Michael Kalmar

Wait on the LORD

Lamentations 3:21-26 (ESV)
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Keep His Commandments

1 John 5:3 (ESV)
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

1 John 4:10-12

1 John 4:10-12 (ESV)
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Keep His Commandments

Matthew 7:21-23 (ESV)
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Salvation

Matthew 7:13-14 (ESV)
"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.

Judgment

Matthew 7:1 (ESV)
"Judge not, that you be not judged.

Psalm 147:5

Psalm 147:5 (ESV)
Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Judgement: Why God judges.

Jeremiah 16:18 (ESV)
But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."

Judgement: God's patience

Jeremiah 16:11 (ESV)
then you shall say to them: 'Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the Lord, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,

Salvation: steadfastness

Hebrews 4:1 (ESV)
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.

Knowledge- Why God made us weak.

2 Corinthians 4:7 (ESV)
But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.

Health, hope

2 Corinthians 4:16 (ESV)
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

God's love lost?

Jeremiah 16:5 (ESV)
"For thus says the Lord: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the Lord.

Nothing Hidden.

Jeremiah 16:17 (ESV)
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

Redemptive Messages

Jeremiah 15:19 (NASB)
Therefore, thus says the Lord, "If you return, then I will restore you- Before Me you will stand; And if you extract the precious from the worthless, You will become My spokesman. They for their part may turn to you, But as for you, you must not turn to them.

supplication

Jeremiah 15:1 (NASB)
Then the Lord said to me, "Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

Genesis 28:22

Genesis 28:22 (ESV)
and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you."

Genesis 21:10

Genesis 21:10 (ESV)
So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."

Genesis 21:22

Genesis 21:22 (ESV)
At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.

Genesis 4:7

Genesis 4:7 (ESV)
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it."