Come Follow Me- Daily Dose

You know that old saying, "knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." Today we talk about the difference between knowledge, wisdom and understanding. 

Today we discuss intentional praise and worship. What do you do to be intentional about your worship? We also talk about our wonderfully made bodies!

Today we talk about the gift it is that life just isn't fair! 

Today it is a about the scriptures and what God can teach us as we spend time with Him there everyday!

Today we talk about absolute truth and the WHY of gospel living. 

Today's Psalm is about about praising the Lord. How do you praise Him? How do you keep that prayer or praise in your heart always.  Bednar https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2008/10/pray-always?lang=eng

Yesterday and throughout a lot of the Psalms we have talked about the love and mercy of the Lord. Today we discuss why it is that He can be so merciful on us. 

I love the opportunity we have in the Psalms to witness the true nature of the Lord as a loving and merciful God. 

Today we are reminded in new ways, that the Lord's love and mercy and grace are for ALL of His children. 

Today we talk about the necessity to ask God to increase our abilities. The need that we have to be strengthened and changed by Him. 

Today is kind of just a mixture of verses that I love. I hope you love them too!

"My soul waiteth upon God." Is there something that your soul is waiting on God for? As David waited he praised. What do we do in the wait? 

How has Christ been a shelter, a strong tower, a tabernacle or gathered you to Him?

Today we get the opportunity to see a repentant David. Each of us is more than the sum total of our mistakes. Here David show us what true repentance can do for the heart. 

It cracks me up that they Psalm dedicated to the musicians is the Psalm that talks about how it's ok to be poor! But in all seriousness, this Psalm reminds us not to get too caught up in the things of this world, because at the end of the day, there is only one who can afford the cost of redemption. And because the Savior has paid so much and invested in us, He is anxiously engaged in our salvatio...

What does it mean to have clean hands and a pure heart? How do we get them? Is it by our own grit and willpower, or does God expect something more of us. Today we discuss the Savior's atonement as we strive for those 2 things. 

The 23rd Psalm is arguably the most famous Psalm in the Bible. "The Lord is my shepherd." But do we fully understand what the Lord means when He calls Himself the Good Shepherd?

Today we talk about how all of God's creations testify of the creator, as His creations shouldn't all our works testify of Him as well? We also talk about some of the Savior's last words on the cross, and how with that one sentence He preached a sermon. 

Today we talk about what praising God looks like. Here in this Psalm, this "prayer of the heart" David's words become a form of worship and praise. It made me reflect and think about my prayers. Is my gratitude a form of vain repetition? I feel like maybe I am expressing things that I am truly grateful for, but I am forgetting the miracles and love of God behind each of those things. Are my prayer...

Today we talk about 3 titles that David gives the Savior: Glory, a Shield and a Lifter of Heads! I love those titles! When we understand His glory and when we witness the fortifying strength of a testimony built firmly in Christ, then, come what may, we can lift our heads and feel hope in Him. 

Something that I love about Psalms is that we get to see the words and feelings of a redeemed David. So often we think of David the warrior, or David the sinner, but do we remember David the repentant sinner? The Psalms of David show me that no one is beyond the redemptive power of Jesus Christ.  Bowen https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2006/10/the-atonement-can-clea...

Today we get to talk Psalms. The hymnbook of ancient Israel. Music just hits me different, and if we look closely at the Psalms and the testimony of Christ found there. The Psalms can be a powerful book of scripture for us. 

Here, we get the opportunity to see one of Job's lesser talked about trials, the trial of not feeling God close. I think we can all relate on some level. Sometimes it is by our choices, other times, like a parent teaching a kid to ride a bike, God's steps back to see how we will endure. Either way, as we continue in faith we can trust that we will come out better for it. 

Today we see how all the fear and loneliness we may feel can be relieved as we remember Christ. 

I love what we see in these chapters. I love how we see Job ebb and flow a little bit. Not in his faith, but in his optimism. Maybe that sounds bad...or mean? But I love that we see Job's humanity. As faithful and hopeful as he was, he had moments of struggle. Moments when he cursed the day he was born. But never God. He always held fast to his faith in, and love for God.