Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit. Psalm 50:10-12 Have Read more
Fill me with joy and gladness. Psalm 50:8 The reason why Psalm 50 was written was a heavy reason. David had guilt and shame over his egregious sins of adultery and murder. We’ve discussed the need to acknowledge sin and also reflected on the secret heart that each of us Read more
Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. Psalm 50:6 Today’s verse focuses on the phrase, “my secret heart.” Everyone has a secret heart, a place where they keep their deepest secrets, things like feelings that are too ugly to share with Read more
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy steadfast love; according to Thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Psalm 51:1 The numbering of the Psalms depends on which translation you read. In the Septuagint number versus the number in Bibles like the Revised Standard Version, the numbering is Read more
So everyone who acknowledges Me before men, I also will acknowledge before My Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies Me before men, I also will deny before My Father who is in heaven. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and Read more
All the saints who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, received promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing Read more
My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding. . . Yea, he shall see that even the wise die, the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others. Psalm 49:1, 10 We all spend a lot of time thinking about Read more
Be still and know that I Am God. Psalm 46:10 “The nations rage, the kingdoms totter.” (Psalm 46:6) One could read this verse and think of the current situations in this country of pandemic and civil unrest. One could also read this verse and think of the state of our Read more
Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security. Take delight in the Lord, and He Read more
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away though my groaning all day long. For day and night Read more
The Lord said, “See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father who is in heaven. What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has Read more
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, “If any one thirst, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” Now this He said Read more