Monday... Then they sang this song.

Exodus 15:2 (NLT), "The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise him - my father's God, and I will exalt him!"

Monday... Then they sang this song.

Yes, Exodus 15:1 (NLT) says, "Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord."

Something unbelievable had just happened and they wanted to sing. Oh how we want to take credit, don't we? But in the unbelievables that God does in our lives it can be difficult.

Now the last verses of Exodus 14 tells what happened and why they wanted to sing. Verses 29-30 says, "But the people of Israel had walked through the middle of the sea on dry ground, as the water stood up like a wall on both sides. That is how the Lord rescued Israel from the hands of the Egyptians that day. And the Israelites saw the bodies of the Egyptians washed upon the seashore." The Egyptian Army had tried to make it across but those walls of water came down upon them and they all drowned. And then verse 31, "When the people of Israel saw the mighty power that the Lord had unleashed against the Egyptians, they were filled with awe before him. They put their faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses."

And then 15:1 says "Then Moses and the people of Israel sang" and it is important who they sang to. They "sang this song to the Lord."

Verse 2 says, "The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory. This is my God, and I will praise him - my father's God, and I will exalt him!"

Now there are many times that we as Christ followers need to sing a song of the Lord's strength in our lives and a song of our times of victory. And they will be there with God in our lives and right after something unbelievable has happened in our lives that is a great time to sing.

Of course, how we sing is really up to us. It is just something that comes from a deep place within us of gratitude and praise to God.

I get emotional each day after I have written this blog. I can't really express to you my gratitude to God for his channeling words from His Word through me to you. It is such an tremendous privilege and an unbelievable experience. And I sing a song of praise to God when it is done.

I sat Saturday night in church and heard my Pastor share a difficult sermon and it was unbelievable. Yes I gave him a word of thanks and praise that he did it and to God for sharing through him what our church needed to hear. It was amazing.

Yes we need to sing songs to others who may need it. God wants us to be channels of encouragement. And this for sure was a song to be sung and to be remembered. Again, we as a church needed it. God really used him.

Now verses 1a-3 in The Message says, "I'm singing my heart out to God - what victory! He pitched horse and rider into the sea. God is my strength, God is my song, and, yes, God is my salvation. This is the kind of God I have and I'm telling the world! This is the God of my father - I'm spreading the news far and wide! God is a fighter, pure God, through and through."

Then they sang this song to the Lord and we need also sing to 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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