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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

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “The Lord is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works. All Your works shall give thanks to You, O Lord, and Your godly ones shall bless You. They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom and talk of Your power.” Psalm 145:9-11     Hallelujah, beloved of God, our “Lord is good to all!”   We praise You Lord and we bless You in and for Your goodness towards us, Your loving kindness, graciously extended to us through Your Son,

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “The Lord is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works. All Your works shall give thanks to You, O Lord, and Your godly ones shall bless You.” Psalm 145:9-10   David continued, in this last numbered Psalm of his, by confessing that God’s mercies (multiple) “are over all His works.” This means and includes you and I, as well as everything else God has made, for truly, just as the apostle Paul declared, “we are His workmanship

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “On the glorious splendor of Your majesty and on Your wonderful works, I will meditate.” Psalm 145:5     Bless the Lord, beloved child and priest of God, for here is where our minds truly need to dwell, rest, and be refreshed.   Let us meditate upon our God’s glorious splendor.   Let us meditate upon our God’s glorious splendor in His presence.   Let us meditate upon our God’s glorious splendor in His presence, within us, where the gl

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “I will extol You, my God, O King, and I will bless Your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and highly to be praised.” Psalm 145:1-3   To extol our Lord is to keep Him ever before us, in praise and adoration, while our own spirit experiences renewal in His presence, through our every remembrance and proclamation of the greatness of our God.   David wrote,

Today’s Word of Encouragement From Wayne: “I will extol You, my God, O King, and I will bless Your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and highly to be praised.” Psalm 145:1-3    In this last of David’s Psalms we see that his outlook upon his Lord remained consistent throughout all of his years. David’s first love was the Lord and, because of this simple, complete, singular, profound truth, David l