Today Our Daily Bread Psalm 45 ++

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Book of Psalm 45:1-17
For the choir director:
A psalm of the descendants of Korah, to be sung to the tune "Lilies."
A love song.
1 My heart overflows with a beautiful thought! I will recite a lovely poem to the king, for my tongue is like the pen of a skillful poet.
2 You are the most handsome of all. Gracious words stream from your lips. God himself has blessed you forever.
3 Put on your sword, O mighty warrior! You are so glorious, so majestic!

4 In your majesty, ride out to victory, defending truth, humility, and justice. Go forth to perform awe-inspiring deeds!
5 Your arrows are sharp, piercing your enemies' hearts. The nations fall before you, lying down beneath your feet.
6 Your throne, O God, F33 endures forever and ever. Your royal power is expressed in justice.
7 You love what is right and hate what is wrong. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than on anyone else.
8 Your robes are perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cassia. In palaces decorated with ivory, you are entertained by the music of harps.
9 Kings' daughters are among your concubines. At your right side stands the queen, wearing jewelry of finest gold from Ophir!
10 Listen to me, O royal daughter; take to heart what I say. Forget your people and your homeland far away.
11 For your royal husband delights in your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord.
12 The princes of Tyre F34 will shower you with gifts. People of great wealth will entreat your favor.
13 The bride, a princess, waits within her chamber, dressed in a gown woven with gold.
14 In her beautiful robes, she is led to the king, accompanied by her bridesmaids.
15 What a joyful, enthusiastic procession as they enter the king's palace!
16 Your sons will become kings like their father. You will make them rulers over many lands.
17 I will bring honor to your name in every generation. Therefore, the nations will praise you forever and ever.
FOOTNOTES:F33: Or Your divine throne. F34: Hebrew The daughter of Tyre
~ Lena’s Journalin’~
~ Who or what is your heart’s overflow to or for? THE KING? Which King? King Jesus and Him alone?. I mean there ARE other kings, kings of earth, kings of heaven, kings of me! You can tell which one you serve by the abundant flow of thoughts going through your mind. Are the thoughts in your mind about your problems? Hmmm, then maybe they are your “king”, they rule you. Are they of your self, your ambitions, your goals and how much you can get more of? Then maybe your king is you or money is who or what you are ruled by. What about your family, your kids, your husband, etc? We can even be ruled by good kings, BUT there is only One ruler who is to take up the energies, the strength of our thoughts, Jesus IS that KING. Does He rule? Or does someone or something else? I know we may start out wrong, thinking about wrong things, but we can change our minds. We decide what we think about. If you think you don’t decide, you’ve been deceived and you need to take back the territory of your mind, then put a flag in it that says, “This Place Belongs to God” and leave the sign there. Don’t go back and replace the sign with, “This Place belongs to Me”, or “this place belongs to money’s love”, etc. Stake it for God and replace the thoughts with His! His thoughts come straight out of His word. His word contains His thoughts. It doesn’t matter if you don’t think that way, rethink it, replace it with His words. If He is the ruler His thoughts take precedence! We could say, “Yes Sir!” Ever talk someone up, like just to try to have fun with them and make them feel lavished upon? This is what this Psalmist is doing with God. He is lavishing His love on God. Lavishing loving words on God is a way to silence other voices. Really. It shows our souls who’s King, who’s stronger, Who’s mighty etc. It reminds us, as we give the lovely words to God. Are you His? Are you at least following Him? It will be evidenced by your words and then also the proof of your words, called your actions. Do you love righteousness? That Jesus died, shed His blood, saved you from sin’s death grip, and rescued you from hell? YES, we all shout, right? BUT there’s more that is so inside of the character of God, the character He’s teaching us about and imparting into us. It is about hatred. Oh we’ve hated many things, mainly people, but do we hate what God hates, despise what comes against his image and likeness, what comes against people, what comes against his plan of salvation for people, what hinders them from receiving Him? How much do we hate it? Enough to divorce it? Enough to completely separate ourselves from it? Enough to not associate with any hint of it? WOW, What a question. Well if we do not despise sin, we are as well a participator of it and the very things we say we’d like to have in God do not belong to us. Why are our prayers not answered? Why is there no anointing, or God-likeness about us, where people are healed etc? We did not go ALL the way, in loving and lavishing our love on God, making Him our King and hating evil enough to separate ourselves form it and walk away as we walk towards God! Myrrh, Aloe, Cassia? That is a process of being there, of getting to where he went for us. He suffered, through bitterness of soul (Myrrh), he died, he was risen, healed and brought the finished work to God and us (aloe), and he yielded His life, ALL of it for the good of others (cassia). Do you see yourself in any of these processes? God ALL the Way through, Come out the otherside, cross over, Don’t stop or quit. We who cross over, walk through etc, are daughters and sons, queens, brides, princes, kings (little “k”) That’s who we are in Him, continually honoring Him, living where He lives going where He goes. The only reason He goes into places of darkness is to shine light brightly. He even went into the temple where it was dark and his stance there was to overturn tables. He does not do what darkness does, ever, he hates that. No appearance of any type of evil ever, on purpose, because we decide!

Proverbs 27:17-19
17 You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another. 18 If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored. 19 Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
Psalm 122:1
1 When they said, "Let's go to the house of God," my heart leaped for joy.