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March 31, 2013 SCRIPTURE: Psalm 27 OBSERVATIONS David is struggling with something, or someone. He is being attacked, accused, pursued, pressured. His burdens and struggles are piling up, and he is feeling the pressure. Deep inside of him, he senses his heart reaching for God, hanging on to God, hoping in God. He tells himself that…

March 29-30, 2013 SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 12-19 OBSERVATIONS What do you notice in this passage? APPLICATION What do you sense the Lord saying to you? PRAYER

March 28, 2013 SCRIPTURE: Matthew 20:24-28 OBSERVATIONS What do you notice in this passage? APPLICATION What do you sense the Lord saying to you? PRAYER

March 27, 2013 SCRIPTURE: Matthew 20:20-23 OBSERVATIONS Mom just wants the best for her boys. She does not understand life in God’s kingdom. She imagines it is like Caesar’s palace, where the close associates of Caesar get all the advantages. Did they put Mom up to this, did they think Jesus could not refuse a sweet…

March 26, 2013 SCRIPTURE: Matthew 20:17-19 OBSERVATIONS We’re all going to die, it’s not a question of IF but WHEN. Still, Jesus seems to be quite open to talking about it. And not just any death, a horrible, painful death. To be arrested by the representatives of Moses (remember Moses talking with Jesus with Elijah), the…

March 25, 2013 SCRIPTURE: Matthew 20:1-16 OBSERVATIONS If God gave us what we deserved, we would be in trouble. Thankfully, God gives us what we do not deserve – it’s called grace. Yet this story makes it sound unfair. How can someone who worked all day get the same amount as someone who only worked the…

March 24, 2013 SCRIPTURE: Psalm 26 OBSERVATIONS Here is a Psalm that I cannot pray. I cannot say ‘I have lived without blame’ or ‘I have never doubted’ or ‘I have always lived by Your truth’. David is not claiming to be absolutely sinless (though it sounds like it), but that his desire has been to…

March 22-23, 2013 SCRIPTURE: Deuteronomy 7-11 OBSERVATIONS What do you notice in this passage? APPLICATION What do you sense the Lord saying to you? PRAYER

March 21, 2013 SCRIPTURE: Matthew 19:25-30 OBSERVATIONS Salvation (being reconciled to God and restored to life in God’s forever family) is impossible for us to accomplish – no amount of religious activity out good deeds will address the real problem. Only God can do this… and He has, through Jesus!!! Peter is still thinking in worldly…