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CHAPTER 63
David thirsts for God, whom he praises with joyful lips. |
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1 O GOD, thou art
my God; aearly will I seek thee: my soul
bthirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
cthirsty land, where no water is;
2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. |
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3 Because thy lovingkindness is
abetter than life, my lips shall praise thee.
4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my ahands in thy namea |
4a I will lift up my hands in thy
name
 It has been common that
when addressing prayer is said unto God that one
does lift up their hands above their head as calling upon God to hear the
words of their mouth so spoken in the name of the Lord. 'Whatsoever thou
asketh the Father in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be
glorified in the Son.' (John 14:13) While we do pray unto God our Father of
our Spirits, Our Father in Heaven; it is so done in the Name of Jesus Christ.
And to this end, Jesus Christ as the Ministaering God is the one who will
so perform the answer to our prayers as he does so stand in the stead of the
Father in all things (Leviticus 16:32) and it is in him, by him and through
him that the Father does work, there being none else and none other name
under heaven by which we may come unto the Father. And this the Lord God Jesus
Christ, Jehovah, does do to the intent of the glory of the Father, according
to the mind and the will of the Father as only those who do pertain unto this
estate do minister unto it (D&C 130:5), God the Father high and advanced in
His Celestial Glory beyond it and we His spirit children consigned unto this
estate of advancement progressing toward becoming even as he is, Christ being
Emanuel or as it were one among us from among us so chosen of the Father to
act for the Father by the power of the Father so given him by the Father.
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5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
6 When I remember thee upon my abed, and bmeditate on thee in the night watches. |
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7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. |
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9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for afoxes. 11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. |
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