HOME IS FAST APPROACHING! O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah  Surely a man goes about as a shadow!… surely all mankind is a mere breath!  —Psalm 39:4-6, 10             Do you realize this?  Are thinking about “the measure of your days” and how “fleeting” they are?  Look at your hand with your palm up.  Roughly, across your palm is a handbreadth.  Our lives are a few measurements across our…

HAVE A PROPER PERSPECTIVE OF YOURSELF Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. —Ezekiel 28:17             Pride… I is right in the middle of the word.  Pride is self-centered and selfish.  Pride is all about “I.”  This was Satan’s sin and it is also the sin of man that brings the problems of mankind.  How many are those who are proud because of their beauty?  Satan, when he was the guardian angel of God, allowed his beauty to cause him to be prideful.  Oh, how that is the issue of so many people today.  So many of the “glamorous”…

TRUST IN, DELIGHT IN AND COMMIT YOUR WAYS TO THE LORD Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. —Psalm 37:1-6 The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him, but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he…

TAKING REFUGE IN HIS STEADFAST LOVE! How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. —Psalm 36:7             How amazing is it that our Lord God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, loves us?  How amazing is it that our Lord God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, loves us so much that He left the glorious heaven to come to this sin infested planet.  Not only come here, but then He allowed, in His plan, his own Creation to insult Him, spit on Him, beat Him, scourge Him, press a crown of thorns on His head, make Him…

CALLED TO BE SERVANTS! Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!” —Psalm 35:27             What is our attitude and action toward others who are living for our Lord?  Do we delight in them?  Do we shout for joy because of them?  Are we glad for them?  Do we say because of them— “Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!” and do we see them as servants?             Think about this.  When was the last time we thought of a follower of Jesus like this? …

TURN— REPENT— AND FOLLOW JESUS! Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it. —Ezekiel 16:49-50 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? —Ezekiel 18:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyedxYR05Es There are many characteristics that are revealed in those who are living wicked lives, according to the Lord.  The wicked show themselves by being— Prideful Having excess food Living…

PLACE YOUR HOPE IN THE LORD! Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end. —Ezekiel 13:13 He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love. —Job 37:13 And the word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man…

THE ULTIMATE AND TOTAL HEALING— BEING HOME WITH JESUS! O LORD my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. —Psalm 30:2             There are times when God answers the prayer “for help, and you have healed me.”  Our Lord God Almighty is capable to do anything He desires to.  If He desires to heal someone in answer to prayer, He will.  But then, He may not heal according to His purposes.  Why does our Lord heal one and not another?  The only answer I can give is that He has His purposes in it, whichever He decides.  As long as we are alive as followers…

GOD’S WORD IS THE FINAL AUTHORITY! The voice of the Lord… —Psalms 29:3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9             The voice of the Lord is powerful and majestic.  When He speaks something to be, it is done.  He spoke and— There was light— day and night. Made the sky with water above and below it. Created the dry land and seas. Brought forth plants, fruit trees and vegetation of all sorts bearing seed. Made the sun, moon and stars. Fashioned the sea creatures, fish and fowl. Created land animals and man —-Genesis Chapter One When our Lord speaks for something to happen, then it will happen.  When our Lord speaks…

MY LOVING, CARING AND FAITHFUL LORD  The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. — Lamentations 3:22-23  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. The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed. —Psalm 25:7-8                Lord, I thank you for— Your steadfast love that never ceases. I am so grateful that you love me, even when I fail and do not honor you as I should,…