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Psalm 8 – God Visited Us
Psalm 8 is a Messianic Psalm that prophesies Jesus’ birth and His dominion over everything in the heavens and on the earth. Even in these first 4 verses…
Psalm 7 – My Defense is of God
Psalm 7 is a meditation from David concerning the words of Cush – a Benjamite. Many Biblical scholars believe this was written during the reign of King Saul while David was…
I Saw the Lord (Part 2) – The Place of Seeing
To operate in anything supernatural, we have to live every day in the place Isaiah lived - described in Isaiah 6 - before the throne of God and before the glory of the Lord…
Psalm 6 – The Voice of My Weeping
Psalm 6 is the first real lament of David against the Lord and where his heart is consumed with thoughts of his enemies. He is depressed. We can feel the anxiety…
Psalm 5 – Heard by God, Joyful in Him
I am a morning person, so I know that those who are not may want to throw things at me as I teach through the first three verses of this Psalm…
Personal Prayer #3, Pray for Courage
In 2010, out of concern for the direction of our country, My wife Patti and I founded the Sachse Tea Party. On March 7, 2011 we received a notice from the IRS that we had been singled out…
Psalm 4 – Safety & Peace in Distress
In that prayer His primary desire is for us to be with Him where He is – beholding His glory. When I stop and mediate on that idea – my life makes sense…
Do the Best Thing First
I felt fortunate to be at a mission’s conference in California when word of the Capitol riot came to me through my wife. I was able to focus on the conference and all it taught me. Since then…
Psalm 3 – I Will Not Be Afraid
This Psalm is a cry to the Lord for HELP when King David in his later years was fleeing from his son Absalom as his kingdom was being threatened…
I Saw the Lord (Part 1) – Seeing Before Telling
As believers in our culture, we want to be sent. We are ready to go. We are ready to preach, to serve God, to run for office, to build a business, to change the world and to make our lives count for eternity - BUT we forget something really important…
Psalm 2 – Why do the Nations Rage?
Why do leaders, rulers, and kings have to be so selfish? The Scripture here reminds us that “the people” are caught up in vanity and…
Psalm 23 – He is My Good Shepherd
This is the Psalm that everyone knows, everyone recites by memory, and it is quoted at every funeral and memorial service in America…
A Divine Strategy for this Hour
2020 has been a peculiar year to say to the least. On many occasions I have started a blog for our site but always have come to the same conclusion…
Psalm 139 – His Thoughts Toward Me
I absolutely adore Psalm 139. The words bring me to tears almost every time I read them. I have quoted sections of this Psalm over and over again in my life as…
Psalm 138 – Praise Comes From the Words of His Mouth
This is a short psalm, but in eight verses it describes the greatness of our God in a way that we can understand – in simplicity. Today in our post-modern world we are surrounded on every side by the “gods” of this world…
Personal Prayer #2, Pray for Wisdom
In this post we will look at the second bullet point, wisdom. If we are going to stand on the Word of God, then we must seek the wisdom to understand and articulate Biblical truth and a Biblical worldview. This begins with humility…
Personal Prayer #1, Pray for Humility
There are many prayer guides and devotionals, but there are three specific things that each believer should include in his or her personal prayers before engaging the civil society…
Psalm 100 – Enter into His Gates with Thanksgiving
There is a lot of red meat packed into the five verses of Psalm 100. Let’s read it together – this time in the King James Version (yes, the old version, it is so beautiful)…
Psalm 24 – His Glory Redeems the Earth
Psalm 24 proclaims the majesty and grandeur of God, but at the same time describes Him and His attributes in specific ways that we can relate to. Let’s start with the first section of this beautiful Psalm and I will show you what I mean…
Psalm 1 - The Blessed Man Feeds Himself the Word of God
There is only one important difference between saints and sinners, and that is the blood of Jesus. There is nothing else that separates us. We are Godly for one reason only, because we have been born from above and have taken on the nature of Christ by believing in the death