Wednesday... Encouragement is what we want and need.

Now we may be down and we need to be encouraged, we need to be lifted up. We need that during these troubling times but we also need encouragement to get us up and at it, to be encouraged to get up and do what we may not want to do. No matter what, we need to be encouraged. And one is more enjoyable than the other.

Look at Proverbs 20:4 (MSG), "A farmer too lazy to plant in the spring has noting to harvest in the fall." But I don't like to work and I believe that God will take care of me. And that is true but God takes care of those who get up and at it. Yes we need sleep but we need it to help us with work. And work is God's plan. You can wait on God but there are some things that God is waiting on you. And something need to be done now so what you will need will be there when you need it. "A farmer too lazy to plant in the spring has nothing to harvest in the fall."

Verse 14 says, "Don't be too fond of sleep; you'll end up in the poorhouse. Wake up and get up, then there'll be food on the table."

Thank You, God for the means you have given us to live each day. You use so many different ways to provide for us. Please give us the desire, the motivation, the strength to do what we need to do.

Also verse 12 (NLT) says, "Ears to hear and eyes to see - both are gifts from the Lord." And may we use these gifts to be encouraged to do what He has provided for us to do today. Remember, encouragement is what we want and need. 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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