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Thursday... They really do make a difference.


Thursday... They really do make a difference. Reinforcement and replacement really do make a difference. They both are so important in counteracting all that is happening and being said around us.

Situations in our life can bring us to a point of almost no return. We can be so discouraged, in so much torment and in so much despair to the point that we want to give up. And that is what our enemy, the devil wants us to do.

Look at what David says in Psalm 60. It could be something that we would feel, that we might say.

Verses 9-11 (NLT) says, "Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will bring me victory over Edom? Have you rejected us, O God? Will you no longer march with our armies? Oh please help us against our enemies, for all human help is useless." 

Now that thought could really bring us to a place of no return, That kind of assessment of what is happening around us can make it so we never want to get up to face our day. So we need to do something about it. It needs to be replaced.

David didn't stop there. He relates all of that and replaces it with this. Verse 12 says, "With God's help we will do mighty things, for he will trample down our foes."

Now some would say that that is just positive self-talk and that is true but it is more than than. David knows that to be true because of past experience. His life is built on a life with God and he knows that "With God's help he will do mighty things", because it has. We need to replace the reality around us with the reality of having a relationship with God, of remembering what God has done and reinforcing what He can do.

And that is what a daily personal time of connecting with God through prayer, meditation and thanksgiving and by having a time in His word can do. We need to have this reinforced into our inner being, "With God's help we will do mighty things, for he will trample down our foes." 

Verses 11 & 12 in The Amplified Bible says, "Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless (ineffectual, without purpose). Through God we will have victory, for He will trample down our enemies. " Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning






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