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Tuesday... That is a very good idea, but!


Psalm 61:1-2 (NLT), "O God, listen to my cry! Hear my prayer. From the ends of the earth I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed."

Tuesday... That is a very good idea, but!

Yes, David knew what to do when he was overwhelmed.

He writes in Psalm 61:1-2 (NLT), "O God, listen to my cry! Hear my prayer. From the ends of the earth I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed."

Now Jesus also had something to say about this. Over in Mark 11 it says that the day after what we call Palm Sunday, Jesus and his disciples were headed back into Jerusalem and it says in 12b, "Jesus was hungry," and he saw a fig tree out ahead but there were only leaves on it and no figs so he said, "May no one eat your fruit again!"

Now the next morning as they passed the fig tree, they noticed that it had withered from the roots up and that brought up a conversation and in verse 24 Jesus says, "I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you have received it, it will be yours." Yes, prayer is powerful. As David said, "O God, listen to my cry! Hear my prayer... I cry to you for help when my heart is overwhelmed." But Jesus didn't stop there.

In verse 25 he says, "But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father will forgive your sins too." Yes, there are a lot of grudges going around in the Christian world.


Now verses 22-23 says, "Then Jesus said to the disciples, 'Have faith in God. I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, '"May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,"' and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you have received it, it will be yours." Verse 25 starts with a but, "But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father will forgive your sins too."

Remember what happened with the fig tree when it didn't have what Jesus needed? Let's take care of the grudges in our life. God has a problem with them and then "you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you have received it, it will be yours." So let's do our part and know that God will do his. Just a thought during our overwhelming times! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning.

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