Thursday... Please, Help Our Response Every day.

Thursday... Please, Help Our Response Every day. So where will you turn for your HOPE for today?

Is it all on self control, self will, self motivation, self confidence? So how is that going?

The writer of Psalm 130 (NIRV) in verse 5 says, "With all my heart I wait for the Lord to help me. I put my hope in his word." Do you turn to God's word for hope? Do you turn to Him to help you in your response to each new day because how you respond to the happenings of each new day go a long way in your enjoyment, in your productivity, and in living out God's purpose for each new day.

Verse 6 says, "I wait for the Lord to help me. I want his help more than night watchmen want the morning to come. I'll say it again. I want his help more than the night watchman want the morning to come."

Verse 7 (NLT), "O Israel (O ____, put your name there), hope in the Lord for with the Lord there is unfailing love. His redemption overflows." And by the way, verse 8 says, "He himself will redeem Israel from every kind of sin." And that makes so much difference in how we respond to each new day, doesn't it? We face it without the weight of our failures and our sins.

Verses 3 & 4 (MSG), "If you, God, kept records on wrongdoing, who would stand a chance? As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, and that's why you're worshiped."

So again, verse 5 (NLT), "I am counting on the Lord; yes, I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word." 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...

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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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