PSALM 13:1-5 – How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I…
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Psalms
PSALM 19:13 – Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! THEME OF THE DAY. HOW TO BE IN BONDAGE TO SIN. There are three responses to the theme of today’s nugget. First, we may say, “What? Who would want to learn to be in bondage to sin? I want freedom from sin.” I hope…
PSALM 18:35 – You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great. THEME OF THE DAY. OVERWHELMED BY HIS GENTLENESS. When a Christian ponders the height, width, depth and length of Christ’s love, there simply are not enough words to proclaim its meaning or an adequate range of emotions to…
PSALM 24:7-10 – Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle! Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who…
PSALM 15 – O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is…
PSALM 12:5 – “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.” THEME OF THE DAY. OUR LONGING FULFILLED. Here is a piece of good advice. It isn’t good because I am writing it nor original with me. God’s people throughout time have given…