Lead me not into temptation because I do not trust myself in life on my own. I need Christ!

Whom do you say that Jesus is? He is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Paul was called to be the Apostle to the Gentiles, to many peoples of many nations. Is your gospel influence in your little part of the world increasing and growing? Do you care for souls like the Apostle Paul care for and loved souls?

This has been a very dark book, God declaring his judgments upon Israel for their sins. But in these last verses of Amos, there is a dramatic change in Amos' tone to the house of Israel. God tells Amos to speak of Israel's golden age.

Is God's grace abounding in you? Grace and peace be multiplied! How does grace continue to flow to you from God? Through the knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord! And then there's this, since you have been saved by God's grace, shouldn't you now sin less? Shouldn't you be better than you were than you were lost? I am not preaching sinless perfection, but rather a growing and maturing in our faith in such a way in which we sin less!

This Psalm is connected to Psalm 42. We all go through periods of spiritual depression. The Psalmist is calling out to God to help him; he had been treated in an unjust manner.

Are you running the Christian race to receive the prize that you already have in Christ?