Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Grace

These Things Will Never Happen

PSALM 66:20 – Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!”   THEME OF THE DAY:  THESE THINGS WILL NEVER HAPPEN.  In today’s scripture, the Psalmist is worshipping the Lord and gives two reasons prompting his desire and action to bless Him.  As we grasp them ourselves, we, too, will find ourselves responding…

Don’t Give In or Give Up

PSALM 55:16-19 – But I call to God, and the LORD will save me. Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice. He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me. God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of…

As Was Jesus So Shall We Be

PSALM 44:17-22 – All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant. Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way; yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death. If we had forgotten the name…

Overcoming Spiritual Amnesia and the Sin of Complaining

PSALM 103:1-5 – Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so…

A Gospel-Consumed Life

1 THESSALONIANS 2:1-8 – For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict. For our appeal does not spring from error or…

The Replacement Principle

EPHESIANS 4:17-24 – Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves…