Kristi Burchfiel

We all mess up from time to time. Unfortunately, the world is full of people who are just waiting to see us fall. David knew what that felt like and wrote about it in Psalm chapter 38. For I said, “May they not rejoice over me, Who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.” For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me. For I confess my iniquity; I am full of anxiety because of my sin. Psalms 38:16‭-‬18 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.38.16-18.NASB His prayer to God asks that others would not rejoice in his sins or praise his wrongdoings. Doing something wrong is bad enough,…

What do you desire? Do you even know what your goals and dreams are? Or, like many of us, have you forgotten how to dream for things in the future? God knows what are deepest desires are. He talks about it in Psalm 37. Delight yourself in the Lord ; And He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalms 37:4 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.37.4.NASB Not only does God know what we truly and desperately desire, he wants to give it to us. As we are delighting ourselves in Jesus Christ and all that God has provided for us, he commits to giving us the desires of our heart. Will we…

How much love does God have? How often can we rely on his faithfulness? As it turns out, these qualities don’t just describe God, they are the very definition of who He is. See Psalm chapter 36. Your lovingkindness, O Lord , extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. Psalms 36:5 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.36.5.NASB The love of God can’t be measured because God himself is the very definition of love. His faithfulness is a core of who He is. We can trust that He will do all that He says He will do because of the character of who He is.

HAPPY RESURRECTION SUNDAY!! Jesus Christ lives and today we celebrate this truth! As we look at Psalm 35, we see David celebrating the truth of a living God as well. And my tongue shall declare Your righteousness And Your praise all day long. Psalms 35:28 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.35.28.NASB Do we praise God for who He is? He is the one who has created all things and who is truth. He is worthy of our praise and worthy of all we have to offer Him. He is our strength and our salvation and we are to declare His praise all day long!

Who praises God with us? We can be focused on praising God for all he does for us, but we are not designed to praise him alone. See Psalm 34 O magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together. Psalms 34:3 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.34.3.NASB We are to be inviting others into the presence of the Lord and to hear others as they give glory to God. We can be examining his name together with others. Will we seek out others and invite them to worship God with us?

Have your plans been frustrated and fallen apart? Most of us will have to admit that at some point in our lives, our plans have fallen apart. We try to come up with these great and amazing plans to be able to do all these things we think would be wonderful, but God knows what we should be doing instead. See Psalm 33. The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the peoples. Psalms 33:10 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.33.10.NASB God’s plans are higher than or plans and at the end of the day, he is working to bring about his plans and not our plans. Sometimes, too…

We need a teacher. We do not know or understand all that the Chrustian life entails. Some people seek their teachers from various peoole around them, however, our main teacher shoukd be God Himself and the Bible. See what it says in Psalm 32. I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. Psalms 32:8 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.32.8.NASB Other people are not perfect and we must constantly test what others say against the Bible so we are not deceived and led astray. God is to be our main teacher and we are to seek after Him. He…

Do we marvel in the love of God? It can become easy to take the fact that God loves us for granted. We hear it and speak about it, but do we truly understand how marvelous it is that God loves us? See this verse from psalm 31. Blessed be the Lord , For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city. Psalms 31:21 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.31.21.NASB God makes his love for us marvelous. He does great and marvelous things, but are we willing to see him for all that He does for us? Or do we just expect him to love us and lose sight of…

Where does our healing come from? Do we know and are we focused on seeking help from the source of our healing? See Psalm 30. O Lord my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me. Psalms 30:2 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.30.2.NASB Pain and difficulties are going to be part pf this life. There’s no avoiding that. Yet God is the one who sees us through our problems and trials. He is the one who can provide healing. Do we reach out to Him and cry to Him for help? Or do we come to Him as a last resort? God is the source of our healing. We can…

How much glory is God due? We can see so many examples of how God glorifies himself and his name, but how much glory is enough. Read through Psalm 29. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in holy array. Psalms 29:2 NASB https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.29.2.NASB As we read through the entire psalm, we learn that God is really due ALL glory. There is not anything else that is worthy of any glory compared to him. He is the One that deserves every bit of glory and we are responsible for giving glory to him. Do we honor him in all the things that we do,…