OUR LORD’S UNFAILING LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS  Test me, Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind; for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness. —Psalm 26:2-3  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIpnW3rtRQ4              I need to always keep in mind our Lord’s unfailing love. It is His love that motivates me, His love that encourages me, His love that sustains me, His love that comforts me and gives me hope. I am so grateful that He will not stop loving me. This brings such reassurance.             Not only that but I also rely on His faithfulness.   He is always faithful. To me He…

  GOD LETTING GO…  Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished? —Jeremiah 49:7  He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. —Psalm 24:4  Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity… For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions… And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done… —Romans 1:24, 26, 28              As I ponder these Words of God this morning I cannot help but…

FRIENDS OF JESUS!  The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant. —Psalms 25:14  I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. —John 15:15              Now really, what better friend do we have?   Think about this. The Creator and Sustainer of all creation calls those who love Him— friends! He has revealed to us his “business.” Let us be about that “business” that He has left for us to do. Jesus said that…

SOME WILL NOT LISTEN… OTHERS WILL! DON’T BE DISCOURAGED!  As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. —Jeremiah 44:16              Why are you surprised when people do not listen to our Lord’s Word? It was true in Jeremiah’s time and it will be true in our time. Yet, you heard the Word of the Lord and believed and so did I. There are people who will listen and there are people who will believe… just as we did. So, do not be discouraged. Keep sharing our Lord’s Word with people. There will be some who believe.…

SERVANTS AND FRIENDS OF KING JESUS!  For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations. —22:28  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwQqQkdn_5Q             Is He your King? If so they you are His servant. How are you serving Him? Look at this world and consider how men and nations are self-serving. But you and I, brother and sister, are to be different because we belong to Him. We are not to be self-serving, but we are to be serving others. So how are you and I doing that? As Jesus’ friends we are to be also about His business. If you call Him King Jesus, then may there be evidence that this…

PLACEMENT OF YOUR TRUST   Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. —Psalms 20:7  His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of the warrior; the Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love. —Psalms 147:10-11             Who are you trusting? Who is your savior? Do you expect government to save you? If so, then you are putting your trust in the wrong place. There is only One Savior and His Name is Jesus!             Governments, armies, politicians are not saviors… they are supposed to be…

LIFE BY OUR LORD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS   And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’ — Jeremiah 33:16             The Lord is our righteousness. We have none of our own. It is all His doing. He is the One who makes us righteous. We cannot make ourselves righteous. This is true before we called upon His Name for salvation and this is true after we call on His Name for salvation. He gives us His righteousness at salvation and He keeps us righteous after salvation.   It is all His doing and not our own.   We simply receive His righteousness as a gift…

NOTHING 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, declares…

HIS GLORIOUS WORD!  The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of the Lord are firm, and all of them are righteous. —Psalm 19:7-9             God’s Word is so very precious and we need to be listening to what He has to say to us. How can I live a life pleasing to Him if I am not listening to what His desires are? May you and I read His Word and ponder what…

RIGHTEOUSNESS  And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’ —Jeremiah 23:6              We have no righteousness of our own. Oh, there are those who think they are self-righteous and this is nothing new— To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of…