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Psalms 9
1I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
2I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
3When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
4For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the judging righteously.
5You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
7But the LORD reigns forever. He has prepared his for judgment.
8He will judge the world in . He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.
9The LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
10Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
11Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.
12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
13Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,
14that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
16The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
19Arise, LORD! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.
20Put them in fear, LORD. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
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Who is God?
God is the one living Creator who made everything and depends on nothing, and Scripture answers this question mainly by telling us his character rather than by defining his substance. When God described himself to Moses he said he is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness and truth, and yet will by no means clear the guilty. The New Testament adds that this God is finally known in Jesus Christ, who has made him known.
Who wrote the Bible?
The Bible was written by many human authors over a long period, and Scripture presents itself as God-breathed rather than as human opinion. Some books name their writer, some do not, and honest study says which is which. Paul calls every Scripture God-breathed, and Peter says no prophecy came by the will of man but that people spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, which is the Bible's own account of how both authors are involved at once.
Can the Bible be trusted?
Scripture claims to be true and invites examination rather than avoiding it. It says God's word is truth and that it stands when everything else fades, and the New Testament writers appeal to eyewitnesses, named places and public events rather than to private experience. Trust in Scripture is finally trust in the God who speaks in it, and the clearest reason a Christian gives for that trust is that Jesus treated these writings as God's own word.
How should I pray?
When the disciples asked this, Jesus answered with a pattern rather than a technique. Pray to your Father, in private, without performance and without needing many words, because he already knows what you need. The prayer he gave begins with God's name, kingdom and will, then asks for bread, forgiveness and protection. Scripture adds that we may bring everything, that the Spirit helps our weakness, and that we can ask with confidence when we ask according to God's will.