-pestilence","tag-plague","tag-protect","tag-refuge","tag-rescue-him","tag-salvation","tag-satisfy-him","tag-shelter","tag-shield","tag-snare","tag-terror-of-the-night","tag-thousand-may-fall-at-your-side","tag-trouble","tag-trust","tag-wastes","tag-will-not-fear","tag-wings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46491,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46490\/revisions\/46491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}