Perfectly Imperfect Together

In Proverbs 20, 21, & 22, We learn to trust the Lord for literally everything. We need to take our hands off the wheel, stop trying to control the rudder of our lives, and pray. Prayer is the fuel for the jet engine of life. Seek the Lord. Listen to the Lord. Follow His instruction and direction. Let Him lead and guide and trust that He truly is moving in the wait. Don't stop praying. Trus...

In Proverbs 17, 18, & 19, we are reminded that isolation is not good. We are created by God for God and for community and relationship. Isolation leads to pursuing selfish desires, sin and ultimately destruction. We are told repeatedly to watch our words withing those relationships and communities. We all tend to have too many words and need to be intentional about following Jesus and the lead...

In Proverbs 15 & 16, the emphasis is again on our words. Our words matter and how we say our words matters. Pride, arrogance, and harshness only stirs up more and more anger and division. A gentle, softer, kinder, loving word of encouragement turns away anger and division. How we respond to life matters. God knows how and why we are using our tongues and the heart and motives behind our words....

In Proverbs 12, 13, & 14, we are shown the difference in life between being foolish or wise and wicked or loving. A lot of emphasis is put on the words we speak because it's of our hearts that words are spoken. If we squeeze toothpaste out of the tube, you cannot get it back in the tube. It's out for good. The same goes for our words. We need to be yielded to Jesus and let the Holy Spi...

(John 20:1-18) Jesus shouted through the folded linen left in the empty tomb: "I'm coming back! I'm not finished!" John, Peter, and Mary got the message loud and clear and Jesus desperately hopes we do as well and that our hearts are humble and prepared for His return.

In Proverbs 10 & 11, we are taught the difference between the wise, the foolish and the lazy. We are shown what it is to be faithfully generous before the Lord rather than greedily wicked. Wise people listen to God's Word and pursue His holiness. Wise people spend intentional time with God letting His presence saturation your entire being. Wise people fear the Lord with reverent awe and wo...

Proverbs 7, 8, & 9 offer us an invitation to join Wisdom, join Jesus, and eat with Him at His table. We have to choose to join Jesus at His table and consume His Word every single day. We need to be intentional and remain in continual prayer letting Him guide our steps every single day. If we miss a day with Jesus, we will get hungry and temptations for sin will rise up. It's just like mis...

In Proverbs 4, 5, & 6, we are shown there is great wisdom in running away from sin and temptations. Whether the temptations come from Satan, our own fleshly desires, or the world around us - we need to run away. Resisting temptation is a lot less difficult if the temptation is no where near us. Like Joseph, run away with all you've got. If you have repented from sin and submitted your hear...

In Proverbs 2 & 3, the benefits of seeking the wisdom of the Lord in everything we do and say are revealed. Wisdom protects your path with the Lord. The only way to end up at the right destination is to choose the right road. Scripture continually encourages us to choose God's path and follow Him, heart and soul. We all have to pick a road in life and there is no "middle" road av...

The nails did not keep Jesus on the cross. His passionate love for each and every one of us did. No one can force us to love Jesus. It's up to us to choose to pursue Him and His holiness every day He gives us. It's up to us to humbly submit our hearts, lives, and wills to Jesus with all our guts. It's up to us to put our trust in Him, heart and soul. Radical-sacrificial-risk-taking obe...

In Proverbs 1, we are introduced to the Book of wisdom. The Book that God wrote through King Solomon, who was given great wisdom by God Himself. We are given comparisons between common, concrete images and life's most profound truths. Through God's Word, we learn the fundamentals of how to live out His Word in our everyday daily lives and follow His path and plan for our lives. Everyday we...

In Psalm 148, 149, & 150, the emphasis of the psalmist is on praising and worshiping the Lord with everything in us - our entire being - heart and soul. All of creation praises the Lord and worships the Lord simply by doing what God commands. We are created in God's very image and yet we struggle the most with humbly submitting ourselves to the Lord and honoring and glorifying Him in all w...

In Psalms 144, 145, 146, & 147, the psalmists encourage us to to praise the Lord and worship Him heart and soul. God is mighty and delivers us victoriously. He cares for us personally and graciously blesses us, even though we truly don't deserve it. No matter what is going on around us, we can choose to praise the Lord. He is all-wise, infinite, sovereign, holy, omniscient, faithful, uncha...

In Psalm 140, 141, 142, & 143, David brings every heart-cry, every emotion, every fear, every detail of every situation straight to the Throne of God. God wants to hear from us. He wants a real, true, honest, and sincere relationship with us. He knows us more intimately than we will every know anyone on earth and He wants us to know and experience Him as well. He is a good, loving Father and H...

In Psalm 137, 138, & 139, the psalmists long for God and His presence and seek His face in every moment of the day. God loves us and hates sin because sin hurts us in every way. He is a loving Father who will discipline us and yell from the heavens to get our attention and turn our paths back to His. He has a perfect plan and purpose for each of our lives to carry His baton of glory forth in t...

(Lue 22:39-71) Even while preparing for the biggest, most crushing sacrifice of the cosmos, Jesus cared for others and showed His love, compassion, and concern. Jesus wants to bring us to our best in Him while Satan wants to bring us to our worst by pushing us away from Him. It's up to us to choose to stand stubbornly firm in unwavering faith - clinging to Jesus with all our guts, heart and so...

In Psalm 133, 134, 135, & 136, the psalmists encourage unity in praise and worship to the Lord. The Spirit of God joins us together and in love and unity, we glorify Jesus. We are to join together in love and unity and worship and praise our Almighty God. We come before Him humbly with thankful hearts for all He continually pours out for our lives. He is good and His faithful love endures fore...

In Psalms 129, 130, 131, & 132, the psalmists reflect on how to cope with things we go through in life, how to stand firm in faith through suffering and persecution, and how to worship and praise God - looking up - through every storm that comes. As they make their way to Jerusalem to join together in united worship and praise to the Lord, they sing. They sing songs of praise, songs of reflect...

Psalms 124, 125, 126, 127, & 128 are Psalms of song and praise to the Lord as they ascend to Jerusalem and gather together to worship the Lord in love and unity. No matter what challenges we may face, we turn to the Lord and trust His mighty hand and His victorious deliverance. God wants to be invited into the battles we face in life. When we humble ourselves, repent, and let God in to lead an...

In Psalm 120, 121, 122, & 123, the psalmists emphasize the necessity of prayer. God is our rescue, comfort, hope, and only He can bring peace. We turn to God in and through all because we trust God. No matter what may come, we endure with the strength of God knowing He is on the Throne and Jesus holds all victory. He is our Helper, Keeper, and Protector. He is our Shield and He is always watch...

Psalms 117, 118, and 119, include the shortest Psalm, the mid-point of the entire Bible, and the longest Psalm. The psalmist cries out for all the people of the earth to worship and praise the Lord, depend on His love and rest calmly in His faithfulness. As the middle verses of the Bible declare, "It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in people." Give thanks and praise to...

(John 13:1-15) Jesus knew the most important sacrifice - the event that is central to our entire eternity - was right around the corner. Yet, the most important thing for Him to do - right now - is bend down humbly in servanthood to wash the stinky, nasty feet of His disciples. Jesus is the One who washes feet because He is the only One who holds the power to clean us - from the inside out.

In Psalm 113, 114, 115, & 116, the psalms all begin with glorious praise and worship to the Lord rooted in extraordinary love for Him and who He is. His Name is to be praised and He is to receive all glory and honor with every last breath we have. Jesus came to set us free from sin and the bondages of sin. We can choose Life and freedom that is only found in and through Jesus and live our live...

In Psalm 109, 110, 111, & 112, David proclaims heartfelt praise and worship to God. He prays to God for his enemies and trusts that God will handle the situation. He trusts God and leaves the outcome to Him. He doesn't gossip about his enemies to others, he brings every thought, feeling, concern, and frustration to the Lord and simply trusts Him for every outcome. He gives us an example of...

In Psalms 106, 107, & 108, the psalmist is honest about the sins of their lives and pours everything out before the Lord in sincere and deep repentance. God always answers a broken repentant heart before Him. In joyous faith, he glorifies and honors God above all, trusting Him with everything heart and soul. He praises God in extreme gratitude for God's patience, mercy, grace, and faithful...