Friday... Wow, this week went fast but...

The word but is a connecting word. It connects two phrases, two thoughts.

What is it that you are facing as you head into this weekend? What kind of work week did you have? I was talking to one of the managers in my daily coffee shop about the fact that the other manager had gone back home to Oklahoma for a vacation and the person I was talking to said but her husband got Covid and that changed all of their plans. But, but. But can have a negative connotation but not always. Not to David.

David in Psalm 54:3 (NLT) wrote, "For strangers are attacking me; violent people are trying to kill me. They care nothing for God." Our translation says, but Covid is trying to kill us and disrupt our lives and its doing a good job of it.

Then verse 4 says, "But God is my helper. The Lord keeps me alive!" Now that is an awesome but. "But God is my helper. The Lord keeps me alive." No matter what I am going through this but makes all the difference. And that is a great today's beginning.

Every morning as you wake up to begin your day just say, "But God is my helper. The Lord keeps me alive." And then verse 5, "May the evil plans of my enemies be turned against them. Do as you promised and put an end to them."

That but makes all the difference, doesn't it?

He then says in verses 6-7. "I will sacrifice a voluntary offering to you; I will praise your name, O Lord, for you have rescued me from my troubles and helped me to triumph over my enemies." Now that is a great way to end our today. 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...

Monday... Three ifs and two thens. They go together!

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Wednesday... Our unless can turn into useless.

Wednesday... Our unless can turn into useless. It really can. I have found that unless I give the correct email of my wife then I can't get what I wanted. I put an extra i in her email and I have been working for 5 days to get it changed. Unless has been useless. The writer of Psalm 94 uses this word and shows how important it is. Verses 17-19 (NLT) says, "Unless the Lord had helped me, I would have soon settled in the silence of the grave. I cried out, 'I'm slipping!' but your unfailing love, O Lord, supported me. When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer." "Unless the Lord had helped me." So many people go on and on and on striving to live their life on their own but they keep slipping and doubting and living without hope and cheer. Yes the Lord has such unfailing love for us, he really does but unless we have a relationship with him and we turn to him and ask him for help then the unless turns in to useless because h...

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