Friday... So who gets the credit?

Psalm 127:1 (NLT), "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good."

Friday... So who gets the credit?

We do so much and we need the credit. It seems that our worth is attached to what we do. But Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived says in Psalm 127:1, "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good."

Yes, he understood this. Now we give him credit for building the first Temple of God. It took seven year for it to be built and it happened during his reign over Israel. Now his father, King David wanted to be the one to build the first Temple but because he was a man of war God didn't allow him to build it and he was a man after God's own heart. He was a great King, the second King of Israel and it seems that he should have been the one to build it, but he didn't.

Now it is so important in our lives with our abilities, with our great intelligence that the Lord is in charge and unless he does it then our work is wasted. Yes, Solomon knew this to be true. God writes this through him for us to see and understand that, "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted." and "Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good."

Now God created each one of us with a purpose. Rick Warren says that God created our Shape for his purpose. Here is what it means: S is Spiritual gifts, H is Heart, A is Abilities, P is Personality and E is Experience. And he has put all of those together to make us for a purpose.

Now another way to say Psalm 1 is, unless we seek God for how he has built us then our life is a waste. He has created each one of us for a purpose and we need to go to him and find out our purpose. We need to find what our Spiritual gifts are that God gave us when we accepted him into our life. We need to know what we really love to do, that is Heart. And then knowing our Personality is so very important. There are tests that tell us that. And Experience, what we have gone through in our lives is important in finding what God has Shaped us to do.

"Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted." Yes, God has a plan for our life and it just takes some seeking through prayer, through meditating on and reading the Bible, spending time with Godly people and asking them what they see in us and then seeking through quality time with God's Spirit what our Shape really is. And don't forget to really think about your experiences, the good and bad. Yes, David wanted to built the Temple but he was a warrior and his experiences made him a great writer of the Psalms.

Now in whatever we do, who gets the credit? Of course, God does. He is the one who shaped us and who is the one with a plan and he is the one who sent his son to die for us, to save us. And he is also the one for sure that we do whatever we do. "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good." He does it all through us and he gets the credit.

And also verse 2 (AMP) says, "It is vain for you to rise early, to retire late, to eat bread of anxious labors - for He gives [blessings] to His beloved even in his sleep." He wants to do life through us. 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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