Monday... Intentions do not always turn out the way that they are intended.

Everything that the evil one throws at us to hurt us must first go through God's love for us and God changes the purpose from bad to a purpose of good. There are so many benefits of being a follower of God and this is one of them.

As you remember the story of Joseph, his brothers hated him and when he was young they tried to hurt him by selling him into slavery. Eventually they found that he had become the key leader in Egypt during a time of famine and they with their families and their father came to Egypt to live because God was using Jospeh to take care of the problems of the famine. But after the death of their father they were afraid that Joseph would repay them for what they had done to him.

Genesis 50:18 (MSG) says, "Then the brothers went in person to him, threw themselves on the ground before him and said, 'We'll be your slaves.'"

Verses 19-20 (NLT) continues, "Joseph replied, 'Don't be afraid of me. Am I God that I can punish you? You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.'" The MESSAGE paraphrase says it this way, "Don't you see, you planned evil against me but God used the same plans for my good."

Now we don't know the purpose behind the pandemic that we are going through but before it happened the purpose for it went through God's love and he changed the purpose from bad to good for his followers. Now it hasn't been easy to go through, but the purpose was changed for good in our lives.

The end is not over yet. Even though the great famine was happening back in Joseph's time he was put into place to bring good out of it for his family. And we don't know the full good that will come from this pandemic but God has a plan and his intended purpose for good will come to pass. That is the way he works! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Monday... He did it by Himself

Isaiah 44:24b (AMP), "I am the Lord, Maker of all things. Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself." Monday... He did it by Himself. Many have a tendency to think very highly of themselves and what they can do. Oh we do have great ability but we are not the source. Yes it is important to have self-confidence but we are limited. The prophet Isaiah in 44:9-10 (NLT) says, "How foolish are those who manufacture idols. These prized objects are really worthless. The people who worship idols don't know this, so they are all put to shame. Who but a fool would make his own god - an idol that cannot help him one bit?" Now later in verse 24 (AMP) he writes, "For the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb says, 'I am the Lord, Maker of all things, Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself.'" I love that. "By Myself." Now we do need confidence but we are foolish to ma...

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Friday... We have this hope of expectancy. Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is. Morning sunrise He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important. And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily wa...

Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true.

Psalm 12:6 (NLT), "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true. Maybe this is what you want to say in this day in which we live. Psalm 12:1-2 (MSG) says, "Quick, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depend on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues." Do you ever feel that way?" Have you found that to be true? Well David the writer of this Psalm continues and says in verse 6 something to encourage us, to lift us up, to give us hope. Psalm 12:6 (NLT) says, "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." The Message Paraphrase says verses 6-8 this way, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fires of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as in heaven, God, keep ...

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