REMEMBER! I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old. I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds. Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God? You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples. —Psalm 77:11-14             We need to ponder and remember when things are going well and when things are difficult. Remember how our Lord has worked in your life in the past. Remember how the Lord has worked in history, near and far.   Consider His Word and remember how He has worked thousands of years ago.…

LOVE AND LIVE FOR GOD! Make your vows to the LORD your God and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared, who cuts off the spirit of princes, who is to be feared by the kings of the earth. —Psalm 76:11-12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL7rMNfB1Lg             How many rulers of the earth truly fear God?   Where are they in authority whose concern it to be faithful to our Lord as first priority? Is there any such a one who truly understands that their life is in His hands? Of all the nations of the earth do any in authority exist that fear Him? If so,…

SELFISHNESS WILL BE SHAKEN! In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. —Judges 17:6             Try to imagine what it would be like when “Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”   Actually we do not have to imagine too much. Look around at our nation today. There are many who are doing what is right in their own eyes. People are rioting, people are killing, people are manipulating.   We have fake news, fake reality (Hollywood), fake leaders (tell us one thing and do another) and a fake sense of security (trusting in ourselves).             There is…

  IN GOOD HANDS! Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun. You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter. —Psalm 74:16-17             A new day is upon us. It is the Lord ’s day. He created it, He owns it. So it is with the night. It is He who has established and placed each stellar body where it is. He determined where our sun would be. He also named the stars— “He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name” (Psalm 147:4). He is a boundary setter “of the earth,”…

A GODLY LEADER May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor! May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations! May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth! In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more! —Psalm 72:4-7             This is a ruler that would be pleasing to God. One who truly is concerned and sincerely looks out for the poor.   He would also be willing to help the children of the…

PROCLAIM HIM— EVEN IN OLD AGE! So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. —Psalm 71:18 They will still bear fruit in old age… —Psalm 92:14             Is this your desire? Are you wanting to proclaim our Lord to the next generation? As we saw in the Book of Judges “there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel” (Judges 2:10). Apparently the next generation was not discipled and they turned to idolatry and wickedness. Brother and…

  DISCIPLE-MAKING OR LACK THEREOF IMPACTS THE NEXT GENERATION! And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the LORD had done for Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110 years. And they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash. And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that…

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            …