TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE

"The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles." Psalms 34:17
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​Memorize this verse: (Cover the verse text and using just the first letters of each word try to recite the entire passage.)
17. T R C A T L H A D T O O A T T

Notes on this verse:

That is, one of the advantages or benefits of being righteous is the privilege of crying unto God, or of calling on his name, with the assurance that he will hear and deliver us. No one has ever yet fully appreciated the “privilege” of being permitted to call upon God; the privilege of prayer. There is no blessing conferred upon man in his present state superior to this. And no one can fully understand the force of the argument derived from this in favor of the service of God. What a world would this be, how sad, how helpless, how wretched, if there were no God to whom the guilty, the suffering, and the sorrowful might come. If God were a Being who never heard prayer at all. If he were a capricious Being who might or might not hear prayer. If He were a Being governed by fitful emotions, who would now hear the righteous, and then the wicked, and then neither. And who dispensed His favors in answer to prayer by no certain rule!

“And the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles”: Their inward troubles, through the workings of corruption in their hearts. Through the violent assaults of Satan, the blasphemous thoughts he injects into them, and his solicitations of them to sin. And through divine desertions, and their outward troubles; through afflictions of body, losses of estate and friends, and the reproaches and persecutions of men. And out of all these the Lord sooner or later delivers his people who cry unto him.

When we are in right standing with God, He hears and answers our prayer.

James 5:16 “Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

TODAY'S BIBLE READING

​January 15

Old Testament
Genesis 34-35  —  8.0 minutes
Psalms 15  —  1.0 minute

New Testament
Matthew 6:16-24  —  2.5 minutes
Acts 9:1-19  —  5.0 minutes

Total Average Read Time — 16.5 minutes