Wednesday, November 6, 2024
The Walking Wounded
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
"You Do Not Oppress or Mistreat Others."
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Saturday, November 2, 2024
You encircle me with Your strength
-internet Scotland
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-Abridged
“I love You, Lord, my strength.”
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my savior, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, And I am saved from my enemies.
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In my distress I called upon the Lord, And cried to my God for help; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry for help before Him came into His ears.
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He also brought me out into an open place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me.
The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord, And have not acted wickedly against my God.
For all His judgments were before me, And I did not put away His statutes from me.
I was also blameless with Him, And I kept myself from my wrongdoing.
Therefore the Lord has repaid me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.
With the faithful You show Yourself faithful; With the blameless You prove Yourself blameless;
With the pure You show Yourself pure, And with the crooked You show Yourself astute.
For You save an afflicted people, But You humiliate haughty eyes.
For You light my lamp; The Lord my God illumines my darkness.
For by You I can run at a troop of warriors; And by my God I can leap over a wall.
As for God, His way is blameless; The word of the Lord is refined; He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God,
The God who encircles me with strength, And makes my way blameless?
He makes my feet like deer’s feet, And sets me up on my high places.
He trains my hands for battle, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, And Your right hand upholds me; And Your gentleness makes me great.
You enlarge my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped
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For You have encircled me with strength for battle; You have forced those who rose up against me to bow down under me.
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, And I destroyed those who hated me.
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You have rescued me from the contentions of the people; You have placed me as head of the nations; A people whom I have not known serve me.
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The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation,
The God who executes vengeance for me, And subdues peoples under me.
He rescues me from my enemies; You indeed lift me above those who rise up against me; You rescue me from a violent man.
Therefore I will give thanks to You among the nations, Lord, And I will sing praises to Your name.
He gives great salvation to His king, And shows faithfulness to His anointed, To David and his descendants forever.
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Friday, November 1, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Fishers of Men
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
The Lord sustains all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Protection From Sin
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Terrifying Storm Clouds
You can "see" all of "this" will turn out in an awful way, but your adult child says he can handle it.
He thinks he will handle it.
He is an adult and he is in charge of himself, but it turns out that "they" know exactly how to control others...and so, in reality, he can't handle it.
Thus begins your precious child's life caught in a "web" of control that you can not solve.
The LORD will solve it His Way
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What do you do?
Pray for your child!
For the rest of your life, pray for this child!
Rest in the LORD as you pray for this child!
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Proverbs 3:3-5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.
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Friday, October 25, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Preserve Your Life! Do Not Consent!
..."The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction
And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;
Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head
And ornaments about your neck.
My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.
If they say, “Come with us,
Let us lie in wait for blood,
Let us ambush the innocent without cause;
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
We will find all kinds of precious wealth,
We will fill our houses with spoil;
Throw in your lot with us,
We shall all have one purse,”
My son, do not walk in the way with them.
Keep your feet from their path,
For their feet run to evil
And they hasten to shed blood.
Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net
In the sight of any bird;
But they lie in wait for their own blood;
They ambush their own lives.
So are the ways of everyone
who gains by violence;
It takes away the life of its possessors."...
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Monday, October 14, 2024
I Remember Your Name, LORD, in the Night
Psalm 119:49-56
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Children of God: You are the Apple of His Eye
*The phrase "the apple of one's eye" refers to a vulnerable spot that is protected and cherished.
For example, God held the Israelites as the apple of His eye, even though they were rebellious.
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Thursday, October 10, 2024
See the Goodness of the LORD!
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Grief is Simply being Love in Disguise
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A Precious way to explain a reality.
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Isaiah 53:4-5
..."Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed."...
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Saturday, October 5, 2024
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
The LORD Holds those Who Trust in HIm
Two months is too little
They let him go, they had no sudden healing
To think that providence would
Take a child from his mother while she prays is appalling
Who told us we'd be rescued?
What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares?
We're asking why this happens to us who have died to live
It's unfair
This is what it means to be held
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved
And to know that the promise was when everything fell
We'd be held
This hand is bitterness
We wanna taste it, let the hatred numb our sorrow
The wise hand opens slowly
To lilies of the valley and tomorrow
This is what it means to be held
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved
And to know that the promise was when everything fell
We'd be held
If hope is born of suffering
If this is only the beginning
Can we not wait for one hour
Watching for our Savior?
This is what it means to be held
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved
And to know that the promise was when everything fell
We'd be held
This is what it is to be loved
And to know that the promise was when everything fell
We'd be held
This is what it means to be held
-Held, written by Christa Nichole Wells
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Jeremiah 17:7-8
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord
And whose trust is the Lord.
“For he will be like a tree planted by the water,
That extends its roots by a stream
And will not fear when the heat comes;
But its leaves will be green,
And it will not be anxious in a year of drought
Nor cease to yield fruit.
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The LORD is our Bulwark!
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