Friday... Have you seen this?

Friday... Have you seen this? This is such a great word of encouragement for us today.

Psalm 91:1 (NLT), "Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the Shadow of the Almighty." We sure don't find it on TV, or in our leaders, or social media, do we?

Verse 2, "This I declare about the Lord: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God and I trust Him." Yes, yes, yes I do.

Verse 3, "For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease." I'm afraid that the wisdom and the knowledge that God has given out to help us through this pandemic has been covered over by people who are striving for power and control. They are using our fears as a means of gaining more power. And that is not one side but both sides. They have brought fear and distrust instead of protection. We need to see what God has given us as a means to protect us from this deadly disease. He wants to rescue us from so many traps and to protect us from what is among us. He has promised that He would and He has. We need to go to Him and follow His guidance as He protects us. I feel that the political sizing of this virus has brought great harm instead of protection. Again, "For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease." Go to Him.

Verse 4 (MSG), "His huge outstretched arms protect you - under them you're perfectly safe; his arms fend off all harm." May we believe that, may we live this day with that fact in our hearts and mind.

Verses 5-6, "Fear nothing - not wild wolves in the night, not flying arrows in the day. Not disease that prowls through the darkness, not disaster that erupts at high noon."

And then verses 14-16 (NLT), "The Lord says, 'I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name. When they call on me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them. I will reward them with long life and give them my salvation' " Is that what you needed to hear today? He cares and He rewards! 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...

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...

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...

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