Psalm 105 Dream on!

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Psalm 105
1Hallelujah! Thank GOD! Pray to Him by name! Tell everyone you meet what He has done!
2Sing Him songs, belt out hymns, translate His wonders into music!
3Honor His holy name with Hallelujahs, you who seek GOD. Live a happy life!
4Keep your eyes open for GOD, watch for His works; be alert for signs of His presence.
5Remember the world of wonders He has made, His miracles, and the verdicts He's rendered--
6O seed of Abraham, His servant, O child of Jacob, His chosen.

7He's GOD, our God, in charge of the whole earth.
8And He remembers, remembers his Covenant-- for a thousand generations He's been as good as His word.
9It's the Covenant He made with Abraham, the same oath He swore to Isaac,
10The very statute He established with Jacob, the eternal Covenant with Israel,
11Namely, "I give you the land. Canaan is your hill-country inheritance."
12When they didn't count for much, a mere handful, and strangers at that,
13Wandering from country to country, drifting from pillar to post,

14He permitted no one to abuse them. He told kings to keep their hands off:
15"Don't you dare lay a hand on my anointed, don't hurt a hair on the heads of my prophets."

16Then He called down a famine on the country, He broke every last blade of wheat.
17But He sent a man on ahead: Joseph, sold as a slave.
18They put cruel chains on his ankles, an iron collar around his neck,
19Until God's word came to the Pharaoh, and GOD confirmed his promise.
20God sent the king to release him. The Pharaoh set Joseph free;
21He appointed him master of his palace, put him in charge of all his business
22To personally instruct his princes and train his advisors in wisdom.

23Then Israel entered Egypt, Jacob immigrated to the Land of Ham.
24God gave His people lots of babies; soon their numbers alarmed their foes.
25He turned the Egyptians against his people; they abused and cheated God's servants.
26Then He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom He also chose.
27They worked marvels in that spiritual wasteland, miracles in the Land of Ham.
28He spoke, "Darkness!" and it turned dark-- they couldn't see what they were doing.
29He turned all their water to blood so that all their fish died;
30He made frogs swarm through the land, even into the king's bedroom;
31He gave the word and flies swarmed, gnats filled the air.
32He substituted hail for rain, He stabbed their land with lightning;
33He wasted their vines and fig trees, smashed their groves of trees to splinters;
34With a word He brought in locusts, millions of locusts, armies of locusts;
35They consumed every blade of grass in the country and picked the ground clean of produce;
36He struck down every firstborn in the land, the first fruits of their virile powers.
37He led Israel out, their arms filled with loot, and not one among his tribes even stumbled.

38Egypt was glad to have them go-- they were scared to death of them.
39God spread a cloud to keep them cool through the day and a fire to light their way through the night;
40They prayed and he brought quail, filled them with the bread of heaven;
41He opened the rock and water poured out; it flowed like a river through that desert--
42All because he remembered His Covenant, His promise to Abraham, His servant.

43Remember this! He led his people out singing for joy; His chosen people marched, singing their hearts out!
44He made them a gift of the country they entered, helped them seize the wealth of the nations
45So they could do everything He told them-- could follow His instructions to the letter.
Hallelujah! al

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~ Lena’s Journalin’~
I was reading the New Living Translation first and where it talks of Joseph having his neck in an iron band, it said, to test his character. His character was tested there, and then he went and ruled for and with the King.
Our king is Jesus who’s plan is for each of us (who will have their character tested) to rule for and with Him in the earth. I wonder if we knew the yoke that is/was easy were an iron band, if we’d even consider putting our head in that yoke?
Remember Joseph had this glorious dream of his brothers, mother and father standing around him bowing down in reverence. That dream may have sounded good at the time, but the in between from dream to reverent bow was a whole ‘nother story. Joseph probably referred to the dream many times over while he sat in the pit that his own brothers threw him in and left to him to die in, and then a prison cell where he had a yoke of iron on his neck.
Do you have a dream that you can refer back to when A to Z is only at E and you are struggling?
The Lord commands “touch not MY anointed”, I believe that’s the one in the yoke dreaming.
I love how it says here that Egypt could not wait for the “believers” to leave!
WOW.
I wonder if any Egyptians became believers after all of the signs and wonders, got converted so to speak and went out with the Israelites….’

Daily Recital Verses -
Psalms 118:24 This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Prov 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person's strength.