"The steadfast of mind (“Yetser” =imagination) You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You (Isa. 26:3).I memorized this verse as “The steadfast of mind…” but it is correctly translated, “The steadfast of imagination You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You.”

Note from Mark: Read our Saturday blog: Tribute to Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while preaching the gospel.   Charlie Kirk’s funeral is Sept. 21, at the State Farm Stadium in Arizona, which holds 63,000. In the first five days since his assassination, there have been 32,000 requests to start Turning Point Chapters. This martyr’s life has been planted as a seed that we believe will bear fruit of turning 1 million to Christ. Lord, let me receive Charlie's spirit of boldness in proclaiming Christ.

Charles Finney: Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

LaWanda - Oh, Lord, You are worthy.  You ALONE are worthy.  You are worthy of it all.  You alone deserve the glory for the world of Nature, for all the good in the world and for what You did on the Cross.  You alone, Lord.  Help me to give you that honor and glory for EVERY good thing in my life.  Every single one of them.  The glory belongs to you.  Remind me of this, Lord, when I begin to think that I did any of it – for it is only by your grace, your hand on me, that I could do anything good.  Thank you that Your hand has been from before I even was me.

Do you get an annual performance review at work? These are typical as a meeting with management to discuss what is going well and what needs work. In the best of conditions it is an affirmative meeting. Would you be eager to have such a review of your spiritual life with me? Would you fear it? You need not think of it as punitive. You would benefit from periodic reviews of your practices to find out which are working for you that you may do more of them, and which are not working that you may let them go. Come and let us reason together.

Have you ever run from me? Jonah did, but he couldn’t outrun me, and I got him in the end. People spend a lifetime running from me, but I’m always in hot pursuit. This is a legal term for police in actively chasing a suspect, and you too will find that you can’t outrun me. Where would you go to escape from my presence? The Psalmist discovered that no matter where he went I was there. So if you decide to stop running you don’t have to trace your entire route back. No matter how much time and distance you have put into running from me, if you stop and turn to me I will be there.