Archives for September 2018

Psalm 135:3 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: Sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant. It does me good to sing to the Lord. I feel the praise and let the words flow through me more as I sing. I know that He has done so much for me. We are […]

Psalm 119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee Because of thy righteous judgments. I know that my thoughts can be dark and pensive. I know that I can live in doubt and fear. That is not who I need to be. I need to think of the great Word of God. I need […]

Psalm 115:12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron. A very comforting thought is that God thinks about His people. He has not forgotten us. He has not abandoned us. We are not on our own. We […]

Psalm 94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul. Sometimes when we get lost in thoughts, we can go down a deep hole. We can think negative thoughts that are not what the Bible teaches us. We can let fear and doubt take over. We can continue to discourage […]

Psalm 84:6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; The rain also filleth the pools. This valley of Baca refers to an arid, difficult, place that people passed through on the way to their destination. It was as though they might be passing through horrible times but God blessed even in […]

Psalm 78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: And they returned and inquired early after God. Amazing how they wouldn’t listen to God until He broke them. They had to hurt to be helped. We are so hard headed. We are so rebellious against God. We refuse to seek God. We refuse to […]

Psalm 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: But God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. There are times when the load gets too heavy to carry. The burdens of life weigh us down. We get tired. We don’t know what to do. We don’t know how to handle ourselves. […]

Psalm 63:6 When I remember thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night watches. What do you think about when you are in bed? What do you think about when you can’t sleep. Do you let your problems worry you to death? Do you begin to consider all that might happen to […]

Psalm 52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness. Just before this verse, the psalmist said that God was going to destroy those that didn’t believe Him and serve Him. God would take them away, take them […]

Psalm 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: Yea, thy law is within my heart. This verse should sum up how we feel. We should love God. We should have His law in our heart. We do not obey Him because of something outside of us but what He has done in […]

Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: Wait, I say, on the LORD. Things are hard. You are hurting. The answer is to wait on the Lord, to be confident, that He will meet your need. It takes courage to believe God when everything else screams […]

Psalm 18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, And sing praises unto thy name. David says that he will give thanks to the Lord even when he is with those that do not believe. He will sing praises to the Lord God of Heaven when he is around people […]

Psalm 13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. David was living in fear that Saul would take his life. He needed help. As David meditated on the Lord, he finally stated that he would and could trust in the mercy of the Lord. He would rejoice in […]

Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. When we go through the book of Job, it is hard to read. He suffers so much. His supposed […]

Job 32:10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion. Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite as he is called in the Bible wants to give his opinion. He has waited for all the older men to finish speaking. He is about to burst with the desire to talk. I […]

Job 31:25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because mine hand had gotten much; God had blessed Job with a great deal of wealth. Job knew that his joy was to be in God and not in the material goods that God had given him. Now as he is suffering, he reminds […]

Job 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months are with thee, Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; Man is not in charge. He feels like he is. Humanity wants to believe that they are the masters of their destiny. They want to think that they control what happens […]

Job 1:16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. How quickly we blame God. We think if something terrible happens He must […]

Esther 1:20 And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small. The king asked his wife Vashti to come out and parade her beauty before his men. He wanted her […]

Nehemiah 13:27 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives? Marrying a strange wife was a way to walk away from God. This word strange here would refer to them being foreigners. It wasn’t about race or language but religion. Strange women […]

Nehemiah 6:13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me. Nehemiah’s enemies attempt to cause him to be afraid. He realizes what they have in mind. If he becomes fearful, he might do something […]

Nehemiah 4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them. They prayed to God. They knew they needed what only God could do, but while they were praying, they were watching. They set up guards. They needed God to answer and work, but […]