Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Old Testament

Oh May It Never Be So!

PSALM 130 – Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! O Lord, hear my voice!  Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,…

His Was Are Not Our Ways

JOB 36:15 – He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  HIS WAYS ARE NOT OUR WAYS.  The theme of today’s nugget comes from a familiar passage in the major prophet book of Isaiah – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For…

Thanksgiving From The Depths

JONAH 2:1-9 –Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish, saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me;…

Waiting On The Lord

HOSEA 12:6 – “So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  WAITING ON THE LORD.  Waiting is hard, especially when we are in the depths of sorrow needing God’s comfort, in the depths of trial needing God’s strength, and in the depths of loneliness…