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?

This first part of Amos' vision is bad news for the people of the northern Kingdom of Israel. This was in Bethel.

After God gave Israel a great victory, the people began to complain against Moses and God, and so God sent fiery serpents among them.

Hebrews Christians in the first century were being compelled to go back to Old Testament patterns, types, and shadows of what had already come to pass in Christ. Thus, the writer compelled them to look past the pattern to the heavenly reality and substance.

This prayer expands far past daily physical provisions. The Lord wants us to depend on Him entirely for everything in our lives.