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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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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