Monday... Yes, we can know this and believe it.

Psalm 100:3 (MSG), "Know this: God is God, and God God. He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep."

Monday, Yes, we can know this and believe it.

There is an important beginning fact that we must know, really know and believe if we are to have a relationship with God. Psalm 100:3 (MSG) says, "Know this: God is God, and God God. He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep."

The NLT says, "Acknowledge that the Lord is God!" And the Amplified Bible says, "Know and fully recognize that the Lord Himself is God."

We must fully know this fact. Yes we must. I mean, how can we fully trust and believe in a liar, someone who stretches the truth?

Over in Matthew 4:1 (NLT) it says, "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil." The Message says, "Next Jesus was taken into the wild by the Spirit for the Test."

Now there were three different temptations, three Tests by the Devil that Jesus had to respond to and the third one was the acknowledge, the know and fully recognize test. Verses 8-9 (NLT) says, "Next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 'I will give it all to you,' he said, 'if you will kneel down and worship me.' 'Get out of here, Satan,' Jesus told him. 'For the Scripture says '"You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him."'"

It must be him and only him and Psalm 103.3 & 4 in The Message says, "Know this: God is God, and God, God. He made us; we didn't make him."

The first verse, the first fact in the Bible is so very important and we must believe it. Yes, we must know it and fully recognize it to be true. Genesis 1:1 (NLT) says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Psalm 100:4 (MSG) says, "He made us, we didn't make him." The Amplified Bible says, "It is He who made us, not we ourselves [and we are [His]. The New Living Translations says, "He made us, and we are his."

Yes, we can know this and believe it and acknowledge it.

I know, I know that the other side really makes it sound like this is not true. They put down the fact that God created us, he made us. Yes, this is a test and Jesus passed it and we too can pass it and have a relationship with God and of course have a great benefit if we do. The last part of verse 4 says, (MSG), "We're his people, his well-tended sheep." (AMP), "We are His people and the sheep of His pasture" and (NIRV), "We are his people. We are the sheep belonging to his flock."

So, know that and fully believe and then do this, Verses 4-5 (NLT), "Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good. His unfailing love continues forever and his faithfulness continues to each generation." In other words, verse 5 (MSG), "For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and ever."

So, let's pass this test asn Jesus did. 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. ...

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 ...

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