Saturday... Let's go, let's get with it. I'm in a hurry.

David when writing Psalm 70 must have been in a hurry. If we were writing a Psalm today, I'm sure we would be in a hurry.

Here is the way David started this Psalm in verse 1 (MSG), "God! Please hurry to my rescue! God, come quickly to my side!" Now that phrase shows where the problem was. It wasn't with God. God is everywhere. He is right beside Him. He is right beside us. The problem is with David, it is with us. We are in too much of a I'm in trouble, I don't know what to do, I need help right now kind of hurry that we don't acknowledge that God is near, that He is close and by the way, He is working on whatever it is that we are in such a hurry to get taken care of.

Could it be that the hurry is a part of the problem? We want whatever it is that we are facing to be solved right now when the Problem-solver is at work in whatever it is we need solved. But He is solving it in His time and in His way and for His purpose. Stop. stop, slow down. Relax.

In verse 5 David says, "But I've lost it. I'm wasted. God - quickly, quickly! Quick to my side, quick to my rescue! God, don't lose a minute."

Maybe the problem isn't with God but with us.

Verse 4 (NIV) says, "But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who long for your saving help always say, 'The Lord is great!"

Let's relax and change our focus on what needs to be done to Who has the power to get it done. You are not alone. He is right beside you and He feels your anxiety and He wants you to slow down and see that He is working it out. Take a deep breath, slow down, give it Him and then trust Him. 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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