Whatever is good and perfect is a gift

coming down to us from God our Father,

who created all the lights in the heavens.

He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.

James 1:17

(Sorrel River Ranch, Utah)

Do what is good and run from evil

so that you may live!

Then the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies

will be your helper,

just as you have claimed.

Amos 5:14

“Indeed,

the Sovereign LORD never does anything

until he reveals his plans to his servants the prophets.”

“My people have forgotten how to do right,”

says the LORD.

“I brought hunger…But still you would not return to me,”

says the LORD

“I kept the rain from falling…

“I struck your farms and vineyards…

“I sent plagues on you…

“I destroyed some of your cities…

“But still you would not return to me,”

says the LORD.

“Prepare to meet your God in judgment…”

For the LORD is the one who shaped the mountains,

stirs up the winds,

and reveals his thoughts to mankind.

He turns the light of dawn into darkness

and treads on the heights of the earth.

The LORD God of Heaven’s Armies is his name!

Amos 3:7, 10;4:6, 9, 10, 11-13

(Sorrel River Ranch, Moab, UT)

“At the time of those events,”

says the LORD,

“when I restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem,

I will gather the armies of the world

into the valley of Jehoshaphat.

There I will judge them

for harming my people,

my special possession,

for scattering my people among the nations,

and for dividing up my land.”

Joel 3:1-2

(The Matterhorn, Zermatt, Switzerland)

But everyone 

who calls on the name of the LORD

will be saved…

Joel 2:32

He holds in his hands the depths of the earth

and the mightiest mountains.

The sea belongs to him,

for he made it.

His hands formed the dry land, 

too.

Come,

let us worship and bow down.

Let us kneel before the LORD our maker,

for he is our God.

We are the people he watches over,

the flock under his care.

If only you would listen to his voice today!

Psalm 95:4-7

Great is the LORD!

He is most worthy of praise!

He is to be feared above all gods.

The gods of other nations are mere idols,

but the LORD made the heavens!

Honor and majesty surround him;

strength and beauty fill his sanctuary.

Psalm 96:4-6

O LORD,

come back to us!

How long will you delay?

Take pity on your servants!

Psalm 90:13

Lord,

through all the generations

you have been our home!

Before the mountains were born,

before you gave birth to the earth and the world,

from beginning to end,

you are God. 

Seventy years are given to us!

Some even live to eighty.

but even the best years are filled with pain and trouble;

soon they disappear,

and we fly away.

Teach us to realize the brevity of life,

so that we may grow in wisdom.

Psalm 90:1-2, 10, 12

(Switzerland)

A single day in your courts

is better than a thousand anywhere else!

I would rather be a gatekeeper in the house of my God

than live the good life in the homes of the wicked.

For the LORD God is our sun and our shield.

He gives us grace and glory.

The LORD will withhold no good thing

from those who do what is right.

O LORD of Heaven’s Armies,

what joy for those who trust in you.

Psalm 84:10-12

(Zermatt, Switzerland)