Day 3 - Week 31 - Psalm 100:5 "For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations."

For the LORD is good and His love endures forever....

God's love isn't temporary and it isn't based on His view of us.  Believe it or not, He knows who we are...both as conglomerate mankind and as individuals.  And He loves us...forever....always will.

Enduring love --- it's a concept that may be hard for some of us to grasp.  For many of us, our parents exhibited an enduring love, but for others, parental love was a sometimes on, sometimes off emotion.  For many of us, marriages have proven to be an atmosphere of enduring love; but for others, marriages have failed and what was thought to be a relationship that would last a lifetime fell far short of that.

Point is, every earthly relationship has the potential to fail and people who claimed to love us, suddenly don't make that claim any longer, or at least not for today. 

But God - oh, our God - He isn't fickle!  He isn't a love that will walk out on us or throw His hands up and say, "I'm through!"  He has committed to loving His children forever.  FOREVER!  In the King James Version, it says "everlasting"...translates to antiquity, futurity, forever, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, long time (of past), always, continuous existence, unending future, eternity....get it???

Another aspect that "everlasting" brings with it is the fact that there is no exhausting of God's love, it can't run out.  As Matthew Henry puts it, "it is a fountain that can never be drawn dry."  Isn't that a lovely phrasing of words to describe the infinite supply of the love of God?

Ephesians 3:17-19 may seem a little more meaningful to us after thinking about the nature of God's love...let Paul's words echo David's and let them sink into your soul....

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Day 2 - Week 31 - Psalm 100:5, "For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations."

For the LORD is good.  Period.

Whenever you might be tempted to think otherwise, remember Psalm 100:5...For the Lord is good.

It's easy, when bad times come, to think "if God is really good, then He wouldn't have allowed this to happen."  But God's goodness has nothing to do with living in a world dealing with the consequences of sin. 

God's goodness is surrounding us as we go through these tough times...Psalm 34:18, "The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."

God's goodness promises us a good outcome from all of life's events, Romans 8:28, "We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God." 

God's goodness drives His desire for all men to come to the salvation that He offers, and His patience with us comes from His absolute goodness, 2 Peter 3:9, "The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance."

It is easy to doubt God's goodness, but we shouldn't.  God's goodness was the driving force behind His plan of salvation for us, and His goodness drove Him to offer His Son as the sacrifice for our sins so that we can come into relationship with Him.  John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

For the LORD is good! 

Yes, He is!  Don't buy into Satan's ploy of trying to convince us that our troubles come from a less than absolutely good God.

For the LORD is good, and is completely worthy of our trust!  Sing it out - shout it out - LIVE it out!

Day 1 - Week 31 - Another verse of praise!

We'll  add another verse of praise tonight!  Don't you love these verses expressing honor to our God and Father?  These verses just confirm in our hearts the greatness and wonder of the God in whom we profess our faith.  I need to just spend moments reflecting on them throughout the day to bring to my mind the reality of the unseen and how incredibly powerful and holy our unseen God is!

But...before we add a new verse...let's make sure we have our past verses firmly planted!  Let's see how well we can do.......


The Gift of Scripture (6)

2 Timothy 3:16  All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correction, and for training in righteousness.

Joshua 1:8   This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth, you are to recite it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it.  For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.

Psalm 119:11  I have treasured Your words in my heart so that I may not sin against You.

Deuteronomy 6:4-6  Listen, O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength.  These words I am giving you today are to be in your heart.

Deuteronomy 6:7  Repeat them to your children, talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 

Hebrews 14:12  The Word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating as far as to divide soul, spirit, joints and marrow.  It is a judge of the ideas and thoughts of the heart.

The Gift of Prayer (3)

Hebrews 4:16 Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.

1 John 5:14   Now this is the confidence we have before Him, whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

1 John 5:15   And if we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked Him for.

The Gift of Assurance (10)

1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony:  God has given us eternal life and that life is in His Son.

1 John 5:12-13  The one who has the Son has life.  The one who doesn't have the Son of God, does not have life.  I say these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know you have eternal life.

John 14:1  Your heart must not be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in Me.

John 14:2  In my Father's house are many mansion, if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you.

John 14:3  And if I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you unto Myself, so that where I am, you may be also.

John 14:6  Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me.

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you.  I do not give as the world gives.  Your heart must not be troubled or afraid.

Isaiah 26:3-4  You will keep in perfect peace the mind that is dependent on You, for it is trusting in You.  Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed . (KJV)

Isaiah 53:6  We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished Him for the iniquities of us all.

Praise and Thanksgiving (4)

1 Peter 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  According to His great mercy He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Psalm 100:4  Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.  Give thanks to Him and praise His name.

 

And now our third of the four verses of Praise and Thanksgiving...

 

Psalm 100:5  For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

 

Is it as reassuring to you as it is to me that God is not just here for me and you in this time and place, but He will be here for our grandchildren and our great grandchildren, for He is faithful and will be faithful to His promises to men through all generations.  Until Christ returns, God will remain faithful in the extension of His goodness and love to this world.  So no matter how we may get discouraged at the direction that this world is taking, be assured that God will always be near to those who seek Him.  He is near, and He is good!  Believing that gives my heart  a sense of peace regarding our very uncertain future...

 

For the Lord is good and His love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generation!

 

Thank You Lord for your amazing faithfulness to a very unfaithful child!  Thank You Lord for your love that I will never be able to understand.  You are good!!

Day 7 - Week 30 - Psalm 100:4 "Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name."

Psalm 100 is one of the shortest and most exuberant passages in the Bible.  It takes about thirty seconds to read; and if you'll read it aloud every morning for a month, you'll automatically have all five verses memorized for the rest of your life.  There are no negatives in this passage, no sorrows, warnings or problems.  It's just shouting and singing and knowing and being thankful. ~ Robert J. Morgan

Isn't that a great challenge to you and to me? Repeat these five verses every morning in praise to our Father and they will be with us for our lifetimes!  Tomorrow is September 20th.  Recite this passage every morning in praise to God with me until October 19th.  Let's see how this passage changes our hearts each day that we sing it - shout it! 

Shout triumphantly to the Lord, all the earth.  Serve the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs.  Acknowledge that the Lord is God.  He made us, and we are His - His people, the sheep of His pasture.  Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.  Give thanks to Him and praise His name.  For the Lord is good and His love is eternal;  His faithfulness endures through all generations.

Shout with me - sing with me!  Recite these verses and then pick a song of praise that you know and love and sing to the Lord.  I just have a feeling that if we start every day for the next thirty days stating our adoration of God and singing our praise to Him, we will be in a different state of faith come October 20th! 

We need to remind ourselves daily that our Lord is God over all - that we are His, not the other way around.  We don't get to tell God what to do, He is supreme and He is our Lord.  But...rest easy...for HE IS GOOD and His love is eternal!  We do not serve a God who is selfish or who is moody...our God is constant and His love is forever.  He will be faithful not only to us, but to our children and to our children's children.  We can have confidence in Him - He is good!

Wake with me in the morning to shout to our God and to sing to Him our praises!

If you need a suggestion for a great praise song to start the day...here is one of my favorites...

Oh God, you are my God, and I will ever praise You.
Oh God, you are my God, and I will ever praise You.
And I will seek You in the morning, and I will learn to walk in Your ways,
and step by step You'll lead me, and I will follow You all of my days.
And I will follow You all of my days, and I will follow You all of my days,
and step by step You'll lead me, and I will follow You all of my days.