Kristi Burchfiel

Are you riding an emotional rollercoaster? One day you’re up and the next you’re down? Happiness followed by sadness followed by something else. It’s exhausting to live that way. David shares a secret in Psalm 57. My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises! Psalms 57:7 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.57.7.NASB A steadfast heart is the secret to making it through each day with our eyes focused on God. Our heart’s desire is to feel comfortable and safe and loved. The situations that we go through can create anxiety for each of us and as a result our heart starts to worry about…

Ever felt trampled on? How about dismissed and rejected? Afraid of others? Yea, most of us have experienced these demoralizing situations in the past, some more recently than others. We’re not alone. Read Psalm 56. My foes have trampled upon me all day long, For they are many who fight proudly against me. When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You. In God, whose word I praise, In God I have put my trust; I shall not be afraid. What can mere man do to me? Psalms 56:2‭-‬4 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.56.2-4.NASB Yes, David understood how we feel and he went straight to God with his concern. We can…

What burdens are you carrying? Often we all have something that we drag around with us, either consciously or unconsciously. Think about the burden that is weighing you down as you read Psalm 55. Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. Psalms 55:22 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.55.22.NASB God says that he will sustain us. He takes our burdens and he carries them. He knows what we can handle and when we reach our limit. He sees our struggles, even the ones that we won’t admit to anyone else or even to ourselves. Will we cast our burdens upon him…

Guess what, you can’t please everyone. Even if you were to do everything absolutely right, there would still be people who are unhappy with you. So what do we do about it? Well, David writes about that in Psalm 54. For strangers have risen against me And violent men have sought my life; They have not set God before them. Selah. Psalms 54:3 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.54.3.NASB If we are following God and placing him first in all that we do, we will have people that we have offended. David gives the reason because they have not set God before them. I had a mentor who put it this way: “Please God,…

God knows what we think in our heart. So, what are we thinking? Are we honest without ourselves about what we think about our situation, circumstances, or even about God himself? See Psalm 53, The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,” They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice; There is no one who does good. Psalms 53:1 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.53.1.NASB We don’t do good, for as the verse says, there is no one who does good. We’re also in danger of being a fool if we start to think that God is not interested or concerned about what we are going through or dealing with. God…

Some people do evil things. We can get caught in their path at times and their actions influence what we are going through. How do we deal with people like that? The answer according to Psalm 52 is that we don’t. You love evil more than good, Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah. But God will break you down forever; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah. Psalms 52:3‭, ‬5 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.52.3-5.NASB God deals with people like that. He will address the evil that is in their hearts and shown through their actions.…

Do you have joy? Do you experience joy on a regular basis in the midst of all your circumstances? Psalm 51 says: Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit. Psalms 51:12 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.51.12.NASB This Psalm is about repentance. Sin in our lives destroys our joy. We cannot experience all that God has for us while we are living sinfully. David sinned and he begged for God to forgive him and restore his joy. Do we need our joy restored? Do we have sin that is in the way of the joy? God wants to restore it if we will let Him.

Sone days are more difficult to get through than others. On some days, we feel on top of the world and other days, the world is sitting on us. God is still the same God even in the midst of this up snd down feeling. Read Psalm 50. Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.” Psalms 50:15 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.50.15.NASB We can call on him. He is there and He knows the difficulties that we are going through. He is able to rescue us from those difficult circumstances. He can walk with us through them. He is God. He is also…

Do we try to save others? Now, we are responsible for telling others about the saving grace of God, the actual decision to follow Him is solely the responsibility of that person, not us. Read Psalm 49. No man can by any means redeem his brother Or give to God a ransom for him- Psalms 49:7 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.49.7.NASB We cannot be good enough for another person. We cannot make a decision for another person. We cannot force them into the saving grace of Jesus Christ. But, we can encourage them. We can demonstrate for them what it looks like to follow Christ. We can love them and show them what…

God’s name is worthy of praise. All that he is and all that he does is holy and, therefore, worthy of praise. Are we praising God for who he is? See Psalm 48. As is Your name, O God, So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness. Psalms 48:10 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.48.10.NASB We are to praise God for all that he is and all that He does for He alone is worthy of praise. He us the one who is more worthy of praise than anything else in this world. He created everything anyway and the Creator is aleays more than the…