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

Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit?

Nehemiah 6:16b (NLT), "They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit? Over in the Old Testament in the book of Nehemiah it tells of a major task that through the leadership of Nehemiah was accomplished. The walls of Jerusalem had been torn down and God had laid it on Nehemiah to build those walls back up. It was definitely an almost impossible task but Nehemiah 6:15-16 says, "So on October 2 the wall was finished - just fifty-two days after we had begun. When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Now, we so many times want to take credit for doing the impossible. It would make such a difference for us. But I wonder what would happen through us if God got the credit? Psalm 96 tells us what we are to do. Verses 2-3 says, "Sing to the LORD; praise his name. ...

Thursday... Maybe we need this word today.

Psalm 57:1b (NIRV), "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Thursday... Maybe we need this word today. There are words in life that give us confidence no matter what we are facing. Now we have to believe them in order for them to have an impact. David wrote Psalm 57 while he was in a cave hiding from Saul who wanted to kill him and he says in the last part of verse 1, "There I will stay." It was a safe place and Saul didn't know that he was there. But he doesn't stop there. With confidence he said, "There I will stay until." And until is definitely a word of faith and confidence. "There I will stay until the danger is gone." Do we need that today? Let me give you the whole verse. In verse 1 David says, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." And that is a great place to start in times of trouble. Maybe that is what we need to pray today, "Have mercy on me, God. Have mercy on me." It is so great to have someone...

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

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