beautifully describe who you were created to be, and even more so, these two psalms describe the One who made From the very first word, it becomes clear that God wants you to live a blessed life, that is, a life This is the massively consequential choice you must make every moment of every day: will you walk, stand It's constantly invading our minds and thoughts through nearly every media possible. Keep your roots firmly planted in the streams of Living Water and turn off every source of temptation

Actually, we increase our guilt every day. A customer would bring an item to the layaway department, and make a small payment on that item. What would it be like to go to the layaway department to make your final payment on the item, only to every day! Just because you sin, and your sin increases every day, does not mean that you should stop asking for

Lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground. 7  Sing to the Lord with grateful praise; make music to our God on the harp. 8  He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes through the blood of the cross  (by which he confirmed the new covenant)  should effectively redeem  from every Yet His atonement effectively redeems  from every people, tribe, nation, and language  all those and Sing to the LORD with grateful praise; make music to our God on the harp... Extol the LORD...

Faithlife.com CONTEXT for our new readers: every Friday this year, we'll be reading a Psalm. It's eerie how well this describes what happened to the man & woman when the shrewd serpent slithered That is, he makes God's Word the center of his life - it's the primary purpose and priority of his day Dig Deeper   Read in isolation, Psalm 1 makes the blessed life seem hopelessly unattainable. LIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that you'll be able to resist sin's slow tug and that you'll make

he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every Since every day we keep stacking up more and more sin, it would seem to make sense that every day Christ After all, the Hebrew priests way back in the days of the temple had to continually make sacrifices because In doing this he acted very well and honorably, taking account of the resurrection. 44 For if he were So at the end of the week, we've learned that the Apocrypha is very useful as an appendix to the Bible

and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every 13  Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that The Lamb did not purchase the salvation of every single individual. No, He paid the price for His elect, that is, for men out of every tribe and tongue, etc. Take time today to thank God that He has saved people from every corner of the earth, and pray that Christ

In God We Trust ​ Article 5: The Sources of Unbelief and of Faith James 1:13-18 - The Devil (didn't) Make 45:21-25 - Irrevocable Ezekiel 36:24-27 - A Whole New Reality Romans 9:15-21 - God's Mercy, Not Your Effort But since Greek is easier to understand than you might think, you can recognize and make sense of some First of all, they come at the very end of one of the most detailed books in the Bible explaining who It only makes sense that in order for you to live and love the way Christ did, you must first know Christ

Destroy the devil’s work; destroy every force which revolts against you and every conspiracy against teaches, praying “your kingdom come” is a way of asking God to destroy the devil’s work by destroying every force which revolts against him and every conspiracy against his holy Word. Where your allegiance lies will be seen in the choices you make. Take to heart John’s encouragement from today’s scripture passage by living lives of righteousness because

The answer comes in the very next verse. This sounds like a good thing, so it might be surprising to find out Pelagius' efforts sparked one of therefore, each person was born morally neutral with the ability to live a sinless life by their own efforts

Thus, if the marvelous Maker of every good thing were not dealing with us,  we would have no hope of because they communicated divine truth - God's Word - and truth has never been popular, nor will it ever Thus, the Canons continue, if the marvelous Maker of every good thing were not dealing with us, we would Dig Deeper   Jeremiah goes on to make a peculiar request in this short prayer: for the LORD to discipline