Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, whose heart is set on pilgrimage….7 They go from strength to strength; Each one appears before God in Zion (Psalms 84:5&7 NKJV). Jesus lover, the journey you are on can get trying sometimes. As you climb the mountain that is your earthly life, look forward to your destination. Remind yourself frequently you are on a pilgrimage, and the higher you climb, the closer you get to the Lord. The Holy Spirit is your traveling companion. He

If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water (John 7:37-38 NKJV). Jesus used the term living waters to describe the Holy Spirit in you. We have a spring in us that never will run dry. Holy Spirit moves and never stagnates. That's why Jesus referred to Him as living waters. Dead things don't move. Life is energy. Wind and fire and the dove all represent the Holy Spirit,

Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10). Are you going through a rough patch in your life right now? Have you felt loss or disappointment of late? In this world, we experience tribulation, but the Lord told us to cheer up because He overcomes the world. Humanity is born for adversity. We can only know complete rest and peace in the presence of our beloved Lord and friend Jesus Christ. Jesus is a joyous person, and his attributes rub off on a

My enemies surround me like a herd of bulls; fierce bulls of Bashan have hemmed me in (Psalms 22:12 NLT). If you are familiar with astronomy, the constellation, Taurus the bull, is present now in our nighttime sky. The Lord is reminding us to take charge in our lives. We are to learn to seize authority this month over the devil and His bullying ways. How do we do this? Certainly not in our own strength but the strength we find only in the Lord. The Jesus in you is as stro