Heart Posture

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Psalm 95 August 2 2019

Heart Posture


1. Oh Come let us sing unto the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.


2. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving. Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.

               
 Strongs # 8426 Thanksgiving (todah) (toh-dah) is derived from the verb Yadah (to give thanks, to praise) the root of the word, is yad or “hand”.

               
 How incredible that thanksgiving is given with the hands, not words. A remarkable demonstration of thanksgiving merged with praise.


3. For the Lord is the great God, and the great King above all gods.

               
 Psalm 94:4 for the Lord is great and greatly to be praised!

               
 God is no better or greater whether we praise Him or not. Nothing we can do will make god better or greater.

               
 Praise comes from our heart to Him because we thank Him, because we adore Him.  A praise is from our heart to Him, not to give Him a boost, because He doesn’t need a boost, but simply because we love Him, adore Him, thank Him and praise Him.


4.  In His hand area the deep places of the earth; the heights of the hills are His also.


5. The sea is His, for He made it; and His hand formed the dry land.

                We are His creation, the valleys, the mountains, the rolling hills, the great oceans and seas, the land we walk upon, all are His creation.

                
Jonah testified to this fact in Chapter 1:9 of his book. He was a smart man, a bit drenched but learned quickly.  He said, “ I am a Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the god of heaven, who made the sea and the dry ground.”

               
 He could have added possible and made all the creatures in the sea that would gobble you up until you got a better perspective of God and His expectations of us.

               
 Until we acknowledge Gods absolute sovereignty, His absolute power and trust it to be so, we will remain a people of absolute ignorance.


6. Oh come let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.


7. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.

              
  The action of acknowledging who God is by our body posture, i.e, kneeling, is a symbol of our worship, our humility, and our never ending adoration.  Not to feel badly if one cannot physically kneel; our hearts can kneel, but if we can physically kneel, it is a humbling posture before our God.


8.  Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, (Exodus 17:2-7) or Meribah (the contention of the children of Israel) saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”, as in the day of trial in the wilderness


9. When your fathers tested Me; they tried Me, though they saw My work.


10.  For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “it is a people who go astray in their hears, and they do not know My ways.”

               
 How many times have we questioned if the Lord was around? Is He a part of what I am doing? Why can’t He be more visible in my life?

 I tell you it grieved God forty years with these people.  He questioned where their heart was.  After all they had seen Him do, they failed to trust Him.


He was thoroughly fed up with them with their rebellion, their unproductive lives.


11. So (results and consequences) I swore in My wrath (His heated anger), “they shall not enter My rest.”

               
 Whoops. No backpedaling now!   We have to call on Him while He may be found.  God has a line that cannot be crossed after His Holy Spirit has constantly wooed and beckoned.  He is always full of grace, but it is best to accompany the Holy Spirit to the place He is calling us to.  Rightly so.

               
 God can test us, but it is not a good idea to test God.

              
  Hebrews 4:3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My    wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the             foundation of the world.