New Year’s Resolution

1 Corinthians 9:26-27 (ESV)
26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.
27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
New Year’s resolutions…I make them each year, always with good intentions.  Sometimes I do well and [...]

Children obey your parents

Ephesians 6:1-3 (ESV)
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
The bible is very clear about admonishing children to obey their [...]

When wisdom calls

Proverbs 1:26-28 (ESV)
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, 27 when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. 28 Then they will call upon me, but [...]

Judge me, O Lord

Psalms 7:8-12 (ESV)
8 The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. 9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds [...]

Rescue Me

Psalms 6:1-10 (ESV)
1 To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath. 2 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my [...]

Prayer for the Church

John 17:20-21 (ESV)
20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that [...]

What is Abundant Life?

John 10:10 (ESV)
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
God has really been working on my heart lately about my own excess and the poor.  Maybe it’s good to go through these struggles [...]

Prayer, Sacrifice and Expectations

Psalms 5:3 (ESV)
3 O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.
David is confident that God hears his prayers.  He knows God is listening and he is confident that God will answer.  He prepares a sacrifices [...]

God hears me even when he lets me struggle

Psalms 4:3 (ESV)
3 But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.
In my devotional, this Psalm about confidence in God hearing my prayers, made me think of when it appears God is not listening.
God loves me, [...]

A New Day

Psalms 3:5 (ESV)
5 I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.
I have often struggled reading the Psalms in the past.  Mostly because many are laments of David’s struggles and I often feel like I can’t relate to people wanting to kill me.

However, [...]

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