Wednesday... We sometimes come with desperation and that's okay!

Wednesday... We sometimes come with desperation and that's ok!

King David wrote many of the Psalms in the Old Testament of the Bible and he had many, many desperate moments. And he wrote Psalm 54 in one of those moments.

Are you desperate today? Life can come down hard on us and there doesn't seem to be anything that we can do but David says there is.

Psalm 54:1-2 (NLT) says, "Come with great power, O God, and rescue me! Defend me with your might. Listen to my prayer, O God. Pay attention to my plea."

David was hiding from King Saul who was wanting to kill him. King Saul had not followed God as a king and he knew that God had chosen David to be the new king so he wanted to kill him and some people had told Saul where David was hiding so David was desperate.

So many things can be happening in your life and you are desperate. Now God has great power and he can take care of us in any situation that we are facing. Yes he can but he wants us to pray to him and that can be a humbling situation. We believe in ourselves that we can handle anything that we are facing but no matter what we believe we can do, there are times when we are desperate and those times of desperation humble us because we need help.

Verse 2a in The Message Paraphrase says, "Listen, God - I'm desperate." I'm desperate, I'm desperate! It is so good to have God in our lives in those times of desperation.

Verses 3-4 (NLT) says, "For strangers are attacking me; violent people are trying to kill me. They care nothing for God. But God is my helper. The Lord keeps me alive!" And sometimes we need desperate moments for us to remember who is our helper and who keeps us alive. Maybe what we are going through is one of those times.

David goes on. Verse 5a says, "May the evil plans of my enemies be turned against them." They don't know who is on our side and what he can do. They have made a big mistake. The Message says, "Evil is looping back on my enemies."

And then in verses 6-7, David says, "I will sacrifice a voluntary offering to you; I will praise your name, O Lord, for it is good. For you have rescued me from my troubles and helped me to triumph over my enemies." It can be easy for us to take credit for what God does, can't it?

David was a man after God's own heart and he knew who it was that took care of him and he wrote the Psalms to show us how to handle the after of our times of desperation.

Verses 6-7 in the Amplified Bible says, "With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you; I will give thanks and praise Your name, O Lord, for it is good. For He rescued me from every trouble, and my eye has looked with satisfaction (triumph) on my enemies." I love that, "and my eye has looked with satisfaction (triumph) on my enemies."

It is such a good thing to realize that God is there in our desperate times and that he cares and that we can call to him and he will do what is best because he is good. So let's realize that he will listen to our prayer and he will rescue us and then praise and thank him! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Thursday... Maybe we need this word today.

Psalm 57:1b (NIRV), "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Thursday... Maybe we need this word today. There are words in life that give us confidence no matter what we are facing. Now we have to believe them in order for them to have an impact. David wrote Psalm 57 while he was in a cave hiding from Saul who wanted to kill him and he says in the last part of verse 1, "There I will stay." It was a safe place and Saul didn't know that he was there. But he doesn't stop there. With confidence he said, "There I will stay until." And until is definitely a word of faith and confidence. "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Do we need that today? Let me give you the whole verse. In verse 1 David says, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." And that is a great place to start in times of trouble. Maybe that is what we need to pray today, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." It is so great to have someone...

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 ...

Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute.

Proverbs 19:2 (NLT), "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." Friday... It is so exciting but wait a minute. This time of the year is so exciting. We get our paycheck from work and then we head to the store or Amazon and buy and buy and buy all those presents and then our check is gone Proverbs 19:2 (NLT) says, "Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes." But buying gifts can be so much fun and seeing how happy they are when opening those presents makes us feel so good. But then verse 3 says, "People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then they are angry at the Lord." Now for some that is their life. They get money and they spend it on their wants with no thought of what needs to be paid. An important lesson that we have learned is just because you have money in the bank doesn't mean you must spend it. But our enthusiasm takes over. But the problem is when it is gone and there is no money to pay th...

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