“Return to Me with all your heart, And with fasting, weeping and mourning.” – Joel 2:12 The prophet Joel compares the coming day of the Lord with the succession of locust invasions, which sequentially devour every crop and all vegetation. The entire nation of Israel was commanded to fast and to cry out to the Lord their God in sincere repentance of…

“My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.” – Psalm 57:7 In this psalm, David appealed for mercy twice. And in this verse, David twice expressed his steadfast confidence in God.  David was alone in the cave and the troubles were all over him, but he has fixed his heart in God. And that…

“For whom the LORD loveth He correcteth.” – Proverbs 3:12 Just as loving fathers discipline their favorite children, the loving God chastens every child of His to make him or her better. Having chosen them before the foundations of the world, adopted them by the precious blood of Jesus at the Cross of Calvary, and gave them a second birth with the…