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Daily Bread from the Psalms (Psalm 13)
Daily Bread: Thoughts and Prayers from the Psalms ~ Psalm 13 ~ Despair. Do you ever wrestle with that? Sorrow has a way of clouding our vision. Do feelings about your difficult circumstances ever overwhelm the truth that you know? As we read in Psalm 10 this week, it is quite easy to take our focus off Jesus when we are facing hard times. Those feelings of doubt, discouragement, and sadness can creep in and cause our faith to shudder. Don’t beat yourself up too much though. You aren’t alone in doing this. Remember Peter and the whole walking on water story (Matthew 14:22-34)? And in today’s Psalm, David is right…
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Daily Bread from the Psalms (Psalm 4)
Daily Bread: Thoughts and Prayers from Psalm 4 Answer me when I call! If you’ve ever wondered whether God hears you when you pray, Psalm 4 will encourage your heart to keep sitting at His feet and talking with Your Father. He hears YOU! I’ve been thinking how important our testimonies are. Not just the stories of how we met Jesus, but the EVERYDAY kind of testimonies of His goodness, His kindness toward us, His unfailing love and faithfulness, the beauty of His creation, and on and on. The book of Psalms is just that! A book full of David’s (mostly) every day testimonies… I learned just recently that…