PSALM 37:5 – Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.” There is a verse in the New Testament offering a nice complement to today’s scripture. It is familiar and found in the Apostle Peter’s first letter – casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you (1 Peter 5:7). In both verses,…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Old Testament
PROVERBS 28:26 – He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks wisely will be delivered.” We do it so easily. Not to mention we have many forces against us helping us to do it so easily. The devil desires us to do it knowing it will cause serious spiritual damage. The world wants us to…
JOB 19:25 – For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.” This nugget is very dark. Dark in the sense the person stating today’s scripture, Job, is in a very dark place. Let me encourage you to do one thing. Right now, read all of Job 19. It is only 29 verses. When…
Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.” 2 “Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts; 3 lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she…
JOB 7:1–4 – Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. When I lie down I say,…
PROVERBS 25:20 – Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda.” Reading Proverbs daily is a particularly good spiritual discipline. And this Old Testament wisdom book is suited for doing so. There are 31 Proverbs that may be read according to the day of the…