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52 Weeks (Week 6)

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66982Today in our week 6 of 52 Weeks, 52 Verses, we learn the rest of Psalm 121.  Look at that!  Over the course of these last four weeks, we’ve learned a Psalm. Memorizing the Bible is a process, something that is not done overnight, but something done consistently, with prayer, reflection, and study.

Today, listen to the end of Psalm 121, verse 7-8:

7 The Lord will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
8 The Lord will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.

The Lord will keep us.  Think about that for a second.  Our security, our hope, our peace, it doesn’t come from human hands or human elements.  But from the Lord God of Hosts.  Thing about that.  Take this passage seriously.  Meditate upon it.  Think upon it. Focus upon it.

The Lord is your keeper.  He will keep you from all evil.  He will keep your going and your coming.  Now, and forever.

Don’t worry.  Don’t stress.  Don’t fret.  Don’t be overwhelmed.

The Lord is your keeper.

Rest in the knowledge.  Rest in that promise today.

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52 Weeks (Week 5)

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As we walk together through 2015, we are memorizing the Word of God.  Each week we are memorizing a different passage.  Today we continue memorizing Psalm 121 looking at verses 5-6.  Listen to what this passage says:

5 The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.

66982Here’s what I love so much about that passage.  The Lord is your keeper.  He is your shade.  He will keep you safe in the day and the night.  God will keep you.  He will guide you.  He will protect you.

He will be your God.

Trust.  Your safety and protection, it comes from nowhere else but God.  Man oh man, this is one of those passages that I’ve loved for so many years.  It’s one of those passages that I’ve allowed to really go deep into my heart.

I don’t have to be afraid.  I don’t have to worry.  I don’t have to fear.

Because the Lord is my keeper.

And He is yours.  Trust.  Lean on Him.  He will keep you.  He will.

Trust.

Don’t forget, you can click here to download Asbury’s mobile app and read these devotionals, as well as listen to my sermons on your smart phones, and you thought our app, you can now watch our worship services from Asbury too!

52 Weeks (Week Three)

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66982At Asbury this year, we are taking part our in 52 Weeks, 52 Verses challenge. Each week of the year, we are memorizing a different Bible verse. As we learn the Bible together as a church this year, I know, we know that God will bring us closer to Himself and show us more and more of who He is.

I heard a preacher say recently, if we don’t know God’s known will (the Bible) then we will never know His unknown will. If we want to know what God wants for us, calls us to, we need to listen and learn His word!

The passage for this week is the first of three weeks that we will spend memorizing Psalm 121. This week is verses 1-2:

1 I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.

This is a Psalm that the people would sing as they went up to Jerusalem. Jerusalem is on the top of a mountain, so no matter where you came from, north or south, you when “up” to Jerusalem.

So, we lift up our eyes to the hills, from where our help comes. Up the hills reminds of God, because God was associated with the temple and Jerusalem.

And our help comes from God, who made heaven and earth.

We look up. And looking up, we are reminded that God is our help. God is our savior. God is our strength. God is our hope.

Today, look up. Look up. Your help comes from God. The maker of Heaven and Earth.

Look up. And you will find your help in God, no matter where you are!

Don’t forget, you can click here to download Asbury’s mobile app and read these devotionals, as well as listen to my sermons on your smart phones, and you thought our app, you can now watch our worship services from Asbury too!

52 Weeks (Week Two)

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66982In Week Two of our 52 Weeks, 52 Verses, our verse for this week is Matthew 9:13. This is on of those verses that can really change the way that we look at God, ourselves, and other people. Take time this week to think about it, pray about it, and listen to what God wants to say to you through this verse.

Listen to what it says:

Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Two things pop out to me when I read this passage.

First God says that He desires mercy, not sacrifice. That’s what God wants from us in our dealings with others. Mercy. This week, as we memorize this verse, will we make an effort to show mercy?

Mercy is something that is not deserved. We are merciful to folks that don’t deserve it, that may not even want to be merciful to. God shows us mercy, undeserved.

Let’s show that same mercy to someone this week.

Second, Jesus said I came for sinners. Jesus came to help the weak, the sick, the sore. When you feel like God can’t love you because of what you’ve done, remember this.

It was you He came to save.

This week, as we memorize this verse, let’s think about these things.

Don’t forget, you can click here to download Asbury’s mobile app and read these devotionals, as well as listen to my sermons on your smart phones, and you thought our app, you can now watch our worship services from Asbury too!