Psalm 85-4-13 – Restore us again, God our Savior, and put away your displeasure toward us. 5 Will You be angry with us forever? Will You prolong Your anger through all generations? 6 Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You? 7 Show us Your unfailing love, Lord, and grant us Your salvation. 8 I will listen to what God the Lord says; He…
Continue ReadingOh Lord My God I don’t know how to express My need for You and my Love of You. Oh Lord You are: The rising sun after a very dark night. A cool breeze when sweat from life covers me. The strong arm who pulls me up when I am collapsed. Mountaintop rest after a…
Continue ReadingEzekiel 3:18 “When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.” James 1:14-15 “but each person…
Continue ReadingHow highly do we regard God? It shows in how we live and how we speak. Our regard for God is revealed by what we believe and by what we think. If we consider God so far above us that He and His ways are beyond our complete understanding, then that is only the beginning…
Continue ReadingPsalm 82:3-4 “Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” Proverbs 31:8-9 “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. 9 Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the…
Continue ReadingJude 5-7 – Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment…
Continue ReadingProverbs 15:8 – The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases Him. When a person who does not love God and who is not repentant of his evil ways, makes a sacrifice to appease the Lord, does that please the Lord? This verse clearly shows that it does not. It is clearly…
Continue ReadingJude 5 – Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. Jude refers back to when God supernaturally rescued Israel from Egypt. There was no doubt that it was God who provided the miraculous that saved them. …
Continue ReadingJude 4 – For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. Remembering that in V3 Jude had intended to write a letter to encourage and uplift the saints,…
Continue ReadingMatthew 28:18-20 – Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with…
Continue Reading