OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF INDIVIDUALS AND NATIONS The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”  So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.  And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.  Then the word of the LORD came to me:  “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so…

HEAVENLY BODIES AHEAD!  As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness. —Psalm 17:15 Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. —Psalm 90:10 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. —Philippians 3:21 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable. …

CONFIDENT IN HIS WILL I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. —Jeremiah 10:23 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. —Proverbs 16:9 A person’s steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand their own way? —Proverbs 20:24 The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him. —Psalm 37:23 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. —Proverbs 3:5-6 I will…

BOAST IN THE LORD & BE LIKE THE LORD! Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.” —Jeremiah 9:23-24             Don’t boast in your wisdom.  Don’t boast in your might.  Don’t boast in your riches.  Instead, boast in that you understand and know the Lord.  Boast in He who practices “steadfast…

FOOLS WHO BLUSH NOT Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. —Jeremiah 6:15 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good. —Psalm 14:1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9oJbILu1A             Look even at the abominations that are taking place in our culture.  Things that people would have once blushed over are now being accepted today as normal: abortion, homosexuality, gender identity, living together… All these things are being accepted as normal when God sees them as sin.  There is no shame of these things in much of…

BE HUNGRY! And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. —Jeremiah 3:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FtpxUt5so             Now here is what shepherds do who have hearts after His own heart— they “feed you with knowledge and understanding.”  It is the shepherd/pastor’s desire that others would know Him and understand Him.  Personally, there gives me no greater joy than to see a follower of Jesus know and understand what the Lord God Almighty is saying to them and then they make the application of His Word to their life.             But I need to understand what He is saying and how to apply His…

FATHER’S DAY IS STILL FATHER’S DAY REGARDLESS OF WHAT THOSE OPPOSING SAY! On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man. —Psalm 12:8 This is Father’s Day of 2019.  If the prowling wicked have their way they will get rid of the word father… and mother.  The vileness that “is exalted among the children of man” seeks the absolute antithesis of God’s wonderful design.  He made them male and female, man and woman.  The vileness of the wicked seeks a genderless society at the least by words. Here is a list of gender-neutral pronouns: Typically, you won’t use one of these gender-neutral pronouns unless…

TESTS COME FOR THE FOLLOWER OF JESUS! The LORD tests the righteous. —Psalm 11:5  The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. —Deuteronomy 13:3 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold. —Job 23:10 For you, God, tested us. —Psalm 66:10 I tested you at the waters of Meribah. —Psalm 81:7 Testing will surely come. —Ezekiel 21:13 Do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness. —Hebrews 3:8 By faith Abraham, when God tested him. —Hebrews 11:5  The testing of your faith…

ENJOY LIFE WITH YOUR WIFE! Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. —Ecclesiastes 9:9             Enjoy life with your wife!  Yes, this is what we are to be doing who are married.  Life may be uncertain.  It is like smoke that can be seen, but cannot be held, cannot be controlled and fades quickly.  We do not know what tomorrow will bring— “Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You…

BE A GIVER OF WHAT HE GAVE YOU! He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. —Ecclesiastes 5:11  There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt. — Ecclesiastes 5:13 Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God. — Ecclesiastes 5:19 Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into…