Psalm 139 is king David’s personal prayer and song of praise to God who knows all

Psalm 110 is the most-quoted Old Testament Scripture in the New Testament,

The Psalms are like a spiritual medicine cabinet filled with prescriptions for our every need. There is help and hope for when you feel as if God is far away and your longings for Him are cold and weak, or when you feel like His forgiveness is out of reach. The soul-healing prescription contained in Psalm 103 is Worship! This is a call to worship

Because God is our mighty fortress, we have his protection surrounding us, his presence with us, and his power working for us to the end that we can know a peace and security beyond our comprehension in a world where there is none.

Psalm 40 meets us in our sufferings and gives us words with which to cry out to God. David shows us that since God is mindful of us in our sufferings, we can remain confident in him even amid our difficulties. We can do so with perspective, memory, and resolve.

A mere six verses, and yet Psalm 23 is one of the most well-known and beloved pieces of poetry in the whole world. It is easy to see why upon reading it. The psalm gives us a wonderful picture of God as our faithful shepherd, and calls us to place our hope in Him. As the psalm shows, we can do so because the Lord sustains us, protects us, and provides for us.

Psalm 2 teaches us that God’s judgment falls on those who rebel against him, but his blessing rests on all who turn from their rebellion and take refuge in his Son, whom he has anointed as King.

There is in every human heart a longing for deep and lasting happiness which transcends our circumstances. This longing is the soul’s quest for God, who made us to find our happiness in him. Psalm 1, which is the entryway into the whole Psalter, gives us God’s roadmap for true happiness and warns us of pursuing the alternative.

Paul closes his letter to the Galatians with one last battle cry for the gospel. In doing so, he calls for Christians to hold fast to the gospel by rejecting enemies of the cross, embracing the heart of the cross, and living in light of the cross.