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Wednesday... Experience with God is such a blessing.


Psalm 126:4 (MSG), "And now, God, do it again - bring rains to our drought-stricken lives."

Wednesday... Experience with God is such a blessing.

Starting new can be so exciting but experience has its rewards, its blessings. Life has its tough days but experience knows about the good ones and it knows what to do to make them happen and to believe that they will come.

Here is what the writer of Psalm 126 says in verse 4 (MSG), "And now, God, do it again - bring rains to our drought-stricken lives."


Now experience helps us to understand that there are tough days in our lives. Verse 5 says, "So those who planted their crops in despair will shout 'Yes!' at the harvest." An experienced farmer knows that they need to buy seed, then plant the seed, water it, take care of the weeds that come to destroy the seed and then wait for the harvest. There is much hard work, there are tough days and there are days built on faith. That's what experience teaches us.

And the Psalmist knows where to turn. He writes, "And now, God, do it again - bring rains to our drought-stricken lives." Yes, we need God to be in our lives. There is definitely a part that God has in bringing the rain which is a key part in success. Also buying the seed, giving us the strength to do the work, giving us the know how to do the work and His taking care of the storms. Experience teach us that we need God. Yes, yes, we need God.

Verse 6 says, "So those who went off with heavy hearts will come home laughing with armloads of blessing." Now blessings means so much, not just harvest.

We have just gone through twelve difficult months but God was with us and supplied our needs. It is amazing how God worked it all out and this experience tells us that God is still working out what is ahead and yes, my prayer is "And now, God, do it again." If He can do what He just has done in bringing us through these last twelve months then he can do it again no matter what is ahead. The experience has taught us to trust and believe in Him and we can pray, "And now, God, do it again - bring rains to our drought-stricken lives."

The experience of the last twelve months has shown me that we are not alone. There is no way that we could have planned all of this out but it has given us faith that He will be there with us in whatever is ahead. Experience says that it probably will not be easy but we will not go through it alone and that there are blessings ahead. So we are planting our seeds and asking God to do it again, whatever it is. And experience says, He will! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning






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