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Thursday... This is another of his wonders.

Psalm 147:18 (MSG), "Then he gives the command and it all melts; he breathes on winter - suddenly it's spring!" Thursday... This is another of his wonders. I am sitting here in my morning coffee shop and looking out the window at one of the wonders of God, the trees have leaves all over them. It seems that the last time I had really looked, there were no leaves. The leaves knew when to come out. It was great to see and then I read Psalm 147:18 (MSG), and it said, "Then he gives the command and it all melts; he breathes on winter - suddenly it's spring!" Oh what a God we serve. He really does know what he is doing. Verse 15 in the Amplified Bible says, "He sends His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly." Verses 3-5 (NLT) says, "He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. He counts the stars and calls them all by name. How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!" And he cove...

Wednesday... So, let's get it and do it!

Psalm 146:5b (MSG), "Put your hope in God and know real blessing." Wednesday... So, let's get it and do it! Here is what we need to and can do. Psalm 146:5b (MSG), says, "Put your hope in God and know real blessing." Over in Mark 8 Jesus 'disciples were having an argument. Verses 16-19 (MSG) says, "Meanwhile the disciples were finding fault with each other because they had forgotten to bring bread. Jesus overheard them." I wonder what God thinks over the things we argue about. He has to have a lot of patience, doesn't he? "Jesus overheard and said. 'Why are you fussing because you forgot bread? Don't you see the point of all of this? Don't you get it at all?'" He must get frustrated. He goes on. "'Remember the five loaves I broke for the five thousand? How many baskets of leftovers did you pick up?' They said, 'Twelve.' 'And the seven loaves for the four thousand - how many bags full of leftov...

Tuesday... Quitting is an option but so is a fresh start.

Psalm 145:14 (MSG), "God gives a hand to those down on their luck, give a fresh start to those ready to quit." Tuesday... Quitting is an option but so is a fresh start. Are you really down on your luck and you're ready to quit? Well David writes in Psalm 145:14 (MSG), "God gives a hand to those down on their luck, gives a fresh start to those ready to quit." I hope you believe in God. David did and he had been in so many situations where he could have quit. So he wrote this from experience. The Amplified Bible says verse 14 this way. It says, "The Lord upholds all those [of His own] who fall and raises up all those who are bowed down." Did you notice that it says "of His own"? There is something different even in us if those going through bad times are a part of our family. They really matter to us, at least they should. Now God's plan was that all of us would be a family together but he set up some guidelines in order for us to get the b...

Monday... Have you ever had this thought?

Psalm 144:3 (MSG), "I wonder why you care, God - why do you bother with us at all?" Monday... Have you ever had this thought? Now if you have never had a relationship or even had a passing thought about God, then you probably haven't had this thought, But King David here in Psalm 144:3-4 (MSG) says, "I wonder why you care, God - why do you bother with us at all? All we are is a puff of air; we're like shadows in a campfire." I mean, it seems that we have been a problem from the beginning of time. So, why in the world do you care God? And why do you bother with us at all? And those are very good questions even here on a Monday morning in March. We are in the middle of March Madness. That is what an end of the season national college basketball tournament is called. Last week at this time there were over 60 teams playing but after this past weekend there are 16 left. There are 16 winners and we don't even bother our thoughts to the ones who lost. Just th...

Friday... We each see things from different perspectives.

Mark 5:19 (NLT), "But Jesus said, 'Now go home to your family, and tell them everything the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been." Friday... We each see things from different perspectives. Have you found that true, even in your friends and you own family? Now there was this guy who had so many evil spirits in him that his name was Legion and he came to Jesus and in Mark 5:8 (NLT) Jesus said to the spirit, "Come out of the man, you evil spirit." and they begged to be sent into some pigs nearby. Verse 13 says, "So Jesus gave them permission. Those evil spirits came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the entire herd of about 2,000 pigs plunged into the lake and drowned in the water." It is important to see that two things happened here. One, there was this man who had been possessed by a legion of spirits and two, there were 2,000 pigs that had plunged into a lake and they were killed. Now a crowd from town came out and verse 17 says,...

Thursday... Let's keep on track!

Mark 4:20 (NLT), "And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God's word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as has been planted." Thursday... Let's keep on track! Over in Deuteronomy 20:3b-4 (NLT) Moses writes, "Do not be afraid as you go out to fight your enemies today! Do not lose heart or panic or tremble before them. For the Lord your God is going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies, and he will give you victory!" If we want to win, we must keep on track! But there is so much that is out there to distract us Over in Mark 4:18-19 Jesus says to his disciples, "The seed that fell among thorns represents others who hear God's word but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced." There is so much out there that is striving to distract us. There really is. I go...