Do not banish me from your presence, and don't take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.Then I will teach your ways to rebels, and they will return to you.Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves;Then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness.Unseal my lips, O LORD, that my mouth may praise you.     Psalm 51:11-15 As David continu...  Read More

For I was born a sinner -- yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there.Purify me from my sins and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.Oh, give me back my joy again; you have broken me -- now let me rejoice.Don't keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt.Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a lo...  Read More

Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin.For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night.Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight.You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just.Psalm 51:2-4 (NLT) The pain of hurting someone you truly love can be unbearable. When a truly caring heart is bruised by our callou...  Read More

Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin. Psalm 51:1 (NLT) In a rather unsettling way, David, the "man after God’s own heart" had sinned against God.He had committed adultery and senselessly ordered the husband of the woman to be killed both as a cover-up and to pave t...  Read More

On that day Gad went to David and said to him, ‘’Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.’’ So David went up, as the LORD had commanded through Gad.When Araunah looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.Araunah said, ‘’Why has my lord the king come to his servant?’’...  Read More

So the LORD sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented concerning the disaster and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand.” The angel of the LORD was then at the threshing floor of Ara...  Read More