PSALMS
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Psalms 149 and 150
Psalms 150
We are here stirred up to praise GOD.
Praise GOD for HIS sanctuary, and the privileges we enjoy by having it among us; Praise Him because of HIS power and glory in the firmament. Those who praise the LORD in heaven, behold displays of HIS power and glory which we cannot now conceive. But the greatest of all HIS mighty acts is known in his earthly sanctuary.
The holiness and the love of our GOD are more displayed in man’s redemption, than in all HIS other works. Let us praise our GOD and SAVIOUR for it. We need not care to know what instruments of music are mentioned. Hereby is meant that in serving GOD we should spare no cost or pain. Praise GOD with strong faith; praise HIM with holy love and delight; praise HIM with entire confidence in CHRIST; praise HIM with believing triumph over the powers of darkness; praise HIM by universal respect to all HIS commands; praise HIM by cheerful submission to all His disposals; praise HIM by rejoicing in HIS love, and comforting ourselves in HIS goodness; praise HIM by promoting the interests of the kingdom of HIS grace; praise HIM by lively hope and expectation of the kingdom of HIS glory. Since we must shortly breathe our last, while we have breath let us praise the LORD; then we shall breathe our last with comfort. Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD. Such is the very suitable end of a book inspired by the SPIRIT of GOD, written for the work of praise; a book which has supplied the songs of the church for more than three thousand years; a book which is quoted more frequently than any other by CHRIST and His apostles; a book which presents the loftiest ideas of GOD and HIS government, which is fitted to every state of human life, which sets forth every state of religious experience, and which bears simple and clear marks of its Divine origin.

OLD TESTAMENT
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2 Chronicles 8: 1 – 18
2 Chronicles 8: 11
The daughter of Pharaoh.
Solomon’s marriage to Pharaoh’s daughter was contrary to GOD’s law. Though Solomon was dedicated to building the temple and keeping many GOD’s statutes, this marriage shows that he failed to submit every area of his life to GOD’s rule.
Failure to resist his strongest temptation eventually resulted in his ruin, thus he left a vital area if his life open to satan. Satan needs only one uncommitted or unresolved area of the believer’s life to gain a foothold and lead him or her away from GOD.

NEW TESTAMENT
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John 17: 20 – 18: 11
John 17: 21
JESUS does not pray for His followers to become one, but rather that they may be one. The present subjunctive used herd designates ongoing action, continually being one, a oneness based on a common relationship to the FATHER and the SON, and on having the same basic attitude toward the world, the Word and the need to reach out to the lost.