PSALM 143:1-6 – Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness! Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you. For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Old Testament
PSALM 119:71 – It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. THEME OF THE DAY. LEARNING A LIFE OF OBEDIENCE. I want to start today’s nugget with a series of heart confessions. I would like to have a Christian life enjoying the Lord as much as a human being may this side of heaven. I…
EZEKIEL 48:35 – The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The Lord Is There.” THEME OF THE DAY. THE LORD IS THERE. The Old Testament book of Ezekiel is a difficult book to read and understand, not impossible, but challenging. There are visions of wheels and created beings…
PSALM 130:1-6 – Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,…
EZEKIEL 37:23 – They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. THEME OF THE DAY. LIFE’S TWO GREATEST PRIVILEGES. A very…
PSALM 119:140 – Your promise is well tried, and your servant loves it THEME OF THE DAY. HOW WE MATURE IN THE FAITH. In asking the questions, “How does a person become a Christian?” and “How is the Christian life lived?”, God shows us both answers in the opening verses of Peter’s second epistle – His divine power has granted to us…