S216P10 – Psalms of promise: He knows you

Psa. 139:13-16 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.  I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.  My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths…

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S216P9 – Psalms of promise: He brings us rest

Psa. 127:1-2 Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.  Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.  It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.…

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S216P8 – Psalms of promise: the Lord is aware

Psa. 121:1-4 I lift up my eyes to the hills.  From where does my help come?  My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.  He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.  Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. It had been…

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Fulfillment that lasts

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ih7jd-1617b8c There is joy, meaning, and purpose to so much of this life, but the wrong perspective will send us looking for those things in places where we will never find them.  Let us seek God for direction for our fulfillment in life.

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S216P7 – Psalms of promise: we have the Lord forever

Psa. 100:1-5 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!  Serve the LORD with gladness!  Come into his presence with singing!  Know that the LORD, he is God!  It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.  Enter his gates with thanksgiving,…

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S216P6 – Psalms of promise: the Lord will be worshipped

Psa. 86:8-10 There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.  All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.  For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God. The world certainly did its…

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S216P5 – Psalms of promise: justice will come

Psa. 50:1-6 The Mighty One, God the LORD, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down.  Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God will shine forth.  Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent; a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very…

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S216P4 – Psalms of promise: a very present help

Psa. 46:1-3 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.  Therefore we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling. The brothers had ventured…

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S216P3 – Psalms of promise: compassion breeds compassion

Psa. 41:1-2 Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.  The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be blessed on the earth; You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.  The LORD will strengthen him on his bed of…

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S216P2 – Psalms of promise: confession brings forgiveness

Psa. 32:5 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long.  For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality was turned into the drought of summer. (Selah) I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden.  I said, “I will confess…

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