Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Genesis 2:8 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east…Mark 6:3  Is not this (Jesus) the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon?Our God is found gardening in Genesis and being a carpenter in the New Testament.  There is no job to small or insignificant for our LORD who is relentlessly laboring.  Any job that is good a...  Read More

Monday, September 19, 2016 Genesis 1:28  And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”Today, Monday, even though it may be difficult to admit, our work matters deeply to God. God has lovingly and with great purp...  Read More

Monday, September 12, 2016 Matthew 11:28  Jesus says, Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden (burdened), and I will give you rest.We live every day with this promise from our Lord Christ, “come to me and I will give you rest.”  And Christ is always faithful to fulfill His promises, He will always willingly come through to give you rest.  Jesus guarantees rest from whatever burdens you.  Fro...  Read More

Friday, September 9, 2016 Galatians 6:2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.Day by day as believers we live our lives in the reality that our Lord is going to place a burden on us.  What is a burden?  A burden is a tremendous weight, life difficulty, circumstance, occurrence, event, calamity, hardship, weakness, insult, persecution that the Lord has decided to either place...  Read More

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 Hebrews 13:20-21  Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.Our Great Shepherd, Jesus Christ, has a gr...  Read More

Monday, August 29, 2016 Psalm 23:1-3  The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures.  He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.Just think, as we move throughout our day today as believer’s who seek to be led by the LORD, we have the promise that our LORD’s shepherding care of us is done to ma...  Read More

Tuesday, August 23, 2016 Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.Our God (Yahweh) in heaven loves to be called a Shepherd.  A Shepherd who has sheep that He loves and cares for at every moment of the day.  Our God who is perfect, holy and powerful loves to stoop down into our world where we sheep roam around and He shows loving care for us for our sake.  He is my Shepherd.  This confe...  Read More

Tuesday, August 16, 2016 Romans 2:4  Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?God’s kindness is always perfect.  His kindness and grace are truly amazing. The question Paul asks here is one that we should ask daily, “are we presuming that God’s kindness, forbearance and patience will always be a...  Read More

Monday, August 8, 2016 Psalm 100:3  Know that the Lord, He is God! It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of his pasture.Know this believer… Know that the LORD, Yahweh, is God, Elohim.  This is a command from God to us through the writings of David.  In other words, know that, Yahweh, the constant, independent, absolute, eternal, uncreated God that never changes, an...  Read More

Friday, August 6, 2016 Ephesians 2:4-7   But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace...  Read More

Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Psalm 19:9-11 …the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.What a great promise and encouragement!  Following Scripture, the rules of the LORD, is the great reward!...  Read More

Monday, August 1, 2016 Psalm 19:7 The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple…The testimony of the Lord, anything that the LORD has said through His Word, is sure.  That is it is reliable.  It is trustworthy.  You can count on everything that He has said about Himself through the stories, poems, Psalms, narrative, gospels, letters of the Bible!  It makes wise the simple.  This script...  Read More

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul…The Bible is referred to as “the law of the Lord” because the Bible is God’s Law that He has spoken to answer the question, “How are we to live daily in our earthly lives?”  The Bible, God’s Law, is a perfectly clear and sufficient answer to that question.  So, the great news is that no matter what our sins are t...  Read More

Monday, July 25, 2016 Psalm 135:5-7  For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps. He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.Psalm 19:1  The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky a...  Read More

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving (restoring) the soul; We are known by our Father in heaven who is not only perfect but His law perfectly revives our soul. That makes me happy. The Law is so “perfect”, that nothing can be taken from it, or added to it. The word Law can also be translated doctrine. What is doctrine? This is what God teaches about Himself, His ways, His requirements and how He works in our lives...  Read More

Monday, July 18, 2016 Psalm 18:30  This God—His way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; He is a shield for all those who take refuge in Him.On this Monday morning we rest in knowing and being known by our God who is without fault and has never been in error.  All of His actions in every life for all time have been perfectly merciful, just, loving and holy.   Every action in our own lives...  Read More

Wednesday, July 13, 2016 2 Samuel 22: 32-33 For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless.King David refers frequently to his LORD as his Rock.  What does the Lord want us to understand about Him being described as a Rock?  Our God is unchanging, constant, strong, firm, powerful, present, a solid reality, an underlying p...  Read More

Monday, July 11, 2016 Psalm 17: 8-9 Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me.As obedient followers and lovers of Jesus Christ we are kept as the “apple of God’s eye.”  GCT, I wanted to remind us again as we go forward this week of the encompassing truth of the phrase “apple of Your eye.”  The Hebrew...  Read More

Thursday, June 30, 2016 Psalm 9:9-10  The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. I can remember as a young boy after I did something that I should not have done, my brother would quickly report, "you are in trouble!"  I look back on those times and think if...  Read More

Monday, June 27, 2016 Psalm 8:1  O LORD our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!What a majestic name! "O Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth."  Yahweh, is the name that God calls Himself which means "I am" or the self existent one - the sovereign creator God (Exodus 3:14).  God calls Himself this to communicate to us that there is no place in all the universe ...  Read More

Thursday, June 23, 2016 Psalm 5:1-2  Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my meditation. Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.As we try to overcome the burdens of yesterday’s sin and disappointments, or we celebrate yesterday’s joys, and blessings; it is good to remember that we are blessed with the privilege to come before the Creator of the universe, ...  Read More

Thursday, June 16, 2016 2 Corinthians 5:15  "...and He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him who for their sake died and was raised."Church, think about how sin makes us want to live "for ourselves" in our own self-defined world instead of for Christ.  Jesus has come so that we would escape our own world seeking to fulfill our own will.  Jesus has intend...  Read More

Monday, June 13, 2016 Psalm 3:3-4 But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill.GCT as we start a new week with all of the upcoming opportunities before us that create fear and anxiety, as we discussed in David's life yesterday in 2 Samuel 11-16, let us  have hearts that are continually in a position of...  Read More

Wednesday, June 8, 2016 Psalm 1:2-3 ...his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.As one who delights in God's Word and meditates on it day and night great things are promised by God.  You will be like a tree... isn...  Read More