“The Blessedness of Dwelling in the House of God”

Psalm 84 is a wonderful prayer! Not only does it remind us of how wonderful God’s House is, it gives us a prayer to say when we just don’t have any more prayers to offer 🙂

“84 How lovely ^[b]is Your tabernacle,
O Lord of hosts!
² My soul longs, yes, even faints
For the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

³ Even the sparrow has found a home,
And the swallow a nest for herself,
Where she may lay her young—
Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts,
My King and my God.
⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in Your house;
They will still be praising You. Selah

⁵ Blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
Whose heart is set on pilgrimage.
⁶ As they pass through the Valley of ^[c]Baca,
They make it a spring;
The rain also covers it with ^[d]pools.
⁷ They go from strength to strength;
^[e]Each one appears before God in Zion.

⁸ O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
⁹ O God, behold our shield,
And look upon the face of Your ^[f]anointed.

¹⁰ For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather ^[g]be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹ For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord will give grace and glory;
No good thing will He withhold
From those who walk uprightly.

¹² O Lord of hosts,
Blessed is the man who trusts in You!”-Psalm 84