Teach Me About You, LORD


Psalm 86:11 – “Teach me more about You…”

Today, something from Psalm 86 stopped me and captured my attention.  Psalm 86:11 – “Teach me more about You…”  A lifetime could be spent there and not scratch the surface of God.   But that was the beginning of Revelation, not the fullness, therefore.

“Teach me more about You, how You work and how You move, SO THAT I can walk (live and function) onward IN Your truth UNTIL everything within me brings honor to Your Name.”

Going back to the promise of Psalm 84:11b – “Those who walk (live and function) along his paths with integrity WILL NEVER lack one thing they need, for He provides it all.”

We can live in that state and mindset where we are enabled to see, perceive, understand, and value how God operates and Who He is.   As we know Him, one of two things happens.   We move away from Him or become like Him, wholly yielded and transformed.   At that point, our existence, words, thoughts, attitudes, and deeds bring honor to Him.

Our mission in life is not simply fulfilling our assignment—it is Knowing Him!   As we see beyond God’s works, acts, miracles, and deeds to His heart, we are drawn into Him.

God’s promise to David is His promise to those who honor Him.  Psalm 89:21-22 – “I will be strength to him, and I will give him My grace to sustain him NO MATTER WHAT COMES.  23 NONE of his enemies will get the best of him, NOR will the wicked one overpower him”  [Emphasis mine]

Then, the amazing declaration Psalm 89:29b – “… a dynasty that will release the days of heaven on earth.”  Psalm 89:35 – “For I have given him My Word, My holy irrevocable word.”

One catalyst into God’s presence is realizing that He never lies and never goes back on a promise.   Therefore, what has He promised us?  I’m not talking about what we believe He has promised us individually, but what is His Covenant to believers?  What does the Word say?  

We fail to know God’s ways by failing to study His Covenant and Promises.   Ignorance is not bliss.  It is to miss Who God is.  Missing Who He is relegates us to mediocrity and religion.  Knowing brings us to transformation and transformation to freedom.  Knowing opens the door to reception in His presence.

Notice it says, “Until everything within me brings honor to Your Name.”  Everything is the keyword.    The question must be, “Does everything within us bring honor to Him? “  It is as we grasp this truth that we know what we must do.   Victory is within reach.   Receive it.

Have a victorious day in Jesus!   God bless you!

God is Eternal


Psalm 90:1 – “LORD, You have been (not past tense in the sense of no longer but as in Perpetual continuation) our eternal home, our hiding place from generation to generation.”

As I read, prayed, and pondered, Psalm 90:1 grabbed my heart powerfully. The thought flooded my heart—God is eternal. We hear that and, in a measure, believe it. Yet we keep defining God, His Ways, and His Acts in the human element of time constraints.

Psalm 90:4 -“One thousand years pass before Your eyes like yesterday that quickly faded away, like a night’s sleep soon forgotten.”  

The timelessness of God always conflicts with mankind’s time consciousness.   This God, the Creator, who knows Everything, devotes Himself to us.  He is so gracious.  Those of Covenant felt comfortable praying Psalm 90:14-15 – “…only You can satisfy our hearts… 15 We have been overwhelmed with grief; come now and overwhelm us with gladness.  Replace our years of trouble with decades of delight.”   That is a Wow! 

We are sometimes overwhelmed by the bad, and they expected the Lord to overwhelm us with gladness now!   Replace every tear of sorrow with the laughter of life!  Psalm 91 should become a daily meditation for God’s Covenant people.  

Psalm 92:1 unveils the New Testament principle of overcoming and defeating doubt and being down.   We are to come to God with “Uncontainable Praise” spills from our hearts.  Not manufactured and phony attempts to manipulate but the overflow of the heart!

The ageless God reminds us that age is inconsequential to Him.  We don’t have to wither into obscurity.   Psalm 92:13-14 – “You’ve transplanted them into Your heavenly courtyard, where they are thriving before You.  14 For in Your presence, they will still overflow and be anointed. EVEN IN their old age, they will stay FRESH, bearing luscious fruit AND abiding faithfully.”

I love the rendering of Psalm 94:8-13.   God isn’t hard of hearing…isn’t blind, and is watching.  He fully examines our thoughts and sees their limitedness.   When God reveals His ways and word, we are overwhelmed by Blessing.

The ageless, timeless Creator is invested in our time.  As Psalm 94:19 declares, we sometimes let our thoughts get out of control, but God’s soothing presence brings calm and peace, giving clarity and overflowing joy.   What is the answer to life’s problems?  Psalm 95:7-9.  Drop Everything else and Listen to His Voice. 

God’s timelessness is only problematic if we insist on schedules and deadlines.   If we trust Him, truly trust Him – time is not a factor.  Read Hebrews 11 again.

God has and is setting doors, pathways, and choices before us today.   His way to total surrender is the doorway to His heavenly courtyard and flourishing.  

Look up and rejoice—help is on the way and here! Have a fantastic day in Jesus, and remember that the Trumpet is coming soon, very soon!

Can You Hear Me Now?


Psalm 95:7 – “For we are those He cares for, and He is the God we worship.  So, drop everything else and listen to His voice!  For this is what He is saying: “Today, when I speak, don’t even think about turning a deaf ear to Me like they did when they tested Me at Meribah and Massah, the place where they argued with Me, their Creator.  Your ancestors challenged Me over and over with their complaining, even though I had convinced them of My power and love.  They still doubted My care for them.”

What an amazing passage of Scripture.   Today, I sense the urgency to pray for everyone to have God’s ultimate and infinite peace and presence.     

As I read, prayed, pondered, and mused on the Word, the immensity of God echoed in my consciousness.    God demands our attention and our commitment.   He doesn’t always get it because we are sometimes rebellious and self-serving.

Psalm 95:7-9 tells us that we are those He cares about.  “So, drop everything else and listen to His voice!”   Interesting!  God is the speaking God!   He communicates!   When we claim that we do not hear Him, we question His honesty and our condition.   Jesus said, “My sheep, HEAR My voice and follow me.”   If we are His, we hear and know His voice.   The passage continues, “For this is what He’s saying: TODAY when I speak (not if but when), don’t even think about turning a deaf ear to me…”

God speaks in many ways through many things, but He speaks and is speaking.   The question is, are we listening?  Do we even know how to listen?  When we hear Him and know Him, the natural fruit of that is overflowing with praise.

Psalm 100:4 is incredible.   “You can pass through His gates with the password of praise.  (You can) come right into His presence with Thanksgiving…”

That is AMAZING!  We are invited into the throne room of heaven (where He is) through praise and thanksgiving.   No wonder James would tell us to be joyful in trials because joyful praise brings His presence.   Remember, God inhabits (is enthroned) upon the praises of His people.

Praise, gratitude, thankfulness, and revelation through Hearing His voice enable us to live in Him, for Him, and by Him.   He helps us walk the right paths as we become determined to walk them.

The words of the Psalmist in Psalm 102:24 resonate powerfully: “I know my life is not yet finished.”  The focus is not the cessation of natural life but the fulfillment of God’s purposes.

Psalm 103:5 is beautiful, “You’ve supercharged my life so that I soar again like a flying eagle in the sky!”  If we are not soaring, why not?  What hinders us from knowing and experiencing God’s fullness?  Whatever it is, it must be forced to shut down and Listen to His voice.   The words He speaks are Spirit and Life.

Today can be the first day of a life of total victory.   Hear Him, and as you Hear Him, you will be transformed.

Can you hear Me now, or yet seems to be God’s question today!   Listen and rejoice. He is the Living God who speaks and desires to fully reveal His desires, plans, and purposes to each of us!  

Have a fantastic day!  I pray that God’s Grace will guide you into the place God desires for you, and you will experience incredible victory and peace!    God bless!

God is Good and Easy to Please


Psalm 106:1 – Everyone thank God, FOR He is good and easy to please.”

What a concept that a multitude of believers do not believe!   This is a good day because of God’s Grace, Mercy, Love, and Gifts.  The undiscovered treasures and truths wrapped in the unexplored parts of the day will be revelatory and release understanding and blessing.  I am ever grateful for each of you, your deposit in my life, and the joy you bring.  Thank you.

As I read, prayed, and meditated on the Word, several things were refused to allow me to overlook them.

In Job 4, Eliphaz said something powerful.   In Job 4:5-9, he reminded Job of a timeless truth.   We grow weary and allow depression or despondency to prevail when difficulties come.   We become fearful and frustrated over problems and obstacles.   We trust our own perceived or presumed integrity.   The Law of Harvest was his theme.

However, if we focus on ourselves, we miss an even greater revelation, which the Psalmist presented in Psalm 106:1: “Everyone thank God, FOR He is good and easy to please.”

Wow!   That is not the concept of the vast majority of those who profess to be believers.  We struggle to be accepted, thinking our Heavenly Father is hard and harsh.   We try to earn His favor and acceptance.   We revert to the idea of Eliphaz and think like we’ve heard – “God’s gonna get you for that.”

Psalm 105:8 –“For though a thousand generations may pass away, He is still true to His word.”

I love the picture of Psalm 106:3 “The happiest one on earth is the one who keeps Your word AND clings to righteousness every moment. “

One problem is that we tend to view God as harsh and impossible to please.   Out of that mindset, we make idols of the heart to replace Him.  Before you protest, consider how often we reinterpret God and His Word to accommodate what we want to be reality.

Psalm 106:20 shook me hard.  “They preferred the image of a grass-eating ox to the presence of the glory-filled God.”  Why?  It was less threatening.  They could control an ox but not the living God.  They took a path that was less threatening and less demanding.  We tend to profess our faith but withhold our hearts. 

I see that in today’s genocide.  Psalm 106:37-39 – “They even sacrificed their little children to demon spirits…”  We do it not always by abortion but by opening the door for them to be exposed to the demonic teachings, teachers, and practices that pervert and pollute.   “These dark practices greatly defiled the land AND their own souls…”

God is faithful, loving, forgiving, and easy to please IF…  If?  If we will give Him our all.  We are destined to be victorious examples for the world.

Today, God is calling us to come to Him in full surrender. Too often, we become like those described in Psalm 107:10b: “We were (are) prisoners to our pain, chained to our regrets.”  A biblical view of God will deliver us from that bondage. Be free! 

Rejoice and give thanks; today is a day of victory if we will believe and receive!

Throne Room Thinking


1 Corinthians 8 & 9 – – Study those two chapters; they are incredible.

A threefold cord is not easily broken.    In 1 Corinthians, the apostle Paul, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, took them from fleshly thinking and living to the throne room and spiritual maturity.

  • In 1 Corinthians 8, he addressed the carnal mind and faux knowledge.
  • In 1 Corinthians 9, he addressed the reality that just running the race was not the objective, but reaching the ultimate goal was. In
  • 1 Corinthians 10, he addressed the need to make everything we do glorify God.
  • In 1 Corinthians 11, he revealed the mystery of the Church as One Body, Christ’s body. Improper relationships and failure to understand the unity and necessity of the body opened the door for the enemy to steal health and life.

Then, in 1 Corinthians 12, Spiritual gifts are addressed, as are other ministries.   He revealed the reason for the gifts and from whom they are derived.  In verse 14, we discover that – “The body is not one member, but many.”  Every member is as vital as any other. There is an order of function but no hierarchy.

In 1 Corinthians 13, we see how it all functions—AGAPE!  Then, in verse 12, he packaged the message and unveiled how we reach that goal: “FOR NOW we see through a mirror, darkly; BUT THEN face to face. NOW I know in part; BUT THEN shall I know EVEN AS I am known.” [Emphasis mine]

In the flesh, hindered by the carnal mind and fleshly desires, we do not see the unclouded image of Christ.   We see Him, but we also see the world and feel its tug at our hearts.  The nearer we draw to Him Who is Light, the more the darkness is driven away, and the more clearly we see who we are, who He is, and who we can and should be.

The Bible tells us that we know as we are known.   Known by whom?  Jesus!  What does He say about us?  We will finally see that, and as we see, we become!

THE KEY:   Seek God above everything and press into His presence.  Be like the Olympic athlete and have a singular but determined focus.   It is yours; be who you are in God’s eyes.  Be Victorious, mountain movers, conquerors, and manifestations of Jesus.   Thy kingdom come, and Thy will be done ON EARTH in us, just like it is in heaven.

Declare it, believe it, and receive it!  Have a fantastic day walking in His Victory and Peace!