With Jack Bailey
Scripture Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. ~Psalm 139:14, NLT Quote “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything to stop them.” ~Albert Einstein I am not a doctor and so I am…
Scripture O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. ~Psalm 39:1, NLT Quote The ONE who knows you best, loves you most. ~Warren W. Wiersbe What can I say, Psalms 139 blows my mind. It absolutely amazes me. I read it and I am struck with awe, totally dumbfounded. When I…
Scripture As soon as I pray, you answer me; you encourage me by giving me strength. Psalm 138:3, NLT Quote Confidence can live in silence but insecurites are loud. ~Image Quotes David was a great leader and one of his strengths was his bold confidence. His strength was his secret to success. David did not…
Scripture Beside the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept as we thought of Jerusalem. ~Psalm 137:1, NLT Quote You who are called Christians, if you be not criers, there is no spiritual life in you. ~John Bunyan Psalm 137 is an account or recollection of the Jewish exile in Babylon. The Psalmist experienced the…
Scripture Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! His faithful love endures forever. ~Psalm 136:1, NLT Quote “God is good beyond all others, indeed, He alone is good in the highest sense of the word: He is the source of good, the good of all good, the sustainer of good, the perfecter of…
Scripture Oh, praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, you who serve at night in the house of the LORD. ~Psalm 134:1, NLT Quote Man’s chief work is the praise of God. ~Augustine Psalm 134 is the last of the ascent Psalms and is basically a benediction or a blessing on the pilgrims…
Scripture Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity! ~Psalm 133:1, NASB Quote By sticking together, snow flakes can stop traffic. ~Anonymous This is the fourteenth of ascent Psalms written to encourage unity among God’s people as they journeyed to Jerusalem to celebrate together. It is a wonderful…
Scripture LORD, remember David… He vowed to the Mighty One of Israel, “I will not go home; I will not let myself rest. I will not let my eyes sleep…until I find a place to build a house for the LORD.” ~Psalm 132:1-5, selected, NLT Quote “Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church…
Scripture Surely I have composed and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child rests aganist his mother, my soul is like a weaned child within me. ~Psalm 131:2, NASB Quote “Hope is never ill when faith is well.” ~John Bunyan This is a very short Psalm written by David but it is packed with liberating…
Scripture LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive? ~Psalm 130:3, NLT Quote The only way to cover sin is to uncover sin: confess it to Christ our Redeemer. ~Richard Sibbes Psalm 130 is the sixth of seven penitential Psalms and the eleventh of 15 ascent Psalms. The author…