Sunday... But it backfires...

Sunday... There is so much that the Evil One and the wicked throws at us to hurt us or even destroy us but it backfires on him. Could that be true of the pandemic?

Psalm 7:14-16 (NLT) says, "The wicked conceives evil; they are pregnant with trouble and give birth to lies. They dig a deep pit to trap others, then fall into it themselves. The trouble they make backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their heads."

Now whatever happens to those who follow God it must first go through His love. It may have been thrown at us to hurt us, to hurt God, to hurt His plan. It says, "they dig a deep pit to trap others, then fall into it themselves. The trouble backfires on them." The trouble is thrown at us to hurt us, to destroy us but God changes the purpose and uses it for our good and many times it backfires on them and they fall into the pit themselves.

Could it be that the pandemic was sent out to hurt us even to destroy us but that God is using it to reach the world, to bring good out of it, to not destroy the church but to revive it and transform it so He can better use it for His glory? Maybe we should be stepping back and looking at what God is doing instead of complaining about what is happening.

Psalm 7:17 says, "I will thank God because he is just; I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High." The pit of the pandemic may have been there to harm us or destroy us but God is using it for His glory. He knows what is happening and He is to be thanked. You see, "The trouble they make backfires on them." So, "I will thank God because he is just; I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do

Psalm 8:3-4 (NLT), "When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?" Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do. No, not the fact that I can go out my front door and look out at night at the marvels of the sky. I can do that and it is amazing and it takes my breath away each time I see it. Yes, that is a fact but the reality of who did that and the wisdom and the faith that I have to believe that and to marvel that the one who did that cares about me makes such a difference in how I live my life. Yes, God really does. That is so wonderful for us to believe. And that is why faith and wisdom are so important. Now whatever belief you have at how that marvel happened must also be believed through faith. And the sad thing to me is that more and more people have been taught that there is no God and therefore he did not have a h...

Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but...

Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but... We each one have our own way of explaining what we are going through, don't we? Some of us are maximisers, other are minimizers and neither one is better. We each one are different and we see what we are facing differently but no matter what it is and how you see it and describe it, God can handle it! Now the writer of Psalm 46 shows the extremes. In verse 1 he states the basic reality and then he moves on into our fears and he maximizes them to make sure we really understand. Here is what Psalm 46:1-3 (NLT) says, "God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea. Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge!" So what do you fear? The Amplified Bible says verse 1 this way, "God is our refuge and strength [mighty and impenetrable], a very presen...

Wednesday... It didn't just happen.

Psalm 16;10 (NLT), "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave." Wednesday... It didn't just happen. We are headed into a weekend of deep emotion. One that we really really love was killed and it didn't just happen. David in Psalm 16:10 (NLT) writes of this happening. He says about God, "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave." We read over in the Gospels at the beginning of the New Testament in the Bible of the life of God's Son who came to earth to be our sacrifice so that our soul would not be left among the dead. Jesus came so that we wouldn't have to be buried at death and just left there. But he also shares that Jesus who was going to be killed as a sacrifice for our sins would not have to rot in a grave. David many generations before foretold this and that is what happened. Now that had to be a God thing. We can guess a lot about our future and we d...

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