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Friday... Maybe you need this today.


Psalm 84:12 (AMP), "O LORD of hosts, how blessed and greatly favored is the man who trusts in You [believing in You, and committing himself to You with confident hope and expectations]."

Friday... Maybe you need this today.

I strive through God's Spirit prodding me to share from God's Word a positive, encouraging thought for someone who needs it each day. Yes God's starts with what I need and then I share it with you.

Look at Psalm 84:12. Do you need this today? God says through the Psalmist, "O LORD of hosts, how blessed and greatly favored is the man who trusts in You [believing in You, and committing himself to You with confident hope and expectations]." Now another way to say man is human. That covers us all, doesn't it? But he narrows it some when he writes, "how blessed and greatly favored is the man who trusts in You [believing in You, and committing himself to You with confident hope and expectations."


Yes, that defines who is blessed and greatly favored. And that is not true of every one but it may be true of you. I know it is of me. Now it is true if we have put our trust in the LORD of hosts. There is only One who is the LORD of hosts. Verse 11 says, "The LORD God."

Back to verse 12, "O LORD of hosts, how blessed and greatly favored is the man who trusts in You [believing in You, and committing himself to You with confident hope and expectations]."

It says blessed, greatly favored if we trust in the LORD God, believing in Him, committing yourself to Him with confident hope and expectations. Yes we will be blessed and greatly favored.

Do you need to be blessed and great favored today? I mean life can be rough and we may really need to be blessed and be greatly favored. Well we may need to be reminded today that we are blessed and greatly favored if we trust in the LORD God, believing in Him, committing yourself to Him with confident hope and expectations.

Here is another reminder. Proverbs 24:3 says, "Through [skillful and godly] wisdom a house [a life, a home, a family] is built, and by understanding it is established [on a sound and good foundation, and by knowledge its rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches."

Another reminder, spend time each day by connecting with God through prayer and reading the Bible. That is where skillful and godly wisdom comes from and where we establish a sound and good foundation.

Verse 14 says, "Know that [skillful and godly] wisdom is [so very good] for your life and soul; if you find wisdom, then there is a future and a reward, and your hope and expectation will not be cut off."

And Psalm 84:11 says, "For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD bestows grace and favor and honor; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly."

I hope that this has been an encouragement to you. But also remember, I am just the middleman. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


 


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