Wednesday... What do we need to hear and say today?

Psalm 20:5 (MSG), "When we win, we plan to raise the roof and lead the parade with our banners. May all your wishes come true."

Wednesday... What do we need to hear and say today?

So, how do we start the sentence that sets our focus for today? Well, King David says in Psalm 20:5a (MSG), "When we win." So many also start with when but they say, "When we lose." How we finish the when sentence goes a long way in whether we will celebrate or not.

Now the next verse says, "That clinhes it - help's coming and answer's on the way, everything is going to work out." And the key is verse 1 (NIV), "May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you."

The Apostle Peter in the New Testament of the Bible wrote a letter to a group of people who were being persecuted and they didn't feel like winners and in 1 Peter 1:3-5 (NLT) he writes, "All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance - an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay."

Did you catch what he said? "We live with great expectation." Right before this he says the reason why, "because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead." If God can do that then we can live with great expectation because we can be born again. We no longer need to live with "when we lose" but to now with "when we win."

If we have asked for and accepted Christ into our life then we have been born again and we have a priceless inheritance. And it starts the day that we ask to be born again.

Now in verse 6 he writes, "So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little while."

Verse 23 (AMP) says, "for you have been born again [that is, reborn from above - spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose] not of seed which is perishable but [from that which is] imperishable and immortal, that is, through the living and everlasting word of God."

If we have asked to be and have been born again then we can say, "when we win." We are on the winning side. No matter what we are facing today we can live with the expectation that we will win. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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