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

Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit?

Nehemiah 6:16b (NLT), "They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit? Over in the Old Testament in the book of Nehemiah it tells of a major task that through the leadership of Nehemiah was accomplished. The walls of Jerusalem had been torn down and God had laid it on Nehemiah to build those walls back up. It was definitely an almost impossible task but Nehemiah 6:15-16 says, "So on October 2 the wall was finished - just fifty-two days after we had begun. When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Now, we so many times want to take credit for doing the impossible. It would make such a difference for us. But I wonder what would happen through us if God got the credit? Psalm 96 tells us what we are to do. Verses 2-3 says, "Sing to the LORD; praise his name. ...

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 ...

Thursday... Yet, now this is true.

Colossians 1:22a (NLT), "Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body." Thursday... Yet, now this is true. Now Paul a prisoner in Rome is writing a letter to a church in Colossae. And in Colossians 1:21 (MSG) he says, "Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds" The NLT says "This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated by your evil thoughts and actions." And that is where so many in this world live today. They are blowing it and they don't know what to do. Yes, they are hostile in their minds and they are engaging in evil deeds but there is Good News. Now Paul in verses 19-20 sets the stage for an answer to those who don't want to live that way. He says, "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and earth b...

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