Childlike Faith

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…

Forgiveness, Who Needs It?

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…

Treated Like Dirt

Scripture The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.” The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.  ~Psalm 129:3-4, NRSV Quote “Christianity is not a subtraction of all problems but the addition of God’s GRACE to help us overcome these problems.” ~Max Anders The history of Israel is one…

Successful Living

Scripture  How blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in His ways. ~Psalm 128:1, NASB Quote “If I had to die like an animal and there be no hereafter, I would still choose to be a Christian, for of all lives that can be lived, there is none that can compare with this.”…

Forging A Family Of Faith

Scripture Unless the LORD builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted. Unless the LORD protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good. Quote No amount of human sacrifice and toil will accomplish much without the LORD’s blessing. ~Warren W. Wiersbe Solomon wrote Psalm 127 and it is a masterpiece.…

Like A Dream

Scripture When the LORD brought back his exiles to Jerusalem, it was like a dream!  We were filled with laughter, and we sang for joy. And the other nations said, “What amazing things the LORD has done for them.”  ~Psalm 126:1-2, NLT Quote God can do more in five minutes than man can do in ten…

Eternal Security

Scripture Those who trust in the LORD are as secure as Mount Zion; they will not be defeated but will endure forever. ~Psalm 125:1, NLT Quote Faith puts God between us and our circumstances. ~Daniel Webster Wiersbe says this Psalm speaks of three kinds of people: [1] THE FAITHFUL–those who trust the LORD, [2] THE…

Omnipotent Protection

Scripture What if the LORD had not been on our side when people attacked us?  They would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger. ~Psalm 124:2-3, NLT Quote Every child of God has an omnipotent guardian, and God will sooner empty heaven of angels as to leave a saint unguarded. ~Charles H. Spurgeon Psalm 124…

Faith Leading To Mercy

Scripture We keep looking to the LORD our God for His mercy, just as servants keep their eyes on their master. ~Psalm 123:2, NLT Quote Faith is the spiritual vision of the believing soul that looks beyond this present reality and circumstances. ~Steven J. Lawson Faith is looking up to God. It is seeing beyond…

Celebrative Worship

Scripture I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.” ~Psalm 122:1, NLT Quote There is nothing more unchristian than a solitary Christian. ~John Wesley This is the third of 15 Ascent Psalms and the first of three that David wrote. The first Ascent Psalm [120] pictured…