DECEMBER 29, 2025 Psalm 119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord! This psalm is the lengthiest prayer in the Book of Psalms. The composer, believed to have been David, charts the stages of a person’s journey toward spiritual perfection by using the sequential order of the twenty-two Hebrew letters. In […]
DECEMBER 28, 2025 Psalm 118:28-29 You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. Imagine the day when this age has passed, and the glorious age when Messiah reigns will have begun. The world will experience unprecedented peace and prosperity. […]
DECEMBER 27, 2025 Psalm 118:27-28 Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You. The Hebrew word, most often translated as “sacrifice,” is קרבן korban which literally means, “to approach, to come close.” The concept of sacrifice, from a […]
DECEMBER 26, 2025 Psalm 118:27 God is the Lord, and He has given us light. As we discussed in the previous devotion, the Messiah is the Light of the world, and yet He has assigned us to be the light of the world as well. That is not to say we are the source of light in this spiritually […]
DECEMBER 25, 2025 Psalm 118:27 God is the Lord, and He has given us light. We begin today by stating an obvious truth, which is, the Lord God is the source of all things good, including light. In the beginning, summoning light to appear in the midst of darkness was one of the first acts of Creation. Throughout Scripture, […]
DECEMBER 24, 2025 Psalm 118:26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We have blessed you from the house of the Lord. When Abraham was called to come out of Ur and go “to a land that I will show you” it was with the objective that he and his descendants, physical and spiritual, would […]
DECEMBER 23, 2025 Psalm 118:25-26 Save now, I pray, O Lord; O Lord, I pray, send now prosperity. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! In the previous devotion we addressed the fact that, though many hailed Yeshua as King, by and large the Jewish nation did not recognize “the time of your visitation” (Luke 19:44). […]
DECEMBER 22, 2025 Psalm 118:25-26 Save now, I pray, O Lord; O Lord, I pray, send now prosperity. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! There has long been a belief within Judaism that this prayer would herald the advent of the Messiah. The belief is that, long before Israel was scattered among the nations, God […]
DECEMBER 21, 2025 Psalm 118:24 This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. In light of our previous devotion, this verse should be understood to refer to the “day” that “the Lord’s doing” was revealed. In other words, God’s plan for redemption and man’s salvation was not readily apparent as Yeshua […]
DECEMBER 20, 2025 Psalm 118:22-23 The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. In Judaism it is taught that these verses speak of David — a young man despised and rejected by his own family yet elevated by God from a lowly shepherd to Israel’s monarch. […]
DECEMBER 19, 2025 Psalm 118:19-20 Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, and I will praise the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord, through which the righteous shall enter. Through the prophet Isaiah, the Lord speaks of Jerusalem and says, “you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city. […]
DECEMBER 18, 2025 Psalm 118:17-18 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. The Lord has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death. Solomon wrote that, “the reproofs of instruction are the way of life” (Proverbs 6:23). The writer of Hebrews said, “For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives” […]
