I Love the Lord

by Chuck Adair on September 17, 2021

I Love the Lord

Psalm 116

   I love the LORD, because he has heard
    my voice and my pleas for mercy.
2  Because he inclined his ear to me,
    therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
3  The snares of death encompassed me;
    the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
    I suffered distress and anguish.
4  Then I called on the name of the LORD:
    “O LORD, I pray, deliver my soul!”

5  Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;
    our God is merciful.
6  The LORD preserves the simple;
    when I was brought low, he saved me.
7  Return, O my soul, to your rest;
    for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

8  For you have delivered my soul from death,
    my eyes from tears,
    my feet from stumbling;
9  I will walk before the LORD
    in the land of the living.

10  I believed, even when  I spoke:
    “I am greatly afflicted”;
11  I said in my alarm,
    “All mankind are liars.”

12  What shall I render to the LORD
    for all his benefits to me?
13  I will lift up the cup of salvation
    and call on the name of the LORD,
14  I will pay my vows to the LORD
    in the presence of all his people.

15  Precious in the sight of the LORD
    is the death of his saints.
16  O LORD, I am your servant;
    I am your servant, the son of your maidservant.
    You have loosed my bonds.
17  I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving
    and call on the name of the LORD.
18  I will pay my vows to the LORD
    in the presence of all his people,
19  in the courts of the house of the LORD,
    in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Praise the LORD!

Today’s Truth

Loving communication and prayer produce devoted relationships. A relationship of love with the Father is manifested by prayer and results in life eternal and "in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem." Psalm 116:18b-19a

Discussion Questions
  1. Can you honestly claim to love the Lord? How has He answered your prayer? How did it make you feel?
  2. Examine your prayer life. What is the focus? Self or servant; your gratification or His glory? To take ground today, what will you do?
  3. What are your "great afflictions"? How has the Lord responded to your prayer? What are the outcomes?

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About the Author
Chuck Adair

If you ask Chuck his favorite thing in life to do, he would tell you it is the teaching and preaching of the scriptures and to call all people to engage in the great adventure of abiding with Christ. He desires to connect people with the richness, adventure, and fullness of life that comes through Christ alone and to reach the unchurched, de-churched, dead-churched, and unmoved. Chuck is married to his best friend Kristin and has two adult children, Taylor and Linley. Kris and Chuck believe the quality of their marriage rises and falls, not on circumstances or feelings, but based on their daily abiding with Jesus (Jn 15.5).

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