Peace And Calm

Scripture Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ~John 15:27, NKJV Quote Can we help other people without using them to help ourselves? ~Sarah Young Sarah Young’s famous devotional JESUS…

Jesus In The Psalms

Scripture Now is the appointed time, LORD, for Your compassion and mercy to be poured out–the appointed time has come for Your prophets’s promises to be fulfilled. ~Psalm 102:13, TPT Quote The LORD {Yahweh} was before and separate from His creation of heaven and earth and He will again change and renew them. {Just like…

All Our Sins

Scripture And He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. ~Psalm 130:8, NASB Quote Your sins can darken your awareness of God’s love, but they cannot darken the reality of that love. ~Dana Ortlund Sin carries a lot of consequences which is why God encouraged Adam and Eve not to sin. Death is one of…

Worship

Scripture Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! ~Psalm 150:6, ESV Quote Worship in spirit and truth is the most soul stirring, heart warming experience we can have. It is a little bit of heaven here on earth. ~Steve Lawson Of all God’s creatures, man is the only one in rebellion. The…

Fascination Of Fascinations

Scripture Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; According to the abundance of Your compassion blot out my transgressions. ~Psalm 51:1, LSB Quote David was further along spiritually the most New Testament believers. ~Martyn Lloyd Jones When I read the above quote in Martyn Lloyd Jones devotional, I wrote in the margin,…

The Brevity of Life

Scripture “How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble! We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.” ~Job 14:1-2, NLT Quote Your life is a ‘breath’, don’t waste it. LeCrae I was in Psalm 144 last night and in verse 4, the Psalmist said, Man is like a…

Dodging The Spears

Scripture  Saul hurled his spear at David. But David dodged out of the way, and leaving the spear stuck in the wall, he fled and escaped into the night. ~ 1 Samuel 19:10, NLT Quote Pain and sorrow are doubled when endured alone, but greatly lessened when borne by another beside us. ~Drew Hunter Many…

The Gate Keeper

Scripture And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By His death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. ~Hebrews 10:19-20, NLT Quote What right do we have to speak to God? There is only one answer–Jesus! ~Martyn Lloyd Jones…

Praise HIM

Scripture All He {God} does is just and good, and all His commandments are trustworthy. They are forever true, to be obeyed faithfully and with integrity. ~Psalm 111:7-8, NLT Quote Awe is the proper response to God’s goodness. ~Steve Lawson There is no separating who God is from what God does. His actions and attributes are inseparably united.…

A Hiding Place

Scripture You are my hiding place and my shield; I wait for Your word. ~Psalm 119:114, NASB Quote There is only one safe hiding place. ~Rebecca Jordan I did a brief study of Psalm 62 during my devotional time yesterday. It is a great Psalm where David confesses his dependence on the LORD. David said, “I…