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Psalms & Me
by Yaping Li
This is a podcast for reading Psalms in light of the rich doctrinal truth in the person of Jesus Christ and to enable all people to come to the feet of the Lord during this season that God has made. He is the Lord of the Lords and Lord of our hearts. Let's allow Psalms to fill our hearts.
Episodes
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Psalm 5 (1)
God Weighs our Words, and so should we. Friends. Am I alone? As a more or less introverted person, I am also sensitive to words. Like some of you also like to call me, I am a Christian linguist by trade. Analyzing and replaying words I received day to day happens subconsciously and randomly…
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Ps. 4 Steadfast love Given to the Special One
Steadfast Love is Especially Given to the Special One. To whom I am special? Friends. Have you ever wondered the same? "Who will show [me] any good?"(Ps.4:6) I have had multiple times when I became forgetful of God's grace shown to me previously. It was not only me being forgetful but also…
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Psalm 3 Everyone's Enemy
Welcome back! Friends. How have you been? I trust your days are in the hand of God of salvation. We will continue with the devotional on the remaining half of the book of Psalms. May this devotional be a sweet fellowship with the Spirit to us as we open God's prayers written for us. Today we will...
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Psalm 2. A Son is Born to us
The birth of the baby Jesus declares that he depends on no power in this world. How can a baby boy be the savior of the world? How can he conquer the world without the schemes this world uses? The Son of God is the Son of God the Father from eternity. This psalm is a prophetic declaration of the...
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Psalm 1. Blessed Assurance
Season 2 Episode 1 Dear friends. I am so happy to have you at Season 2 of the Book of Psalms devotional as we move back to Psalm 1 and onward. A well-memorized poem, Some People, Chinese:有的人, written by Cang Kejia, Chinese 藏克家, begins like this: "有的人活着 A person is alive, 他已经死了; but he’s already...
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Psalm 89:27-45 Not Yet Him.
Psalm 89 continues the praises God's unchanging covenant from the general to the specific and focused on the offspring of the Davidic king. Psalms' emotions and his remembrance of the sound doctrine of God's promise is also intensified. This section can be divided into three parts Psalm 89:27-29...
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Psalm 89 (2)
Season 1 Episode 53 God shows his steadfast love as our father who gave his eternal fatherly love to us through Jesus Christ in the covenant. Psalm 89:15-26 affirms the steadfastness of God's covenant through one person and recapitulates the Gen. 3:15. We do not have ground to ask for God's mercy...
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Psalm 88 (2)
Season 1 Episode 52 Which one should feel shameful? The sinner or the sinless? The second half of the psalm pondered on a question: Can God desert a soul? This is a worthy thinking question. We will also find out that the only prayer for being forsaken is made by Jesus on the cross, Father…
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Psalm 88 (1)
Season 1 Episode 51 Dear friends. This is a lament. The most desperate thing is not life and death, but entirely losing all the favor of both men and God. This is also a Messianic psalm because it is what Jesus experienced on the cross. It was supposed to be our punishment, death, and despair;...
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Psalm 89（1）
Season 1 Episode 50 Psalm 89(1) Forever I will sing. God's divine government and his eternal fatherly love are invisible to all the earth. All we enjoy in life is from him and through him. Sometimes, biblical poetry is sandwiched with historical narratives, like stories from Genesis, Exodus,...
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Psalm 86 (2)
Season 1 Episode 49 Psalm 86（2） "Show me a sign of your favor." What are you most afraid of? We often say that "the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." However, we often fear the wrong person, the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. We fear those people and things that do not give life.…
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Psalm 87
Season 1 Episode 48 Psalm 87 Children who are born in the city of God are children who born again through Jesus Christ. God's greatest love is his love for his church. The Reformers all agreed that the church is the chief work of God. The church is not found on sources, culture, power, abilities...
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Psalm 85(1)
All that is in God is everything we can not lose. Dear friends. The psalmist began with "you", "you", "you" when he praised God. This could be used as a perfect opening to cooperate prayer. God's favor is not only in history but also at present because of his love in Jesus Christ to us. God...
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Psalm 86 (1)
"Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy." We probably do not talk with people like this, like we talk to God. Why is it that we can talk with God in the most intimate way that surpasses all conversations we had with human beings. I am encouraged always by David's prayer...
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Psalm 85 (2)
Dear friends. Have you been sick before? If you have, you will know if someone else had the same sickness at the same time, it is an understanding between you two beyond words. You feel like you need not speak no more. God doesn't need anything because he is God. We are created with needs. And…
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Psalm 84 (2)
Dear friends. We love the dwelling place of God and we desire God's presence. His presence is forever accessible to us. Did you ask how could people unholy like us dwelling with God? I still remembered the first time I went to church, I was so shy because the church is such a holy place. Back to...
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Psalm 84(1)
Dear friends. Imagine we were on a long journey, we needed water, sunshine, food, and company. We had what we need and we finally climbed to the mountaintop. Now what? We are always on the way. Where do you stay? The church is the closest place to heaven. After almost three months, we finally…
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Psalm 83 (2)
Psalm 83 (2) Season 1 Episode 45 We can not play the role of Judge. Instead, we need God to play our roles for us. The world needs Jesus to play its role for it. Dear friends. Have you been mistreated? I am sorry for you. I remembered one time or two I wanted to share with another person, a…
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Psalm 83（1）
Psalm 83(1) Season 1 Episode 44 Dear friends. We can not habituate holiness in our own ways, can we? Holiness doesn't just happen unless our ungodliness is replaced with the life of the holy one. We do not naturally know what is right to do. We will always choose to do what is right in our own...
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Psalm 82
Dear friends. I confess to you that I have never given real attention to the fatherless, the poor, and needy until my own suffering becomes unbearable to me. If God has never become one of us, incarnated as a baby, grew up like all of us, we will find him unbelievable. However, this is our God.…
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Psalm 81
Dear friends. History is the realization of promise and the promise is the history of the future. Have you also in a situation that you need deliverance? A paper that seems to be difficult to accomplish; a poor financial situation; a bad habit, an enemy who swear to bring you down, a pandemic...
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Psalm 80
Psalm 80, Season 1 Episode 42 Dear friends. This is one of the communal laments in the book of Psalm. It is characteristic of them to ask: "How long O Lord?" followed by a national disease or personal distress. The psalmist must know that God's answer will always be: "Never again." as in Psalm…
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Psalm 79
Dear friends. Do you remember one or two things that you felt ashamed or embarrassed at the thought of it? Do you remember one or two extreme sufferings in your life you are not quite able to forget? God remembers them all and he remember the sins and its damages in the past and present and in…
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Psalm 78 (6)
Dear friends. There is only one belief in the world because there is only one person who can save. It is horrible to say that I have no belief, or no soul because I am purely made out of material. It is absurd to say that I believe only in myself because it is a dead end. It is illogical to say...
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Psalm 78 (5)
Dear friends. Up to now, we have seen how disappointing the people of Israel is and how they PRETEND to praise God. It struck me I was like them, hopeless and Unredeemable. Through Psalm 78: 42-55, we know two endings for people in this world and one person who took our ending and lived our life....
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Ps. 78 (4)
Have you done something against your conscience to survive? My friends. I certainly have. But I have also done things that even my conscience didn't accuse me. You may laugh because once in a while I often thought of things I had no memories of before I became a Christian. When I was a child, I...
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Psalm 78(3)
Psalm 78:21-32 Friends. I told you that this might be your least favorite psalm but it is probably the one resembles ourselves most. A righteous God demands justice. The wage of sin is death. God has all the good reasons to punish sinners. If my sins need to be punished I would have already been...
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Ps. 78(2)
Dear friends. What standard is there for us to go to heaven? Do you wish there is someone who could represent you to do all you have failed to do? I certainly did. In my most recent reading of Ps. 87, I also found it is true that I will failed to be good for a year, a month, a week, a day, or...…
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Ps. 78 (1)
Friends. Psalm 78 is filled with gentle but patient wisdom. I said so because it began with a prayer to encourage the reader/singer to tell God's wonderous deeds to their little children and their chlidren to their children. God's steadfast love is from generation to generation. It never ceases....
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Ps. 77
Dear friends. If you have a rough day that you couldn't sleep, and what you will do? That's the same problem we are all facing. The psalmist was too exhausted and too weak to pray at night. It is as if shame overwhelmed him as well because as a Christian prayer is essential to his life, as it is…
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Ps.76
Friends. Is God for you or against you? We know from the scripture that there are wars. Wars are never neutral. We need to choose sides, and our God has forgiven us because we have chosen the wrong side. What about our enemies now? Remember God has created the world out of nothing by his speech....
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Ps.75
Dear friends. Today we read Psalm 75 to praise a righteous God who judges with equity and who loves with his broken body. Have you ever had to use Drano, a type of heavy corrodent, in order to clean the dregs in your drain? I have tried it earlier this year. I had to be very careful not to drain…
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Ps. 74（2）
Dear friends. Jumping into my car to record our daily devotional is a sweet thing to do even after a three hours handwriting Old Testament final exam at night in the pandemic. I love our communication and I love reading regularly for you and together with you!!! The first half of this psalm is…
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Psalm 74(1)
Psalm 74(1) Friends. We read Ps. 74:1-11 today. The darkest lament I have ever read and the first part of this Psalm is purely lamentation. It just reminded me of a recent incident happened in XiaMen, China, and a friend translated a song based on that incident. Surprisingly, the canonical psalm...
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Ps. 73(2)
Psalm 73(2) Dear friends. Have you thought of something incomprehensible until it became wearisome? The psalmist was thinking about the reason why God didnt punish the wicked right away. But he found no answer UNTIL he went to the sanctuary of God. I also thought of so many loss already happened…
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Ps. 73(1)
Ps. 73. This Psalm is full of confessional truth. If you look at the back of the Westminster Confession of Faith scripture index. We find confessions on Decalogue, assurance of faith and on the Lord's supper. It is confessional also because the psalmist confess what he see first and then profess...
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Ps. 72:15-20
Ps. 72:15-20 If you are at my age, you probably have experienced loss of a loved one in your family. Or maybe you are younger. When the psalmist sings: May you live forever. When we wish someone in our life to live forever, we also wish they will be respected and cherished forever. We live in a…
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Ps. 72:1-15
Friends. May 12th is a day to remember the Sichuan Earthquake that has killed thousands in Sichuan and grieved many families across China, my own family included. The earthquake has taken away so many lives so we wanted to make this day a day of remembrance of their lives which is precious to us....
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Ps. 71: 15-24
Will God still take care of me when my hairs are grey and all my strength has been spent? God is the father for the fatherless and father for the widow. Jesus is the bridegroom for broke-hearted, single and oppressed. It is impossible for Jesus to forsake his mission as much as his own…
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Ps. 71:1-12
Ps. 71. What amazes me is that I am reminded that God not only had delivered me in the past, and he has planned to be my deliverer before the foundation of the world. Writing this Psalm, David was already at an old age yet surrounded with enemies and persecutors. He remembered the Lord has...
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Psalm 70
Dear friends. Luther commented on this Psalm. He said, I understand myself better when I understand God better. Psalm 70 is a remembrance song. David said many times in other psalms in which he often praise God and say: I am poor and needy. But God you are great. I love you salvation. Things have...
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Ps. 69: 22-32
Dear friends. Lord's mercy is not equally sweet to everyone, so also his salvation. He delivered Jesus from the hand of evil and he will deliver as in the same manner. His judgment are the wicked who persecuted Jesus and their very deed is their judgement already. Those who God loves he save and...
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Ps. 69:14-21
Ps. 69:14-21 Dear friends. What is mercy for you? I used to believe that yes. God' mercy never changes. But I forgot his mercy is relational. I tasted his mercy sweeter today through this Psalm and I am humbled by his mercy. Let's taste his mercy sweeter today all together!!
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Ps. 69:1-17
Ps. 69:1-17 Dear friends. You probably do not call upon the Lord's name: "Save me oh Lord" like the psalmist does. Our suffering is little jewel is gifted to us. When we are in suffering, Jesus knows it all. Deep waters shall not swallow you because Jesus is with you.
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Ps.10:12-18
Through Laments we find the reality of evil and an even greater reality, Jesus had to die for and the greatest reality that Jesus died for us and he is still on the move. Friends. Let's lament the loss and gain Jesus.
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Ps. 10:2-11
Dear friends. Ps. 10 has given us such a good model to be better lamenters. It also makes me think what makes us different from the wicked man. We have never suffered like Christ did. Our lament definitely resembles his. Let’s aim at become better lamenters. Take this time to lament well and…
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Ps. 10:1
Dear friends. Finally today we have the privilege to study Psalm 10, one of the best laments ever. In the midst of pandemic, do you ask like psalmist did? Continuing the acrostic structure from Psalm 9, what he really asked is: God. Are you STILL there? I have same question when I suffered...
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Ps. 68:28-35
God loves Israel. He has worked for us with his power and he will always give strength and power to his people. Blessed to God. Who are Israel?
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Ps.68:18-27
Dear friends. Have you burdens? Our father is always playing an active role in his children’s life. He bears us up daily. He gives, gives and there is no more he is holding from us.
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Ps. 68:11-18
God not only walks before us, cares for the fatherless and widow but also descended from heaven to earth to dwell among us. Ever since he came down, our world is completely different. It’s a challenge of the gospel to live in this reality.
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This is a podcast for reading Psalms in light of the rich doctrinal truth in the person of Jesus Christ and to enable all people to come to the feet of the Lord during this season that God has made. He is the Lord of the Lords and Lord of our hearts. Let's allow Psalms to fill our hearts.
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Yaping Li
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