TO KNOW HIS WAYS Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. —Psalm 25:4-5 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. —Psalm 25:8-9 Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose. —Psalm 25:12             Here are some prerequisites for those who will be taught by our Lord— He is the God of their…

MAKING YOUR NAME GREAT OR OUR LORD’S And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not… —Jeremiah 45:5 The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. —Psalm 24:1-2 He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah —Psalm 24:5-6             Who are you?  Where does your significance come from?  What do you value?  Where are you going in life?  Where do you want…

LISTEN TO OUR SHEPHERD! 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 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. —Psalm 23:1             Oh, praise our Lord God Almighty brothers and sisters, fellow followers of Jesus.  He is our Shepherd and we are the sheep of His pasture (Psalm 95:7; 100:3).  “We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one” (I John 5:19).  So let us rejoice.  We know where we are headed and we know where this world is headed. …

HE IS MY HELP! Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help. —Psalm 22:11 But you, O LORD, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid! —Psalm 22:19             When it comes right down to it, who can truly help me in any situation I find myself?  It is only our Lord that can truly help me.  True, others seek to come to my aid and encourage me, but still, it is only my Lord that can truly help me with my thoughts, words, actions and circumstances.  I need to look to Him foremost!  And… I can…

HE IS MY HELP! Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help. —Psalm 22:11 But you, O LORD, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid! —Psalm 22:19             When it comes right down to it, who can truly help me in any situation I find myself?  It is only our Lord that can truly help me.  True, others seek to come to my aid and encourage me, but still, it is only my Lord that can truly help me with my thoughts, words, actions and circumstances.  I need to look to Him foremost!  And… I can…

CALL ON HIM AND WAIT ON HIM! Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it—the LORD is his name: Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. —Jeremiah 33:2-3             What a privilege we have!  Our Lord God Almighty, the One who made the earth, the One who formed the earth, the One who established the earth invites us to call on Him.  He promises that if we do call on Him, He will answer us.  He not only will answer us, but He will tell us of “great and…

MAN IS IN REBELLION AGAINST GOD Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? —Jeremiah 30:6             “Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child?”  This is a question that the Lord God Almighty is asking.  On one hand it is a rhetorical question and the obvious answer is “no!”  But we live in a time, though mankind has been rebellious in many way since the since Adam and Eve sinned, that the satanically induced mental instability has people answering “yes” today to this question.  This is in direct opposition to what God says.  Why? “Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?  The…

ALIVE AND LIVING ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSES! “It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.” —Jeremiah 27:5  The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. —Psalm 19:1-4 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven…

LOVING HIM OR DESPISING HIM IS A DESTINY DETERMINATOR They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No disaster shall come upon you.’ —Jeremiah 23:17 “For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened. —Jeremiah 23:3 I love you, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in…

IN EVIL TIMES, KEEP FOCUSED ON JESUS AND HIS DESIRES If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. —Jeremiah 18:7-11 But they say, ‘That…