Psalm 73 ministries

 Today's world is filled with extremely high expectations that sometimes are almost impossible to fulfill. We have traveled from generation to generation with the attitude of being content to an attitude of wanting more and more. Instead of being content with what we have, we are disgraceful and start asking God for more, converting "real wants" into "masqueraded needs". God knows everything. He knows what we want. He knows what we need. We "need" food, clothing and shelter. We "want" bigger houses, faster cars; we want to go out to expensive restaurants all the time and we want anything and everything that would satisfy our unsatisfied hearts. But, what happens when our wants and needs have to do with our own health? Do we continue demanding from God what we want or do we graciously ask Him to provide what  we really need? I'm certain He knows what we need and that's when everything gets complicated. Is it possible that I "need...

 In the first part of this series, we talked about how fear is part of our human condition and also how each one of us experiences different kind of fears that are probably developed through out our lives due to traumatic experiences or some other underlined root. Moreover, we talked about one specific fear that, in my opinion, almost every human being has experienced, and that's the fear of death. We parked on this subject and Paul gave us one reason or encouragement for us not to be fearful of death. That encouragement is that "w e have the certainty that those who have already departed (fallen asleep) are secured in the Lord and so are we. Being secure in Jesus should alleviate the fear of death because, in the end, we, His children,  will be with Him forever. That takes us to the second encouragement. Paul says in verse 17: "We will always be with the Lord". When we depart this earth, we will have a home, and that home is heaven. The apostle John, in the fourteen...