Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

David writes a psalm to remind everyone to pray for the king who happens to be David. Similarly, we should pray for our President and our leaders and our government.As goes The success of the president; so goes the success of a nationAs goes the success of a government, so goes the success of a nation.Our prayers are not optional for our President.No matter your political bent, Subscribe for more: https://youtu.be/8kUk722yg9k

I can be calm because of what He controlsI can be quieted because of what He has already stilledI can be quieted because of what He currently holds I can be quieted because of what He will someday conquerPsalm 131 is worth 35 seconds of your consideration.Subscribe and share.https://youtu.be/IYkDID-mp7g

One of my favorite things is to watch a thunderstorm roll in and then jump into the safety of a strong building.  One of my least favorite things is to endure a thunderstorm while in a tent.Ps 29 is all about the Thunderstorm Power of God. Ironically, it is from this earth-shaking power that our PEACE with God comes from.  It is only because the Lord kindly shares His POWER with us, that we can enjoy PEACE with Him. Join me for 7 minutes in the storm, then comment.https://youtu.be/v6cpqSxNP24

Psalm 63 gives us permission to use our spiritual imaginations for a great purpose. It is to "place ourselves" in the shadow of His wings.It is a most beautiful image that puts us under His protection and care.May the Lord grow our spiritual imagination.Let's use our spiritual ‘magination to put ourselves right where God wants us: in the shadow of His wings.Subscribe if this is a place you'd like to be tomorrow: https://youtu.be/EL9PjQlXA4w

David tells us about something that is "BETTER THAN LIFE". He comes up with a valuation that declares this particular "thing", God's faithful relationship with people, is WORTH MORE than life itself.It is an an audacious e-value-ation. See if you agree with David: God's steadfast love to humans is more valuable than LIFE ITSELF. Join me for 6 minutes in Psalm 63: https://youtu.be/fmps48w1pyM

This might be the craziest Christmas Podcast of all time.Christ comes to give us some of Himself. To be a Christian is to seek and thirst and faint for God.IRONY of those who find God.When you sign up to be a Christian, you sign up for longing for MORE of HimTo be a Chrisitan is to forever long for more of Him, until you get all of Him in heaven.And in this way: Yes, true believers Envy the walking dead.Subscribe if I haven't scared you away.https://youtu.be/6FbEMMeSgtM

David has a superpower. He is able to say, "I'm a sinner. Please forgive. Please help." We have a lot to learn from him.God has made a way for us, the unholy, to have a relationship with Him, the holy. It involves first recognition and verbalizing the real state of affairs.  This is where we do relatively poorly. We squirm at our sin and don't even want to use the word.If God had to find some sin in your life, where would you encourage Him to look? Under what rock would you tell Him to look? Now we are getting somewhere...Subscribe if you find any: https://youtu.be/iaOJ5vdmtrs

If you knew that you were in the mind of God, what would change?Your prayers would change. Your Actions would change. Everything would change.If I knew that I AM IN THE MIND OF GOD then I'd fill my mind more of God. Here is the BIG CALL for today: Incline yourself towards HIM, because He's Inclined Himself toward youLean on Him because He leans towads youStretch towards Him because He has stretched toward you. 2nd big call: subscribe and share.https://youtu.be/OfOeW9z39mk

In our previous video, we left with a beautiful image of jumping on the bed for 1 ½ hours straight.  Today, we have another vision worth considering: "Offer yourself freely to God."God does not compel belief.  He offers us the opportunity to offer ourselves. If we do so, on the day of His power and wrath, we will find ourselves jumping on the bed. Watch. Share. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/bGeqM4J14DM

First you may ask, "What does the DEW OF YOUTH look like"? You will have to talk to my favorite 2 ½ year old.  He'll most clearly show you what it means by jumping on his bed for 1 ½ hours straight. Good for him, and good for us too.  For this is the vigor and strength that the Lord promises to renew for us in the "womb of the morning". Join me as we admire the dew of youth that we might enjoy again if we join God's team.  subscribe if you don't currently have the dew of youth: https://youtu.be/tdjrMYOjiOQ

Good stuff awaits in psalm 61:Lead me to the Rock that is higher than IYou have been my refugeyou are my Strong TowerYou hide me under the shelter of Your wingsLead me to the ROCK! If you might plan on heading to the Rock tomorrow, subscribe now: https://youtu.be/pNJ6X1_SaZw

It is a privilege to get old.  Gray hair is a crown, not a curse.Psalm 71 says: If you have gray hair, find somebody in your church without gray hair to be conspicuous toward. Lord, revive ME, so I can revive THEM. This is one of the great purposes of the wisdom years. This is how you live forever. Listen 7 minutes. subscribe if you're not dead yet. https://youtu.be/mE8Cs1JLr8A

What does the good Lord have to say to those with GRAY HAIR?If I have made you, I will carry youyou are NOT FORSAKEN, even when your strength is almost spentI've got stuff for you to show to the NEXT GENI have purpose for you until the endFind a younger person to show all this to!Subscribe and share please.:https://youtu.be/hGbvT0OlPgk

When you feel like you are forgotten forever, I've got a 50 second remedy for you.  David writes a little gem of a song called Psalm 13. He sings of his feelings and then lands solidly on the facts. He does some big spiritual work: I rejoice. I trust. I sing and remember. None of that is easy.  When you feel like you are hidden from God, turn to Psalm 13.But first, subscribe and like and share: https://youtu.be/5qNhPeMPmAI

Welcome to the "Little Psalm that Could", with a nod to the Little Engine That Could. It is a 50 SECOND psalm. Oh, but it packs a punch. First, David has a few complaints: He feels forgotten, hidden, alone, and stomped on.  This is the psalm when you feel like your are forgotten forever.This is for the day when you find that you cannot find God…It is worth 50 seconds of your time.https://youtu.be/QU52mG8bjRc

Babies get a lot of things right.  They understand affection.  They understand attention.  They understand provision. They Understand relationship. They understand who to kiss.  Kissing identifies relationship: you are important to me.You have significance and weight in my life.  You are a wonder and surprise and delight to me. Therefore,I identify this with a kiss. We might have a lot to learn.subscribe, comment, like, etc: 

A king and a kingdom is condemned for "setting itself against the Lord" in psalm 2.  But aren't we all little kings and queens of our micro-kingdoms? We too might be "setting our kingdoms" against the Lord.  If so, how would I know?  If you set yourself against fellowship, you have set yourself against the Lord.If you set yourself against service, you have set yourself against the Lord.If you set yourself against His Word, you have set yourself against the Lord. Prove me wrong. subscribe. https://youtu.be/6ooB06Nqbxk

For every ROD OF IRON, there is a ruling end, and a receiving end. Psalm 2 makes an argument to consider being on the ruling end of it.  It is actually more of a plea than an argument. Fortunately, for a time, everybody gets to choose whether to rebel or join the Lord in His reign. Those that oppose will be overruled. Fury will follow foolishness. Which end of the rod of iron do you want to be on? Listen and decide.Comment and subscribe: https://youtu.be/pY_FNqNa2tE

God is not opposed to feeling.  He does ask that we cover them with the facts. When we feel rocky, we should talk to the Rock.We best pour out our souls to the Pillar of heavenThe Lord is not AFRAID of feelings. They just may be the footprints that help us return to Him.Let's let these sentiments run smack dab into the sediment of the Rock of Godsubscribe and comment for more solidity: https://youtu.be/U70euAC8kBY

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I didn't know that PRAISE can mean "TO THROW".Ps42 is about what we "throw at God". It is about our PRAISE, but when? When tears are on the menu for breakfast. lunch and dinner. What do we throw at God when circumstances are not as we prefer?We dictate the direction and the content of what we throw at God.Are we throwing our best at God, when circumstances are at their worst? When tears are on the menu, lets THROW our best, our praise to GOD.  Watch it being done in 7 minutes: https://youtu.be/nBxGoXEMqio

The honesty of Ps42 is a little uncomfortable to hear.  It is like reading someone's diary of longing and difficulty. If you want brutal honesty, read Psalm 42.Things are not going well circumstantially as we step into this psalm. That's where the blues come from.  Watch psalmist: Get honesty before the Lord rightGet the heart longing rightGet the head remembering rightGet the habits heading right,Then subscribe to this channel.  It's a good habit for 7 minutes of your day. https://youtu.be/BgtkTvSHbww

We may be strangers here, but we are guests of the Lord.  Part of that is His call to be holy, which is the same thing as saying be corrected on a regular basis. I think this is true: to perceive His presence, is to perceive His correction. (tell me if you agree with me)So if you are a believer, you probably should feel like a stranger and alien here.  Even his ways are wild: the Lord is asks each of us to be HIS GUEST in this short life.Subscribe to make 7 minutes a regular part of your 24 hours. Hurry. Time is short. https://youtu.be/MsVbsxkgsnE

The whole world asks what is an essential spiritual question: How can I be forgiven? Fortunately, Scripture is not silent on the answer.Psalm 39 finds David sinning in his HOT HEART. He thinks he's OK, but the Lord STRIKES HIM suddenly, and he is hit with the reality of his transgression. He then teaches us what to do when we find ourselves on the short end of sin.This might be the most important psalm, for the techniques revealed, that you will ever consider.Subscribe and comment if you agree: https://youtu.be/HDW48jGnUqw

You'd think that step one, "guarding your mouth with a muzzle", would be all that the good Lord requires of us.  Nope. There is another step:  watch what happens inside.  Does the muzzled anger burn a hole in your heart?  I held my peace inside, but got no peace? I ate my words and they ate me up? If so, there is yet another problem to address. Join me if you just might need more than a muzzle. Subscribe and commenthttps://youtu.be/Vl_HEtQdi54

This Psalm had me at the title. Even before  the title, because of the instructions. This song is to be sung after I am dead at the opening of the temple.If you wrote a song to be sung long after you are gone, what would you say? David, the realist: Weeping my tarry for the nightDavid, the optimist: but JOY comes with the morning.You have turned my mourning into DANCING.I leave you with joy.  I leave you with dancing. Subscribe: https://youtu.be/VjY2ualphr8

Here it is: Be still and know that I am God.I think this would be my mother's favorite verse.  It was one of the first passages she underlined in her bible. She's passed from this world now, so she really now knows that He is God! Meantime, for us we can be still and know some truths in Psalm 46.Join me and my mother today.https://youtu.be/asL_FfGmw7E

May the Lord visit you on this morning; on this dayMay the Lord be so close as to talk to you and test you.May you see that the Lord has set His heart on youMay you appreciate that the Lord has made much of youPerhaps we could respond: You have made much of us, the least we can do is make much of you>As Chief Brody said in Jaws when confronted with the enormity before him: "We're gonna need a bigger boat"https://youtu.be/vXdCsfgLqF4

There is a season in the development of little humans when they cannot yet talk.  Ironically, the Lord uses this season for them to PRAISE and to LEAD in PRAISE. If you have ever seen a baby up close, you might have cooed and admired and commented as to their glory.  This is the Lord's doing.  He uses such little ones to praise Him.  He uses such little ones to lead adults in praise. He uses those who cannot talk to shut the mouths of those who can.He uses those who cannot talk to most clearly sing the strengths of God to those who can.  The world's best worship leaders are infants.  Subscribe for more tomorrowhttps://youtu.be/HrX0nOTl_nw

If we could look inside the mind of God, what would we find? The answer might surprise you.  It certainly surprises me, every time I think about it: He thinks about MANKIND.  He thinks about women. He thinks about men. He thinks about us.  How do we know, He tells us in the powerful and personal Psalm 8. Join me there right now to hear what the good Lord is thinking about. Subscribe for more thoughts tomorrow too: https://youtu.be/f4KLk2SK81Y

The path of an ongoing relationship to a God MUST be marked with conviction, correction, repentance and forgiveness.         Otherwise we cannot be in relationship with a holy God.He warns us about this: don't be MULE HEADED in resistance. The wonderful forgiveness of the Lord accessed by the heavy hand of conviction.When God's hand weighs heavy upon you, listen and respond.But first: subscribe on YouTube: https://youtu.be/n8GvKON8NvQ

I'd love to say that the presence of God always feels joyful, intimate and enjoyable.  Sometimes, though, it feels like a HEAVY HAND. Yikes.This heavy hand is directionally moving us towards something: forgiveness.  It is the most important of life skills. Without the skill of repentance, your life will be an ongoing testimony to one wrecked relationship after another--including with the Almighty. Watch and admire with me what David does when he feels this heavy hand of God.Subscribe for more tomorrow.https://youtu.be/x44p1nopS4s

Not every story ends with rainbows.  Similarly, some psalms stop in the middle of hardship.  They are called laments.  Today will be about how to live when there is not a rainbow at the end of the day.  With what insight does this psalm leave for us when the day does not end with rainbows. Subscribe please: https://youtu.be/6ML7QZ4ceQY

David wonders in Ps51 why God might be so good to him. He asks for mercy first, then more than mercy. He asks for a fully restored, even thriving relationship.  Why?So he can be educationalSo he can be evangelicalSo he can be worshipfulSo he can intercede for the house of God.Don't let this great sin go to waste.https://youtu.be/IRv3OSeGA-M

Happy Thanksgiving.  I'll hope I can give you something to be thankful for in these 7 minutes. David starts with murder. Not only does he ask for MERCY, he asks for MORE THAN mercy. Sure, he wants forgiveness and for the almost-impossible process that sin becomes UN-SEEN forever. But wait, he wants MORE: David wants the BIG ASK: PROXIMITY to God; PRESENCE of the HS; and the PLEASURE of a restored relationship.Ps.51 starts with murder and ends with MORE THAN mercy. He asks for God Himself. Listen.https://youtu.be/aKlJUlGE9_E

Shouldn't David be "the Jeffery Dahlmer" of the Bible? Isn't David “as bad as Hitler?”  Yes, except that Psalm 51 happened.David has committed Lust, adultery, and murder. You cannot sugar coat this.  He has misused the power that was supposed to be used to care for a nation, to kill and covet parts of that kingdom. He has betrayed this family; he has been disloyal to his office; he has offended the Lord.How is David going to get out of this mess?  You gotta go to Psalm 51.  Join me!https://youtu.be/4eIvrpmmJpk

My prayer for you is that you become a blessed, prosperous, known, fruitful man/woman. How can this happen?  Ps1 tells us: Don't do some stuff: with your words, your ways, and stay away from wicked.Do do some stuff: be planted, be powered, be producing,  be principled under law of Lord and be pleased by the Person of God.This is how you get to be a powerhouse, a spiritual powerhouse.Subscribe to this channel to be this powerhouse:https://youtu.be/4toK7lQj3G4

So why can we rest, be quiet, be still, and wait quietly? Because the Lord has got this. He is not still.  He is busy being steadfast.  He is busy keeping us. We can be still because He is not still.We can be still because He is being steadfast.         Stillness is our SUPERPOWERThe meek shall inherit the earth.Stillness is our strength, because it is rooted in His strength.Stillness is our superpower. Your superpower is subscribing to this channel on Youtube.     https://youtu.be/8cPTXCa42pQ

Jesus was so excited about Psalm 37 He based the Sermon on the Mount on it. Perhaps we might pay close attention.The meek shall inherit the earth.  It means the bowed; the bent. The bent can get a whole kingdom.  It just depends on what you do with your bend.  Join me in Psalm 37 and let's do the right thing with our bent. https://youtu.be/KiQbkcmvXdk

Wonder with me: What do the OLD know that the young do not? Psalm 37:25 tells us.  It is a psalm that ONLY the old could write.It is a psalm whose truths have enjoyed the run of the years. 25  I have been young, and now am old,  yet I have not seen the righteous forsakenListen 7 minutes to:  the psalm with gray hairSubscribe if you plan on living another day.https://youtu.be/-AQmudfGu2U

The Lord has a heart for the Jewish people. The Lord has a heart for the non-Jewish people. He told us this in the famous "Great Commission" passage of Matt 28: 19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations..."Our Psalm today, psalm 96, reveals that a thousand years before the "Great Commission" God was greatly commissioning Jews and Gentiles to get busy and get ALL PEOPLES, ALL NATIONS into His beloved family. 1000 years of God's heart in just 6 ½ minutes.  Worth it. Subscribe and watch:https://youtu.be/1BsYg9rTHc0

This is either the most selfish psalm in the world (if you only read verse 1) orThis is the most UNSELFISH psalm in the world (if you read the other 6 verses).It asks that the Lord shine His face on US.  So is it just for those who know Him, for those that are already in His family? Or, is it ultimately that the whole world would know Him?! This is the most UNSELFISH psalm in the world because it is FOR THE WORLD.Subscribe, etc.: https://youtu.be/cBmXmG51Dd8

"God loves you and has a purpose for your life". I've heard this said many times. Well, it comes from Psalm 138.If you want to understand where YOU are going, you'd best understand where GOD is going, (and where God has been.) The Lord will fulfill His purpose in me.  If you need purpose, Ps 138 is a great place to start.For further details on your purpose tomorrow, please subscribe. https://youtu.be/JaQJXG2LOn4