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RE Verse reading–Psalm 95 (day six) “Come, let us worship and bow down. . .your fathers tested me. . . ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ “  (vs 6, 9, 11)  The first sentences of Psalm 95 (vs 1-7) call us to sing, to worship, to bow down.  Expressions all of reverence to God.  Declarations of His holy worth.  The second [...]

RE Verse reading–Psalm 40 (day four) Have you stopped recently to consider who God is and what He has done?  40:5 says, “Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which you have done,” The Psalmist was acknowledging the mighty works of God.  Verse 5 says, “…If I would declare and speak of them, they [...]

RE Verse reading–Psalm 40 (day three)  “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire—but my ears you have opened—burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.”  People use their ears for more—much more—than listening.  Often, ears function as filters: You hear what you want to hear.  Ears also serve as early warning systems: You recognize [...]

RE Verse reading-Psalm 40 (day two) My thoughts were interrupted as I wrote this by the sudden and sad news from Boston, and this week’s passage became even more significant. “I waited patiently for the Lord, and He turned to me and heard my cry for help” (40:1). As senseless suffering and death again strike our [...]

RE Verse reading–Psalm 40 (day one)  “Then I said, ‘Behold, I come. . .I delight to do Thy will, O my God.’ “  (vs 7-8)  Ancient Judaism had a problem.  It was a system of worship designed around animal sacrifice which everyone knew was insufficient to change a heart.  “It is impossible for the blood of bulls [...]

RE Verse reading–Psalm 34 (day seven)  “O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.”  (vs 3)  Praise to God is not a choice that should be left to individual choice or mood.  Having overcome his own saddness (see 1 Samuel 22) David begins to enlist others to the life-giving privilege of praise.  [...]

RE Verse reading–Psalm 34 (day six)  “I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips”  (vs 1)  It is changing my life!  Something that I learned late, and glad to know  even now.  To survive is not the highest goal.  To succeed is secondary.  To serve and praise God [...]

Re Verse reading Acts 28:17-31(day five). Acts 18:15 “At the sight of these people Paul thanked God and was encouraged.”  Donald Whitney’s book 15 Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health, poses the revealing question: “Do you delight in the Bride of Christ?”  It’s a great question.  Our relationship to The Church (The Bride of Christ) [...]

Re Verse reading Acts 28:17-31(day four)  Today is Thanksgiving Day!  We are reminded to give thanks for the blessings of life.  In today’s reading, we have the greatest reason to give thanks.  We find it in verse 28, “Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the [...]

RE Verse reading–Acts 28:17-31 (day three)  God used poverty and weakness for his own entrance into the world, but God doesn’t always work through such lowly means.  When the times are right for world-shifting movements, he often employs significant influencers of thought to herald his work.  Such an influencer was Paul.  Here was an intellectual [...]