2)   Favz Psalm
a)   Psalm 23 : The Lord is my Shepherd

3)   Encouraging Quote(s)
a)   What does it mean to seek God?  It means creating time to sit before His throne in quiet places. It means reading His Word in order to know Him more intimately. It means developing an ear to hear His voice so that we know when to turn to the right or to the left. God desires to know you.

b)   Perhaps you cannot make sense of your current situation. If you press into God during this time, He will reveal His purposes for you. The key is pressing into Him. Seek Him with a whole heart and He will be found. God may have a special calling & message He is building in your life right now. Trust in His love for you that He will fully complete the work He has started in you.

c)   There is a direct connection between finding and doing God's will and having God's law in our heart. It isn't enough to have a desire to follow God; we must put our energy into getting to know Him. His will for us flows out of our relationship, it is not an end in itself. Commit yourself to seek Him more in your life by spending more time with Him. "Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know" (Jer. 33:3).

d)   Spiritual authority is not a tug of war on a horizontal plane; it is a vertical chain of command. Jesus Christ has all authority in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18); He's at the top. He has given His authority and power to His servants to be exercised in His name (Luke 10:17); we're underneath Him, and so is Satan and his demons - They're at the bottom, subject to the authority Christ has invested in us. Satan is not an equal power with God; he is a vanquished foe. But if he can deceive you into believing that he has more power and authority than you do, you will live as if he does! You have been given authority over the kingdom of darkness, but if you don't believe it and exercise it, it's as if you didn't have it. Authority is the right to rule based on position. You have the authority to do the will of God because of your position in Christ. It's an authority you could never have independent of God, so you need to remain dependent on Him to live victoriously.

e)   God revealed to some of His prophets that a day would come when His own Son would be born on the earth. Three of the most important of these prophets were Isaiah, Micah, and Jeremiah. If you were to compare each of God's prophets to a musical instrument, Isaiah had a voice like a trumpet. It rose strong and clear across a wilderness of godlessness. It was a voice both cacophonous and melodic, depending on who was listening. It became God's instrument, used to proclaim. To announce. To warn. And its sound wafted in the air long after the trumpeter had ceased to play. In the midst of Isaiah's prophecy of gloom, however, came a message of hope - ref. Isa 7:14-16, 9:6. Micah had a voice like a timpani. It pounded out the beat of God's will. Percussive, penetrating, noisy, and irritating to those who did not want to march to it. Clear, precise, rich, and majestically compelling to those who had a heart to follow. In the midst of Micah's prophecy of doom, however, came another message of hope - ref. Mic 5:1-15. Everyone liked this part of the message, but they didn't want to obey God. They wanted to follow their own desires and dreams instead of doing what God was requiring them to do. Jeremiah had a voice like a solo violin. It soared above the din of all concerted efforts against him. Its lyrical sound deeply penetrated the righteous souls who would listen, filling them with sorrow and mourning for the sins of their nation. To the godless, however, his voice was interminable shrieking that had to be silenced. So they isolated it by ridicule and rendered it solitary by persecution. Jeremiah was unfairly convicted of treason and his writings were publicly burned. But nothing could destroy the anointing of God upon him, so he lived to write the same words again. This time with a message of hope - ref. Jer 23:1-29. Everyone liked this part of the message, but they didn't have enough faith to believe it.

f)   The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline . In Biblical wisdom literature, the pupils of the sages and mentors are the unwise, often termed "fools" (Prov. 1:7)or "simple one" (1:22). The term fool is descriptive of an attitude, bent of mind, or direction in life, which needs correcting. The reference to someone being a fool was not necessarily a negative term. A simple fool, or peti, was a person who made mistakes, but quickly righted them and was restored to fellowship with God and with others. King David was a simple fool, one who made mistakes, but kept a repentant heart toward God. This is why God did not turn away from him for his many sins. The hardened fool, kesil and ewil, makes mistakes, but never learns from them and will not listen to others. Such people can expect God's reproof to continue and will eat the fruit of their own way (see Prov. 1:31-32). The hardened fool "returns to his own vomit." King Saul was a hardened fool, one who made mistakes and continued in them even after realizing he was wrong. We're going to err in our ways. The question is, once we know we have made a mistake before God, do we make the necessary adjustments that will allow Him to intervene on our behalf? And will we avoid the same course of action in the future? God says that if we do, He will pour out His Spirit on us (see Prov. 1:23). He will make known His words to us. The third level of fool mentioned in Proverbs is the mocking fool or letz. The mocking fool mocks the things of God. This word means "scoffer" or "scorner." When you encounter cynical people who disregard the things of God, you know these people are "mocking fools." The fourth level of fool is the God-denying fool or nabal. This term relates to the morally wicked person who ignores the disgrace he brings on his family and who despises holiness (see Prov. 17:21). This person says, "There is no God." By failing to acknowledge God for who He is, the nabal declares himself to be a "God-denying" fool.