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Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Jan will be speaking several times at The Homeschool Mom Summer Summit - you can grab your ticket to this online event HERE (and there is a 100% free ticket option - WOOT WOOT!)
In the New Testament book of John, we find several places where Jesus used "I Am" statements. These verses reveal to us who He is, and offer us tremendous hope as we discover what God has promised to us, His dearly loved children (see 1 John & Ephesians 5).
In this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, Jan shares a true story from her grandfather's gardening days that serves as a reminder that God may very well surprise us when we follow His lead and make the changes He is calling us to make. The end result of our obedience is often as unique and unexpected as spicy tomatoes!
Shutting doors, as well as opening them, is His role for us as disciples of Jesus - and this episode will remind you to stop fretting about a door in your life that is swinging shut. He knows what He is doing and is always trustworthy!
Jan is the author of the new book “A 60-Day Prayer Journal for Parents” & the audio course "Psalm 91- Pray It & Believe"
Monday Jun 06, 2022
Monday Jun 06, 2022
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Jan is the author of the new book “A 60-Day Prayer Journal for Parents” & the audio course "Psalm 91- Pray It & Believe"
Well hey there, thanks for checking out the podcast today. In this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show we are concluding our look into the promises we discover in Psalm 37, an awesome psalm penned by David (and I really do mean awesome, that’s an accurate word to describe Psalm 37).
Today we are going to look at just one verse and I’d like to share a bit with you from C.H. Spurgeon and E.M. Bounds. Ready? Let’s jump in.
You’re listening to The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, part of the Spark Network, now playing in the Edifi app. I’m your host, Jan L. Burt, and this is episode number 109.
Psalm 37, verse 37 - from the Amplified and the CSB.
Amplified says this: Mark the blameless man (who is spiritually complete) and behold the upright (who walks in moral integrity); there is a (good) future for the man of peace (because a life of honor blesses one’s descendants).
Isn’t that a remarkable verse?
There are so, so many times when I just am flat in awe of how much is packed into one single verse from the Bible. It literally astounds me!
There are answers for us in all the things we face daily. And regarding this verse, I’m going to share how one verse can literally change the course of our lives. My hubby and I, we had quite an experience some years back. Now, I’m not going to dive into details because, according to what the Apostle Paul lays out very, very clearly in the New Testament, sharing details just is not right. So, in a broad and very generic sense, we had a situation and it involved our work in ministry. Things got difficult, went kind of sideways, you might say. I’m not gonna say we were right and someone else was wrong but I will say that we were deeply hurt by all that took place. This was on the heels of my mothers death, just boom right on top of that. We knew the Lord wanted us to handle this time with decency that would bring honor to His name. That was far more important than “winning” or than being understood or any of that kind of thing. And honestly, the body of Christ is precious to the Lord, and we really truly did choose to simply be silent, bite our tongues, and rather choose to be totally misunderstood and possibly even slandered and maligned rather than put some kind of a mark on God’s big C church. The bride of Christ is to be spotless upon the day of Jesus’ return, right? We did not want to put any kind of spot where Jesus says, “Keep that spotless.” Basically, we applied the words of Psalm 37 verse 37 here in the Amplified. We wanted to walk in moral integrity, we wanted to be the man, and the woman, of peace and to live a life in honor, in spite of our own feelings and hurts and mourning and all the things that come with hard times. And if you did not know this, being a disciple of Jesus comes with hard times! Some of those hard times involve fellow Christians. I feel bad sharing that with you if you did not already know that. And if you’ve been on the other end of those sorts of hard times, let me tell you that I am so sorry, and I wish it were different, but please please do not walk away from the church or from Jesus, no matter what. And no matter how things shook out, even if there was like a fit of anger and words were said, by you or by others, that you wish you could take back, even if you shared too much with people (because when we are really hurting and start to talk, it can come out like a torrent, like a flood, and things can come out that are so far beyond what we ever intended to share… our pain needs to come out, and the Lord is always always there to listen as we just share honestly with him, David did it all the time we find in the psalms) but if you maybe went too far in what you said and it became gossip, guess what? There’s grace for that! And healing and God’s goodness and His great love. Don’t let any of those things keep you from the Church or from the Lord, please. We can’t always be perfect, or why would we need a Savior? But we are being sanctified continually, so we can expect to get better and better and become more and more like Jesus. So, there is no condemnation here on this podcast - because who am I to condemn someone when there is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. So, in this case, we bit our tongues and felt like we would rather be misunderstood than to even hint at causing any type of division or gossip or anything like that, and we were in grief, so we knew our words could become a flood pretty quickly, so we kept quiet. And you know what? God has done such a healing work in us, for us, and for those around us. It has been one of the most incredible seasons of our lives, these last several years, and I could have totally missed it had I not stayed close to Jesus, taken my heart heaviness to Him first and foremost, walked through it by staying in the Church, and just simply believing that if God put it in His word, I could trust it to be the best way for me to live out this hard place in my life. My husband, he handled it even better, like a bazillion times better, than I did. God’s word, it works. It does what it says it will do. Because God keeps all of His promises. He never fails, and He never will. And so, His word never fails, either.
If you are in a hard place right now, and especially if that hard place involves other believers, can I encourage you to stick super duper close to the Lord? Like, He should be your oxygen. Always with you, a breath away, your life source. And stick with the Church, because it is His Church, it is His body, we are the bride of Christ. Do that today. Just for today, don’t live in the yesterdays and don’t fret about all the possibilities of your tomorrows. For today, stick close to Jesus and stick with His Church. Then, do it again tomorrow. Expect the Lord to bring healing and comfort as you stay in His word, spend time in prayer, and as you keep believing that the body is your good place, these are your people, and you will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Here is that same verse from the CSB.
Watch the blameless and observe the upright, for the person of peace will have a future.
A bit shorter than the AMP, but it drives the point home well, doesn’t it? Take a look at some people in your life, in your world, find some Christ followers who live well. Who you could say handle things rightly, would fit the description of being blameless. Not perfect, that isn’t what this means - but how they doin’ at living life in those hard places? How’s their tongue? Find the people who mind their tongue and honor the Lord in the hard places. And also in the sweet spots. Some people don’t end up on the struggle bus until they start to do well, and then, well, it’s all downhill from there. Am I right? So watch the blameless and observe the upright. And emulate them! Learn from them! Take a lesson, and heed it! For the person of peace WILL have a future.
There’s the word will, four little letters that just make me smile. Because when God says will, He really does mean it! He will do all and every bit of what He has said He will do. The person of peace will have a future. There’s the promise for us. Be a person of peace, even when it seems hard and you would be justified to just let fly! Be a person of peace, because then you will have a future. The AMP says there will be a good future for you and your descendants will be blessed, so that’s like a heaped up kind of blessing. We need to go after those, and grab hold of them. Blessings upon blessings, well those promises are worth a bit of tongue biting, aren’t they?
Now I’d like to share a word or two from Charles Haddon Spurgeon. I have this wonderful study Bible with sermon notes from Spurgeon, and boy does it learn me a lesson or two!
Spurgeon says regarding Psalm 37, “I feel no chains in my religion, for I am free, and no one is more free. He who fears God and is wholly God’s servant has no chains about him; he may live as he likes, for he likes to live as he ought. He may have his full desires, for his desires are holy, heavenly, and divine. He may take the full range of the utmost capacity of his wishes and desires and have all he needs and all he wishes, for God has given him the promise, and God will give him the fulfillment of it.”
He was referencing verse 4, which says: Take delight in the LORD, and He will give you your heart’s desires.
Isn’t that greatly encouraging? God isn’t telling you to stubbornly will yourself to hate what your flesh loves. He is telling you that He aims to help you put to death any and all sinful desires, what your flesh loves, and He has amazingly good things in its stead. He gave you the promise, and He will also give you the fulfillment of said promise.
God is, by nature, a chronic giver. He will give you what He has promised, and He wants you to believe Him for it.
And I’d like to end this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show with some words from E.M Bounds. Mr. Bounds wrote so much on the subject of prayer, and I love the intercessory work of the Church, so let’s just look at a couple of things he said.
“The providence of God reaches as far as the realm of prayer. It has to do with everything for which we pray. Nothing is too small for the eye of God, nothing too insignificant for His notice and His care. God’s providence has to do with even the stumbling of the feet of His saints. “For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone” Psalm 91:11 -12 His care reaches to the smallest things and has to do with even the most insignificant matters that concern men. He who believes in the God of providence is prepared to see His hand in all things that come to him and can pray about everything.
“While God’s providence is over all men, yet His supervision and administration of His government are particularly in the interest of His people. Prayer brings God’s providences into action. Prayer opens the way when it is shut up or hampered.
“It has to do with food and clothing, with business difficulties, with interposing and saying from danger, and with helping in emergencies at opportune and critical times.
“We have an impressive lesson on divine providence in the case of Elijah when he was sent to the brook Cherith, where God actually employed the ravens to feed His prophet. He was an interposition so plain that God cannot be ruled out of life’s temporalities. Before God will allow His servant to lack bread, He moves the birds of the air to do His bidding and take care of His prophet.”
Okay, so that was a long quote.
But wasn’t that good?
Have you considered prayer in this way? That you are inviting God to step in and via His providence change things, intervene in the big things and the little things, remembering that nothing is too small or insignificant for His care? Such a great reminder when it comes to the why behind our praying. We pray because we believe our God hears and answers, right? We want to experience His care that reaches to the smallest things! And so, we pray. And we can pray about everything. Prayer brings God’s providences into action. It opens the way. Oh that we would pray as much as God would have us pray! How would our world, and even the entire world, be changed? We will never know until we set to work at praying! Want to live the miraculous like Elijah did? Pray for it, in the big and the little. Not just for the healing from cancer or for a job for the unemployed, but for daily bread in a way that just boggles the mind and shows off who our God is (like bread delivered by ravens) and for a heart willing to be the only one who saw that daily provision from ravens beaks (like Elijah), and that if the brook dries up, the God to whom you pray will speak to you about where to go next… even if it is to a place and a person quote / unquote outside of where you think the provision will come. He takes care of His own. Pray big, bold, daring prayers - and pray those prayers even over the small things, the daily things. Why? Well, why not? Why not look and expect to see the hand of God at work in the dailies? Some of your greatest blessings, some of the praises from your lips, may come in response to your prayers for the things you often think of as small.
Okay, that’s all for episode 109 - and I’d like to mention that I am a speaker at the upcoming Homeschool Mom Summer Summit. I’m speaking three times at the summit, but I will also be going live in the summit facebook group several times, like a minimum of three times, and I’ve got some giveaways and lots of stuff as part of this. So if you homeschool, if you know any homeschoolers, check it out. Link is in the show notes and also I’ll make sure I have that easy to find on my website, which is just my name, Jan middle initial L Burt dot com.
I’m speaking on these three topics:
Character Training That Lasts a Lifetime
Managing The Mayhem
A Time of Encouragement for You, the Homeschool Moms
I would be so honored to have you check it out and listen in to my workshops. I’m always so blessed to be able to love on the homeschool community, and honestly if any of these sound interesting to you even if you don’t home educate, please take a look at this summit. There is a free option, and it allows you access to the summit sessions on a daily basis, so you’d want to take a look at each day’s offerings and then pick a couple to watch / listen to on that day. It’s an online summit, which is nice. And I for sure has some tech issues with my recordings, so as always, I keep it very very real because it’s not a contest, it’s just life. Let’s do life together, cheering one another on, and get on with the tasks God has entrusted to us.
Check out that link and sign up, share it with friends, and have a beyond blessed day today.
I’m thankful for you, and I am praying for all the podcast listeners. Thanks for being here.
See ya next time for episode 110!
Bye bye!
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
Jan is the author of the new book “A 60-Day Prayer Journal for Parents” & the audio course "Psalm 91- Pray It & Believe"
Well, hey there! Welcome to this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show - where the promises of God are what we focus - you know, knowing what God’s word says is one thing, and believing what God’s word says is another thing and I really love it when both of those things come together and we both know what the Bible says, because Biblical literacy is so incredibly important, and also believe what the Bible says. When we believe God's promises, and we begin to pray in accordance with those promises, amazing things take place. Both in us and around us.
You’re listening to The Burt (Not Ernie) Show podcast, part of the Spark Network, now playing in the Edifi app. This is episode number 108.
Continuing our look at the promises God gives us in Psalm 37, today let’s read verse 34 and then skip down a bit to read verses 38, 39 and 40. I’ll be reading from the Amplified today and I am thinking I may share from my Spurgeon study Bible in the next episode, because between C. H. Spurgeon and E. M. Bounds, I learn so much. But the real benefit of learning something isn’t about the learner knowing that something, but about the learner sharing that something with others. (Which may be a good bit of encouragement to somebody today… what do you know a lot about that you could share with others? I mean, even if you think your subject matter is only interesting to a tiny, very niche group of people, well the beauty of living in this social media age is that through hashtags, you can share that good stuff with just the right people and bless them - so, that’s an aside but maybe it will bless somebody today).
Psalm 37, verse 34 Amplified -
Wait for and expect the Lord and keep His way,
And He will exalt you to inherit the land;
[In the end] when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
Waiting isn’t my favorite. But the older I get, the more I embrace the wait. I can look at it as an annoyance, or as a time of expectation. And when I live expectantly, it yields really good things in my life. God’s blessings are always worth the wait. And His promises to us are worth the wait. Because God’s promises are for sure His promised blessings. So while waiting may not be my favorite, receiving the blessing of the Lord kind of is my favorite.
Wait for and expect the Lord and keep His way.
So while we are that waiting season, sitting there in the waiting room, He wants us to keep His way.
What does that mean?
Well, simple version: it means to do what He says. That’s obedience, right? And as a mom, I can tell you that delayed obedience, angry door slamming having a fit obedience is not really obedience that parents want. Like, you might do what you were told to do but you also might end up in a whole new bunch of trouble from the slammed doors and the yelling and all that. Parents know what I mean. I’ve said this before, but it isn’t gonna hurt to say it again. Don’t be a bratty child of God. He loves you too much for that. Love Him back. Obey Him. What He says, that you do.
And then, He will exalt you. Let that play out however He chooses. David became king of Israel, first the king of Judah and then of the entire kingdom, all of Israel. He was obedient. He waiting with expectation and he kept the Lord’s way. I’m not going to be a queen, but I will receive some level of inheritance from God. That’s the promise, and I really do believe this promise.
Now this verse also says that when the wicked are cut off, you will see it. Again, I cannot say specifically what that will look like in your life, or in my life, but there’s a promise here. Jesus said that nothing hidden will fail to be brought out into the light. This is just something God brings about as part of His character, His nature, who our God simply and totally is. It will happen, and you’ll see it. But I do want to encourage you to be a forgiving person, to pray for those who have hurt you or wronged you. To put them securely in the Lord's hands and let Him do His will, and you be quick to forgive and not to let any root of bitterness begin to take hold. Any bitter pill to swallow, maybe we should just spit out and not swallow it, ya know?
Let’s read verses 38 through 40 now, and I’m still reading from the Amplified.
As for transgressors, they will be completely destroyed;
The future of the wicked will be cut off.
39
But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;
He is their refuge and stronghold in the time of trouble.
40
The Lord helps them and rescues them;
He rescues them from the wicked and saves them,
Because they take refuge in Him.
Now these are the final three verses from this psalm, this is how David closes out this powerful portion of Scripture.
He tells us, like not the only time David says this, that transgressors will be completely destroyed. I’m not in David’s head, so I can’t say for certain, but he had a heart for people, he wasn’t heartless, I mean he is known as a man after God’s own heart, but he wants the reader to understand this. Time doesn’t stretch on forever with no accountability. When it’s time to pay the piper, you gotta pay. (And if you don’t know that story, about the pied piper and the children and what the cost was for what the people in that community wanted… yeah, it’s interesting. Paying the piper is usually very unpleasant.) There will be a time when the transgressor, the one who is not going to honor the Lord with his or her life, who is going to go their own way and damn the torpedoes kind of thing… a time of the Lord’s dealing with them always comes. The future of the wicked will be cut off. Those two words, cut off, tell us everything we need to understand about the way God will deal with the wicked. He wants all men and all women to come to repentance, to know His son Jesus, and to step into eternity under the blood of the Lamb. That's God’s will, and it is made clear all over the New Testament and frankly all over the Old Testament too. God is patient and He is so loving, but He cannot just ignore wickedness and transgression. David is honest in stating this, but David is not unloving or cruel. Honesty is not always cruelty, no matter what current culture says.
Now David contrasts this for the righteous, and as followers of Jesus, our righteousness is in Christ alone. Here’s what he says, and this is our promise, it is contrasted with what is coming for the wicked. The righteous will receive salvation from the Lord. He is their refuge and their stronghold in times of trouble.
Does that not bring you big time comfort? What a promise! You and I, we get to have God be our stronghold in our times of trouble. And our refuge. It does not get better than that when you’re facing something hard. This is real world, walking around doing your daily life, comfort and hope here. God’s promises are not for some floaty on a cloud kind of life, which who has that anyway? God’s promises are for the life we are actually living. He cares, and because He cares and is so attentive, He has made promises. Our job is to believe the promises. To believe Him. In my course on Psalm 91, this is something I talk about. The work of believing, and it is work, but it’s the work Jesus said the Father wants us to do. So, let’s do it. Let’s do the work of believing.
Now, let’s look at verse 40. The Lord helps them and rescues them;
He rescues them from the wicked and saves them,
Because they take refuge in Him.
Do you need some rescuing in any part of your life right now? Then this is for you. He helps and rescues - both those words, both verbs, are in the present tense. It will happen in the moment that you need it. Not just in the past and not just for the future. For now. Right now.
He rescues from the wicked and saves them.
Don’t need to add a whole lot to that because it is as plain as day. The only way it wont’ be true for us is, honestly, if we refuse to believe. If we, by our lack of belief, basically imply that God is lying. He’s not - spoiler alert! He’s not. And He won’t, no not ever.
And why does verse 40 say God rescues and saves us from the wicked? Because we take refuge in Him.
This ain’t automatic. AUTO matic it is not. We have to take that refuge. Claim it, take it, believe it. I am taking refuge in God in the midst of this hard situation. My heart failure diagnosis? Oh, yeah, I daily take refuge in God. I live, I dwell, in His presence. I decide to be much with Jesus, talk with Him in prayer throughout the day, I read the Bible daily and I have a journal I keep notes in and when I pray, I ask for the things that are there on the page of my Bible. I choose to believe what the Word of God says over and above anything else, anything the Cleveland Clinic team asyas, Gods’ Word is over that. The test at the electrophysiologist shows this - I gotta take refuge in my God and believe that His Word is the final Word. God’s say is the final say. So I’m not ever sitting around lecturing people on an issue that I don't really understand. I know what it means to live on God’s promises. I know what a medical sort of death sentence is, I’ve heard those words difficult and tricky to treat, best to try and manage quality of life over the next few years. Sobering words, right? But God’s Word needs to be the most sobering of all. His truth is the actual, eternal truth. You and I, we can live as if that’s our reality or not. I hope you choose to live in a state of refuge in your God, because then you get the promise of being rescued and saved and helped. This works, my friend. Living a believing life works. Ask me how I know. God doesn’t have some special blessing on me that makes this all work out for me. Nope. This is for all His children, and 1 John says that that is what you are, His dearly loved child. Take that refuge in your God and get these blessings because the blessing of the Lord changes everything.
Thanks for spending this time with me today on The Burt (Not Ernie) Show. And if you’d like to check out the Psalm 91 audio course, the link is in the show notes and my prayer is that is doesn’t just encourage you, but that it changes you because the Bible, because Jesus, that’s life changing and why not your life? Why not?
I’ll be back here for episode 109 next time - thankful for you, see ya then. Bye bye.
Jan L. Burt is an author, speaker, podcaster, homeschooling veteran, mother to five, and has been happily married to Tony for thirty years. She served in youth ministry alongside her husband for twelve years & has led several Bible studies for women as well as hosting two online prayer retreats.
Jan is the author of the new book “A 60-Day Prayer Journal for Parents” & “The Power of God’s Will – 40 Days of God’s Promises Devotional” (available on Amazon) & “The Once-A-Year Homeschool Planner” (a multi-grade, multi-subject planning system) – which can be found at JanLBurt.com. She has also been a regular contributor to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. Find Jan Instagram: @JanLBurt or at her website JanLBurt.com or at her YouTube channel, “God’s Promises for You with Jan L. Burt”.
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
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Well hey there! Welcome to this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show - getting the promises of God into the people of God, so that we can believe them, trusting the Lord more and more, day by day, and live in a state of trust, resting in the goodness of our God. And then praying from a place of belief and trust and rest. That is the “why” behind this podcast, behind every single episode. And I am incredibly grateful that you’re listening today. My prayer is that you will be blessed, refreshed, encouraged and be refueled for the actual living of your life when you finish listening to the podcast. God’s word is life changing, and I think your life is the perfect life to be changed and bettered by the word of God today. Let’s get to it.
You’re listening to The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, part of the Spark Network, now playing in the Edifi app. This is episode #107.
Recently on the podcast, we’ve been looking at promises God gives us in Psalm 37. This is a psalm written by David, and his psalms hold so much raw and honest truth - they remind us that we can talk honestly to the Lord about the things in our life that are painful, that are unfair, that are overwhelming. And David also reminds us to be thankful, praise-filled people. I mean, the people who know the Lord should really be the most praising people on the planet. We have so much to be thankful for, even on the hard days. And this psalm, as we land at just about the midpoint of this psalm, it has some really awesome truths for us that should make us a whole lot less nervous or uncertain or unwilling to talk to God about the stuff in our life that needs His touch, His intervention, His hand and His blessing and also to live more thankful lives. This is not me lecturing anyone at all - nope. This is me reminding my very own self to be thankful daily, and to stay thankful in the ups and in the downs.
Let’s look at three verses today, Psalm 37 verse 25 and then verses 27 and 28. I am going to read these verses aloud from the Amplified.
I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned, or his descendants pleading for bread.
Depart from evil and do good; and you will dwell (securely in the land) forever. For the LORD delights in justice and does not abandon His saints (faithful ones).
So we for sure have a couple of awesome promises to look into here.
Verse 25 is a verse that my husband and I have been quoting for decades. Like, when we were young parents and had loads of medical debt and just were living paycheck to paycheck, we never stopped tithing and giving literally because we believed promises like this one. We just believed! We would speak it out loud, thank God for this promise in our prayer times, and when we would have something looming in the future that was likely going to be beyond our means, our finances, to take care of, we would remind ourselves of this promise. So, it’s kind of a personal one for me, you might say. Like, I have a lot of memories of choosing to stand in a place of belief based on the words we read in Psalm 37, verse 25, and you know what? Never, not even once, did this promise not prove true.
Our God is always, always true to His word.
Verse 25 says - I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned, or his descendants pleading for bread.
I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor their children begging for bread.
Never.
What a bold word, that word never. When someone uses the word never, it can seem like an exaggeration because honestly it is sometimes. But not here, David is not exaggerating. He is stating that never in the course of his life, and think of some of the things he saw in his life - on the run from King Saul for 13 years, living in caves with hundreds of men alongside him, as the leader he would have held some measure of responsibility for feeding them, right, and also what about the care of their families? We know from reading in 1 and 2 Samuel that David took that seriously, the care of his men and of their families. Just thinking about that one aspect of his life, and reading this verse that says he has never seen those in right standing with God abandoned or their children, their descendants, begging or pleading for bread… well, never means never. David never saw it because it never happened.
So, ask ourselves how is our standing with God? Are we in right standing with Him? That really comes through Jesus, and then we of course want to continue to live in a way that honors and glorifies Him and that includes obedience, right? So if that is how we are living, won’t this promise become our promise?
Yes, it absolutely will.
Speak it, pray it, believe it. In this verse, never really does mean never. You, your descendants, will not be pleading for bread - you will never be abandoned by your God.
That is the kind of promise that the whole world is seeking.
The world so much wants peace of mind and freedom from worrying about things like provision. The whole world is full of people who want to know they won’t be abandoned or forsaken. We look for it in relationships and in the workplace and in friendships and we want it from our families and our friends and even from our neighbors. But really that can only come through the Lord, because He is the only one who can make such a big promise and then keep that promise.
I hope you and I can grow, day by day, to trust Him more. For His provision, literally for bread for ourselves and for our descendants, our children, our families, and also that we will not be abandoned. This is a promise filled with so much blessing, just the peace of heart and peace of mind it brings is worth more than gold, ya know? And I do want us to believe it. And to receive the full measure of blessing that comes with that belief.
Verse 27 - Depart from evil and do good; and you will dwell (securely in the land) forever.
Don’t be in the camp of people doing evil things. I don’t think you need a diatribe about what is actually evil and what isn’t. The New Testament tells us not to even be around things that have the appearance of evil, so that says it best. Like, even if it appears evil don’t be around that. How down in the weeds should we go with this, you might ask? Well, Jesus took this stuff so seriously that he said if your eye causes you to sin, you would be better to gouge it out and be blinded in one eye than to give in to that sinful living and if your hand causes you to sin, to cut it off and be maimed but not in sin. So this is pretty serious. Jesus was saying, take this seriously. And yet, we really don’t. How far down in the weeds should we go? Well, how far do you need to go before you take it as seriously as Jesus said to take it? That’s how far you need to go.
Depart from evil - leave it, don’t stay with it, don’t remain there, just depart. That doesn’t indicate a later return. God wants this to be far from you because you walked away from it on a long term, permanent level. Be a departer, then.
And instead, do good.
Again, you don’t need me to tell you what is good. You already know. It’s all over your Bible, too, so the good you ought to be doing is going to jump off the pages to you so long as you are opening it and reading it. Want to know what good things God wants you to do? Open your Bible and find out.
And once you join those who have departed from evil and now are doing the good works your Father wants you to be doing, you will dwell securely in the land forever. So, to take this literally, in the very land where you live, in whatever country on this planet that may be (and there are people all over the world who listen, last month there were people from 49 countries who listened to the podcast, and that is just awesome, isn’t it? The big C church around the world is who will spend eternity together, and I love that we have some kind of connection here on this earth via things like podcasts) You will live securely wherever you dwell. Take this promise seriously, because it is in the word of God in order to be believed. And when we believe a promise from the Bible, we are taking it seriously. This is your promise. Believe it! And believe it for your workplace, too. You will dwell there securely. And pray it over your local church, because our leaders, our pastors, the people we attend church with, need to be covered in believing prayer. You can be the one doing that praying, and God will hear you as you pray. You will dwell securely in the land. Such a good, good promise for us.
Verse 28 - For the Lord delights in justice and does not abandon His saints (faithful ones); they are preserved forever but the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.
The Lord delights in justice.
Our God is not in the business of ignoring injustices.
He delights in justice.
He sees, and He will set it right. He is merciful and wants people everywhere to come to salvation and experience His forgiveness. But He delights in justice, so a time of reckoning will come. Somebody may need to hear that today.
You have an eternal promise here, that His faithful ones (if you know Jesus as the Son of God, the Messiah, the one way to heaven, the one way to receive God’s forgiveness, then you will be preserved forever). In these three verses, we find promises to sustain us in this life, in the right now, and promises to sustain us for eternity. Aren’t God’s promises amazing? And isn’t the One who makes these promises generous and kind and merciful and benevolent?
But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.
God says this, clear as day, and He means it. He does not love for wickedness to increase and continue and spread from one generation to the next. He just doesn’t. And when He says there will be a cut off point, well, then, we can be sure that it will be so.
It’s important to love the Lord our God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves. And it’s important to do those things in full the sight of our children. And then to encourage them to do the same thing. What we teach our kids matters, folks. Character matters. Having good character and teaching good character.
You can trust that the same God who did these things in the life of His servant David will do them in yours. He is no respecter or men, meaning God does not pick and choose who He will care for and bless and when and where He will or won’t keep His promises based on us as humans, our status, our achievements, our prosperity, and lineage. The kingdom of God isn't like Harvard. Having a great grandparent who was a such and such and a so and so does not make a hill of beans worth of difference to God. These promises are yours so long as you know Jesus as Lord.
If you do, then believe them. And watch God keep His word to you.
Hey, my course on Psalm 91 is available and I’d love for you to join. The link is in the show notes, (Psalm 91 - Pray It & Believe Course with Jan L. Burt - Jan L. Burt - Hiro or you can check it out on my website, just scroll down a smidge on the page that comes up when you go to Jan L Burt dot com or use the Google and search for Psalm 91 Course Jan L. Burt and it will come right up. It’s an audio course, each lesson drops right into your app where you listen to podcasts and as a special offer to a group I am part of, a prayer group to be specific filled with prayer warriors who believe God’s Word with everything they’ve got, as an offer to that group I have discounted the course pretty significantly but this price will only be around for a couple of weeks. I’m speaking at an upcoming summit and before that takes place in June the price will go back up to $37 but through the first few days of June 2022, it’s all the way down to just $21, so like a total steal at that price. I’d love for you to join me for this course. Not much I can think of than really understanding and believing the huge promises we find in Psalm 91. Life changing for you, life changing for everyone you pray those verses over, life changing on pretty much every level.
Thanks for listening, and do not forget these promises are for you. God will keep His word and you will never be abandoned and will always be provided for and will dwell securely in the very place where God has you right now.
See you next time!
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Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
Psalm 37[a]
A psalm of David.
1 Don’t worry about the wicked
or envy those who do wrong.
2 For like grass, they soon fade away.
Like spring flowers, they soon wither.
3 Trust in the Lord and do good.
Then you will live safely in the land and prosper.
4 Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you your heart’s desires.
5 Commit everything you do to the Lord.
Trust him, and he will help you.
6 He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn,
and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun.
7 Be still in the presence of the Lord,
and wait patiently for him to act.
Don’t worry about evil people who prosper
or fret about their wicked schemes.
8 Stop being angry!
Turn from your rage!
Do not lose your temper—
it only leads to harm.
9 For the wicked will be destroyed,
but those who trust in the Lord will possess the land.
10 Soon the wicked will disappear.
Though you look for them, they will be gone.
11 The lowly will possess the land
and will live in peace and prosperity.
12 The wicked plot against the godly;
they snarl at them in defiance.
13 But the Lord just laughs,
for he sees their day of judgment coming.
14 The wicked draw their swords
and string their bows
to kill the poor and the oppressed,
to slaughter those who do right.
15 But their swords will stab their own hearts,
and their bows will be broken.
16 It is better to be godly and have little
than to be evil and rich.
17 For the strength of the wicked will be shattered,
but the Lord takes care of the godly.
18 Day by day the Lord takes care of the innocent,
and they will receive an inheritance that lasts forever.
19 They will not be disgraced in hard times;
even in famine they will have more than enough.
20 But the wicked will die.
The Lord’s enemies are like flowers in a field—
they will disappear like smoke.
21 The wicked borrow and never repay,
but the godly are generous givers.
22 Those the Lord blesses will possess the land,
but those he curses will die.
23 The Lord directs the steps of the godly.
He delights in every detail of their lives.
24 Though they stumble, they will never fall,
for the Lord holds them by the hand.
25 Once I was young, and now I am old.
Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned
or their children begging for bread.
26 The godly always give generous loans to others,
and their children are a blessing.
27 Turn from evil and do good,
and you will live in the land forever.
28 For the Lord loves justice,
and he will never abandon the godly.
He will keep them safe forever,
but the children of the wicked will die.
29 The godly will possess the land
and will live there forever.
30 The godly offer good counsel;
they teach right from wrong.
31 They have made God’s law their own,
so they will never slip from his path.
32 The wicked wait in ambush for the godly,
looking for an excuse to kill them.
33 But the Lord will not let the wicked succeed
or let the godly be condemned when they are put on trial.
34 Put your hope in the Lord.
Travel steadily along his path.
He will honor you by giving you the land.
You will see the wicked destroyed.
35 I have seen wicked and ruthless people
flourishing like a tree in its native soil.
36 But when I looked again, they were gone!
Though I searched for them, I could not find them!
37 Look at those who are honest and good,
for a wonderful future awaits those who love peace.
38 But the rebellious will be destroyed;
they have no future.
39 The Lord rescues the godly;
he is their fortress in times of trouble.
40 The Lord helps them,
rescuing them from the wicked.
He saves them,
and they find shelter in him.
Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
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Well hey, hello again! Welcome to this episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, the podcast about God’s promises. And hey, those promises are for you, and they are for right now. Not just for later on. Isn’t that good news? Let’s check out a couple of those promises on today’s show.
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Psalm 37, verses 21 thru 24 from the Amplified.
21
The wicked borrow and never repay,
but the godly are generous givers.
22
Those the Lord blesses will possess the land,
but those he curses will die.
23
The Lord directs the steps of the godly.
He delights in every detail of their lives.
24
Though they stumble, they will never fall,
for the Lord holds them by the hand.
The wicked borrow and never repay. So, yeah, let’s not do that. Pretty plain and simple. Sometimes the Bible is so clear, it just outright tells us what God thinks on a matter. It does that a lot, actually. This is one of those places.
But the godly are generous givers.
Ya know, God is so generous. It is almost mind altering, like kind of blows your mind how generous He is. Nobody has ever been a giver like our God. Generosity is one of His hallmarks, He gives so big. Let’s be known as His people in part by our generosity. This doesn’t have to just apply to money, but time, how generous are we in our praying, like praying for others. And others beyond me and mine, ya know, my kids and my spouse and my friends and my BFF from middle school and that is it. That’s my prayer list.
I’ll just tell ya, I have had quite a prayer list over the years. And not just now, like oh you’re in the empty nest phase so you have time to pray. Well, I learned how to invest in prayer when my kids were at home and we were a homeschool family and had ministry work we were doing and during deployments, during illness, yeah. There is time for prayer, and praying generously for others is really an incredible ministry, and it is ministry that is so needed. Is there any way in your life in which you could become more generous in your prayer time? The Lord can guide, He will show you if there is something He wants to grow in you in this area, so if He leads you, be sure to follow. And think about other ways that you can be generous that go beyond just finances.
Those the Lord blesses will possess the land, but those He curses will die.
In the last episode I mentioned letting God do His work of dealing with the wicked, and that applies to verse 22 as well. He says those He curses will die. You and I do not need to be running around dropping curses on people. Like don’t do that. I am actually very serious. Just don’t. Not gonna deep dive into details on that today but I want to remind you that God takes seriously evil in this world, and He handles things. Perfectly and justly. He is merciful and He is just and He is loving and He is holy and all those things are always true of the Lord God Almighty. So those He curses, not those we curse, but those He curses will die, says this verse. Let that be that, and be careful with your words, with any cursing flowing off your tongue.
Those He blesses will possess the land. Look, the land is not the same for us as the Israelites who actually inherited a chosen place, the Promised Land. But God has things for us that He gives us, He gifts to us. Places for us to posses. Not places for us to get by, to just endure. But places where we can really be at home. You can pray this, and really I hope you do pray this, over where you work, who you work with, where you live, where you vacation, your church home, your loved ones homes and workplaces, even your hobbies. Ask God for the good land He has for you, whatever that quote/unquote land might be.
The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.
This is such an awesome promise!
We are godly because we know Jesus. He imparts His righteousness to us. And that’s how this promise can be ours. He will direct your steps. Expect it. Ask Him for it. Depend on it. And don’t panic and freak out that I’m going the wrong way. Look, if you are going the wrong way unintentionally, He can let you know. Ask Him to always do that, and I believe He will. Isn’t that what this is telling us? And if you are going the wrong way by choice, with a lot of intention behind that choice, don’t expect God to be about the business of blessing that. An attitude, a spirit of rebellion, is never becoming for a child of God. Kill that off if it’s a thing in your life. But understand that if you’re not just bucking His authority and jamming out to “You Can Your Own Way”, then He will direct your steps. This is a great promise!
He delights in every detail of your life, so you’re never boring to God, you don’t annoy Him, when asking Him about this detail or that choice or any number of things. It’s not too big and it’s not too small. If something were too big or too tiny, this verse wouldn’t be true because it says He delights in EVERY detail of our lives. We are not on our own, out here just trying to get by. No! Our God is here with us, delighting in every single detail every single day. Take comfort in that and talk to Him about the details. I mean, if it brings Him delight, man, that’s incredible!
If you and I stumble, and hey it happens and that’s part of living in this world, He says here we will never fall because He is holding us by the hand. Think of a toddler, just learning to really walk well, they have like those wobbly chubby legs and not only do they not have their sea legs, they don’t legs for level ground when they just are getting started with this walking business. So, mom or day hold their hand. And they kind of wobble, start to go down, but they can’t really fall because you’ve got their hand. You keep them on their feet even when the road is rough. They don’t fall because you are the hand holder and you are in charge of keeping them from falling.
That’s the promise here, and we can live like this is true. Yea, I may stumble but I ain’t gonna fall. My Lord, He holds me by the hand. And He is not going to let me go. I’m good. I’m safe. It’s not up to me to do the impossible, be perfect, never ever stumble, but it is up to me to trust that what God has said to me in Psalm 37 verse 24 is my promise, my truth, my hope and my assurance.
I can rest assured in this assurance because that’s what assurance does. It provides peace and rest, even in the tough moments. Rest assured, though you stumble, you will not fall, for your God holds you by the hand.
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Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
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Well hey there, welcome to the podcast. Gonna do a bit of getting some of God’s amazing promises into the people that He loves so much. That would be you! Getting the promises of God into the people, fighting the good fight, the spiritual fight, for freedom in Christ. Grabbing hold of your true identity, you are who God says you are, period - that’s the truth, hang on to that! Don’t let go of that! That’s really what The Burt (Not Ernie) Show is all about.
Thanks for being here today. I’m so honored, so blessed, to share with you from Psalm 37.
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We’ve been diving into Psalm 37 on the show and today we are looking at a few verses, 17 thru 19, from the New Living Translation.
Let me go ahead and read those three verses.
Psalm 37, 17, 18 & 19, NLT
17
For the strength of the wicked will be shattered,
but the Lord takes care of the godly.
18
Day by day the Lord takes care of the innocent,
and they will receive an inheritance that lasts forever.
19
They will not be disgraced in hard times;
even in famine they will have more than enough.
First promise we find here is that the strength of the wicked will be shattered. And remember that when God says will, He means it. He never says will and acts like He said maybe. No, will means WILL. So the strength of the wicked WILL, absolutely will be shattered. And you and I, we don’t bear the responsibility of ensuring that God’s promises come to pass. So you and I do not have to go about the task of shattering the strength of the wicked. I mean, say you are a judge, well you for sure have a vital role in society and God has placed you there, and some of that will include versions of dealing with wickedness. But for most of us, this is not the world in which we live and work, right? We have to simply trust God, and He is always and totally worthy of our trust, trustworthy is our God, and let Him do His will His way. In His timing, which is never the wrong timing. It’s never delayed, even when we feel like it is. It’s never wrong when God steps onto the scene and deals with some sort of wickedness. And the burden for that timing does not rest with us. The next promise is that the Lord takes care of the godly.
You and I, we are not godly in our own right. Any righteousness we have, and we do have it according to the New Testament, is in Christ and because of Christ. So this promise applies to us. It can be ours, any day of the week. Now keep short accounts with the Lord. Don’t be a grace abuser, ya know? Repent. Desire to live a life that honors Him and to just be yielded to Him day after day. We live in God’s grace but we don’t take God’s grace for granted.
The Lord takes care of the godly.
Is He going to not do this? This very thing that He has promised to do, will He not do it?
It’s pretty ridiculous to think He wouldn’t do what He has pledged Himself to do.
You’re going to be taken care of. I’m gonna say that again. You are going to be taken care of. And not just any old care, but God’s care. There’s nothing like it in the entire world. And here it is, promised to you.
Day by day the Lord takes care of the innocent.
Well that is good to know. Good to stand on this truth. And it is the truth, the absolute truth, because it is in the word of God and we know that it is impossible for God to lie.
Like, He can’t. And both the Old and New Testament tell us that nothing is impossible with God, all things are possible. But one thing that is not possible? The impossibility is that God could ever lie. One thing - one impossible thing in an endless realm of impossibility…lying.
My friend, God has not and never will lie to you.
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. It’s literally His name. Not a character trait, but who He is. And we know God keeps His word. His promises are kept promises and always will be kept promises. So, He will take care of the innocent.
Not my job, nor yours, to figure out how He should do that. He said He would, and He will, so I want to be expectant of it but not griping about how I don’t like how long it’s taking or I saw this on the news so that means God isn’t taking care of the innocent, or what about Hitler, and so on. We cannot put God on the same plane, the same level, that satan is on. Evil is not from God. But sometimes people, even Christians, even God’s own people, will kind of put Him there. He does not plan and He does not do evil. That’s not His bag - that lies at the feet of another, but not at nail-scarred feet. Know what I mean?
Have enough faith to believe that He will do what He promised.
And they will receive an inheritance that lasts forever.
This is eternal. Not temporal. And that’s the kind of promise we have to lean into, ya know? Push past the now, what you can see with your eyes, and think about the next life, what comes next. Eternity. This is an eternal promise God is making to the innocent. Maybe some of what we see in the world is hard to understand, we can’t exactly make peace with it, but it helps when we remember this life is not all that there is. This is a beautiful and comforting promise. Satan will usually want to cause discomfort in the face of a comforting promise. Satan will often want to try and make something seem ugly when it is in fact something beautiful from the Lord. But we are not unaware of his schemes, and so we can learn to see beyond the right now and stay expectant about what comes after.
They will not be disgraced in hard times. Even in famine they will have more than enough.
This is a whopper of a promise. Ya know, have you heard about food shortages or anything lately? If not, you probably will. There is a storm brewing, my friends. And you may be in the camp of the new head of Twitter is gonna really make things better but I want to remind you that our hope cannot be in the dudes in charge of the Tweets. It needs to be in Christ alone. Do I love free speech? Sure. Do I depend on it for my eternal destination? Nope. First things first, and it’s always Jesus first. So to tie that into this verse, Psalm 37:19, man can try to pretty this up over here and also mankind as a whole can be dirtying things up over there, and we as the people of God, whom these promises are for, can rest in those promises no matter what is tidy here and dirty there. Food shortages are going to happen. Famine. That’s a horrible, horrible thing, ya know? And in light of the promise that even in famine the innocent will have enough, well first off we want to be among the innocent, so know Jesus as the One who has obtained the needed cleansing for sin that makes us innocent in the sight of God, that’s numero uno. And second, knowing this promise is for us, well then let’s be in prayer that more and more people all around the globe will come to know Jesus as their own Lord and God, as the disciple Thomas said when he saw the resurrected Jesus face to face, he said, “My Lord and My God” - not just the other disciples Lord, but his. Let’s pray that becomes a global reality, spreading and spreading every single day. And then pray that this promise, of having more than enough with food shortages taking place to still have more than enough, let’s be praying that over people worldwide. I’m serious about this.
Look, I take God’s promises so seriously that I pray them in this manner. You should too. If someone says that’s kind of silly, don’t ya think Jan? I’d say, “You got a better idea?” What’s a better idea than simply taking God at His word.
Aren’t those the moments in the gospels when Jesus was in awe? When He was so taken at His word that it was utter belief, ain't’ no room for disbelief? Let’s be those kind of people. Let's just try to have our Lord be in awe of our huge, huge faith. I mean, that’s a pretty terrific life goal if you ask me.
And it’s kind of my personal goal. But I hope you make it yours, too.
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Next time we are going to look at verses 21 to 24 from this same psalm, Psalm 37, and keep growing in our steadfast belief that every word of God proves true.
He has amazing things He has promised to you and I am so glad you are getting all that He has for you in this life.
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Monday Apr 18, 2022
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Hey there, my friends! Welcome to today’s episode of The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, where we focus on getting the promises of God into the people of God, one episode at a time.
I’m your host, Jan L. Burt, and I gotta tell ya - I’m so glad you’re here today.
Let’s dig into God’s Word.
You’re listening to The Burt (Not Ernie) Show, part of the Spark Network, now playing on the Edifi app. This is episode 103.
So, here we are in Psalm 37. We’re looking at two verses today, 9 & 11, from the Amplified. I’d love to read them and then take a look at what they hold for us.
Because the Word of God always is holding out something to the reader, to the believer. It holds out hope, life, peace, encouragement, wisdom, clarity, insight for the actual living of our lives. You got a problem? Don’t turn to Vanilla Ice to “Yo, solve it.” Turn the pages of your Bible and see what God is holding out to you through His Word.
Psalm 37, verses 9 & 11, from the Amplified.
For those who do evil will be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land.
But the humble will (at last) inherit the land and will delight themselves in abundant prosperity and peace.
Isn’t it good news to know that God has said, just flat stated as a fact, that those who do evil will be cut off?
And will really does mean will. What God intends to do, that’s what gets done.
Jesus dealt with the penalty of sin and death at the cross. It is paid in full for all who know Jesus as their own Savior, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Evil will be dealt with. Think for a moment about those words, evil will be cut off. This is clear as day, and it’s right here in the Bible for us to be encouraged. Like, take courage from this! Evil will be cut off. Cut off. Severed. A permanent and irreparable separation. God is loving and patient and desires all mankind to come to Him and yield to Him and become part of His kingdom - but not everyone is going to do that. And God is not unjust, oh no, He is just. Justice is His, and it’s not some separate part of His character that pops up now and then. It’s who He is, He can’t not be just. He is the God of justice. He is the Righteous Judge. And so we can count on the fact that those who do evil will be cut off, He will deal with evil. And His dealing will be perfect because He is perfect, it will be completely just because He is just. He can’t be otherwise.
But for those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land.
As a child of God, and that is what you are according to 1 John 3:1 and John 1:12 and Romans 8:16, among other places in the Bible, as God’s child you have an inheritance. But like an underage child, you don’t get all of that inheritance just yet. There are things stored up for you in eternity, and right now you may be like, “Aww, man… I wish I could have those things now!” but once you get there, with the Lord, and see the inheritance He has stored up for you, you won’t be sorry that you had to wait. And a lot of it, you get right now. There is no end to the things that really matter in life being yours right now, and in ten seconds still yours, ten minutes, yours again, ten years, oh yeah! Still yours!
The peace of God which passes all understanding will guard both your heart and your mind - that’s a big inheritance, my friend. Listen up here, here’s the thing - we often think the touchy feely material things are the parts of our inheritance that we want the most, those are the important things. But are they? Or, when we get to heaven and we walk on streets paved with gold, will we see that the very thing, the materialism of our culture, the very thing we strove after and so wanted God to give us more and more of will literally be under our feet? Is there a huge takeaway in that? If it will be under our feet for eternity, which is a long time ya know, should it go right there under our feet in this life, too? Put it in its rightful place and don’t elevate when God wants it under our feet, in a place of submission so to speak, like money and things and stuff can’t rule over us when we are in His kingdom. We can rule over it. It yells and screams and demands that we pay attention to it, work harder for it, give money money money money, MONEY more of what it wants. But we can make the decision to not give in to its demands and let it be under our feet, we won’t bow down to it and we won’t reach our hands up high grabbing for it - we will not chase after it any more than we chase after the concrete in our driveway or the asphalt in our cul-de-sac.
And yet, in spite of it being under our feet for all eternity, God still blesses us with the things in life that make life sweet. Isn’t He good? He is so good? Hold it all with open hands and never let worry consume you - tell God exactly what you need and believe, like actually totally trust Him, to take care of you. That’s also part of your inheritance and it can never be taken from you.
Do you know what people, now I’m talking about people who do not know Jesus here, what people would give to have permanent peace in their life? Security? Deep times of refreshing rest? Abiding joy? A salve for the difficulties of life in this harsh world? A lot, they would give so so much. And that’s all part of your inheritance that you get access to right now.
The humble will inherit the land (so this portion of Psalm 37 seems to be telling us that we can expect good things in this life - and it also tells us God wants us to be humble). Anybody else here need to work on their humility factor? I just wish I could like get some IG stories type things of Moses, because he was the most humble man to ever live (that’s scripture, so that’s just the truth). I think of Moses when I think of godly and God-honoring humility.
When we are humble, there is an “at last” inheritance that will come into our lives. At last. That indicates that it will be so great, such a blessing, when it comes to pass. Get humble, stay humble, and trust God for that at last moment. It will come, because He has promised that it will.
And the last part of verse 11 says that the humble will, in addition to the at last moment of inheriting the land (whatever that may look like, the Lord knows what your piece of the pie, piece of the land needs to be) - the humble ones will also delight themselves in abundant prosperity and peace.
When I see that word abundant in the Bible, it stands out to me. Our God is such a God of abundance. I mean, over the top. Grace? Oh it’s abundant. Forgiveness? As far as the east is from the west - that’s pretty abundant forgiveness. I could go on and on, but you get what I mean. He gives abundantly. So here He promises that the humble will delight themselves in abundant prosperity (okay, so humble folks aren’t like gaudy, flaunting their wealth, they actually can be both prosperous and not come off as haughty, so that’s another awesome benefit of our humility - we remain approachable and we can love others well - it’s pretty hard to do those things when you aren’t humble. Combine prosperity with lack of humility and ouch, kinda just yuck, ya know? God’s children should not be ouch and yuck people.) And an abundance of peace.
This whole world wants wants wants peace. Folks fighting for world peace. For peace in their homes. With the in-laws. On that committee. At the car dealership, trying to buy a car and it is not a peaceful event - but man, it can be! I’ve done it, it sure can be! We have an inheritance of an abundance of peace. Something the world so needs. It is because of who our God is, it’s Jesus.
Can you live in the actual peace of God in order that people who don’t know Him may come to know Him just because of your abundant peace?
Can you live in a place of true humility, no matter what your station in life may be, in order that people will be drawn to the Lord? Oh real humility is like a magnet, it does a lot of drawing. Might not draw everybody in your life, but that’s okay, magnets only attract metal, not plastic or shrubbery or paper. Just metal. That's how magnetism works. And you aren’t for everybody, but you’re not for nobody.
So live in peace, because that’s your inheritance. It’s yours! Grab it! Take it! Be blessed by it! Stay humble, wait for the Lord, expect His daily provision, and know that at the right time the God of justice will deal with all evil. And look forward to the inheritance that is awaiting you in eternity. It’s gonna be so, so good.
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Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Well hey there, hello to you today.
It is April, and that means we are nearing Easter Sunday. Resurrection Sunday. For Christians, the greatest holiday on our calendar. A time to ponder what Jesus obtained for us on the cross, total and complete forgiveness and a life of freedom - Galatians 5 tells us that it is for freedom that Christ has set us free and He doesn’t want us under a burden of enslavement to sin ever again. Stay free, my friend! That is the Lord’s will for you this Easter season, so grab hold of His will and live in it. Live fully free in Jesus, because of what He did for you.
We also think about the resurrection at Easter. The tomb is empty. Remember that! We have a living Lord, and that should give us daily hope. Hope that transforms. Because if Jesus is anything, He is certainly transformational. Our God transforms lives every single day. One of those lives is yours, my friend.
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So how does Easter fit with Psalm 37?
Let’s get into that.
I’m going to read verses 5 thru 8 from the NLT
Commit everything you do to the Lord.
Trust him, and he will help you.
He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn,
and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun.
Be still in the presence of the Lord,
and wait patiently for him to act.
Don’t worry about evil people who prosper
or fret about their wicked schemes.
Stop being angry!
Turn from your rage!
Do not lose your temper—
it only leads to harm.
And let me read it in the Amplified Classic, it’s worth the time to read it once more.
5 Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass.
6 And He will make your uprightness and right standing with God go forth as the light, and your justice and right as [the shining sun of] the noonday.
7 Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently lean yourself upon Him; fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger and forsake wrath; fret not yourself—it tends only to evildoing.
Okay so there is some word usage in the older version, the Amplified Classic, that isn’t the stuff we normally toss around when we chat. But isn’t it good? Roll and repose each care of your load on Him.
Look, our God never ever asks us to pretend that we don’t have heavy loads in life. Some days are just heavy, ya know? Here, right here, the Lord acknowledges that reality and offers a solution. Roll each and every care onto Him. Take a repose. I love that! Can you do that today? Can you remember that part of what Jesus did for us at Calvary was to obtain rest? Hebrews chapter 4 is all about God’s rest, and how we are to enter that rest. Honestly, I’d love to put together a study on rest from Hebrews 4. Maybe I will. I’m looking into a way to create courses that are audio based, because video takes longer to consume and we are living in a podcast friendly world, audio is kind of king as far as consumption. We can listen while doing the dishes, listen and drive safely, listen and go on a run. So to have course content not be all video and pdfs, which are great, but to be able to say access your course content right on your preferred podcast player, whatever app you use… I am seriously looking into that. And hey, rest is a big need. So don’t be surprised to see this coming your way soon.
Jesus has rest for us. And it is not like an afternoon nap, awesome as those can be, this is His perfect rest for us. Man, I always want the perfected version of something, the Jesus version, over the world’s copycat kind of version, ya know? So of course, it is this rest, Hebrews 4 rest, Psalm 37 rest, that I am after. And I want it for you, too.
This week, as we look toward Easter, can you make the choice to commit everything you do, your way today and all your ways tomorrow, to the Lord. He gives us this incredible promise here, that when we commit everything we do to Him, He will help us, He will bring things to pass for us. This isn’t a vending machine God type of promise. This is better. This isn’t junk food that can sit on a shelf for a dozen years and still be edible. This is life giving spiritual food, this promise means that if what we are doing can be committed to the Lord, will honor Him in some way, is fitting for you or me to do as an ambassador for Christ here on earth, He is going to do something in return. I want that! I want His blessing on what I do. I am guessing you do, as well. Roll your load onto Him, trust in Him, and see what He will do. Watch Him bring to pass things that you cannot bring to pass on your own. When the blessing of the Lord is upon what you are busy doing, there is nothing like it.
And at the same time, we get this promised rest. So rest and blessing, both. Does that not sound like Easter? It does to me!
Be still in the presence of the Lord and wait patiently for Him to act. That’s verse 7 in the NLT. Do you think, in those hours between the death of our Lord Jesus and the discovery of His empty tomb, do you think there was some stillness? You know, when grief is heavy, and that would have been the heaviest of all grief, when it is heavy there is a point when you kind of stop. You just are. Not doing, not exactly thinking, you just are. A stillness can come in our grief that is unlike any other kind of being still. It’s not a slow down, ya know. It is more like the world keeps moving and turning and that does not seem like it is what should be happening. My world has stopped. And it feels so abnormal for the rest of the world to continue on. Yeah, I suspect there was some stillness taking place. And it was the Sabbath. They were being still and could do nothing but wait. Think on that - there was nothing they could do but be still and simply wait. They didn’t even really know what they were waiting for! The women, they were waiting for dawn after the Sabbath ended so they could go to the tomb. But ya know, that’s not hope filled waiting. That’s waiting in tremendous grief. Honoring the Sabbath, and being still, waiting in their grief.
Can we be better about our waiting on the Lord? We know what happened three days later. The resurrection is the reality that we live in daily as disciples of Jesus. Can we be still and wait patiently, but also expectantly? I think we can. It tends only to evil doing.
Don’t fret. Don’t fret over wicked people, even when they are prospering. Psalm 37 says just don’t. Don’t do it. No fretting. And God even gives us a reason not to fret. Because it only leads to evil. It only leads to harm.
Ya know, it is a whole lot easier to let my mind, my thoughts, go toward some measure of fretfulness when I don’t think about this verse, Psalm 37 verse 8. My fretting is only going to lead to evil doing. To harm. Well then. Maybe I need to just not fret!
And this is meant to safeguard us. Our God is too loving to just let us meander down the road of fretting and worrying and fussing over whatever. I mean, I could make a list right now off the top of my head of wickedness and evil doers that are really doing actual harm in the world en masse right now. But God says, don’t fret. Don’t fuss. Don’t spend your day worrying. Don’t be a worry wart. He wants me safe, and for whatever reason, maybe this is one of those things that in the spiritual realm, the stuff happening that we cannot see with our eyes, maybe stuff happens when we fret. And so God, in His infinite and never ending love, warns us not to do that. If He says it only and always leads to evil doing and to harm, well, as children of God, we don’t want to be on a path that leads to evil. We don’t want to do something that we know leads only to harm. We are the harbingers of peace, of joy, of hope, of life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord. We are not those who bring harm, who trot along paths toward evil.
Isn’t it amazing that God makes sure we know what the result will be if we fret? He didn’t have to tell us that. He is well within His authority as God to just say, No - do not do that. Period. And don’t ask why, just don’t do it. I said so, that’s that.
Parents do some of their parenting like that, I mean, I sure did. Sorry to my kiddos for being a schmuck!
He went out of His way to give a cause and an effect.
We are foolish to ignore that.
So what does that mean?
This.
For the next few weeks, up to Easter and then for a set amount of time afterward, would you join me in this challenge? To not fret. Not to worry.
When you find yourself worrying, make yourself stop, remind yourself that God says it only leads to harm and evil, and you want no part of that. Write Do Not Worry at the top of your to do list or your planner or put a reminder in your phone to go off five times a day.
It’s not that hard to remind ourselves to stop with the worry. We have all the tools to make the reminding process a breeze. Set up some things, some stop gaps, and join me in this. I personally am going to start today and continue on through May 5th, a date easy for me to remember, and maybe you can pick a date that you can easily work toward, and I am going to not give over to fret or worry or subsequently fear of any sort, cuz often when I worry it is linked to fear. I have a heart failure diagnosis and sometimes umm I feel my heart doing something and my portable EKG can tell me what that something is, usually not something good. Even in those circumstances, I am committing to you that I am not gonna worry or fret and it will be my daily habit thru early May. And guess what? By that time, it will become for me a habit and worry will be much less of a thang, an issue, than it is right now.
I’ve done this before, at the Lord’s leading, and it was one of the most transformative things I have ever ever done in my walk with Jesus. Literally changed my life because it literally changed my daily thinking, my daily stress level, how I spent my time and ya know I’m reality not kidding. It changed my life. I’ve heard others say it changed theirs too.
So, you in?
Easter is the perfect time of year to do away with the fretting. Cannot think of a better time. To get free of this thing that pretty much everyone deals with, doesn’t that sound awesome!?
Let’s do it.
I will create a pdf that you can print out and use with this challenge, this no fret for X number of days challenge. I’ll put the link in the show notes, add it to the main page on my website, which is my name Jan L Burt dot com, and I’ll send it out in my next couple of weekly emails, 3 Quick Things with Jan L Burt (you can get on that list at my website too).
And I actually just came up with that idea of a study on rest from Hebrews chapter 4 as I was recording this today, so I think I’ll work on that. As an audio course. Because a life of rest and no fretting, well, that sounds like something super great to me.
Okay, that’s it for today. Thanks for joining me and jumping on the no fret train with me today. Looking forward to hearing how God responds and provides and blesses you in the coming weeks. And He will, His word promises as much and He never ceases to stand behind His word.
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Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
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Well hey, hello hello to you today. Jan L. Burt coming at ya with some beautiful promises and encouragement from Psalm 37. As we draw close to Easter, which is in just a few weeks as I record this in late March of 2022, it’s one time of year when Christians really seem to think about all that Christ has given to us. What He secured for us at the cross. What our eternal reality will be. We have a renewed sense of hope, we look forward to heaven, and we are leaning into the things of the Lord in fresh and expectant ways.
And so, here I am ready to share with you from one of my favorite portions of Scripture - Psalm 37. Now if you haven’t read this psalm in a while, then I think you are in for a treat. And if, like me, it is one of your favorites, a go-to psalm if you will, then you’re gonna be ready to go for this episode. The next couple of episodes will be looking at this psalm, because there is a wealth of promise here and as we near Easter, promise and hope are kind of watchwords. We’re looking for all the things that bring hope, all the promises God has made to us. And in this psalm, my prayer is that you will find both of those, hope and promises, in overflowing, overwhelming abundance.
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Psalm 37, in the CSB, has this title: Instruction in Wisdom (the Amplified has a longer title (Security of Those Who Trust in the Lord, and Insecurity of the Wicked)
That gives us a great description, doesn’t it? We have an idea of what we’ll gain from reading this psalm, and that includes wisdom and security. Most of us, after the last couple of years in particular, are ready for all the wisdom God wants to give us and we wouldn’t say no to a whole mess of security from the Lord, either, ya know? Plus there’s like this extra info we are going to get about the insecurity of the wicked. So reading through this psalm, like the whole thing, will talk about wisdom, our security, and how God deals with the wicked. Today we are going to look at verses 3 & 4, first from the Christian Standard Bible and then I will also read from the Amplified.
CSB - Psalm 37:3 & 4 - Trust in the Lord & do what is good; dwell in the land and live securely. Take delight in the Lord and He will give you your heart's desires.
AMP - Psalm 37:3 & 4 - Trust (rely on and have confidence) in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and feed securely on His faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires and petitions of your heart.
You may already know verse 4 pretty well, like basically from memory. It’s quoted often because it’s an amazing verse with an amazing promise. But we are going to power through both verses and sort of level up on our belief today. Can you commit to that along with me, that you are going to believe what’s written in these verses, and choose not to disbelieve it? And if you don’t feel like you can make that as a long-term commitment, that level of belief, can you believe just for today? Okay, awesome. I’m sure you said, “YES!” so let’s go! Let’s get it!
Verse 4. Trust in the Lord - Trust, rely on and have confidence in the Lord. Notice how God does not tell us to do good, just do good, do better, be better, come on. (Anybody have parents that followed the just be good, just do better model of parenting? Did it work well? Probably not because it’s really difficult to just be good, do better…based on our own willpower. Willpower falls short almost every time, but Holy Spirit power never ever falls short, no matter what.) So God doesn’t start with,”Jan be good. Do better, Jan.” Uh, thank You Lord that You start with, “Jan, trust Me. Trust in Me, in My ways, in My character, in My faithfulness, in My holiness and My mercy. Rely on Me and have confidence in Me. Then, Jan, once you are really trusting in Me and in My ways, then you are able to do what is good.” See, whe are to trust in the Lord and do good. Not do good on our own, in our own limited and all too human strength. The good we do in this world stems directly from the God in whom we trust. The more trust we have in our trustworthy God, the more good we are able to do. Does that take the pressure off a bit? I hope so because this is one powerful promise!
And never forget, God’s promises are for His people, His children. He means for us to believe them, to live our lives based on the reality of His promises to us coming to fruition. Not just here and there, willy nilly, sometimes or on occasion. But all the time, every day, we can live in the reality of His promises.
That’s the first part of verse 3, and honestly just with that much alone we’ve already been given such an incredible promise. I get excited when I see God’s Word opening the way before us for real life change. Not being Pollyanna-ish about this either. This here is life changing. God’s Word still works to change lives. Why shouldn’t one of those lives be yours? And why shouldn’t the Word of God, the promises of God, change our lives again and again and again? For the better? This is such a strongly held belief on my part, it is why I do what I do. I hope you believe this, my friend, because I’m telling you, God wants you to believe that what He has promised you in the Bible is for you, it is yours. Your enemy is who wants you not to believe it, and he is not to be trusted or listened to.
Second part of verse 3 - dwell in the land and live securely, feed securely on His faithfulness. That’s both the CSB and the AMP, what I just shared. You and I, we get to dwell in the land and live securely. We can feed securely on our God’s faithfulness. What feeds you? The news? Social media? Fears? Real security is not found in riches, not in wealth, not in your work title or position, not in podcast download numbers. It is found in the faithfulness of my God to me, of your God to you. And is He not always, eternally faithful? He is, and cannot be less. Dwell there.
What do I mean by that? That’s home. That’s where we live, you and I. We live in the sweet spot of life where we trust in our Lord, we fully rely on Him, our total confidence is in Him alone, and right there, when we dwell there, we are secure. Can’t add any more to our security, since it is already filled to the full in Christ. Dwell there. Live there. Let your security be in your God, and expect His peace to surpass all understanding. Dwell in the security of the Lord God Almighty.
Verse 4 - CSB - Take delight in the Lord and He will give you your heart's desires.
This is such a simple, straightforward promise that we struggle to believe it. Seems too easy, too good to be true. Like, that’s it? I just take delight in God and He will give me my heart’s desires? Uh, yeah. That’s actually what it says. See, you’ve heard this before, but let me say it again anyway. Your delight in Him will flood your life, flood your thinking and your feeling, your emotions, your behavior, all of it. Delighting in Him leaves little to no room for delighting in self, delighting in the big 3 from 1 John - the lust of the flesh, the lust eyes, the pride of life. If we kid ourselves and say we delight in the Lord, we are delighting ourselves in the Lord, but there is all this lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride…well, that’s not a total giving over to Him. There is not room for the big 3 when all the room is consumed by the Lord. Delighting yourself in Him, enjoying His presence, loving your time with Him in prayer, in the Word, really making Him the only thing that really matters in your life, well, that is delighting in Him. So how could your heart’s desires be misaligned with His heart’s desires if you really, truly delight in Him? They won’t be. There will be no mismatch. So yes, He can give you your heart’s desires. Because your heart belongs to Him, so you won’t be wanting all the things that line up with the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. Won’t drool over that certain car or that dream kitchen you saw on Pinterest or have all this pride in the way your project turned out at work or in your kids sports achievements. It’s gonna be really difficult to continually feed the flesh when you continually delight yourself in your Lord. It’s also important to remember that your flesh, it ain’t goin’ with you into eternity so it don’t care about that; the priority of the flesh is always here and now, that’s what it’s screaming for and it don’t have no need to stop it’s screaming cuz this here life, that’s all the flesh has got. Which is why the NT tells us to crucify the flesh and all its evil desires. Crucify, not anesthetize. Kill it off, finish it off. Don’t rock it to sleep with a lullaby.
I hope that brings a smidge of clarity about how to delight yourself in the Lord and then to believe that He is going to give you - give you - what your heart desires. Right now, my heart desires to have an expanded reach to talk about God’s Word, specifically His promises, and to write about prayer, promises, and the huge benefits of daily Bible study time on a personal level. I do think those are in line with God’s heart and so I am expecting Him to expand the reach I have in those areas - my speaking, my writing, podcasting, what I share on social or YouTube even on my Pinterest boards. Can I say that was always what I wanted most? If I’m honest, no. But dwelling much with Jesus, being much with my Lord, altered my life which impacted my number one wants.
In the AMP, verse 4 reads like this: Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart.
Petitions of your heart. Are there maybe some things we will never, ever get in this life, this side of eternity, unless we petition God for those things?
I think it’s very possible, and I think James in the NT tells us that exact thing when he says you have not because you ask not.
So very true so very often. What are you petitioning God for? Are you praying, asking Him for the things that are in your heart? If you, say, want more income because you want to work less overtime so that you can spend more time with your spouse and kiddos, are you asking Him for that? If I want a traditional publishing book deal, am I asking Him for that? If you want your health to be improved so you can dedicate more time and energy to your favorite local ministry, are you praying and petitioning God for that?
The word petitions in Psalm 37 verse 4 is not accidental. A petition can take some serious asking, some effort, think about the door to door sign this petition efforts that you’ve seen happen. Get to a million signatures or something like that. Takes a lot to get the petitioning done, right? So this is not a bullet prayer, an arrow prayer, a real quick, “God, please help!”. This is more dug in, dedicated. Are dedicated in your praying, in your asking, in your petitioning? If not, get dedicated.
Always expect God to answer, absolutely. And also, always be willing to go to the mat in prayer and petition. Both/and, my friend, both/and, not either/or.
Next week we are going to look at verses 5-8, and dig into more of what is promised to us in Psalm 37. It’s incredible, these promises the Lord God of all creation makes to us. And all we have to do is believe. Can’t we do that? Oh that we might believe the Word of God with a level of belief that would honor Him. That's my prayer this week, that we will believe in honorable measures. Let’s honor Him with our very lives and one huge way to do that is to live a life of belief.
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Lord bless you this week as you continue to walk in belief and see the promises of God play out in your life in powerful, amazing ways. Won’t He do it? Oh, yes He will! You can’t stop Him, so might as well join Him!
I’ll see ya next time!
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Jan L. Burt is an author, speaker, podcaster, homeschooling veteran, mother to five, and has been happily married to Tony for thirty years. She served in youth ministry alongside her husband for twelve years & has led several Bible studies for women as well as hosting two online prayer retreats.
Jan is the author of the new book “A 60-Day Prayer Journal for Parents” & “The Power of God’s Will – 40 Days of God’s Promises Devotional” (available on Amazon) & “The Once-A-Year Homeschool Planner” (a multi-grade, multi-subject planning system) – which can be found at JanLBurt.com. She has also been a regular contributor to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. Find Jan Instagram: @JanLBurt or at her website JanLBurt.com or at her YouTube channel, “God’s Promises for You with Jan L. Burt”.