Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Psalms 19:1

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

Psalms 19:1 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 19:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Psalms 19. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Psalms 8:3When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
  • Romans 1:19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
  • Psalms 50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
  • Psalms 148:3Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
  • Psalms 33:6By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
  • Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
  • Psalms 150:1Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
  • Daniel 12:3And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
  • Jeremiah 10:11Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
  • Isaiah 40:22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell i…
  • Psalms 115:16The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
  • Genesis 1:6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

More to meet God in Psalms

Psalms 23:1Psalms 46:10Psalms 91:1Psalms 27:1Psalms 139:14Psalms 34:18Psalms 118:24Psalms 46:1Psalms 37:4Psalms 121:1Psalms 51:10Psalms 118:6Psalms 30:5Psalms 55:22

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.