Just over a year ago over 20 million people in the United Kingdom, and many more from around the world watched on the televisions as the first monarch was crowned in Westminster Abbey nearly 70 years
prior.

King Charles III, along with Queen Camilla, was crowned in a lavish ceremony in Westminster Abbey.
The Abbey was filled with 2200 guests from 203 countries. These included members of the British royal family, church leaders, prominent politicians from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, along with many other foreign heads of state.

What does it mean to be blessed? Does it mean fame, money, or a long life? No, the Psalmist in Psalm 1 points to the truly Blessed Man. He alone has eternal glory, eternal riches, and eternal life. It is in Him alone we are blessed. It is Him we must know to be blessed eternally.  

At the three great annual festivals in Israel, God’s people would sing Psalms 113-118. Therefore Ps 113 would have been one of the psalms that the Lord Jesus would have sung in the upper room at the Passover meal on the night before His crucifixion. What is there in this Psalm that would have helped our Lord in facing up to what lay before Him?

Have you ever been abandoned, rejected or betrayed by someone, especially someone you knew, even by someone you thought was yourfriend? If you have, then you’ve shared a similar experience to David in this psalm, and there are lessons for you from the psalm. The background
to it is that King Saul, who had made himself an enemy of David, was set on killing him. David

Psalm 126 is to help us experience God’s restoring grace.  It is one of the Songs of Ascents, sung by the church in OT days as they journeyed up to the various feasts in Jerusalem.