Friday... We sometimes need a recharge.

Psalm 121:1-2 (NLT), "I look up to the mountains - does my help come from there? My help come from the Lord, who made heaven and earth."

Friday... We sometimes need a recharge.

I got up early this morning to recharge my EV car. It was at 20% which is when you need to find a place to give it an electric charge. And I have a place that doesn't cost as much before 8:00 am so I was there early.

Now in ourselves, sometimes we need a recharge in our spirits. Things can really drain us, they can get us down. We get to the point that we can't even look up, we have no energy.

I have different verses in the Bible that are rechargers for me. One is in Isaiah and it is about an Eagle. That one is so good. The picture of being lifted high and flying above our problems really is a recharger. Then there is another group over in Proverbs that is about trusting and being directed to a straight path. Yes getting off the path can give us trouble and we need some refocus, some recharging. And then today's verses are also rechargers for me, even everyday.

Psalm 121:1-2 (NLT) says, "I look up to the mountains - does my help come from there? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth." In my schedule of reading the Psalms I come to this Psalm every five months but I also know where it is when I need it and I also live daily by it.

Every morning I get up and go out with my Bible and Turner my dog and we set on a couch, I read three chapters in the Bible, pray and look out on some mountains that are right across the 215. That is such a lift.

First of all to look at the mountains we need to look up. We can look down if we are on top or if we are an eagle flying around but too many times life really does gets us down and we need to look up.

Now one of the key facts about mountains is that they are bigger than any problem we usually are facing. But the focus is not on the mountain. The verse asks an important question. It asks, "does my help come from there?" We can worship the creation instead of the creator. By itself it cannot help us in what we are facing, in what is bringing us down but the one who made them can so we need to get our attention in difficult times on the one who made those mountains. We need to be recharged.

Here is something that can help us. Verse 5a says, "The Lord himself watches over you!" Yes, you can look up to that mountain but the mountain also looks down on you. Another great picture of God.

Verses 7-8 says, "The Lord keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever." Let that fact also recharge you in your down times and give you confidence and peace at all times.

I love how The Message Paraphrase says verses 1-2, "I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains? No, my strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains." I love that, "and mountains." That lifts me up! That recharges me! 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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