No Fear Of Bad News.

No Fear Of Bad News.

Psalm 112:1-10TPT

Psalm 112, begins with a hallelujah—Praise the Lord! Then Psalm 112, lists the blessings of those who fear the Lord and delight in His commands.

More than often, I think we approach God’s word, as words of comfort, but we quickly forget that these words are penned by the very finger of God.

Psalm 112:1AMP Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who fears the Lord [with awe-inspired reverence and worships Him with obedience], Who delights greatly in His commandments.

Psalms 111, and 112 are the same length, fall into identical stanzas, and even have identical or similar phrases occurring at the same places in each. Both are precise acrostics; that is, they have twenty-two lines each of which begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

Charles Spurgeon wrote this regarding the connection between Psalms 111, and 112, “It bears the same relation to the preceding which the moon does to the sun; for, while the first declares the glory of God, the second speaks of the reflection of the divine brightness in men born from above.”

Psalm 112, list 10 blessings for every believer:

Believers live above the bell curve, they walk to a different drum-beat and are immensely blessed.

Story of a man obsessed with himself, how sad. When we visited M.T. Liggett and his political art in Mullinville, Kansas, we thought that we'd met the most cantankerous man in the Sunflower State.

But as crotchety as M.T. was, he would probably place second to John Milburn Davis.

Davis was a wealthy farmer in the county seat of Hiawatha, Kansas. When his wife, Sarah, died in 1930, he was old and childless. People in town started asking him: What are you going to do with your money? People also had suggestions for Davis and his money: he should build a hospital for the town, a park for the town, a swimming pool for the town.

Instead, John Milburn Davis built a grave.

It started small, at least by later standards. Davis had 7.5-ton slabs of granite placed over his and Sarah's graves, and raised a 52-ton slab of granite over the Davis burial plot on six granite pillars. Beneath it, overlooking the graves, he placed life-size statues -- carved in marble in Italy at great expense -- of himself and Sarah as they'd looked on their 50th wedding anniversary. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2505

Psalm 112:1NIV Praise the Lord. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands.

What are some indicators that someone delights greatly in the Lord, and is blessed beyond expectation?

Daily devotions in the word—You become a life-time learner of scriptures.

Meditation of the word, You confess the word over situation.

Someone who hears and does the word—In other words, they live the word; they long for others to experience salvation of the word.

Witnessing the scriptures with full understanding that God’s word saves, heals and delivers.

Psalm 112:1AMP Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who fears the Lord [with awe-inspired reverence and worships Him with obedience], Who delights greatly in His commandments.

2. God will watch over our families.

Psalm 112:2TPT Their descendants will be prosperous and influential. Every generation of the righteous will experience his favor.

There’s nothing greater than walking in divine favor!

Psalm 30:5AMP For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may endure for a night, But a shout of joy comes in the morning.

Say—“lifetime favor.”

3. As we delight greatly in God’s commands—God promises us to provide for our needs.

Psalm 112:3TPT Great blessing and wealth fills the house of the wise, for their integrity endures forever.

Are you living near the Ark?

2 Samuel 6:12NLT Then King David was told, “The Lord has blessed Obed-edom’s household and everything he has because of the Ark of God.” So David went there and brought the Ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the City of David with a great celebration.

David understood everything changes because of God’s presence!

Listen to the words of the Apostle Paul in Philippians 4:19TPT I am convinced that my God will fully satisfy every need you have, for I have seen the abundant riches of glory revealed to me through Jesus Christ!

The richness of Jesus is transferred to every believer.

Philippians 4:19AMP And my God will liberally supply (fill until full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

4. Wherever God is welcomed, great blessings are mixed with rock solid protection.

Psalm 112:4TPT Even if darkness overtakes them, sunrise-brilliance will come bursting through because they are gracious to others, so tender and true.

Remember this, “Just a little light overcomes darkness every- time.” P.H