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Psalm 126 talks to us about Joy. Happiness depends on “happenings” or external circumstances, but Joy is more permanent. So, what is Joy? Joy is more than a feeling. It is the fruit of the Spirit and is the confident assurance of God’s goodness now and into the future, no matter the circumstances! 

Psalm 125 provides God’s people with security in their faith. The Psalmist teaches us that those who trust God know His stability , security, goodness, and holiness . Even if you make a misstep along the way. Even when you miss the mark of righteousness, and you sin. When you trust in Jesus, your salvation is secure.

Psalm 124 is a wonderful song about how the Lord helps his people. How do we embrace the Lord’s help? For some of you that may be an important question to ask right now. You know that you need the Lord’s help. Others of you, however, may need to listen and remember because there will be a time that you’ll need this text. Or there may be someone in your life that you’re going to encourage because y...

Psalm 123 speaks to us about service, about servanthood. And as is so often the case with the Psalms, we are not instructed what to do, we are provided rather with a picture of what is done. In a psalm we have the observable evidence of what happens when a person of faith goes about the business of believing and loving and following God.

All of us live our lives as worshipers. That’s just the direction of our hearts. As human beings our devotion will always go towards something. It’s something that we do. It’s what we were designed for. It’s what we were made for.

God doesn’t promise to prevent  you from walking into harm, He promises to  preserve you  when you encounter harm. That’s the promise of Psalm 121.  

The life of a Christian is built on long obedience in the same direction. Repentance is a realisation that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things or thinking the same old thoughts. To faithfully walk the path of discipleship, there must be dissatisfaction with the world and a longing for peace and truth.

God wants us to pray during seasons of spiritual attack. It magnifies him as the one who comes to our aid. It honours him as the only one powerful enough to pull it off. It shines a light on his mercy and all-sufficiency to do for us what only he can do.

The fight back against demonic forces of evil is through actively using the spiritual armour given to us by God.

All who stand for good must wage a constant battle with the forces of evil. The demons still have power in the world. This is why Christians are to put on the qualities listed as armour in Ephesians 6.

Spiritual warfare is about obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ and other scriptural truths, it’s about a prayerful, persevering life of righteousness, where we’re clear headed and on target.

There is no way to take the Bible seriously and not see that the demonic is an active part of life. It’s why we are called to participate in a specific way of warfare which defeats them.

To rebel against order and fullness is to embrace chaos and emptiness. Demons are chaos monsters. When demons attack humans, their plan is to empty them of good and to destroy their shape, both material and spiritual.

What is needed, especially in our day, if we are to be changed and if we are to be instruments of change around us, is for the reality of the resurrection to become our own living reality.

At the death of Christ, that curtain separating man from God was torn in two—ripped by God himself. The angelic centurions were called off duty. The flaming sword was sheathed in Christ’s heart. The threat of judgment hanging over those who dare enter God’s presence fell on  his  head. In their place, condemned he stood.

Angels have inspired all sorts of imaginative stories and depictions, but what’s left when we separate fact from fiction? In order to know the truth, we have to ask, what does the Bible say about angels?

Adam and Eve in the garden and the curses handed down. The sinful corruption of humanity at the instigation of demonic powers, culminating in the flood in the days of Noah. And the sin of humanity at the Tower of Babel and the division of the nations. Each of these “falls” produced a problem for and within humanity.

The biblical authors believed that heaven and earth are parallel realities, each inhabited by creatures that have been delegated with God’s blessing to rule and oversee these realms.

The Bible asks us to believe a lot of strange things about the spiritual world. And if we say we believe the Bible, well, then we can't avoid these concepts.

There are three big life questions that all people seek to answer in some way or another. 1. Where did I come from? 2. Why am I here? 3. Where am I going? However, we learn from the Apostle Paul that our overriding purpose is to know Christ.

Whether you agree with the tithe or not, a percentage level of giving is essential for holiness, vital for the ongoing work of the church, and it’s required for receiving God’s blessing.

When you serve, it's not about you or how you can benefit. You are doing something primarily for the benefit and goodwill of another person or group of people. Serving others means making space for them and seeing them as valuable and worthy to be served, simply because God views them that way.

The whole point of church is to get into a community of people who I can love and enter into what might be called a shared life. Because growth happens within the context of relationships.

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