Scripture: Psalms
Bless the Lord, O My Soul
Praise, laud, and magnify the Lord for His unbounded lovingkindness that He has set on you and on all who bow before Him as Savior and Lord.
Dimensions of Suffering
Psalm 22 seems to have more connections to Jesus’ suffering than any other Psalm. It helps us understand more of what Jesus went through and it also helps us understand how to deal with all kinds of suffering we go through.
Choose to Trust
Our series on biblical lament concludes with a focus on a fourth “step” in prayers of lament: choosing to trust. This is the hopeful landing place after we’ve turned to God in prayer, voiced our complaints, and lifted up our requests.
Ask Boldly
While crying is natural, crying out to God is not, because it’s antithetical to our natural human bent.
Bring Your Complaint
What is Biblical lament? “A prayer in pain that leads to trust.”
Thoughts for 2017: Experiencing Friendship With God
“The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him,
and he makes known to them his covenant.”
Seek This Lost Sheep
Our natural thinking needs reprogramming. God uses His word to recode our hearts and minds, making us like-minded communicators with Him.
Change-busters
To keep growing and changing, we need to hate our sin and humbly take it our merciful God instead of proudly justifying, minimizing, or concealing it.