BITE-SIZED RESOURCES FOR SPIRITUAL FITNESS

Articles and other resources that help you move closer to Jesus, experience a transformed life, and become a biblically engaged disciple-maker.

Feb 25, 2019

A Place of Prayer and Praise

Read Psalm 122:1-9 Are you glad when it's time to go to the house of God to worship? Are you really happy when, on the Lord's Day or any...

Feb 25, 2019

Lift Your Eyes

Read Psalm 123:1-4 If the outlook in your life is disturbing, try the uplook. That's what the psalmist did. "Unto You I lift up my eyes,...

Feb 25, 2019

He Breaks the Snare

Read Psalm 124:1-8 "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Paul asked in Romans 8:31, and we know the answer. No one can be against us...

Feb 25, 2019

Like a Mountain

Read Psalm 125:1-5 "As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people from this time forth and forever" (v. 2). We...

Feb 25, 2019

Reap in Joy

Read Psalm 126:1-6 Did you know that each one of us is a sower? Each of us today is sowing seed that will produce a harvest. Some people...

Feb 25, 2019

Happy Harvesters

Read Psalm 126:1-6 The context of this psalm is II Kings 19 and Isaiah 37, when Hezekiah, king of Judah, was attacked by Sennacharib and...

Feb 25, 2019

Inheritance from God

Read Psalm 127:1-5 I feel like weeping when I think about the tragedy of more than 1.5 million babies murdered in their mothers' wombs in...

Feb 25, 2019

The Blessings of Fear

Read Psalm 128:1-6 We don't hear much these days about the fear of the Lord. All too often the Lord is looked upon only as a heavenly...

Feb 25, 2019

Plows of Pain

Read Psalm 129:1-8 Verse 3 is a vivid description of personal suffering: "The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long."...

Feb 25, 2019

Waiting and Hoping

Read Psalm 130:1-8 The next time you feel at rock bottom, read Psalm 130. "Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord" (v. 1). Three...

Feb 25, 2019

A Method for Maturity

Read Psalm 131:1-3 One day King David was walking through the palace, and he heard a child crying. What was going on? The child was being...

Feb 25, 2019

The Next Best Thing

Read Psalm 132:1-10 What is the consuming ambition of your life? What is the dream that fills your mind and heart? King David's dream was...

Feb 25, 2019

A House for David

Read Psalm 132:11-18 God did not permit King David to build Him a house. Instead, He did just the opposite; He built a house for David....

Feb 25, 2019

The Unity of the Spirit

Read Psalm 133:1-3 "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" (v. 1). This is as true today as...

Feb 25, 2019

Night Shift

Read Psalm 134:1-3 Years ago when I was attending seminary, I worked the night shift on occasion. It paid a little more money than the...

Feb 25, 2019

Great Government

Read Psalm 135:1-12 "Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord; praise Him, O you servants of the Lord!" (v. 1). That's the way Psalm...

Feb 25, 2019

The Cost of Idolatry

Read Psalm 135:13-21 Some things in the Bible are so important that God repeats them. The last verses in Psalm 135 parallel Psalm 115....

Feb 25, 2019

Enduring Mercy

Read Psalm 136:1-9 Psalm 136 magnifies the mercy of God. Every verse ends with the refrain, "For His mercy endures forever." I would like...

Feb 25, 2019

A Complete History

Read Psalm 136:10-26 Israel is the only nation for which we have a complete history. We know how it started, how it grew, where it is...

Feb 25, 2019

Finding Your Song

Read Psalm 137:1-9 One test of your spiritual condition is whether or not you really have a song. Psalm 137 tells us about people who...