CAREFULLY DIRECTED LOVE! Be very careful, therefore, to love the LORD your God. —Joshua 23:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYV0ce3ybEA             The greatest command that we have from our Lord is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment” (Matthew 22:37-38).    So if this is the greatest command we would do well to pay attention to it. Obedience to our Lord God shows our love for Him— “In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome” (I John 5:3). “And this is love: that we walk…

MY STRENGTH IS FROM GOD I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. —Joshua 14:11             Caleb is now 85 years old and he was as strong at 85 years of age as he was at 40 years of age. Wow! God is the one who did this in his life. He is the one that has the number of our days— “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for…

WE NEED GOD’S GRACIOUSNESS TOWARD US! May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us. 7 God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him! —Psalm 67:1-7            …

COME SEE! Come and hear, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me. —Psalm 66:16  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOmLvpAZcmY             I had to chuckle and at the same time had a sense of sadness when I was glancing though my high school yearbook recently.   With the lifestyle I was living, with the attitude that went along with it, I did not want my senior picture taken.   Not sure who decided to put the cartoonish picture where my picture would be, but it both saddened me and made me laugh.   It saddens me because apparently the picture depicted how I was seen at the…

BE COURAGEOUS! Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. —Joshua 1:9 Be strong and courageous… —Joshua 1:6 Above all, be strong and very courageous… —Joshua 1:7 …Above all, be strong and courageous! —Joshua 1:18 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. —Ephesians 6:10 God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”   So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” —Hebrews 13:5-6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46DFLM4ucgE             Courage… is…

GIVE GOD THE GLORY DUE HIS NAME! “Our hand is triumphant, it was not the LORD who did all this.” —Deuteronomy 32:27 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. —Deuteronomy 32:39 He said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law. For it is no empty word for you, but your very life,…

THY WORD IS TRUTH! But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. —Deuteronomy 30:14 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes…

THE FOLLOWER OF CHRIST’S FOCUS. The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. —Deuteronomy 28:20 For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah —Psalm 62:5-8             As…

TREASURED AND CHANGED! And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments. —Deuteronomy 26:18             I am so glad that is how our Lord thinks of me! He is my comfort, my peace, my security, my Friend as well as my Lord. I love You Lord. I am so grateful for what You have done, are doing and will do in and through my life… and it is all because of You! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQmsEE_2-s A LIFE IS CHANGED By Ted White I was a junior in High School when my Grandfather…

ABUSIVE DESTRUCTION OF PEOPLE’S LIVES! A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God. —Deuteronomy 22:5             That which God has designed is being trampled on. Those in leadership positions are not adhering to what our Lord God Almighty has purposed— whether it is government leaders or parents.   Instead they are rebelling against Him and advancing wicked ideas contrary to what God has spoken. They are seeking to take the place of God and are writing their own ungodly decrees. There is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes…