"HOMESICK"

Psalm 84

 

¹ How lovely are Your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

 

² My soul yearns, yes, even pines and is homesick for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out and sing for joy to the living God.

 

³ Yes, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young—even Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

 

⁴ Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are those who dwell in Your house and Your presence; they will be singing Your praises all the day long. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

 

⁵ Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

 

⁶ Passing through the Valley of Weeping (Baca), they make it a place of springs; the early rain also fills [the pools] with blessings.

 

⁷ They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power]; each of them appears before God in Zion.

 

⁸ O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

 

⁹ Behold our shield [the king as Your agent], O God, and look upon the face of Your anointed!

 

¹⁰ For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else]; I would rather be a doorkeeper and stand at the threshold in the house of my God than to dwell [at ease] in the tents of wickedness.

 

¹¹ For the Lord God is a Sun and Shield; the Lord bestows [present] grace and favor and [future] glory (honor, splendor, and heavenly bliss)! No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

 

¹² O Lord of hosts, blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts in You [leaning and believing on You, committing all and confidently looking to You, and that without fear or misgiving]!

Psalm 139

"GOD'S OMNIPRESENCE AND OMNIPOTENCE"

 

 

¹ O Lord, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have known me.

 

² You know my down sitting and my uprising; You understand my thought afar off.

 

³ You sift and search out my path and my lying down, and You are acquainted with all my ways.

 

⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue [still uttered], but, behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.

 

⁵ You have beset me and shut me in—behind and before, and You have laid Your hand upon me.

 

⁶ Your [infinite] knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high above me, I cannot reach it.

 

⁷ Where could I go from Your Spirit? Or where could I flee from Your presence?

 

⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol (the place of the dead), behold, You are there.

 

⁹ If I take the wings of the morning or dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

 

¹⁰ Even there shall Your hand lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.

 

¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night shall be [the only] light about me,

 

¹² Even the darkness hides nothing from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

 

¹³ For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother’s womb.

 

¹⁴ I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well.

 

¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if embroidered with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness and mystery].

 

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them.

 

¹⁷ How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

 

¹⁸ If I could count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awoke, [could I count to the end] I would still be with You.

 

¹⁹ If You would [only] slay the wicked, O God, and the men of blood depart from me—

 

²⁰ Who speak against You wickedly, Your enemies who take Your name in vain!

 

²¹ Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You? And am I not grieved and do I not loathe those who rise up against You?

 

²² I hate them with perfect hatred; they have become my enemies.

 

²³ Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!

 

²⁴ And see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

"PLANS"



Proverbs 21:5         
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.


Proverbs 16:9     
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.


Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.


Proverbs 15:22     
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

James 4:13-16         

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil

Jeremiah 29:11         

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

"ASK, SEEK AND KNOCK"

Matthew 7:7         

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

John 16:24        
Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Matthew 19:26         
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”        

Luke 1:37         

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 6:33         
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.


IT IS THIS WRITER'S SINCERE PRAYER, THAT THE WEALTH OF GOD'S WORD WILL STRENGTHEN YOUR INNER MAN THIS DAY, AND ALWAYS.

BOW BEFORE HIM TODAY, WHO ALONE IS WORTHY. 

"DOUBLE-MINDED"

James 4:6-10

 

⁶ But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”^[a]

⁷ Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

 

 

James 4:13-15

Boasting About Tomorrow

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” ¹⁴ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

"MUSTARD SEED"

Luke 17:6         
And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. 

Zechariah 4:6         

Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 4:7

‘Who are you, O great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!  (Put your name in this verse)
And he shall bring forth the capstone
With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!”’”

"THIS GRAND TRUTH IS A PRIME NECESSITY FOR MEETING THE INSURMOUNTABLE TRIALS OF LIFE."

I SEE THAT I CAN DO NOTHING AND THAT ALL RELIANCE ON MAN IS VANITY. "NOT BY MIGHT," I SEE NO VISIBLE MEANS CAN BE RELIED ON, BUT THE FORCE IS THE INVISIBLE SPIRIT.

GOD ALONE MUST WORK, AND MEN AND MEANS MUST BE NOTHING ACCOUNTED.

IF IT BE THAT THE ALMIGHTY TAKES UP THE CONCERNS OF HIS PEOPLE, THEN GREAT MOUNTAINS ARE NOTHING.

"IF THE LORD BIDS ME TO MOVE AN ALP I CAN DO IT THROUGH HIS NAME!'

MARY MAGDALENE

Luke 8:1-3         

Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.

Luke 7:37-50         
And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet."
John 20:11-18     
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
John 20:16
Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means
Teacher).

John 20:17     
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’

Luke 4:18         
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,


Acts 1:8         
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”



2 Corinthians 5:17         
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

THIS MORNING PRECIOUS BELIEVER; THERE  ARE TWO QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER.

"WHY ARE YOU WEEPING, AND WHOM ARE YOU LOOKING FOR ?  MAY YOU FIND YOUR ANSWER AS MARY DID. AS SHE CLINGED TO JESUS, NEVER TO LET HIM GO, UNTIL SHE HEARD HIS VOICE."  THE VOICE THAT DELIVERED HER FROM THE STRONGHOLD OF DEMONS AND THE POWER OF DARKNESS.
John 20:17          
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’