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

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...

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

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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