Listen friends, it is entirely possible to diligently and regularly search the Scriptures and not see what God wants you to see; and not experience what God wants you to experience.

Children can overcome most anything if they know their father is in their corner. If he consistently is not, their motivation and self confidence receives a heavy blow.

Some of you need to learn to “wait” for your change. You have been impatient and have wrongly deducted that since you have not been able to overcome whatever your particular battle has been, God has not heard your prayer, and you are just going to have to learn to live with this limp or defect.

We believers have a great tendency to involve ourselves in too many things, which over time whittles away at our pursuit of Christ and Him alone. This is especially a snare for those of us in ministry, as many of these things we are involved in are “for the Lord” or “for His kingdom” and thus surely are good and necessary things

When a husband and father gladly opens his home (hopefully in oneness with his wife) to others - it teaches children that people are important, and our “things” are not just for our enjoyment.

If the church is the pillar and support of the truth as Paul says it is in his first letter to Timothy chapter 3 vs. 15, then it behooves the leadership of the church to guard this truth as the treasure it is, and to not give unsanctified mercy to those who are intentionally seeking to dilute it.

"From the moment Jesus first laid eyes on Jairus He knew what He was going to do. He knew there would be delays. He knew there would be unbelief and walking by sight all around Jairus. And He knew Jairus must overcome his own unbelief and the unbelief of others around him to be pleasing to God..."

Even though we have multiple Christian churches in every town (compared to other nations), in some places seemingly on every block, there is an alarming lack of theological and experiential knowledge of the risen Lord of lords and King of kings Jesus Christ among most Americans.

In no way am I trying to scare my readers. But I do want to say without reservation that this is not a time to be unclear or fuzzy about where you stand with God. This is not a time to ignore the fact that you could die at any moment and find yourself face to face with your Creator who created you with purpose and with expectations.

As I've studied it over the years, it seems to have the idea of God's covenant, faithful, unconditional, never ending love for His covenant people. Few things have helped my walk with God over the years more than meditating on this concept in the Psalms.