In Psalm 101, David shows how our worship doesn’t just come from our words of praise, but also from a life that flows out of a pure heart. There are things around us that could corrupt our heart though. What are they, and how do we shield our heart from them?
Today we’re going to look at the second step of restoring your confidence in God during difficult times. Once we take the first step of remembering God’s goodness and faithfulness, the next step is to have the right response toward what we remember. What is that response? Praise!
In Psalm 90, Moses uses the differences between how God interacts with time and how we interact with time to help us see the importance of trusting God, even when his provision and care for us isn’t necessarily on the same timeline as us.
While Book 3 describes the crisis of faith that Israel endured in the exile, Book 4 describes the way to move forward in your faith once again. It does that by calling us to look back to remember God’s faithfulness. And as we remember who God is, our response of worship and praise compels us…
When you find yourself in trouble, calling on someone to help you is critical in finding rescue. In those times, who do you call on? What do you say? In the same way that WE use the psalms to help us in times of trouble, in Psalm 86, David uses scripture to help him as…
What happens when you find yourself in a place where it seems like you’ve lost everything? And worse, it’s something you know you deserve? Today we’re going to look at what led the children of Israel to this very point. Psalm 79, tells the story of those who suffered this great loss. In their story,…
Psalm 73 is the story of one man’s journey through a time when he had lost the proper perspective of those around him, of himself, and of God. In this Psalm, he tells us how that mistaken perspective affected his heart and caused him to almost lose his faith in God. But we’re also going…
What happens when it seems that nothing in your life is visibly displaying the goodness of God? Wherever you look is distress, and it seems that there’s no way His promises will come true? When your faith is on a thread? Book 3 of Psalms walks us through those times, but it also shows us…
Peace for all mankind. It’s something that we all want and hope for, isn’t it? But no matter how hard we humans try, we never really seem to get close to achieving it do we? Psalm 72 points us to the reality of that peace by pointing us directly to its source: The coming righteous…
How important is it that you actively pursue God and His blessings, and then actively praise Him FOR His blessings? In Psalm 67, we discover that what is a very personal aspect of our relationship with God, at the same time has an incredibly huge impact to people all around us.
