Why I Love the Why I Love the PsalmsPsalms

• Teaches Us Intimacy with God“He reached down from on high and took hold

of me; he drew me out of deep waters, he rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my

foes who were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of disaster, but the

Lord was my support. He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he

delighted in me.”

-Psalm 18

Why I Love the Psalms

• Teaches Us Intimacy with God“Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. Your arrows have pierced me and Your right hand has come down on me…I am bowed down and brought very low, all day long I go about

mourning.”… “Lord, do not forsake me, do not be far from me, my God. Come quickly

to help me, my Lord and my savior.”

-Psalm 38

Why I Love the Psalms• Teaches Us Intimacy with God

“Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays

you according to what you have done to us. Happy is the one who seizes your infants

and dashes them against the rocks.”

-Psalm 137

Why I Love the Psalms• Teaches Us intimacy with God

• Instructs Us on How to PrayCreate in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a

steadfast spirit in me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

-Psalm 51:10-12

Why I Love the Psalms• Teaches Us intimacy with God

• Instructs Us on How to Pray“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been

going on for a millenia and across all cultures.”

-NT Wright

Why I Love the Psalms• Teaches Us intimacy with God

• Instructs Us on How to Pray

• Leads Us into the Heart of God

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures and

he leads me beside quiet waters. Psalm 23:1-2

Why I Love the Psalms• Teaches Us intimacy with God

• Instructs Us on How to Pray

• Leads Us into the Heart of God

“To the faithful, you show yourself faithful. To the blameless you show yourself

blameless. To the pure, you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself

shrewd. You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are haughty.”

Psalm 18:25-27

Psalm 1

Planted by Streams of WaterBears FruitProspersLord Watches over Them

Blown Away Like ChaffUnder JudgmentLeads to Destruction

• Reject Worldly Thinking

• Immerse Yourself in the Bible– Delight in God’s Word

–Meditate on the Truth

Psalm 1