Psalm 51:7: Behold, you desire truth deep within me and shall make me understand wisdom in the depths of my heart.
If we want to know the truth and live by the truth we need to stop and listen to the truth! How will we know unless we listen?
The Holy Spirit is here with us today, just as God the Father and Jesus Christ have told us and he is trying to teach us real wisdom which dwells deep in our hearts.
Only the one who knows the truth can give us this truth. Only the one who shares it with us can teach us properly.
The real truth starts deep within us and wells up until it spills over and everyone around us sees this truth. Believe in God and have the faith to trust him entirely!
Psalm 119:105: Your word is a lantern to my feet and a light unto my path.
I may have used this verse quite a few times in the past, but it underpins where I get my peace from. The word of God.
No matter what sort of day I am having or what sort of predicament I am in, there is always something God has to comfort me through the words in the bible.
The more we get to know it and accept it, the more we get out of it and the more we can survive when the world around us is crumbling to dust.
I always look to God when things go wrong because I know he has promised to always be there for me!
Psalm 89:1: My song shall be always of the loving-kindness of the Lord: with my mouth will I proclaim your faithfulness throughout all generations.
Who is king in your life? Do you lift yourself up, or do you lift God up as first and foremost?
In this modern world we are taught to lift ourselves up so we can have pride in what we do; but the world teaches you a pride which is selfish and does not praise others where praise is due!
God wants us to acknowledge him as king and make sure we give him the glory for all he does in our lives. When we acknowledge that he is king, he is teacher and he is our Saviour, we get to glorify him just as we should be doing
God wants us to spread this pride in Christ through all generations, to give people hope in God and someone to look up to, someone who deserves our praise!
Psalm 80:4: Turn us again, O God; show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
What happens to you when you find yourself in trouble? Who do you turn to? Who is the one who normally helps out no matter what?
Most of us will think of a person, friend or relative who is always there for us; but what we should be recognising is the One who is always there... God!
When things do go wrong, he is patiently waiting for us to admit we are wrong and come back to him. He wants to help!
But, we have to be the ones who make the first move (in our eyes - because he is already there and waiting) so we can come back to him.