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

Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but...

Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but... We each one have our own way of explaining what we are going through, don't we? Some of us are maximisers, other are minimizers and neither one is better. We each one are different and we see what we are facing differently but no matter what it is and how you see it and describe it, God can handle it! Now the writer of Psalm 46 shows the extremes. In verse 1 he states the basic reality and then he moves on into our fears and he maximizes them to make sure we really understand. Here is what Psalm 46:1-3 (NLT) says, "God is our refuge and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble. So we will not fear when earthquakes come and the mountains crumble into the sea. Let the oceans roar and foam. Let the mountains tremble as the waters surge!" So what do you fear? The Amplified Bible says verse 1 this way, "God is our refuge and strength [mighty and impenetrable], a very presen...

Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do

Psalm 8:3-4 (NLT), "When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?" Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do. No, not the fact that I can go out my front door and look out at night at the marvels of the sky. I can do that and it is amazing and it takes my breath away each time I see it. Yes, that is a fact but the reality of who did that and the wisdom and the faith that I have to believe that and to marvel that the one who did that cares about me makes such a difference in how I live my life. Yes, God really does. That is so wonderful for us to believe. And that is why faith and wisdom are so important. Now whatever belief you have at how that marvel happened must also be believed through faith. And the sad thing to me is that more and more people have been taught that there is no God and therefore he did not have a h...

Wednesday... It didn't just happen.

Psalm 16;10 (NLT), "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave." Wednesday... It didn't just happen. We are headed into a weekend of deep emotion. One that we really really love was killed and it didn't just happen. David in Psalm 16:10 (NLT) writes of this happening. He says about God, "For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave." We read over in the Gospels at the beginning of the New Testament in the Bible of the life of God's Son who came to earth to be our sacrifice so that our soul would not be left among the dead. Jesus came so that we wouldn't have to be buried at death and just left there. But he also shares that Jesus who was going to be killed as a sacrifice for our sins would not have to rot in a grave. David many generations before foretold this and that is what happened. Now that had to be a God thing. We can guess a lot about our future and we d...

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