Daily Affirmations - Day 2 - Take Up Your Positions - The Lord's Right Hand
Day 2: The Lord's Right Hand
Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: “The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things! (Psalm 118:15).
The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?
The Lord is with me; He is my helper.
I look in triumph on my enemies.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in humans.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in princes.
I was pushed back and about to fall,
but the Lord helped me.
The Lord is my strength and my defense;
He has become my salvation.
Shouts of joy and victory
resound in the tents of the righteous:
“The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!
The Lord’s right hand is lifted high;
the Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!”
Open for me the gates of the righteous;
I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.
— Psalm 118: 6-9, 13-16, 19
The right hand of the LORD is exalted, lifted up to smite the enemy, or extolled and magnified in the eyes of His people. It is the Lord's right hand, the hand of His skill, the hand of His greatest power, the hand which is accustomed to defend His saints.
When that is lifted up, it lifts up all who trust in Him, and it casts down all who resist Him. The right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly.
The Psalmist... is praising the triune God, his heart is warm and he loves to dwell upon the note; he is not content with the praise he has rendered, he endeavours to utter it each time more fervently and more jubilantly than before.
He... dwells upon the valour of Jehovah's right hand, for he has as vivid a sense of the presence and majesty of the Lord. How seldom is this the case: the Lord's mercy is forgotten and only the trial is remembered.
~ The Treasury of David
O Trinity of love and pow'r,
Your children shield in danger's hour;
From rock and tempest, fire, and foe,
Protect them where-so-e'er they go;
Thus, evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
~ William Whiting, 1860
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