With Jack Bailey
Scripture Even if my father and mother abandon me, the Lord will hold me close. ~Psalm 27:10, NLT Quote If you don’t find contentment in Jesus Christ, you will not find it anywhere else. ~Warren W. Wiersbe David’s parents did not forsake him but at the time he wrote Psalm 27, he was in doubt…
Scripture I trust in You; do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. ~Psalm 25:2, NIV Quote Jesus endured what David feared. ~Ya’akov I think I was in the seventh grade when I was forced to read Nathanael Hawthorn’s THE SCARLET LETTER. Hester Prynne was a young woman…
Scripture Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people? ~Jeremiah 8:22, NIV Quote In the quiet echoes of His Word, wounds find their balm, and hearts find their rest. ~Source Unknown I read Psalm 16 last Sunday morning. It was…
Scripture My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? ~Psalm 22:1, NIV Quote The prayers of David were prayed also by Christ. Or better, Christ prayed them through His forerunner David. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer I don’t remember anyone {Professor, pastor or teacher} telling me the value of using the Psalms in your devotional time as…
Scripture In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain.” ~Psalm 11:1, NIV Quote Fleeing is usually an act of self-preservation. It is an attempt to save our own skin at the expense of those around us. ~Ya’akov I am currently reading the NIV…
Scripture Listen to how they whisper their slander against me, saying: “Look! He is hopeless! Even God cannot save him from this!” ~Psalm 3:2, TPT Quote Not only does the devil seek to destroy our dignity and honor; he tries to undermine our very confidence in the good intent of God to bless and to…
Scripture All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before Him, for dominion belongs to the Lord and He rules over the nations. ~Psalm 22:27-28, NIV Quote You asks me what the world is coming to, and I will tell…
Scripture Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; He will never permit the righteous to be moved. ~Psalm 55:22, NRSV Quote It is infinitely better to have the whole world as an enemy and God as a friend than to have the whole world as a friend and God as the…
Scripture It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. ~Psalm 119:71, NIV Quote Humility is the most priceless of all gems, one of the most glorious manifestations of the fruit of the Spirit. ~Martyn Lloyd-Jones I am about to finish Martyn Lloyd-Jones book on Spiritual Depression and I…
Scripture I look to the hills! Where will I find help? It will come from the Lord, who created heaven and earth. ~Psalm 121:1-2, CEV Quote Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God. ~E.M. Bounds The word translated hills in the CEV and KJV, is translated mountains in the…