Most of the time when today’s featured verse is quoted, it’s by someone who is expecting the Lord to fulfill a monetary need. While that is part of the promise, this verse embodies so much more. The word “riches” here means His abundant fullness, peace, joy, love, faith, etc. We...

In this verse, David is urging us to commit our entire journey in life to the Lord. Whatever we choose to do in our daily lives, we should dedicate it to God, trusting that He will guide us through. It's easy to say "God's got us," but in order for...

Trust and patience are peas in a pod. Conversely, impatience testifies of distrust in the heart. God made the above promise to Jeremiah on the eve of a 70 year Babylonian captivity. Buying land that you might not use for 70 years requires both patience and trust in God's promises....

Jeremiah, and the nation of Israel, were in the midst of troubled times. The King had not heeded Jeremiah’s warning but had thrown him into a pit of mire! And now that Babylon had besieged Jerusalem as the prophet had warned, Jeremiah was shut up in the court of the...

Earlier verses in our study of forgiveness often focused on forgiving others in cases where they sinned against us. The language Jesus uses here is intentionally more broad. Jesus knew that we often take offense and hold things against others that are not even really based in sins against us....