LIVE FOR JESUS! For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see…

PONDER HIS WORK! 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. —Psalm 77:11-12             Remember how our Lord has worked and His wonders, past, present and what is coming in the future.  Ponder them, meditate on His deeds.  In doing so we cannot help but praise His Name.             Creation— what a joy it is to be outside enjoying what He has made.  How wonderful is our eye He designed that gives us the opportunity to enjoy color.  It is a marvel that he has given us the ability in His…

GOD’S SET BOUNDARIES 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 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and…

HELP! May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor! —Psalm 72:4 For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper. He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy. From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight. —Psalm 72:12-14                Are we helping the “cause of the poor?”  Are we giving “deliverance to the children of the needy?  Are we looking to “crush the oppressor!”  Are we seeking to help those who have no helper? …

THE ETERNALLY IMPORTANT GIFT OF GOD— HIS SON! But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his…

LOOK!  LISTEN!  CALL ON HIM NOW! Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man. He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him, who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations— let not the rebellious exalt themselves. —Psalm 66:5-7 Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for my soul. —Psalm 66:16             Open your eyes!  Look around you and see the obvious of what God has done.  Design, design, design of the Designer is all around us— the…

UNSHAKEABLE! For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. —Psalm 62:1-2  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. —Psalm 62:5-6 Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. —Psalm 62:8             Who do you trust?  Who can you pour your heart out to?  Who is your refuge?  God alone can be trusted 100% of the time. …

TRUE JOY— JESUS, OTHERS, YOURSELF O my Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love. —Psalm 59:17 Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength. —Nehemiah 8:10             Joy someone once said is “Jesus, others, yourself.”  JESUS— We are told 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, our top priority focus is to be Jesus.  OTHERS— Then we are told to “Love your neighbor as yourself.”  This will be our second…

THE WORD YOU CAN FULLY TRUST… AND IT IS NOT MAN’S! In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? —Psalm 56:4 In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me? —Psalm 56:10-11             Let me ask you a question— “In whose word are you trusting?”  “I trusted in the Lord when I said, ‘I am greatly afflicted’; in my alarm I said, ‘Everyone is a liar”’ (Psalm 116:10-11).  Paul repeated this truth when he quoted a Cretan prophet in Titus 1:12—…

FOOLS, FAITH AND THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE FOUNDATION The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good. God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one. —Psalm 53:1-3  …for I see violence and strife in the city.  Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it; ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace. —Psalm…