Friday... There must be some resolve within us.

Psalms 18:46 (NLT), "The Lord lives! Praise to my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted!"

Friday... There must be some resolve within us.

Yes, when we are going through difficult times there must be something within us that keeps us going. That why I love reading the Psalms. David was going through some tough times when he wrote Psalms 18. Verse 46 is a resolve that kept him going. He writes, "The Lord lives! Praise to my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted!" And in our difficult times that fact is also a great resolve and we need to stop and meditate on that fact.

Now Luke wrote something Jesus said to his twelve disciples that if they had just listened to part of it they would have been shaken. And we do that so many times. Somebody says something that catches us by surprise and we only listen to a part of it. not the whole thing.

Here is what Jesus said to his twelve friends. Luke 9:21-22 says, "Jesus warned his disciples not to tell anyone who he was. 'The Son of Man must suffer many terrible things,' he said. "He will be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law.'" And if that wasn't enough, he says, "He will be killed." And that may have been all they heard. I mean, on this day, this Good Friday, the day that Jesus was crucified they were nowhere to be found.

Well, I remember when he said he was going to be killed. I didn't really believe it but it looks like we have been following a loser. Yes, he was unbelievable. I remember that day that he fed those 5,000 plus people with five loaves and two fish. That was something. And then all those people that he healed. And then that day that we went up on that mountain and that voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, my chosen One. Listen to Him." But here he has been killed. Well that is what he said. We should have believed him.

But that wasn't all that he said. Yes he said, "He will be killed" but he continued, "but on the third day he will be raised from the dead." Yes, that is also what he said but they didn't really hear that. And that can be so true of us when we are going through tough times.

Yes, this is Good Friday but they should have been celebrating not running away in despair and afraid. They should have been reminding each other of what he had also said, "but on the third day he will be raised from the dead."

That was a not something that they had resolved within themselves. Yes, he will be killed. That is apart of the story but it is not the end. The end is, "but on the third day he will be raised from the dead."

Even on Good Friday we need to celebrate what David said, "The Lord lives! Praise to my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted!" That is the Good News. Yes, that must be our resolve even in difficult times. Yes, Jesus sacrifices his life, but "The Lord lives!" And that is where our salvation comes from and that must be exalted.

Even in our difficult days, "The Lord lives! Praise to my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted!" 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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