Psalm 107

I love this Psalm. I see the psalmist expressing the different life circumstances we find ourselves in and how God rescues us from every one of them.
4-9
10-16
17-22
23-32

107:2 - Has the Lord redeemed you? Then speak out! Tell others he has redeemed you from your enemies. - Why do we have to be commanded to do what should come naturally to the truly grateful? If YOU have been redeemed then say something. Speak up. Tell someone TODAY that God has bought you back from sin and heart-ache and destruction. I think the reason we don't say anything is that we aren't totally convinced that we have been redeemed from all that much.

107:9 - For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

107:16 - For he broken down their prison gates of bronze; he cut apart their bars of iron.

107:20 - He sent out his word and healed them, snatching them from the door of death.

107:29 - He calmed the storm to a whisper and stilled the waves.

107:35 - But he also turns deserts into pools of water, the dry land into springs of water. - God can make a spring anywhere, any time no matter the numbers, $$$, resources, etc. It takes only one person who decides to let God pour His Living Water in their soul. Will you allow God to make a spring where you live by allowing Him to fill you not with more teaching or more effort or more church, but with more of the Holy Spirit of God? The Church does not need more of a lot of things, but only one thing. We need more of the Holy Spirit and less of all the things were are pursuing in books and through $$$ and all of that. The truth be told, for years I have tried everything I could to get the Church to grow, but in reality all I needed was to pursue God and ask for His Spirit more and that is something He has promised to ALWAYS give in abundance. The problem with our churches is us.

107:43 - Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.

Love, Michael