Friday... It makes such a difference if we remember the good news.

Psalm 39:2 (NLT), "But as I stood there in silence - not even speaking of good things - the turmoil grew worse."

Friday... It makes such a difference if we remember the good news.

Remembering the good stuff in our lives will have such an impact in our lives.

David says in Psalm 39:2-3 (NLT), "But as I stood there in silence - not even speaking of good things - the turmoil grew worse. The more I thought about it, the hotter I got, igniting a fire of words." Yes, spending time remembering something bad that has happened and is happening in our lives can ignite a fire of words. And that is what the evil one wants us to do. He wants us to get hotter in our emotions and then we blow up. But what if David would have remembered and spoken of the good things in his life.

I also read in Luke 24 of the women going to the tomb the Sunday morning after Jesus death. They were taking spices that they had prepared for his dead body. They saw him crucified on the cross and then taken to this tomb but they found two men instead.

Verses 5-6a says, "The woman were terrified and bowed down with their faces to the ground. Then the men asked, 'Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is alive? He isn't here! He is risen from the dead! Remember what he told you back in Galilee." And over and over Jesus' followers didn't remember what Jesus had said that he was going to be resurrected on the third day after his death, They were deep in the emotions of his death and weren't looking for him because all they remembered was that he died. Too many times we forget the good stuff and live in the bad. We do that with life and we do that with people.

Yes, we do that in so many ways. We live remembering the bad stuff and not remembering and speaking of the good things. That is what get us in trouble.

Psalm 39:4 says, "Lord, remind me."

What do you wake up each morning thinking about? The followers of Christ, the disciples woke up feeling the deep emotional loss of the dead Jesus instead getting up to look for the alive Jesus. And as you read on in Luke 24 you see that when Jesus did reveal himself they had trouble believe it was him. He had to prove it was him. But he had told them many times that he was going to be resurrected on the third day. All they heard was that he was going to die.

Satan is in the defeating business and he keeps telling us all the bad stuff and we usually say what David said in verse 7, "And so, Lord, where do I put my hope?" But if all we see is the bad in people, the bad in life then that is our response. "Where do I put my hope?" But David doesn't stop there. He finishes this verse by saying, "My only hope is in you." And that will make such a difference in our life.

Yes, people fail us but we don't live there. We look for the good. "But as I stood there in silence - not even speaking of good things - the turmoil grew worse." Start looking for the good, look for something to praise. Yes, that will make such a difference if we remember the good in them, in our life and put our hope in the Lord. Maybe we need to do some forgetting and forgiving the bad and remembering the good.

Yes, it makes such difference when we remember the good news. 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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