My groom, Jesus Christ. Psalm 45.

MY KING IS:

good

fair (beautiful)

gracious

blessed

mighty

glorious

majesetic

prosperous

Truth

meek

righteous

terrible (awesome)

with sharp arrows

with an enduring throne (for ever & ever!)

with a right sceptre

anointed

glad

of a precious smell

:)

Victory in Battle!

Psalm 21 commentary from Halley's Bible Handbook:

Psalm 20. A Song of Trust
     Seems like a Battle Hymn, sung in setting up their banners, with Prayer for Victory, as David entered battle, Trusting, not in chariots and horses (7), but in the Lord.


Psalm 20

 ¹The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
 ²Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
 ³Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
 ⁴Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
 ⁵We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
 ⁶Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
 ⁷Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
 ⁸They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
 ⁹Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

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Revelation 5:9-10

   9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
 ¹⁰And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

(Keep this in mind for vs.1-7 in Psalm 21. What great promises to claim!)

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Psalm 21 commentary from Halley's Bible Handbook:

Psalm 21. Thanks for Victory

     After the Battle, for which they had Prayed in Psalm 20 before the battle. It seems to refer to David, but it seems also to have a Messianic hint in its reference to the Eternal Feature of the King's Reign (4).

Psalm 21

 ¹The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
 ²Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
 ³For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
 ⁴He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
 ⁵His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
 ⁶For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
 ⁷For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
 ⁸Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
 ⁹Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
 ¹⁰Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
 ¹¹For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
 ¹²Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
 ¹³Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

YOU are my Joy.

I am going to miss my loft. I really like it here. I like the brick, the stone floors, my messy room; the feeling of ownership and the satisfaction I get from cleaning it; how I can leave 15 minutes before class and only be a few minutes late if parking is crazy like usual; my bookshelf inside the wall; how annoying the dryer is and the 1.5 feet of space between the ceiling and my room's outer wall that forces me to hear absolutely everything outside of it; the one large window and source of natural light; the scary ledge outside that Paige and I somehow managed to "sneak" onto & sit on in the middle of the night; how people throw incredible things such as dog doodoo out their windows (and also let their dogs urinate in the elevators and leave it for the janitor); the times when some one pulls the fire alarm for the heck of it and I'm the only one to evacuate; how I can walk across the street and observe and talk to people from several diverse parts of the world while buying fresh produce, honey, homemade bread, and flowers; I will miss unlocking my bike from the railing right outside the door, taking it with me down the elevator, and prayerfully riding through downtown, observing and praying for the souls I see.

I have learned so much here. I have begun to learn faithful, selfless love. I have learned how to be on time when absolutely necessary (maybe even a little early ;)). I have become more disciplined, been faithful to my job, learned how to balance my schedule- at least better than before. I have become burdened to pray. In each of these aspects, I am not fully mature, but I have matured in my thinking and in the way I walk through and spend my days. The Lord has brought me to a place of contentment. Sometimes it feels as if it is TOTAL contentment; other times my desires bubble up and I dream and dream. Not that it is wrong to dream, but too much dreaming often leads me to want them more than trust the plans the Lord has for me. I truly trust Him. I pray He will continue perfecting me so that I may trust in Him fully EVERY MOMENT and be completely satisfied in satisfying Him for ever. I know in the past I have not been okay just me and him. Not in the depths of my heart. I am almost there. I am there a lot of the time. I want to be there every moment, regardless of what He gives or takes away.

I have been living beneath His wing- in his blessing. And now as He did for the Israelites, He is moving the cloud by day and the fire by night to my earthly father's house and I will follow Him. I do NOT want to be anywhere but with Him and in His will! I am excited to live with my dad, anyway. I have not lived with him since I was 4. And I of course do not remember that. I hardly remember anything of my dad in the house before the day he was no longer. Now I get to enter his house rejoicing! Healed! Restored! It's crazy that every one in my family is moving at the same time, too. I guess it's time for New Beginnings.

Lord, You are sovereign, wise, the PERFECT father. I love you and I am sssooooo excited to continue walking hand-in-hand with you every day! YOU are my Joy :)

In Spain, yet burdened for home.

Psalm 30:12 'There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness'

Phil 3:18-19 '(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)'

Prov 4:19 'The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.'


I am so sorrowful for my friends at home. Many of them are so lost. Some know it, but most of them don't understand. I wish they could see through the eyes of The One who can see the whole world. Life is so different in the US- so easy, so comfortable. We are spoiled and bored. Wanting never ends. If only each one of them had true purpose. They need Christ. They need You, perfect Father. 


Lord, I need you! I need to die to myself so that you may live in my stead. Mold me into whom you will. I wish to magnify your name and bring you the utmost glory. 

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My hope is that someday the people that I'm specifically thinking of might claim these verses:

Phil 3:7-9 'But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss of Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:'

Lord, open eyes. Reveal Your glory. Set me aside. Show them their need SOMEHOW in such an easy, worldly nation. If they do not have you, they will continue living blind and naked- not really living- and then will die and suffer for eternity. Father, they need You- they need Life.

For those who have left you, I pray you would go out to find the lost sheep and break their legs so You must hold them until they are healed, and when they are healed they will not leave you again. Father, so many are wandering, and the end of their way is destruction and death. Let them not be ashamed of you.

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Lord, I am helpless- and I thank you for this position. I am relying on You alone to work in hearts, because I am incapable.

II Cor 7:10 'For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death'