The Psalms have always to me being a source of inspiration to meditate on the wonders of God not only in the spiritual, but in the wonder of His creation, the earth the universe and to think that he still created me as well!! That is humbling .
BibleDude
· 2 years ago
Stanaxe, That is a wonderful perspective, and I agree with you 100%! I love to study them not to get doctrine or rules for Christian living, but to better understand the true heart of worship. It amazes me to see David displaying a very "New Testament" approach to worship, even hundreds of years before Christ even came.
God bless! Dan
sdtwj
· 2 years ago
Amen, David's ministry of praise is of New Testament approach.
Studying the Hebrew roots have greatly helped me in my study of the Psalms. Some years back I was studying on the seven kinds of Hebraic praise that Scripture speaks about. It has dramatically changed my way of praising Him. There are many things we do without knowing it's significance, but when we have the revelation, we automatically well-up in praise. I have written an article on my blog on one such word of praise called "Halal". This might interest you.
Blessings, Sidharth
BibleDude
· 2 years ago
Sidharth, Please feel free to share the links to your "halal" post or any others that you think may be relevant here. I have done some similar studies in the past, and agree that it really does help to digger deeper.
Now, Dan, apart from psalms that are directed to the Lord. There are Psalms directed to our souls. In the new testament Paul speaks about this in the epistle to Ephesia. He says,"Speak to yourself [one another] with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.". This is what I call as "soul songs". Songs we sing to ourself and others to lift ourselves up in the faith. For example in Psalm 103, we hear the Psalmist speak to his soul saying, "Bless the Lord, O my soul. Forget not his benefits, who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases". There are then prophetic psalms. A number of psalms are prophetic in nature- they are often labelled as "Messianic psalms". I hope to write something later on these.
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That is a wonderful perspective, and I agree with you 100%! I love to study them not to get doctrine or rules for Christian living, but to better understand the true heart of worship. It amazes me to see David displaying a very "New Testament" approach to worship, even hundreds of years before Christ even came.
God bless!
Dan
Studying the Hebrew roots have greatly helped me in my study of the Psalms. Some years back I was studying on the seven kinds of Hebraic praise that Scripture speaks about. It has dramatically changed my way of praising Him. There are many things we do without knowing it's significance, but when we have the revelation, we automatically well-up in praise. I have written an article on my blog on one such word of praise called "Halal". This might interest you.
Blessings,
Sidharth
Please feel free to share the links to your "halal" post or any others that you think may be relevant here. I have done some similar studies in the past, and agree that it really does help to digger deeper.
Thanks and God bless!
Dan
Here's the link to my site: www.Yeshua.co.nr
You can find the article I wrote on "Halal" in this link: http://touching-world.blogspot.com/2007/09/hall...
Now, Dan, apart from psalms that are directed to the Lord. There are Psalms directed to our souls. In the new testament Paul speaks about this in the epistle to Ephesia. He says,"Speak to yourself [one another] with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.". This is what I call as "soul songs". Songs we sing to ourself and others to lift ourselves up in the faith. For example in Psalm 103, we hear the Psalmist speak to his soul saying, "Bless the Lord, O my soul. Forget not his benefits, who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases". There are then prophetic psalms. A number of psalms are prophetic in nature- they are often labelled as "Messianic psalms". I hope to write something later on these.
In Him,'
Sidharth
Sidharth