Psalm 73:1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. “Heart is the wellspring of life” The Lord Jesus gave each one of us a heart. Have we ever thought why? What is the function of the heart? The heart pumps blood and gives life to every part […]
Psalm 119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold “Where your heart is; there your treasures lie” Lifestyle is a choice. Making choices is a choice. It has been so since the ‘Garden of Eden’. Every morning, when we wake up we make a choice, a choice to bless or to […]
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction – Proverbs 1:7 What creates fear in all of us? What is fear for each one of us? Do we fear people, situations or just our own folks? Why do we fear them? What kind of fear do we need to have […]
Psalm 96:4 – “For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.” “Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.” (Psalm 96:1) Why? “For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; He is to be feared above […]
Psalm 138:2 – “I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name. For your loving-kindness and Your truth; For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.” Don’t you just love the determination of David? His devotion and adoration and confidence are contagious. His readiness to praise the name of the Lord. Not […]
Psalm 62:7 – “In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength, And my refuge, is in God.” “He is my refuge, a rock where no enemy can reach me”. (NIV) There is a famous children’s story book entitled “The Three Little Pigs”. In the story, these little pigs are trying […]
Psalm 71:14 – “But I will hope continually, And will praise you yet more and more.” “As for me, I will always have hope”. (NIV) When we think of hope, we don’t associate it, or think, that hope is a direct consequence of suffering. Neither do we think that we should rejoice with suffering, when […]
Psalm 67:1 – “God be merciful to us and bless us, And cause His face to shine upon us.” May God be merciful to us and bless us, and look on us with kindness, truly show us His favor and smile on us. What beautiful words which express our desire to experiment the tender mercies […]
Psalm 34:2 – “My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear of it and be glad.” It is common to hear people boast about themselves: their achievements, ideas, plans, earnings, the list goes on. But the sweetest feeling is from a heart that gladly rejoices and boasts in the Lord, […]
Psalm 23:1 – “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.” Other versions of the same verse say “ I have all that I need; I will never be in need; I shall want nothing; I lack nothing.” Nothing means not any thing, it represents an absolute. And ‘absolute’ means very great or to the […]
