June 13, 2025
Read Psalm Chapter 78:1-16
Key Verses: Psalm 78:4-6…
“A Psalm of Asaph”
1 O my people, listen to my instructions.
Open your ears to what I am saying,
2 for I will speak to you in a parable.
I will teach you hidden lessons from our past—
3 stories we have heard and known,
stories our ancestors handed down to us.
4 We will not hide these truths from our children;
we will tell the next generation
about the glorious deeds of the Lord,
about His power and His mighty wonders.
5 For He issued His laws to Jacob;
He gave His instructions to Israel.
He commanded our ancestors
to teach them to their children,
6 so the next generation might know them—
even the children not yet born—
and they in turn will teach their own children.
7 So each generation should set its hope anew on God,
not forgetting His glorious miracles
and obeying His commands.
8 Then they will not be like their ancestors—
stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful,
refusing to give their hearts to God.
9 The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows,
turned their backs and fled on the day of battle.
10 They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His instructions.
11 They forgot what He had done—
the great wonders He had shown them,
12 the miracles He did for their ancestors
on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.
13 For He divided the sea and led them through,
making the water stand up like walls!
14 In the daytime He led them by a cloud,
and all night by a pillar of fire.
15 He split open the rocks in the wilderness
to give them water, as from a gushing spring.
16 He made streams pour from the rock,
making the waters flow down like a river!
PRAYER:
Lord God, I pray that my heart would be so full of Your love and Your wonders that I can’t help but teach the things I have learned to the next generations. If it isn’t the older generation who will teach their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren who the Lord is, then who will? Father, I pray that You would lay that privilege heavily on my heart and the hearts of other believers who want their children to grow in the knowledge of Your Word and obey everything it says throughout the pages of Scripture. Father, I pray that the generations of my own family would follow You, that stubbornness, rebellion and unfaithfulness would cease; and Your Word would get through to each of their hearts that they would turn to You, give their hearts fully to You and follow Your commands. Amen.