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Psalm 132. If someone were to ask you about what you needed to do today, what would be on your list? Go to work, get the kids around, finish the project, laundry, dinner, mow the grass, etc. We have those things in mind because they are important to us and we need to get them done.
 
Where is spending time with the Lord on that list of priorities? Is it at the beginning or end? Maybe it’s at the top. In Psalm 132, David reveals his priority by needing God throughout his entire day. His priority is God and from there, all else flows. When we, like David, draw closer to God we change our priorities to reflect those of our Lord.
 
Pastor John Samuel Barnett challenges us to reflect on Psalm 132 and ask ourselves, “Am I truly relying on God for all things throughout my day?”
 
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?

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.

http://www.dtbm.org/holy-land-tours/

Here’s a fun one from all the way back to the first Q&A. Pastor John Samuel Barnett explains his preaching style. However, it is a very good resource on how one can exegete (pull out of) a text instead of eisegete (read into) and how to do proper Bible study.
 
Enjoy, and next week, we’ll be starting something a little different that we hope you’ll enjoy.
 
(2011JUN26 – Q&A-01)
Recently, Pastor John Samuel Barnett, took a trip to the Holy Land for part of his teaching video series. The link below is to an updating blog that chronicles the stories and videos he took during this trip. Enjoy!
 
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.

This week, we look at relying on God for everything in our lives.
 
We know that we are to measure every piece of information, evidence, and advice against the Word of God to see if it worthy to be followed or taken. But does The Bible, in Psalm 1, tell us that we can never take advice from unbelievers? Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives us the answer in this short clip.
 
(2014DEC28 – Q&A-83)