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Confessing Our Guilt

August 27, 2023 | Psalm 32:1-5 | recovery

We want to please God, but still have sin areas that cause us to feel guilty and defeated or past sin areas that we still feel guilty about. This robs us of living the blessed life, the happy life.

What is guilt? It’s that feeling of shame and regret we feel over a sinful attitude or behavior. It can be appropriate guilt when we are indeed responsible for an offense and feel remorse for it. Or it can be false guilt when we feel responsible for something that we had no control over, yet still feel we could’ve prevented in some way. Guilt feels heavy, like baggage that we carry with us. It fills us with shame and regret.

Some will try to help us deal with our guilt by trying to convince us that we shouldn’t feel guilty. But the Bible tells us that the reason we feel guilty is because we are guilty! But it also tells us how to give it to God! In David’s Psalm 32, he described how confessing his guilt led to living under God’s blessing. We can understand how confessing our guilt leads to living under God’s blessing.

Surrendering Our Control

August 20, 2023 | Psalm 27:1-11 | recovery

Jesus says that gentleness is the path to greatness and that meekness is the path to blessing. Yet meekness is probably one of the least admired qualities in America. We admire strength, not humility. We admire those who take charge, not those who surrender control to God. This might partly be because we don’t understand what meekness is.

In David’s Psalm 37, he instructed the people of God that living meekly, surrendering control to God, leads to a life of blessing. We can surrender our control to God to experience His blessing.

WHOSE PATH DO YOU FOLLOW?

August 12, 2023

‘The LORD says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you”‘ (Psalm 32:8 NLT). David reminds us in this psalm that the Lord offers to lead, guide, and direct us. He says don’t be like a mule that needs a bit and bridle to

GOD SEES AND CARES FOR YOU

August 9, 2023

“I will be glad and rejoice in your unfailing love, for you have seen my troubles, and you care about the anguish of my soul.” (Psalm 31:7 NLT). This Psalm of David teaches us to choose gladness and worship, while giving our troubles to God. David wrote that God had seen his trouble. In other

OVERCOMING FEAR BY FAITH IN GOD

August 4, 2023

“The LORD is my light and my salvation— so why should I be afraid? The LORD is my fortress, protecting me from danger, so why should I tremble?” (Psalms 27:1 NLT). David wrote these powerful declarations of confidence in the Lord, revealing how he faced his fears. He wrote them as rhetorical questions, challenging himself

CREATION PROCLAIMS THE CREATOR

July 25, 2023

“The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship. Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known.” (Psalm 19:1-2 NLT). When David looked at the sun and blue sky by day or the moon and stars at night, he did not worship them. No, he saw

PETER’S FIRST SERMON TEXT

July 20, 2023

“For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.” (Psalm 16:10 NLT). This psalm of David was quoted by the apostle Peter (See Acts 2:27) as a biblical proof that Jesus Christ, Son of David, was prophesied to rise from the dead without seeing

Receiving Children as a Gift from God

July 16, 2023 | Psalm 127 | parenting

In Psalm 127, Solomon wrote about the necessity of recognizing the Lord as the One builds families and watches over them. As a result, he wrote that children are to be received as a gift from the Lord.

THE LORD WATCHES OVER US WHILE WE SLEEP

July 5, 2023

“I lay down and slept, yet I woke up in safety, for the Lord was watching over me.” (Psalm 3:5 NLT). David wrote this psalm after he had to flee from his son, Absalom, who sought to overthrow him and take his crown. Surely he was overcome by grief from this betrayal. Sleep had no

WHY SING A NEW SONG TO THE LORD?

July 1, 2023

“Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing his praises in the assembly of the faithful.” (Psalm 149:1 NLT). The Scripture often instructs that a “new song” be sung to the Lord. In fact, this command is in the Bible a total of nine times: six in the Psalms, once in Isaiah,