Tuesday... We can really mess up, can't we?

Psalm 51:1 (NLT), "Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stains of my sins."

Tuesday... We can really mess up, can't we?

We can mess up with our families, with our spouses, with our kids, with our friends and for sure with God. King David the writer of this Psalm 51 did. He really messed up but then the prophet Nathan confronted him and after that confrontation, David wrote and prayed to God this Psalm.

And he starts it my saying what we need to pray and what he prayed. Verse 1 (NLT) says "Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stains of my sins." He goes on in verse 2, "Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin. For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night."

Is that true of you? Do you have something in your life that haunts you day and night? Well David did too and he did something about it.

Yes, God wants to wash you clean of that guilt in you. And he will if you ask him.

David says in verses 7 & 8, "Purify my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Oh, give me back my joy again; you have broken me - now let me rejoice."

Yes, we can go to counselors and get so much help and we all at different times need what they can give. They can do so much but they cannot forgive that which we have done.

David had killed a man so he could have his wife as his wife and in verse 14 he says, "Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves; then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness," We must confess our sins to God so he can forgive us. You can do that right now. What is it that is haunting you? Just confess it to God and ask him to forgive you.

Yes, we do mess up but God wants to forgive us if we would ask him. If you have a Bible, read and pray this Psalm. If you don't just go to the Internet and write in Psalm 51. Also just go back and pray the verses that I have put for you to pray.

Now verses 5 and 6 are so important for us to know. They say, "For I was born a sinner - yes, from the moment my mother conceived me. But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom from the womb." The Amplified Bible says verse 5 this way, "I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness; in sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful]."

It is so important for us to realize that all of us were born a sinner and we each one need to ask God for forgiveness.

Verses 9-11 (NLT) says, Don't keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt. Create in me a clean heart, O God, Renew a loyal, sprit within me. Do not banish me from your presence and don't take your Holy Spirit from me."

Yes, God's Holy Spirit wants to live in your heart, directing you and living through you. He does make all the difference. He really does. But he must create in you a clean heart for him to live in you. Just confess your sins and ask for his forgiveness and then ask him to come and live in your clean heart. Do it today. 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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