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"No matter where I am, your teachings fill me with songs." - Psalm 119:54 (CEV)

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Quiet Week


It's going to be quiet here this week, friends.

So much going on,

So busy.

But I wanted to share these with you,

Reasons 3219-3441 today,

Counting,

Always counting,

Because who He is

Is everything,

Because He

Is everything:
  1. He is His people's King from long ago (Psalm 74:12)
  2. He brings salvation on the earth (Psalm 74:12)
  3. He split open the sea by His power (Psalm 74:13)
  4. He broke the heads of the monster in the waters (Psalm 74:13)
  5. He crushed the heads of Leviathan (Psalm 74:14)
  6. He gave the Leviathan as food to the creatures of the desert (Psalm 74:14)
  7. He opened up springs and streams (Psalm 74:15)
  8. He dried up the ever-flowing rivers (Psalm 74:15)
  9. The day is His (Psalm 74:16)
  10. The night also is His (Psalm 74:16)
  11. He established the sun and the moon (Psalm 74:16)
  12. He set all the boundaries of the earth (Psalm 74:16)
  13. He made both summer and winter (Psalm 74:16)
  14. His people praise Him (Psalm 75:1)
  15. His Name is near (Psalm 75:1)
  16. His people praise Him, for His Name is near (Psalm 75:1)
  17. People tell of His wonderful deeds (Psalm 75:1)
  18. He chooses the appointed time (Psalm 75:2)
  19. He judges with equity (Psalm 75:2)
  20. When the earth and all its people quake, He holds its pillars firm (Psalm 75:3)
  21. To the arrogant He says, “Boast no more.” (Psalm 75:4)
  22. To the wicked He says, “Do not lift up your horns. Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak so defiantly.” (Psalm 75:4-5)
  23. He judges (Psalm 75:7)
  24. He brings down one (Psalm 75:7)
  25. He exalts another (Psalm 75:7)
  26. In His hand is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices (Psalm 75:8)
  27. In His hand is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; He pours it out (Psalm 75:8)
  28. In His hand is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; He pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs (Psalm 75:8)
  29. He says, “I will cut off the horns of all the wicked, but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.” (Psalm 75:10)
  30. He is renowned in Judah (Psalm 76:1)
  31. His Name is Great (Psalm 76:1)
  32. His Name is Great in Israel (Psalm 76:1)
  33. His tent is in Salem (Psalm 76:2)
  34. His dwelling place is in Zion (Psalm 76:2)
  35. He broke the flashing arrows (Psalm 76:3)
  36. He broke the shields (Psalm 76:3)
  37. He broke the swords (Psalm 76:3)
  38. He broke the weapons of war (Psalm 76:3)
  39. He is radiant with light (Psalm 76:4)
  40. He is more majestic than mountains (Psalm 76:4)
  41. He is more majestic than mountains rich with game (Psalm 76:4)
  42. At His rebuke, both horse and chariot lie still (Psalm 76:6)
  43. He alone is to be feared (Psalm 76:7)
  44. No one can stand before Him (Psalm 76:7)
  45. No one can stand before Him when He is angry (Psalm 76:7)
  46. From heaven He pronounces judgment (Psalm 76:8)
  47. From heaven He pronounces judgment, and the land fears and is quiet (Psalm 76:8)
  48. The land fears and is quiet when He rises up to judge (Psalm 76:8-9)
  49. The land fears and is quiet when He rises up to save all the afflicted of the land (Psalm 76:8-9)
  50. His wrath against mankind brings Him praise (Psalm 76:10)
  51. The survivors of His wrath are restrained (Psalm 76:10)
  52. He breaks the spirit of rulers (Psalm 76:12)
  53. He is feared by the kings of the earth (Psalm 76:12)
  54. He keeps His people's eyes from closing (Psalm 77:4)
  55. His ways are Holy (Psalm 77:13)
  56. No god is as great as Him (Psalm 77:13)
  57. He is the God who performs miracles (Psalm 77:14)
  58. He displays His power among the peoples (Psalm 77:14)
  59. With His mighty arm He redeems His people (Psalm 77:15)
  60. With His mighty arm He redeems His people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph (Psalm 77:15)
  61. The waters saw Him and writhed (Psalm 77:16)
  62. The waters saw Him and writhed; the very depths were convulsed (Psalm 77:16)
  63. His arrows flashed back and forth (Psalm 77:17)
  64. His thunder was heard in the whirlwind (Psalm 77:18)
  65. His lightning lit up the world (Psalm 77:18)
  66. His path led through the sea (Psalm 77:19)
  67. His way led through the mighty waters (Psalm 77:19)
  68. His path led through the sea, though His footprints were not seen (Psalm 77:19)
  69. His way led through the mighty waters, though His footprints were not seen (Psalm 77:19)
  70. He led His people like a flock (Psalm 77:20)
  71. He led His people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron (Psalm 77:20)
  72. His deeds are praiseworthy (Psalm 78:4)
  73. His people will not hide His praiseworthy deeds from their descendants (Psalm 78:4)
  74. His people will tell the next generation His praiseworthy deeds (Psalm 78:4)
  75. His people will not hide His power from their descendants (Psalm 78:4)
  76. His people will tell the next generation His power (Psalm 78:4)
  77. His people will not hide the wonders He has done from their descendants (Psalm 78:4)
  78. His people will tell the next generation the wonders He has done (Psalm 78:4)
  79. He decreed statutes for Jacob (Psalm 78:5)
  80. He established the law in Israel (Psalm 78:5)
  81. He established the law in Israel, which He commanded His people to teach to their children (Psalm 78:5)
  82. He established the law in Israel, which He commanded His people to teach to their children, so that the next generation would know them (Psalm 78:5-6)
  83. He established the law in Israel, which He commanded His people to teach to their children, so that the next generation would know them, even children yet to be born (Psalm 78:5-6)
  84. He established the law in Israel, which He commanded His people to teach to their children, so that the next generation would know them, even children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children (Psalm 78:5-6)
  85. He did miracles (Psalm 78:12)
  86. He did miracles in the sight of His people's ancestors (Psalm 78:12)
  87. He did miracles in the sight of His people's ancestors in the land of Egypt (Psalm 78:12)
  88. He did miracles in the sight of His people's ancestors in the region of Zoan (Psalm 78:12)
  89. He divided the sea (Psalm 78:13)
  90. He led them through (Psalm 78:13)
  91. He divided the sea and led them through (Psalm 78:13)
  92. He made the water stand up like a wall (Psalm 78:13)
  93. He guided His people with the cloud by day (Psalm 78:14)
  94. He guided His people with light from the fire all night (Psalm 78:14)
  95. He split the rocks in the wilderness (Psalm 78:15)
  96. He gave them water as abundant as the seas (Psalm 78:15)
  97. He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas (Psalm 78:15)
  98. He brought streams out of a rocky crag (Psalm 78:16)
  99. He made water flow down like rivers (Psalm 78:16)
  100. He brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers (Psalm 78:16)
  101. He struck the rock and water gushed out (Psalm 78:20)
  102. He struck the rock and streams flowed abundantly (Psalm 78:20)
  103. When He hears His people speak against Him, He is furious (Psalm 78:19-21)
  104. When He hears His people speak against Him, His fire beaks out against Jacob (Psalm 78:19-21)
  105. When He hears His people speak against Him, His wrath rises against Israel (Psalm 78:19-21)
  106. When He hears His people speak against Him, He is furious, for they do not believe Him (Psalm 78:19-21)
  107. When He hears His people speak against Him, His fire beaks out against Jacob, for they do not believe Him (Psalm 78:19-21)
  108. When He hears His people speak against Him, His wrath rises against Israel, for they do not believe Him (Psalm 78:19-21)
  109. When He hears His people speak against Him, He is furious, for they did not trust in His deliverance (Psalm 78:19-21)
  110. When He hears His people speak against Him, His fire beaks out against Jacob, for they did not trust in His deliverance (Psalm 78:19-21)
  111. When He hears His people speak against Him, His wrath rises against Israel, for they did not trust in His deliverance (Psalm 78:19-21)
  112. He gives a command to the skies above (Psalm 78:23)
  113. He opens the doors of the heavens (Psalm 78:23)
  114. He rains down manna for the people to eat (Psalm 78:24)
  115. He gives His people the grain of heaven (Psalm 78:24)
  116. He gives His people the bread of angels to eat (Psalm 78:25)
  117. He sends His people all the food they can eat (Psalm 78:25)
  118. He lets loose the east wind from the heavens (Psalm 78:26)
  119. By His power He made the south wind blow (Psalm 78:26)
  120. He rains meat down on His people like dust (Psalm 78:27)
  121. He rains birds down on His people like sand on the seashore (Psalm 78:27)
  122. He makes meat rain down inside His people's camp (Psalm 78:27-28)
  123. He makes meat rain down inside His people's camp (Psalm 78:27-28)
  124. He makes birds rain down all around His people's tents (Psalm 78:27-28)
  125. He makes birds rain down all around His people's tents (Psalm 78:27-28)
  126. He gives His people what they crave (Psalm 78:29)
  127. He gives His people what they crave – they eat 'til they are gorged (Psalm 78:29)
  128. His anger rises against His people (Psalm 78:31)
  129. His anger rises against His people before they turn from what they crave (Psalm 78:30-31)
  130. His anger rises against His people while the food is still in their mouths (Psalm 78:30-31)
  131. He puts to death the sturdiest among His people (Psalm 78:31)
  132. He puts to death the sturdiest among His people before they turn from what they crave (Psalm 78:30-31)
  133. He puts to death the sturdiest among His people while the food is still in their mouths (Psalm 78:30-31)
  134. He cuts down the young men of Israel (Psalm 78:31)
  135. He cuts down the young men of Israel before they turn from what they crave (Psalm 78:30-31)
  136. He cuts down the young men of Israel while the food is still in their mouths (Psalm 78:30-31)
  137. Because, in spite of all this, His people kept on sinning, He ended their days in futility (Psalm 78:32-33)
  138. Because, in spite of all His wonders, His people did not believe, He ended their days in futility (Psalm 78:32-33)
  139. Because, in spite of all this, His people kept on sinning, He ended their years in terror (Psalm 78:32-33)
  140. Because, in spite of all His wonders, His people did not believe, He ended their years in terror (Psalm 78:32-33)
  141. He slays His people (Psalm 78:34)
  142. Whenever He slays His people, they seek Him (Psalm 78:34)
  143. Whenever He slays His people, they eagerly turn to Him again (Psalm 78:34)
  144. He is His people's Redeemer (Psalm 78:35)
  145. He is God Most High (Psalm 78:35)
  146. He forgives His people's iniquities (Psalm 78:38)
  147. He forgives His people's iniquities and does not destroy them (Psalm 78:38)
  148. Time after time He restrains His anger (Psalm 78:38)
  149. Time after time He does not stir up His full wrath (Psalm 78:38)
  150. He remembers that His people are but flesh (Psalm 78:39)
  151. He remembers that His people are but a passing breeze that does not return (Psalm 78:39)
  152. His people rebel against Him (Psalm 78:40)
  153. His people grieve Him (Psalm 78:40)
  154. His people put Him to the test (Psalm 78:41)
  155. His people vex Him (Psalm 78:41)
  156. He redeems His people from the oppressor (Psalm 78:42)
  157. He displayed His signs in Egypt (Psalm 78:43)
  158. He displayed His wonders in the region of Zoan (Psalm 78:43)
  159. He turns rivers into blood (Psalm 78:44)
  160. He turns rivers into blood, so that people cannot drink from their streams (Psalm 78:44)
  161. He sends swarms of flies that devour people (Psalm 78:45)
  162. He sends frogs that devastate people (Psalm 78:44)
  163. He gives people's crops to the grasshopper (Psalm 78:46)
  164. He gives people's produce to the locust (Psalm 78:46)
  165. He destroys people's vines with hail (Psalm 78:47)
  166. He destroys people's sycamore-figs with sleet (Psalm 78:47)
  167. He gives over people's cattle to the hail (Psalm 78:48)
  168. He gives over people's livestock to bolts of lightning (Psalm 78:48)
  169. He unleashes against people His hot anger (Psalm 78:49)
  170. He unleashes against people His wrath (Psalm 78:49)
  171. He unleashes against people His indignation (Psalm 78:49)
  172. He unleashes against people His hostility (Psalm 78:49)
  173. He unleashes against people His a band of destroying angels (Psalm 78:49)
  174. He prepares a path for His anger (Psalm 78:50)
  175. He does not spare people from death (Psalm 78:50)
  176. He does not spare people from death but gives them over to the plague (Psalm 78:50)
  177. He strikes down all the firstborn of Egypt (Psalm 78:51)
  178. He strikes down the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham (Psalm 78:51)
  179. He brings His people out like a flock (Psalm 78:52)
  180. He leads His people like sheep through the wilderness (Psalm 78:52)
  181. He guides His people safely (Psalm 78:53)
  182. He guides His people safely, so they are unafraid (Psalm 78:53)
  183. He guides His people safely, so they are unafraid, but the sea engulfs His people's enemies (Psalm 78:53)
  184. He brings His people to the border of His Holy land (Psalm 78:54)
  185. He brings His people to the hill country His right hand had taken (Psalm 78:54)
  186. He allots lands to His people as an inheritance (Psalm 78:55)
  187. He settles the tribes of Israel in their homes (Psalm 78:55)
  188. His people anger Him with their high places (Psalm 78:58)
  189. His people arouse His jealousy with their idols (Psalm 78:58)
  190. When He hears His people's faithlessness, He is furious (Psalm 78:58-59)
  191. When He hears His people's faithlessness, He rejects them completely (Psalm 78:58-59)
  192. When He hears His people's faithlessness, He abandons the tabernacle of Shiloh (Psalm 78:58-60)
  193. When He hears His people's faithlessness, He abandons the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had set up among humans (Psalm 78:58-60)
  194. When He hears His people's faithlessness, He sends the ark of His might into captivity (Psalm 78:58-61)
  195. When He hears His people's faithlessness, He sends His splendor into the hands of the enemy (Psalm 78:58-61)
  196. When He hears His people's faithlessness, He gives His people over to the sword (Psalm 78:58-62)
  197. When He hears His people's faithlessness, He is furious with His inheritance (Psalm 78:58-62)
  198. He awakes as from sleep (Psalm 78:65)
  199. He awakes as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine (Psalm 78:65)
  200. He beats back His enemies (Psalm 78:66)
  201. He puts His enemies to everlasting shame (Psalm 78:66)
  202. He rejects the tents of Joseph (Psalm 78:67)
  203. He does not choose the tribe of Ephraim (Psalm 78:67)
  204. He chooses the tribe of Judah (Psalm 78:68)
  205. He chooses Mount Zion, which He loved (Psalm 78:68)
  206. He builds His sanctuary like the heights (Psalm 78:69)
  207. He builds His sanctuary like the earth that He established forever (Psalm 78:69)
  208. He chose David His servant (Psalm 78:70)
  209. He chose David His servant and took Him from the sheep pens (Psalm 78:70)
  210. He brought David from tending the sheep (Psalm 78:70-71)
  211. He brought David from tending the sheep to be the shepherd of His people Jacob (Psalm 78:70-71)
  212. He brought David from tending the sheep to be the shepherd of Israel His inheritance (Psalm 78:70-71)
  213. The nations have come into His inheritance (Psalm 79:1)
  214. He is the Shepherd of Israel (Psalm 80:1)
  215. He leads Joseph like a flock (Psalm 80:1)
  216. He is enthroned upon the cherubim (Psalm 80:1)
  217. He is the God of hosts (Psalm 80:4)
  218. He brought a vine out of Egypt (Psalm 80:8)
  219. He drove out the nations and planted the vine He brought out of Egypt (Psalm 80:8)
  220. He drove out the nations (Psalm 80:8)
  221. He cleared the ground for the vine He brought out of Egypt (Psalm 80:8-9)
  222. His right hand planted the vine He brought out of Egypt (Psalm 80:8-15)
  223. He made a son strong for Himself (Psalm 80:15)


(Sylvia's already made it to - past - 10,000!  So amazing to think of who He is like this!)

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4 comments:

Christina said...

These photos are gorgeous! And I love how you go through scripture, praising Him through the Word. Blessings!

CynthiaJSwenson said...

It's very encouraging to see your perseverance and faithfulness here Mary. It's such a good way to study the Psalms. Love & prayers, in Jesus, Cynthia

Mary said...

Oh, thank you, Christina! I was trying to get a bit creative . . .

Oh, it is so good to praise Him like this! To just slow and look deep and try to grasp a tiny portion of the Infinite - I never want to stop!

Blessings to you, too, friend! Your presence here is always so encouraging and uplifting!

Mary said...

Oh, thank you, Cynthia. I try and I fail and I try again. The following week was much busier. I always want to keep trying, though. I need to know Him more. Love & prayers for you, too, friend. It's always such a blessing to read your kind, encouraging words!

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