Ps 149 1 Praise the LORD . Sing to the LORD a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;
let the people of Zion be glad in their King.
3 Let them praise his name with dancing
and make music to him with tambourine and harp.
4 For the LORD takes delight in his people;
he crowns the humble with salvation.
5 Let the saints rejoice in this honor
and sing for joy on their beds.

The christian life should be so good that we express our excitement in Gods wonders. God is busy recreating the entire world. We live in the beauty of Gods work of this recreation. We must engage our faith by speaking the law, covenants, decrees and statutes. Every minute that passes as activity being spoken into existence by God. He has placed His word as the supreme means by which we increase our faith in the unseen. All of these present movements that are decreed by God are mysterious to us. In Gods work there is no opposition. But we are opposed by our sin and corruption. God works in total freedom. He does exactly what He pleases. We apply our faith by opposing sin and corruption. Both the work of God and our active use of His word are without tension.
But at the same time we must not be afraid of the awful judgement of God that is spoken in His law, curses, and decrees. Just as that christian experience is filled with wonder so it is also fought with weapons that are very destructive to the opposition . So just as the Psalmist opens up with the wonder of Gods creation so He teaches this awful destruction that we must seek. 6 May the praise of God be in their mouths
and a double-edged sword in their hands,
7 to inflict vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,
8 to bind their kings with fetters,
their nobles with shackles of iron,
9 to carry out the sentence written against them.
This is the glory of all his saints.
Praise the LORD . So the first extreme pronouncements that encourage us to the wonder of Gods works are the covenants, promises, decrees and statutes. The awful destructive pronouncements are the law ,curses, and decrees. In practicing these two extreme prayers we are brought back into our original image of being Gods glory in ruling His creation.

Ps 109 16 For he never thought of doing a kindness,
but hounded to death the poor
and the needy and the brokenhearted.
17 He loved to pronounce a curse-
may it come on him;
he found no pleasure in blessing-
may it be far from him.
18 He wore cursing as his garment;
it entered into his body like water,
into his bones like oil.
19 May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,
like a belt tied forever around him.
20 May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers,
to those who speak evil of me."

We must understand the ot teaching on the curses. When God gave Moses the law it not only defined the standard but also the punishment. So each of Gods laws that are written down for Israel to follow are given with the pronouncement of a curse to those who fail to meet the laws requirements. When we are making a judgement on whether a curse is legitimate or false we judging every word that a person speaks. The Psalms teach that God has created all things by the word of His mouth. In other words the physical creation is a display of Gods attributes. It shows the way that the creator designed and worked in making the creation. Gods work meets the standard of the law which is why it shows the perfect symmetry, unity and beauty. If Gods creation could be destroyed or spin out of order then He would cease to be God. So we can say that all evil is a description that redefines Gods word. This is why sin is.." ra'a', wicked, injurious. From its root, which indicates its nature as breaking up all that is good or desirable; injurious to all others". Companion Bible
God must judge every word that is spoken by man. When Adam sin he began to redefine Gods word. The Psalms teach that God has spoken His word in laws , decrees, statutes, curses, covenants, and promises. God pronounces these parts of the law throughout the Psalms. The Psalms are Gods pronouncements that create the circumstances for Gods kingdom to advance upon this earth. God is showing how He designed and pronounced the creation into existence from nothing.
Now getting back to the curses. We must understand that any time we redefine Gods word we are creating disunity. The Psalms teach that one word that is deceptive is an attempt to introduce violence into the world. We can say that all violence and wars are caused by false teaching.Now here is the problem. Not only is redefining Gods word described as cursing ones neighbor but its not being able to have the ability to measure up to the standard of the law. Because the law requires that we promote the well being of our neighbor by enforcing the work that God has accomplished to support Gods purpose in creating our neighbor. If we failed to perfectly act according to the law then we are acting to prevent our neighbor from glorifying God. This is the standard in which the Psalms define "cursing" ones neighbor.
We must understand when Adam sinned he not only brought evil upon the human race but he sent the world spiraling down under the weight of the curse. Now think about this, since God made us to relate to one another in a way that our actions of love not only benefit our neighbor bur reflect upon our own health then why would anyone in their right mind treat their neighbor with contempt? It would result in self destruction. So this is why sin is so deceptive. Because when the human race spiraled down into the pit of the curse it brought in the inability to act according to the best wishes in creating the success in ones life. We are all in such a bad frame of mind that we curse ourselves.
God had to provide a remedy since man was unable to rise up to his original standard of success in enjoying Gods creation. God had to provide a substitute for His people. If the standard of the law was not met in the God Man then all men would be cursed to eternal destruction. But when Christ met the requirement of the law the judgement for breaking one law was silenced. Christ by His passive and active obedience silenced the curses. This is why Christ practically healed every person in the land at that time. Christ had to become a curse for us in order that we might enter into the covenant promises of grace and be blessed. In the Psalms there are only two types of people. Those who are cursed and those who are blessed.
The only confidence that we have as Gods blessed people is that we are righteous because of Christ incarnation and ascension into the heavens to be the King. The Psalms teach two kinds of curses. The law with the curses has not been abolished but rather upheld. You see here that the Psalmist is speaking a curse against those who have accused him. He describes the wicked as cursing the righteous. In other words because the wicked do not have Christ righteousness the curses remain on them. When the wicked accuse and attack Gods covenant people who are blessed the Psalmist describes this as an evil curse. Gods judgement on the language of the kingdom. But the here the Psalmist is not speaking his own curses but just repeating the curses of the law. God must uphold the curses of the law or the law would be nullified. We find the apostle extending the laws curses to the ends of the earth when he says Gal.1 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!"

Ps 56 7 On no account let them escape;
in your anger, O God, bring down the nations.
8 Record my lament;
list my tears on your scroll -
are they not in your record?

9 Then my enemies will turn back
when I call for help.
By this I will know that God is for me.
10 In God, whose word I praise,
in the LORD , whose word I praise-
11 in God I trust; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
The Psalms teach that the two roads ...one of salvation and deliverance and the other of destruction and suffering are two different communications. Every person lives according to what he believes. There is no person even if he believes something that is not correct that will not die for that belief. But the problem is that those who are wicked do not understand that they live in darkness. Most of the troubles in this world are done by people who reason from blindness but will swear that they are right.
The bible calls living in this blindness a path of destruction. When man fell into sin the Devil presented an argument that was not entirely correct. He told Eve that she would have knowledge as God if she partook of the fruit. But it was knowledge that was under the power of sin. It was the possessing the curse. Man now knows guilt , fear, shame, and hate. The opposition to the success that man enjoys has created a war within man. That war is the presence of pain. The level of pain is the anger that man feels in fighting against the pain.
A lament is an expression of sorrow or regret. It is anger that is experienced as pain being rolled over to the God. The result of the experience of being opposed is to weep. Anger is a gift of God that prevents us from being consumed in our sorrow. But the anger that is sinful is selfish anger. This anger is the sinful way to deal with sorrow because it adds to the sorrow. In other words it is like the pain of a sore that we suffer from and if we are angry for the wrong reasons then we will infect that sore and cause more pain. We will add to the heat of the anger. But God has given us the way to use the anger to deepen our convictions.
We must learn that Gods wrath is without regret. Gods wrath is always completely justified. This is why anger is not uncontrolled outburst or sharp words that destroy. But Gods anger is who He is. Rom 9 33 "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall,and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
When we are angry at God we just experience more destruction. His anger defines His hatred for violence. But righteous indignation is pleasurable in the sense that the anger is justified in the defense of Gods purposes. The righteous anger is not uncontrolled outburst but a having a lack of feeling as we experience the pleasure of being defended by God. But the inward struggle to unburden the anger is the lament.
When we are saved we go from being enemies of God ...who are at odds with God...to being friends of God. The Psalms teach that a friend is a friend of a friend of God. So there is no longer a difference of personal friendship and the community of friendship. As we are friends with our brothers we are kind to ourselves. The reason that we now are friends with God is because He has lifted the curse from us. Everyone in the community have been set free from the bondage of sin and death. Now listen...the curse of the law is the same as God coming to us first and addressing the problems we have with anger. In other words God shows His kindness to us by giving us a sure way to find relief in His justified wrath in using the curse to prevent us from being selfish with our anger. Gods love is always controlled towards us in His decrees from eternity past. He loves us as He loves Christ. He loves us justly. So the love is not emotional but legal. But we are always wanting to be loved emotionally.
The problem with being loved emotionally is that we approach God according to our present feelings. But the truth is that God never delays His response in meeting our needs according to the amount of emotion that is necessary to get a person to move. Rather God simply speaks and it is done. So too with Gods anger. God does not burst out with hot anger. But God simply speaks the judgement and it is as if it was always experienced as something that was decided in eternity past. If we pray to God and address Him according to His responses to the injustices of the world we will learn that it is always satisfied in the pronouncement of death. It is simply Gods avenging His own purposes. Its not boiling over. And if we approach God as a God who simply speaks and it is done then we are absent of the emotion that has no basis of our trust and we will be empty of our vain selfishness. Then the emotions will flow out of us. This consistent place of Gods justified creation will unite us to Gods presence in the word and Spirit. We will experience the overflowing love of God coming to us.

Ps 94 12" Blessed is the man you discipline, O LORD ,
the man you teach from your law;
13 you grant him relief from days of trouble,
till a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not reject his people;
he will never forsake his inheritance.
15 Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,
and all the upright in heart will follow it. "

God has established His eternal government from before the foundation of the world in His eternal counsel. Everything that God creates and recreates works perfectly according to His law, covenants etc. God creates by acting to redeem everything that is corrupted. God opposes everything that works against His history of redemption. God acts positively toward the destructive actions of men in two ways. He curses evil rulers and the destructive actions that affect the nations.16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked?Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?17 Unless the LORD had given me help,I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death." ( The curse of the law is death to the nations, the retribution of God is life to His chosen people.) The second way is to bless His chosen people.

The history of the world is not a pragmatic explanation of all events. Rather it is a conflict of two opposing world views.94 21 They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death". This Psalm is teaching that these two opposing views are two different governments.God has an eternal government that is described in pure redemption and man opposes Gods government by using His law to destroy his neighbor. This is represented by earthly rulers and Gods sovereign rule, 20 Can a corrupt throne be allied with you-
one that brings on misery by its decrees? 21 They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death."

God rules over all people without opposition. Gods positive actions through His curse brings the rebellious rulers to a swift punishment and Gods positive actions toward His people in retribution is to turn the nations upside down. The world does not change through process. Rather God turns the evil upside down. Ps 94 12" Blessed is the man you discipline, O LORD ,
the man you teach from your law;13 you grant him relief from days of trouble,till a pit is dug for the wicked" This negative action of the curse that God uses is the foundation of our faith. The truth is there is not hope changing through process. The only hope is for God to destroy all corruption by overturning all wayward nations. 14 For the LORD will not reject his people;
he will never forsake his inheritance.15 Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,and all the upright in heart will follow it". Gods people are fixed in a redemptive world in which everything they suffer because of the actions of wicked governments and people will be measured out and payed to them either in this life or in eternity,

All fear, anger, anxiety or shame are cursed dispositions. 17 Unless the LORD had given me help,I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.18 When I said, "My foot is slipping,"
your love, O LORD , supported me.19 When anxiety was great within me,your consolation brought joy to my soul". These cursed dispositions are enforced in us as we trust in any change that does not rise up to Gods absolute voice of destruction. This is why God has gifted us with His word that expresses His curse. We push the wicked curse away as we express Gods curse in the law. 22 But the LORD has become my fortress,and my God the rock in whom I take refuge". We pronounce destruction on the opposition that brings the future judgement into our present experience. 23 He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness;the LORD our God will destroy them"

As we become proficient in opposing all opposition in the curse we begin to experience the kingdom of God as if the full and final reversal of the corruption has already been accomplished even tho we still must face the present opposition. This kingdom confidence is the single thread that keeps us from lowering God and falling into the world of process. It is the only measure that shows that we believe in Gods absolute sovereignty over all things.

I have never spoken in tongues so if i am labeled half saved then so be it. I find that all of this experience stuff is advantageous to my life or it can be detrimental. If i just think in the intellectual acceptance by faith way then i am prone to look into the perfect law that gives liberty at one moment and then the next moment forget.
If i just focus on doing then i will become weaker and weaker and more judgemental and more judgemental.
If i say that every thing has been given to me and is all i need to do is appropriate it then i reduce all that is given to me to my performance of it.

I do believe that we are to seek that extra, that special grace, more of the Spirit. I dont think that we can react to all the tongue speakers and fall on the other side and just coast through our christian life. The logic to me is i must be more seeking than the guy who seeks tongues in my prayers so that what power or extra i have will be an example to him that maybe i have found something extra that he has never tapped with tongues. I believe that the word and the Spirit work together in prayer to infuse us with all we desire of the extra.
The Spirit lust within us and we fellowship with Him, if we think more about time slowing down, and we only concentrate on the problems of one day then we will want that relationship to be enlivened really, not theoretical, actual experience of Gods awesome presence. A real moment by moment fellowship with the Holy Ghost through meditation on the word. Yes God speaking directly to us , granting us power , love growth, understanding , in the supernatural way. Giving us a taste of Christ, as we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory so that we long for that grace to be revealed on the last day. We would be caught up in eternity, blasting out of this world, in thinking on things above, moment by moment waiting for that extra supernatural infusion. Peace peace, peace!

Ps 17 14bYou still the hunger of those you cherish;
their sons have plenty,
and they store up wealth for their children.
15 And I-in righteousness I will see your face;
when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness."
This Psalm is teaching that Gods elect think in the opposite way that they reasoned in their old lives. The elect live on Gods love and His righteousness.You see when we are saved we give up controlling our success. In other words all of our desires are used in order to be loved by God. We learn to use sin, failure, sorrow, or on the other side, joy, success, or our good works should be used as motivation to speak to God of His works. We must learn to react with passion on how all events in our lives relate to God.
In other words if our God is big and valuable then then we will be desperate enough to use our desires to please Him. The whole reason that Jesus lowered Himself , suffered, and worked the works of righteousness is because He wanted us to value that work by being successful in what we desire according to the value of His suffering that earned the freedom and success that we have through substitution.
The christian life is the only life where weakness and sinfulness is a an advantage. In our former lives weakness and sinfulness generated guilt, fear and failure. Since the christian life is turned upside down we give up control because strength and forgiveness come out of weakness and sin. This is why the Psalmist makes a clear difference between the wicked who react with violence because they trying to control their success. 10 They close up their callous hearts,and their mouths speak with arrogance.11 They have tracked me down, they now surround me,with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.12 They are like a lion hungry for prey,
like a great lion crouching in cover". A man who is born in sin does not have a substitute. He does not have a God who loves him in his his failure. In his world the only people who exist are the people who are related to him in his family and work. So he does not believe that he is accepted by substitution but work for reward.In that kind of state a man is motivated by guilt , fear, and sorrow.
This is why the Psalmist contrast the christian being motivated by love. Ps 17" 14You still the hunger of those you cherish;their sons have plenty," Its the alternation of 15 And I-in righteousness I will see your face. I can explain that we are able to create our christian experience by being free in speaking the law, which is an imperial pronouncement that unites the implanted law that is in us with the purpose to create Gods kingdom, the curses so that we can overcome all opposition, the covenants so that we can fulfill our desires according to Gods legal success, and the promises that preserve and lengthen our lives. These pronouncements are the way that we are renewed by conversion. The law constrains us by infusing wholeness and blessedness, the curses consume our anger that is the fuel for guilt , fear, and sorrow. and teach us the orthodox way to hate...hate is expressed in conviction and not emotion, the covenants to teach us to create the future by Gods word...the whole system of Gods justice is based upon the success of the works of His wonders, the promises so that we are looking for rewards on the basis of eternal value and not the returns in this life. This is the way that we experience freedom by giving up control of others. .

Ps 89 14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
love and faithfulness go before you.
15 Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you,
who walk in the light of your presence, O LORD .
16 They rejoice in your name all day long;
they exult in your righteousness.
17 For you are their glory and strength,
and by your favor you exalt our horn.
18 Indeed, our shield belongs to the LORD ,
our king to the Holy One of Israel."

When God created man, He placed Him in the garden of God. The garden was Gods gift to man to rule and enjoy the fruits of Gods creation. The Psalmist is teaching that Gods throne is the display of His righteousness and justice in His original creation. God spoke all the creation into existence as a display of His perfect order and beauty. Mans was given a blessed estate in which the value of the gifts of God were the proof of Gods care for man. There was nothing in man or in the garden that opposed his desires and abilities.
Even tho man fell into sin, God had already made provision in order to restore man to that position by cursing the sin and corruption that would prevent him from exercising freedom to rule over the creation. Man is restored to this original authority in salvation.
Before sin man had no opposition. But after he sinned ,he was made unable to restore himself. The restoration of man was Gods work alone. God restored mans freedom and authority in the work of Christ. The Psalmist teaches that we can do nothing that is good without Christ acting perfectly as the basis of our confidence in our own acts. So we could envision this work of Christ as restoring us to ruling over all of the creation as governors in a kingdom that is controlled by God in the perfect justice of blessing and cursing.
This is why the Psalmist argues that God must be exalted because He has restored the value of all things by renewal. This evidence of success of Gods righteousness and justice is that all corrupted things must die before they can be renewed. In order for God to restore His proof to man in His gifts ,He must restore the true value of the gifts by renewal.
We are desperately dependent upon the success of God to restore us to purpose for which we were created. If this throne of God was not proficient in this restoration there would be no hope. This is why God has given us pronouncements in order to trust in the simplicity of the gifts rather than to be restored through the law. We exercise our authority in these life and death pronouncements.