Monday... We each one have tremendous ability but...

And that but should be emphasized everyday. Not as a put down but as an honest assessment. It is really amazing what people can do but the reality is we can only be at one place at a time.

Brett is our son and Stefanie is our daughter with their own families and they live in two different cities, 11 driving hours apart. No matter what ability I have I cannot be with my kids and their mates and their kids at their homes at the same time. It is impossible. We spent this weekend in Denver where Brett, Marissa, Ashlyn and Addison live and we got back to Las Vegas early this morning where Stef, Andrew, Harper and Penny live. And I'm tired after an early morning flight and that may be why this verse in Psalm 145 jumped out at me this morning

Verse 18 says, "The Lord is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on him in truth." He really is. I love that fact. The fact that He is omnipresent is a tremendou attribute that my heavenly Father has that makes all the difference in the world. I can know that He is close to me every hour and every minute of every day and that makes such a great difference in my day. I can sit in my Aspire coffee shop in Las Vegas writing to you but I can't be in the Coffee shop that we stopped at in Denver on the way to the airport. I walked in this morning and my coffee was waiting for me but not in Denver. I could call them but I can't get it because I'm not there. But God is everywhere. He is omnipresent. That is amazing.

The MESSAGE says, "God's there, listening for all who pray, for all who pray and mean it." He is right here beside me, He is is Denver, He is where you are waiting for you to call on Him, to reach out to Him no matter where you are. "He is listening for all who pray and mean it." Thank you so much for that fact, God.

Again, "The Lord is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on him in truth." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit?

Nehemiah 6:16b (NLT), "They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit? Over in the Old Testament in the book of Nehemiah it tells of a major task that through the leadership of Nehemiah was accomplished. The walls of Jerusalem had been torn down and God had laid it on Nehemiah to build those walls back up. It was definitely an almost impossible task but Nehemiah 6:15-16 says, "So on October 2 the wall was finished - just fifty-two days after we had begun. When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Now, we so many times want to take credit for doing the impossible. It would make such a difference for us. But I wonder what would happen through us if God got the credit? Psalm 96 tells us what we are to do. Verses 2-3 says, "Sing to the LORD; praise his name. ...

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

Thursday... Yet, now this is true.

Colossians 1:22a (NLT), "Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body." Thursday... Yet, now this is true. Now Paul a prisoner in Rome is writing a letter to a church in Colossae. And in Colossians 1:21 (MSG) he says, "Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds" The NLT says "This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated by your evil thoughts and actions." And that is where so many in this world live today. They are blowing it and they don't know what to do. Yes, they are hostile in their minds and they are engaging in evil deeds but there is Good News. Now Paul in verses 19-20 sets the stage for an answer to those who don't want to live that way. He says, "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and earth b...

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