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Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “Splendor and majesty are before Him, strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.” Psalm 96:6    Praise God! Scripture reveals to us, “You are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you” (1 Corinthians 3:16).   This means that you and I are, right now, a sanctuary for our Lord, Who presently abides in us, so that we may abide in Christ, according to His word (“Abide in Me, and I in you” John 15: 4-11).   So, according to this p

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green.” Psalm 92:13-14    I would like to modify a statement I made yesterday that I have been meditating upon.   I wrote, “ministering to the Lord has been my most consistent, Christ-centering

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green.” Psalm 92:13-14    Ministering to our Lord in God’s presence, according to this verse, is like drinking from an everlasting fountain of renewing spiritual youth and health.   In the natu

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.” Psalm 92:12-13   Would you like to “flourish like the palm tree” and “grow like a cedar in Lebanon” today? Right now?   Then plant yourself in the house of God, as a priest unto God, ministering to the Lord, and you will most certainly “flourish in the courts of our

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23:6     As ministers to the Lord, recreated through our resurrected Lord Jesus Christ “to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father” (Revelation 1:6), we are in a most blessed position to truly know that we “will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”   Every time we minister to our Lord we are actually dwelling in God’s house, “in the secret place of His tent” (Psalm 27:

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23:6   God is dwelling within us right now so that we may dwell with Him, both now and forever. Bless His holy name!   The essential truth of our Christian life is that God has come to save us and live in us as “‘Immanuel,’ which translated means, ‘God with us’” (Matthew 1:23).   This is the essential t

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23:6   David had come to love God so much and he had spent so much time before His presence that he was able express his full and unshakable confidence in his “Shepherd” (Psalm 23:1) by declaring, “surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life.”   This was not a boast or a pr

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; my cup overflows.” Psalm 23:5    O Lord, our cup overflows with all of the great things that You have done for us and for Who You are to us.   You are our Good Shepherd in all things.   Thank You for Your loving kindness.   Thank You for calling us to Yourself; for salvation, restoration, and sanctification, that we may know we truly belo

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; my cup overflows.” Psalm 23:5    Our cup overflows, resulting in gratitude, praise, and humility, as we behold all that our God has prepared for us.   The cup of “living water” within us, “springing up to life eternal” (John 4:10&14), overflows with thanksgivings to God for the table that He has prepared before us and for the anointing He

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; my cup overflows.” Psalm 23:5   In order for us to more truly and clearly see the table of God’s presence before us, which He has prepared for us, perhaps we need first to have our heads anointed with oil.   When we receive, yield to, and joyfully allow the oil of God’s Holy Spirit to permeate our minds, our thinking, our heads; then our