Psalm 18. Pastor John Samuel Barnett presents a great talk on who David was and how his life shows us how we can serve God in our own lives. Enjoy this very applicable message from Pastor’s series.
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Psalm 51. A different type of sinner’s prayer than what we are use to. Yet the Christian can see that the freedom from sin prayed for is the same prayer David offers. Both view God as a truly righteous and holy God. Both view man as depraved and in need of salvation. And both view the salvific act as ultimately glorifying God and then making man able to approach Him.
Pastor John Samuel Barnett‘s trip with David through the Holy Land and David’s life in the Psalms can be found below.
We return to Psalm 23 and now look at the sanctification of David’s walk with God. David grows in trust of God and it’s a process that didn’t cease at David’s young age. God was the only consistent standard that David had. Even in David’s failure, God did not cast him aside. It is not from man’s actions that God moves. It is from God’s Will that man moves.
Are you growing in an ever increasing trust in the Lord? Do you turn to Him in the valley of Death or do you walk alone?
Psalm 19. The Bible is God’s testimony of who He is given to His creation. Man is not the central character of the story, God is. The exaltation of man is not present. The high holy status of God is proclaimed throughout.
In Psalm 19, David declares and delights in God’s greatness. He delights in God’s power and sovereignty. David delights in God’s work. David delights even in God’s Law. And towards the end, after a sole focus on God, David testifies to God’s greatness on how it impacts him and others.
This week, will you make time to declare of God’s greatness without a reference to how it impacts you? Will you take the time to recognize that the central character in your life should be “O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer”?
Psalm 23. Probably one of the most well known psalm. In our Bible reading we may briefly glance at it due to it’s short length and our familiarity.
Yet, what happens when we look at the passage relationally; between ourselves and God. Yes, we can read it and see the great benefit we have when follow God. But when we look at the very middle of the chapter we see that the sovereignty of God is proclaimed throughout the entirety of the Bible. God does everything “for His name’s sake”. Not for our comfort. Not for our glory. Not because He loves us. All of those are true, yes; but it is God who deserves to be the center and for us to fall to our knees and proclaim Him sovereign of our lives and over all things.
Will you fear or will you fear not? Enjoy the next installment of Pastor John Samuel Barnett‘s “David’s Life In The Psalms – Lessons From The Holy Land”.
We begin this new series of devotionals with Pastor John Samuel Barnett‘s series “David’s Life In The Psalms”.
Psalm 17 is presented as a prayer for when we feel insecure. That fact that David, in his time, had a prayer for these moments should at the very least encourage us that we haven’t gone far from the same type of shared experience. Insecurity seems like a normal occurrence in human history. The question is then, where will you turn during those times?
Will you seek outward towards the world and it’s offerings? Why search from answers in those that experience the same trepidation? Will you look inward? This assumes the answer lies within the frantic mindset of the one experiencing stress. Or will you look up, at the one who in supremely sovereign and who offers a relationship with the one who can hold you securely in His hands?
Look up.
For the past several years, Pastor John Samuel Barnett has taken a number of teaching trips to the Holy Land. Some of those trips have been filmed as well. Over the next coming weeks, as we’ve finished the Face2Face series devotional, we will be posting videos from some of the DVDs made for Pastor Barnett’s Discover The Book Ministry.
Starting tomorrow, we hope that these interesting videos will be a daily devotional bless to you and those you wish to share them with.
For the Christian, prayer isn’t something always there for the big events. Prayer should permeate our life. Prayer is an active and deliberate way we can show God that we are relying on Him.
Today, Pastor John Samuel Barnett shows us that Jesus not only expects us to pray but shows us what a life focused on seeking God is like.
(From 2015MAR15 – FTF-22 – Give us This Day Our Daily Bread – Learning How To Invite God To Supply Me Through Life)
Jesus Christ is our primary example of what to do to follow God. Jesus points us to the correct path and makes us able to to choose the correct path. Jesus is our example in that He, Himself, relied on God and the Spirit completely during His incarnation. It is through His life and His death that we are able to live.
Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives us Jesus’ invitation to rely on God daily for all things.
(From 2015MAR15 – FTF-22 – Give us This Day Our Daily Bread – Learning How To Invite God To Supply Me Through Life)
How did Jesus prepare His disciples for all the uncertainties of life?
With perfect peace.
Here is a quick guide to His Peace.
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