We all stand guilty before a Holy and Just God. We can

either keep that sense of guilt to ourselves or we can take it to the only actions. God is a God of redemption and the only source of rescue.

God’s covenant people were born into adversity and are told this will be a major part of our lives until Jesus returns. But we cry out to our sovereign God who promises to always be with us, He will sustain us, He will set us free from our captors, and bring healing to our lives.

Every gift that man receives is a blessing from God. Unless the Lord gives it, it is in vain. The presence of Godly and Christ-

centered parents in a home cannot be overstated. God’s blessings for the home can extend to God’s blessings for the nation.

Acts 2:41–47 shows the early church united in faith, devoted to teaching, fellowship, prayer, and generosity as God grew their community daily.

Psalm 125 is a bold declaration of confidence that the Lord can be trusted, no matter what is going on in your life. This confidence is not in the strength of one’s faith, but in the bigness of God and in His ultimate provision and protection of the faithfull ones.

Are you wandering through life?

Do you ever feel like something is missing in your life?

Is this how you planned your life to be?

Which has greater value for you: the journey, or the destignation?

David expresses the sheer joy of gathering with the people of God in worship. In his joyful reflections we see what God wants His Church to be: a place of spiritual unity; a community of grateful people; a commitment to God’s authority over our lives; and, people who live in the peace that only God can give.

Because only God is all-powerful, good, wise, and ever-present He alone is the one we should look to for help. This does not diminish your own abilities or those of others, but everything about us is weaker and less reliable than who God is.

THE BIG IDEA: There is a Godly way for the believer to live in the world that they are in. There is God’s way, and there is the world’s way. Far too often Christians attempt to address their problems through the world’s way. Psalm 120 gives us a picture of how a Christian can live in a fallen world while longing for the home that God is preparing for them.

THE BIG IDEA: In Psalm 23, the Christian is reminded of the One that they belong to. In this Psalm we see a God that loves, provides, protects, and preserves His people. The Christian is the one that has heard the voice of the Good Shepherd and has followed Him.