BEWARE!  OUR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY WILL AVENGE! O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. —Psalm 94:1-4 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him…

WE WILL SOON BE GONE FROM THIS EARTH— BE READY! Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!” For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers…. For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our…

DEATH IS COMING TO ALL— SPEAK THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS TO THEM! I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. —Psalm 89:1 The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them. —Psalm 89:11 What man can live and never see death? —Psalm 89:48 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”  How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?…

LISTEN AND YIELD TO WHAT HE SAYS! I will listen to what God the Lord says; he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants— but let them not turn to folly. —Psalm 85:8 Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. —Psalm 86:11             Have you listened to what God the Lord is saying to you today?  He is telling you the way to go.  Will you yield to Him?  Are you relying on His faithfulness or your own strength and ideas?  Is your heart divided or are you seeking to apply the greatest command that Jesus…

FELLOW FOLLOWER OF JESUS— WE ARE SAFE AND SECURE IN HIM! Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of…

BE FOCUSED ON THE ETERNAL, NOT THE TEMPORAL I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. —Romans 8:18 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.—II Corinthians 4:16-18             Where is our focus?  Where are we fixing our eyes?  Are we focusing on…

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? …