"But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him." - Psalm 4:3Have you ever prayed and felt like your words were bouncing off the ceiling? I know I have. There have been many times in my life where I wasn't sure the Lord was listening to me. I would pray faithfully, but the only response I got was silence.The truth of the matter, though, was that God d...  Read More

"O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah"- Psalm 4:2One of the hardest things most people ever go through is betrayal. When you are betrayed, the sting seems to never end. Every thought and every mention of the person who betrayed you brings back so much pain. And the result of that is that most of us shut down. We don't wan...  Read More

"Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!" - Psalm 4:1One of the most troublesome places to be in life is when it seems like your prayers are going unanswered. You cry out for the Lord to answer and sometimes all you receive is silence.I recently heard someone say that silence is God's first language. W...  Read More

"Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked. Salvation belongs to the Lord; your blessing be on your people! Selah." Psalm 3:7-8Have you ever wondered about the fierce love that God has for you? Do you believe that he even loves that way? Most preachers stay away from verses like this because of the implication - God is not a hip...  Read More

"I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me. I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around." Psalm 3:5-6Fear is a powerful emotion. It's controlling. It grabs us and won't let go. David in Psalm 3, has every right to be fearful. He is surrounded by those that want to do him harm. In fact he says he's surrounded by thousands who ha...  Read More

"But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah"- Psalm 3:3-4A while ago, I heard Dr. Henry Cloud talking about tears. He said that it was interesting to him that God decided to place our tear ducts on our face and not on our arm pits. If they were in our arm pits, he says, we could easily hide ou...  Read More

"O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God. Selah." Psalm 3:1-2When it comes to deceiving people, I believe one of the primary ways that the enemy does that is by getting us to believe we are all alone and that God isn't going to save us. In Psalm 3, David is a terrible position, his son has betrayed him and is rally...  Read More

"Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him." Psalm 2:12There is not much that is more intimate than a kiss. Most people would never dream of kissing their enemies and few today would kiss their friends. In today's society, we only kiss those that we are incredibly close to, typically your spouse, your childre...  Read More

"Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling." Psalm 2:11The Psalmist offers this advice to those of us who may take serving the Lord lightly. For those that may abuse his grace, the Psalmist admonishes us to serve the Lord with fear. This isn't an unhealthy fear, but a reverence.When we approach God, there must be a holy reverence in our interactions with Him. He is the King of the Unive...  Read More

Have any of you ever ridden in a car with someone and they are driving and they are looking at you while they are driving the car? How does that make you feel? It drives me nuts. Look at the road! Don’t look at me. I know you are talking to me. I’m paying attention. Don’t look at me. Look at where you are going. ‌Why does this bother us? Because what we look at or what we focus on is the direction...  Read More

"Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth." Psalm 2:10The road to the house that I grew up in was curvy. There were some pretty tight turns on the road, but because it was a main road at one time going from one city to the next, the speed limit on the road was 55. When I turned 16, my first car was a Geo Storm. It was not that great of a car, but it was pretty low to the g...  Read More

"You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” - Psalm 2:9Perhaps you have heard of Aesop's fable of the Oak Tree and the Reed. In this fable, the Oak Tree is proud of who he is and he says to the reed, "look at me, I am a strong oak tree, I am unmovable. You are a small reed; you bend and sway with the slightest of breezes. Nothing can blow me over, I'm ...  Read More

"For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1The Fourth of July is a day that we celebrate our independence as a nation. We broke free from England's rule and established ourselves as a free country, able to choose our own destiny. We celebrate with barbecues and fireworks.Today our country is struggling with whether we are ...  Read More

"Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession." Psalm 2:8If you could ask God for one thing, what would it be? Would it be money? Power? Wealth? There have been many people who have treated God like a genie in a lamp. They expect for Him to grant their wildest wishes and get mad when he seemingly doesn't respond.But what if there was something God...  Read More

"I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you." Psalm 2:7The Bible is really a story about family. Jesus made that abundantly clear when he encouraged his disciples to pray, "our Father, who art in heaven..." The message was clear. God is a father. And not just that he is a father, but that we are his children. We are sons and daughters of the king.Thi...  Read More

Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.” Psalm 2:5-6After the nations have joined together and plotted against the Lord, you would expect for the Lord to respond in fury. He does. The interesting thing about this passage is it goes back to the power of God's word. God doesn't raise up an army or send a pla...  Read More

"He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision." Psalm 2:4There is an old saying that laughter is the best medicine and scientifically speaking, there is some truth to that. It seems that laughter releases immune cells to help heal certain ailments in your body. Laughter also releases endorphins which fight stress and depression.For many of us we don't associate laughing with ...  Read More

"Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” - Psalm 2:1-3We live in confusing times. One of the most confusing things to some people has been the quick decent into evil and madness. The world l...  Read More

"For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish." - Psalm 1:6Have you ever been looking for a particular place and gotten really lost? What did you do? Did you stop and ask for directions? Did you pull out your map and retrace your steps? How did you feel being that lost?Many of us have experienced being completely lost and the feeling is unnerving. There is a p...  Read More

"Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;" Psalm 1:5The Psalmist spends the first part of the Psalm comparing two men, a righteous one and a wicked one. The comparison is stark. One way leads to life, the other to death. All men face this choice, either to trust in the Lord for their salvation or to walk a path that leads to death.The P...  Read More

"The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away." - Psalm 1:4Bob Dylan sang a song many years ago and asked a multitude of questions, like how many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? Dylan says the answer to life's questions was blowing in the wind. He evidently realized these were questions that you may ask and never get an answer.In the Bible, we see l...  Read More

"He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers." Psalm 1:3Imagine that you were trying to plant something in a desert. Where would you go to start a garden? You most certainly wouldn't do that on top of a sand dune. No, you would look for a reliable water source. In order for plants to thrive, you m...  Read More

"But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night." - Psalm 1:2There are many things that can bring us delight in this life. There are many things that can bring us joy. The law of the Lord is one of those things, although many of us have never looked at the law in this manner. Too often when we look at the law, all we see is a list of rules that we have to foll...  Read More

"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;" - Psalm 1:1Throughout the Bible we find the analogy that life is a journey and where you walk matters. Jesus would tell his disciples that they needed to enter into the kingdom by walking the narrow road. There are many times where we believe that we need to worry ab...  Read More