Psalm 27 Devotion

Visual Faith Sketch Notes-

Psalm 27

notes from The Message

Psalm 27 -

 Inspire Bible

I had been working on Psalm 27 devotions

 in the past couple of weeks.

Thinking about the words, 
praying over them,
praying with them. 

Then, Natalie Hartwig sent me

 the following devotion last week.

We call that God's timing. alright.

     

Your face, Lord, I will seek

Psalm 27 concludes with two very powerful verses:

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

In the year of Our Lord, 2016, when friends get together to catch up on the years past they pull out their phones and share pictures of those they love. Children, grand-children, siblings, mutual acquaintances, pets, even lovely bits of the earth – these and many others are stored in the cloud to be summoned forth for admiration and joy. But our ascended Lord, the very one who ascended into a cloud (Acts 1:9), He is not seen in those pictures. Let’s think about this and the current fascination with visual faith and devotion. Let’s start a digital brainstorming session of ways we can create, encourage, and support opportunities to share our joy in Christ with each other.

• Instruct your group to bring their own favorite picture of Jesus to a meeting. Spend time sharing with each other why that particular picture is your favorite. Then use your phones to take pictures of the various portraits and have your phone guru (read grand-child) arrange your pictures so that a picture of Christ is always the first one that shows up.
• Dare to use a hymn tune or praise song as your ring tone on your phone.
• Use your favorite Bible passage or hymn verse in your auto signature.

Now it is your turn. Go ahead, get creative, add to this list of personal witness tools. How will you share the face of Christ with those you meet face to face?
                                                                      Natalie Hartwig

This Bible Journaling was done in October 2014.

 I love this Psalm. I come back to it regularly.

The way God's Word works is that each time 

there might be a different section

 that moves my heart.

I contacted artist Sally Beck and she had 
 a couple of drawings for Psalm 27.

 Children's New Living Translation

The images can be found here to download and print.
Psalm 27 image
another
Psalm 27

Thanks to Natalie Hartwig and Sally Beck
for these resources.
They would be a great way to gather a group
for a study, some creative thinking
 and an introduction to Bible Journaling.
There are all sorts of ways to engage
 in Visual Faith exercises.
This is one view.
What are YOU up to?

Psalm 27 Visual Faith
 done by Connie Denninger

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