With Jack Bailey
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 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…
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…
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.”…
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.…
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…
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…