Psa 115:14-18 – “Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty”, Part 4

Psa 115:14  The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children. 
Psa 115:15  Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth. 
Psa 115:16  The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men. 
Psa 115:17  The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. 
Psa 115:18  But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.

In this week’s last part of our Psalm 115 study we will look at these very reassuring verses (Psa 115:14-18) that remind us of the spiritual increase which comes from God alone (1Co 3:6) and how this blessing from the LORD is connected with our believing and understanding that God is the one working in our heaven and earth, where Christ has told us “I go to prepare a place for you” mentioned again in the next verse “if I go and prepare a place for you” of Joh 14:1-4.

Joh 14:1  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 
Joh 14:2  In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 
Joh 14:3  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 
Joh 14:4  And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 

Christ has gone to this place, which is a heavenly place, with our Father where we can be received of Him as He stated, “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” There is a witness in the words “I go to prepare a place for you” being mentioned twice to remind us that we go to our Father through Christ who is the true witness who makes it possible for us to be accepted and received before our Father through Him.

Eph 2:6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

Joh 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 

Today, we are experiencing “the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory” (Eph 1:14), and the spirit of God bears witness to the children of God today (Rom 8:16) that “ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you” (Eph 1:6). 

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 

God’s elect are experiencing this tremendous honour to dwell with Christ and God the Father, and in the next verse, right after telling us we are received of Christ, the desire that God has given His obedient children who are abiding with him is stated: “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” When we have love to one another we are manifesting that we have love toward God and that we are his disciples.

1Jn 4:20  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 

1Jn 4:21  And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also. 

Joh 13:35  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. 

It is in this heavenly place of our hearts and minds that the Lord “preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: [and that] thou anointest my head with oil; [and] my cup runneth over”, that we are being sanctified by the word of God today, so that we can be used to save the rest of humanity through a sanctification process which God’s elect are blessed to experience first as we are sent “into the world” even while we touch not the unclean things of this world by overcoming sin through Christ.

Psa 23:5  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 
Psa 23:6  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Joh 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 
Joh 17:18  As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 

Joh 17:15  I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 
Joh 17:16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 

The heavenly places are where God’s elect dwell in a “careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God” earnest relationship today with Christ and His Christ, and it is at this altar that we can receive peace which passes all understanding as we offer up the sacrifice of praise to our LORD who we will bless “from this time forth and for evermore” as mentioned in verse 18 of this psalm.

Php 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 

Eph 2:6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. 

Heb 13:10  We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

Php 4:7  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 

We are in the world but not of the world and are instructed to “walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” but rather to “delight [ourselves] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he [we are to] meditate day and night” (Heb 13:10 , Psa 1:1-2).

Psa 1:1  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 
Psa 1:2  But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

This meditation and thinking on things mentioned in Philippians 4:8 is the only way we will ever have that Peace which passes all understanding and be like a tree planted by the rivers of water mentioned in Psalm 1:3, because those words of life from Christ are the living waters for which our souls are blessed to thirst. God’s children are growing as the Lord directs our lives to think on “whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise” even while we “come out of her my people” by obeying the commandments in Psalm1:1-2 which tell us “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”

Php 4:8  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 

Psa 1:3  And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. 

Mat 5:6  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 

Psa 1:1  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 
Psa 1:2  But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 

Psa 23:5  Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 
Psa 23:6  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. 

Joh 17:17  Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 
Joh 17:18  As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 

Knowing Christ is the author and finisher of our faith we can be greatly encouraged and confident (Php 1:6) and not be “wearied and faint in your minds” as we consider that it is Christ who has suffered for us, so that he can comfort us now and move His body, the church, to comfort each other through this life (2Co 1:4). That is the encouragement which we are promised we will find if we come out of this world and bear each other’s burdens (Gal 6:2), which burden often comes in the form of the reproach that both Christ and his Christ have to endure in this life outside the camp (Act 4:26-27, Heb 13:13, 1Pe 4:4). God does not want us to fear that reproach but see it rather as a witness that our names are written in heaven (Luk 10:20), and that He is working with us as he did with Joseph who typifies the elects’ life-long journey to becoming kings and priests and rulers under Jesus Christ. It has been granted to God’s elect to “be priests of God and of Christ, [who] shall reign with him a thousand years” and to be the wife of Christ who “hath made herself ready” and to have been “made us unto our God kings and priests: and we [who] shall reign on the earth”.

Heb 12:3  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Heb 4:15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 

Heb 13:13  Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach^{G3680, G3679}.

1Pe 4:4  Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: 

Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 

Rev 19:5  And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great. [Heb 5:7, 1Jn 4:17]
Rev 19:6  And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 
Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 
Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 

Rom 5:10  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. 

Rev 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. 

Reproach G3680, G3679
ὀνειδέζω
oneidezō
on-i-did’-zo

From G3681; to defame, that is, rail at, chide, taunt: – cast in teeth, (suffer) reproach, revile, upbraid.

God’s elect are called to lift “the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees” in each other as each joint supplies what the body needs, witnessing to that great cloud of witness within us, which is Christ in us our hope of glory (Col 1:27) who gives us the power to go without the camp and hold each other up through this life (Col 1:27, Gal 6:2). This love and encouragement happens via a fitly framed body of Christ, or temple, or cloud, that has been called to “consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself“, and to consider that He is a high priest who understands what we are going through, and He can give us the strength to keep “bearing his reproach” so that we can continue to keep receiving God’s kingdom which is within, and being received or entered into {in downpayment form} through much tribulation (Luk 17:21, Act 14:22). That kingdom will be manifest to all the world without at an appointed time which is only known by our Father when God’s elect will be resurrected in the first resurrection, and that is the outward fulfillment that we are groaning for (Rom 8:21-22).

Heb 12:1  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Act 1:8  But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 
Act 1:9  And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 

Luk 17:21  Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. 

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Luk 12:32  Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 

Mat 24:36  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 
1Co 15:53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 
1Co 15:54  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 
1Co 15:55  O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 
1Co 15:56  The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 
1Co 15:57  But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
1Co 15:58  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 

Rom 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creature [Eph 1:14] waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Rom 8:20  For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 
Rom 8:21  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 

In last week’s study we looked at how being able to trust God is a miracle and witnesses to “the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty” that He is working within His workmanship the church. Right after Hebrews chapter 11, the chapter Christians deem the faith chapter, we are told in Hebrews 12:1 that we are “compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses” which is represented by that elaborate list of witnesses in chapter 11 of Hebrews, whose books and lifetime of experiences were written for our sakes (2Co 4:15, 1Co 10:11). Today the true cloud of witness “the Israel of God” (Gal 6:16) has been raised in heavenly places and are being given the power we need through Christ to overcome in this life (1Co 10:11, 1Pe 1:12, Eph 2:6, Rev 11:3). That cloud of witness of Hebrews 11 would mean nothing to us at all if we did not have Christ to look to today as the “the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” so that “all the promises of God in him are yea (Mat 20:23), and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us” (2Co 1:20-22), promises such as “Ye shall drink indeed of my cup”. It is what God is doing through Christ “by us” that matters, and this is what we are all groaning together as the body of Christ which witnesses to the world that “Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty”.

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 

Pro 3:1  My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 

Pro 3:2  For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 
Pro 3:3  Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 
Pro 3:4  So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. 

2Co 1:20  For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. 
2Co 1:21  Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; 
2Co 1:22  Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. 

Rom 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 
Rom 8:23  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 

Psa 115:14  The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children. 

“The LORD shall increase you more and more” is speaking to the increase which God has ordained for the body of Christ today, but also in the long term as well.

“You and your children” is a parable which reminds us that what we are experiencing as God’s kind of first fruits is not just for ourselves, but for those who will come after us, each man in his order. 

Jas 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 
Jas 1:19  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 

1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 

Joh 17:20  Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

Children can also be likened to doctrine, and so we are also being told that by keeping God’s word, we will reap the benefits of the inheritance of many generations which are promised of those who will inherit eternal life by keeping the words or doctrines of eternal life that Christ has. 

Joh 6:68  Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. [Rev 1:3]

Gen 22:17  That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 

Psa 115:15  Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth. 

What does it mean to be “blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth“.

We are blessed to be delivered from Satan, who as a roaring lion wants to consume us (1Pe 5:8), and this reality is typified by Pharaoh and the hand of the Egyptians in this verse in Exodus which says “Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians” (Exo 18:10).

God makes heaven and earth and all things within us and without ourselves to work together for His good purpose which is accompanied with His love that is being shed abroad in our hearts (Rom 5:5, Rom 8:28). God gives us the power to overcome the devil (2Ti 1:7), who is the god of this world and the prince of the power of the air (2Co 4:4, Eph 2:2). 

We are blessed of the Lord “because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1Jn 4:4). We are blessed by this process of being delivered from the devil as we die daily and understand and are convinced that He who has begun this good work in you will finish it, enabling us to endure unto the end and be saved (Php 1:6, Mat 24:13).

We are blessed to walk through the wilderness and know that God has been mindful of us through the tribulations which are represented by the forty years found in these verses in Deuteronomy 2:1-7. Moses living 120 years (Deu 34:7) and Aaron living 123 years (Num 33:39) is another way of looking at how we are “blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth“.  Moses in this case represents the natural judgment in the earth (3X40) which precedes the spiritual process of judgment in our heavens (1Co 15:46) which is typified by those extra three years which Aaron lived longer than Moses. A lot of judgment can happen in the earth (Heb 6:1-3), but God tells us we can only go onto perfection on the third day by being crushed under the stone (Luk 13:32, Mat 21:44).

Psa 115:16  The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men. 

Those who have God’s spirit within them are His. That is what this statement “The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S” is telling us. We are His workmanship.

Rom 8:9  But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 

Eph 2:10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 

“But the earth hath he given to the children of men” who live and move and have their being in Christ for our sakes.

Act 17:28  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

2Co 4:15  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 

Psa 115:17  The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. 

“Let the dead bury the dead”, Christ told us in Matthew 8:22, and this is the dead that we have to consider when we read this verse 17. It is those who are operating in their flesh, by forgetting to “Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness” which is what happens when we don’t do the things that He commands us. It is those actions of disobedience that turn the light which is in us into darkness. That is what it means to “go down into silence” as witnessed in the words of Matthew 22:11-12. This brings us full circle regarding the earlier verses we read in John 14:20-21 which tell us that the fruit of keeping God’s commandments is that, “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”

Luk 6:46  And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? 

1Co 14:37  If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 

1Co 14:38  But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. [Rev 22:11-13, Psa 37:1-6]

Rev 22:11  He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. 

Rev 22:12  And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 
Rev 22:13  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. 

Psa 37:1  A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. 
Psa 37:2  For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. 
Psa 37:3  Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 
Psa 37:4  Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 
Psa 37:5  Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 
Psa 37:6  And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Luk 11:34  The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 
Luk 11:35  Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. 
Luk 11:36  If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. 

Mat 22:11  And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 
Mat 22:12  And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. [“go down into silence“]

Psa 115:18  But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.

“But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore” is really speaking of “and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still” in Revelation 22:11, and God tells us through the apostle Paul to “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice” (Php 4:4). That rejoicing in the Lord always is just another way of saying “Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart“.

King David in Psalm 27 tells us what that chief desire is which God is manifesting in our hearts today:

Psa 27:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 
Psa 27:2  When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 
Psa 27:3  Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 
Psa 27:4  One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. 
Psa 27:5  For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. [Mat 16:18]
Psa 27:6  And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD. 
Psa 27:7  Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

The statement “Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty” is understood by what God is able to do in our lives as He humbles our hearts through a lifetime of much tribulation so that we can “receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away”. 

1Pe 5:4  And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
1Pe 5:5  Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 
1Pe 5:6  Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 
1Pe 5:7  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 
1Pe 5:8  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 
1Pe 5:9  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 
1Pe 5:10  But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 
1Pe 5:11  To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 

It is through the humbling experiences of this life which God gives us, that we will be blessed to continue to have our confidence in our flesh taken away (Php 3:3) making it possible for us to “dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple“. 

God is working with His children, and revealing “the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty” of his hand in our lives, which is the wonderful works being done unto the children of men, and the reason we “Praise the LORD“!

Psa 107:27  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. 
Psa 107:28  Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. 
Psa 107:29  He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. 
Psa 107:30  Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven. 
Psa 107:31  Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!