Read the Bible: Psalm 13

How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long will I store up anxious concerns within me,
agony in my mind every day?
How long will my enemy dominate me?

3 Consider me and answer, LORD my God.
Restore brightness to my eyes;
otherwise, I will sleep in death.
4 My enemy will say, “I have triumphed over him,”
and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.

5 But I have trusted in your faithful love;
my heart will rejoice in your deliverance.
6 I will sing to the LORD
because he has treated me generously.

-- Psalms 13:1-6 (CSB)

Read the Bible: Psalm 12

Help, LORD, for no faithful one remains;
the loyal have disappeared from the human race.
2 They lie to one another;
they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.
3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips
and the tongue that speaks boastfully.
4 They say, “Through our tongues we have power;
our lips are our own ​— ​who can be our master? ”

5 “Because of the devastation of the needy
and the groaning of the poor,
I will now rise up,” says the LORD.
“I will provide safety for the one who longs for it.”

6 The words of the LORD are pure words,
like silver refined in an earthen furnace,
purified seven times.

7 You, LORD, will guard us;
you will protect us from this generation forever.
8 The wicked prowl all around,
and what is worthless is exalted by the human race.

-- Psalms 12:1-8 (CSB)

Read the Bible: Psalm 11

I have taken refuge in the LORD.
How can you say to me,
“Escape to the mountains like a bird!
2 For look, the wicked string bows;
they put their arrows on bowstrings
to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
3 When the foundations are destroyed,
what can the righteous do? ”

4 The LORD is in his holy temple;
the LORD—his throne is in heaven.
His eyes watch;
his gaze examines everyone.
5 The LORD examines the righteous,
but he hates the wicked
and those who love violence.
6 Let him rain burning coals and sulfur on the wicked;
let a scorching wind be the portion in their cup.
7 For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds.
The upright will see his face.

-- Psalms 11:1-7 (CSB)

Read the Bible: Psalm 10

LORD, why do you stand so far away?
Why do you hide in times of trouble?
2 In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue their victims;
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
…

12 Rise up, LORD God! Lift up your hand.
Do not forget the oppressed.
13 Why has the wicked person despised God?
He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”
14 But you yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into your hands.
The helpless one entrusts himself to you;
you are a helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked, evil person,
until you look for his wickedness,
but it can’t be found.

16 The LORD is King forever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.
17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble;
you will strengthen their hearts.
You will listen carefully,
18 doing justice for the fatherless and the oppressed
so that mere humans from the earth may terrify them no more.

-- Psalms 10:1-2, 12-18 (CSB)

(Read all of Psalm 10 using the link below.)

Read the Bible: Psalm 9

I will thank the LORD with all my heart;
I will declare all your wondrous works.
2 I will rejoice and boast about you;
I will sing about your name, Most High.

3 When my enemies retreat,
they stumble and perish before you.
4 For you have upheld my just cause;
you are seated on your throne as a righteous judge.
5 You have rebuked the nations:
You have destroyed the wicked;
you have erased their name forever and ever.
6 The enemy has come to eternal ruin;
you have uprooted the cities,
and the very memory of them has perished.

7 But the LORD sits enthroned forever;
he has established his throne for judgment.
8 And he judges the world with righteousness;
he executes judgment on the nations with fairness.
9 The LORD is a refuge for the persecuted,
a refuge in times of trouble.
10 Those who know your name trust in you
because you have not abandoned
those who seek you, LORD.

-- Psalms 9:1-10 (CSB)

(Read the rest of Psalm 9 using the link below.)

TONIGHT: Ladies' Auxiliary & Brotherhood Meet

There is a place for you to serve among the women’s and men’s ministries at Springfield PFWB Church. Join us at 7 PM.

Read the Bible: Amos 5

"But let justice flow like water,
and righteousness, like an unfailing stream"
(Amos 5:26)

TONIGHT: Communion Service

“Do this in remembrance of Me” (Luke 22:19).

Join us at 6:00 PM as we celebrate Holy Communion.

Read the Bible: Psalm 8

LORD, our LORD,
how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!
You have covered the heavens with your majesty.
2 From the mouths of infants and nursing babies,
you have established a stronghold
on account of your adversaries
in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I observe your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you set in place,
4 what is a human being that you remember him,
a son of man that you look after him?
5 You made him little less than God
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:
7 all the sheep and oxen,
as well as the animals in the wild,
8 the birds of the sky,
and the fish of the sea
that pass through the currents of the seas.

9 LORD, our LORD,
how magnificent is your name throughout the earth! -- Psalms 8:1-9 (CSB)

Read the Bible: Psalm 7

LORD my God, I seek refuge in you;
save me from all my pursuers and rescue me,
2 or they will tear me like a lion,
ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.

3 LORD my God, if I have done this,
if there is injustice on my hands,
4 if I have done harm to one at peace with me
or have plundered my adversary without cause,
5 may an enemy pursue and overtake me;
may he trample me to the ground
and leave my honor in the dust. Selah

6 Rise up, LORD, in your anger;
lift yourself up against the fury of my adversaries;
awake for me;
you have ordained a judgment.
7 Let the assembly of peoples gather around you;
take your seat on high over it.
8 The LORD judges the peoples;
vindicate me, LORD,
according to my righteousness and my integrity. -- Psalms 7:1-8 (CSB)