The lost are in need of spiritual surgery. They need to meet the Great Physician and allow Him to restore them to spiritual health and vitality.
From Matthew 9:11-12: “When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?’ But when he heard this, he said, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.'”
David Jeremiah (born 1941) is an American pastor and Christian author.
From Psalm 57:1-2: “Be merciful to me, O God; be merciful to me, for in You my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge, until the destroying storms pass by. I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.”
Surrounded with His mercy
God offers refuge for thee
Praises of assurance
Shadows of darkness flee
Fulfilled through Savior’s actions
God sends glory’s salvation
Praises of steadfast love
Truth builds faith’s foundation
Awakened at dawn’s sunrise
Grace fed from Christ’s inner heart
Praises of what’s to come
Blessed with journey’s restart
Wounded at Calvary’s cross
Not even death shall suppress
Praises of sacrifice
Christ conquers sin’s distress
Encouraged to follow Christ
Resurrection’s scripted peace
Praises of surrender
Forgiveness crafts faith’s lease
From Psalm 57:10-11: “For Your steadfast love is as high as the heavens; Your faithfulness extends to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let Your glory be over all the earth.”
From Psalm 90:1-2: “Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth or ever You had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.”
With each passing day
Our Father’s blessed Word
Offering faith’s dwelling place
Mankind’s righteousness shall be stirred
From distant mountains
Echoes of prophets past
Everlasting in faith’s heart
Yesterday’s breath arrives at last
Shards of light descend
Morning’s grace at sunrise
Enlisting heavenly peace
Attention to Calvary’s prize
Life in risen Christ
Darkness forever fades
Forgiving man’s trespasses
His mercy ready to cascade
Eternity breathes
Filled with His steadfast love
Witnessing Christ’s victory
Father’s glory fulfilled above
From Psalm 90:17: “Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and prosper for us the work of our hands—O prosper the work of our hands!”
There are a thousand ways to wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
From John 14:6: “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'”
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and writer.
From Psalm 32:1-2: “Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Happy are those to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit.”
Lost in transgression’s shadows
Wilderness grows deeper
Seeking new direction
God sends His peacekeeper
Faith’s ebbing strength drying up
Darkness remains at hand
Kneeling with repentance
Light arrives where one stands
Jesus accepts confession
Anguish breaking apart
Delivering Word’s truth
Love fills another heart
Grace descends with Spirit’s breath
Thorns of sin die away
Receiving forgiveness
Righteousness fills God’s way
Dawn of new life rising
Eye of Christ upon thee
Surrounding with His peace
Reborn, forever free
From Psalm 32:8: “I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.”
From Ephesians 2:5-7: “Even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.“
Faith’s spirit seeks
Heavenly grace
Distilled through Christ
Love shall embrace
Depths of joy thirst
Touched by His grace
Waters of hope
Christ’s welcome face
Righteousness breathes
Strengthened by grace
Free gift from Christ
Destiny’s place
For each Christian
Peace full of grace
Resume filled
Christ’s risen space
Bountiful feast
Nourished from grace
Truth found in Christ
Finish thy race
From Ephesians 2:20-21: “Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone; in Him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.”
Messiah
Witnessing
His flock
Wayward, lost sheep
Father inserts faithful Shepherd
Jesus
Mentor
Teaching
Without rest
Refreshed through prayer
Energized for His ministry
Jesus
Redeemer
Walking
Upon waters
Churning, tumultuous sea
Sharing peace, winds cease
Jesus
Jesus doesn’t remove all yokes; He exchanges our burdensome one for His “easy” one.
From Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to Me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”
Charles Stanley (1932-2023) was an American pastor and Christian writer. He was dedicated to leading a teaching ministry.
Destiny
Faith
Cross reveals
Identify with Christ
Light discovered in forgiveness
Resolute
Encouragement
Call
From Calvary
Invitation of Cross
Walking in Christ’s footprints
Eternal
Commitment
Hope
Standing together
Christ’s fulfilling blood
Cross blesses with love
Peace
A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose strong heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.
From Galatians 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
John Piper (born 1946) is an American pastor, theologian, and Christian scholar. He is the founder and teacher of desiringgod.org.
