Pastor Leon’s SOAP: Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer

August 27: Jeremiah 52; Revelation 1; Psalm 143-144

Scripture: Psalm (NIV) 143:8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.

Observation: From the context I get the idea that the Psalmist was going through a hard time. I can hear him praying this prayer before going to sleep at night. After a long stressful day he might pray, “May I wake in the morning with a reminder that you have not forsaken me. I trust you to show me what to do.”

Application: In times of trouble I can sleep knowing that the Lord will watch over me through the night and give me some new expression of his unfailing love in the morning. In the jungles of Viet Nam I would often go to sleep with Psalm 3:5 on my mind. “I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.”

Prayer: Lord, there is no better way to close my eyes in sleep than in knowing that I will awake in the morning to discover a new expression of your love. Amen

Pastor Leon

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