RESTING IN THE LORD! The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him. —Psalm 28:6 The Lord is my strength The Lord is my shield The Lord is fully trustworthy The Lord helps How much strength do you and I really have?  Some little germ floating through the air can knock us down if it invades our body.  Pollen is so small and can make life miserable for those affected by it.  Even when we are in good health we are not very strong.  But our Lord is all-powerful and it is…

TRUST HIM! I trust in you; do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. —Psalm 25:2 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. —Psalm 20:7 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. —Proverbs 3:5-6             Who do you truly trust?  Or what do you truly trust?  Do you trust anyone or anything?  Are you truly trusting God and how is that seen in your life? To know my life is…

JESUS IS MY SHEPHERD!             Jesus said, “I am the good shepherd” (John 10:11).  With that in mind look again at Psalm 23 and inserting His Name at the proper places. JESUS is my shepherd; I shall not want.  JESUS makes me lie down in green pastures; JESUS leads me beside quiet waters.  JESUS restores my soul; JESUS guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for JESUS IS with me; JESUS’ rod and JESUS’ staff, they comfort me.  JESUS PREPARES a table before me in the presence…

OUR AWESOME LORD! But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.  All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads: “He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.” —Psalm 22:6-8 Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!”  In…

NOTHING IS TOO DIFFICULT FOR OUR LORD! ”Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of hosts is his name:  “If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever.”  Thus says the LORD: “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,…

HE IS THE OWNER AND GIVER It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me. —Jeremiah 27:5             By God’s great power He made: The earth The men on the earth The animals on the earth By God’s great power He gives that which He made “to whomever it seems right to (Him).”  He has plans and purposes that He is working out all over this planet.  The nations that ruled in the past, are ruling in the present and that will…

OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”  So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.  And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.  Then the word of the LORD came to me:  “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so…

HEAVENLY BODIES AHEAD!  As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness. —Psalm 17:15 Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. —Psalm 90:10 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. —Philippians 3:21 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable. …

CONFIDENT IN HIS WILL I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. —Jeremiah 10:23 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. —Proverbs 16:9 A person’s steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand their own way? —Proverbs 20:24 The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him. —Psalm 37:23 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. —Proverbs 3:5-6 I will…

BOAST IN THE LORD & BE LIKE THE LORD! Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.” —Jeremiah 9:23-24             Don’t boast in your wisdom.  Don’t boast in your might.  Don’t boast in your riches.  Instead, boast in that you understand and know the Lord.  Boast in He who practices “steadfast…