"Your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing." - 2 Thessalonians 1:3b

Friday, May 11, 2012

Psalm 20 Set Up the Banners

by Jill Ice



May we shout for joy over your salvation (victory), and in the name of our God set up our banners! – Psalm 20:5

The people in this psalm are rejoicing with their king as he prepares for battle, believing in advance that the victory will be theirs. I love the word picture of shouting for joy over their salvation and erecting victory banners at the end of battle.

Can you feel the excitement and confidence of sure victory? Through Christ’s atoning sacrifice, our salvation is more sure, more secure than anything on this earth. God has given Himself, the Holy Spirit as the guarantee of His covenant. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee. – 2 Corinthians 5:5

Let’s shout for joy! He has won the victory of our salvation. Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.  Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. –Romans 8:33-34

Our God is victorious over death! O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? – I Corinthians 15:55

Time to set up our banners! …in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. –Romans 8:37

Time to be victorious and courageous, remembering what we trust in:
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. –Psalm 20:7



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