Wednesday... Yes, yes, this is so, so important to know.

Psalm 75:1 (NLT), "We thank you, O God! We give thanks because you are near. People everywhere tell of your wonderful deeds."

Wednesday... Yes, yes, this is so, so important to know.

When I was young we as a family lived in a small travel trailer. My father was a traveling evangelist so we all lived in a one bedroom trailer. We also lived in the car. We would be in a church holding services where my dad preached for 10 days and my sister and I would sing with our dad who also played the piano. And after the second Sunday night service, dad would hook the car up to the trailer and we would head out to the next church where we did it all again starting Wednesday through two Sundays. We as a family were always together. Our mom was also our teacher. We were together all of the time.

One time my mom was sick and in the hospital and my sister and I were staying with our uncle and aunt and I had trouble at night with mom and dad not close and my aunt came in and helped to comfort me. Dad and mom weren't close, weren't near and I was scared.

Now Psalm 75:1 (NLT) deals with this. It says, "We thank you, O God! We give thanks because you are near. People everywhere tell of your wonderful deeds." Yes, yes, this is so, so good. My Dad and mom are now in heaven but God is so near. He is always close.

Verse 3 says, "When the earth quakes and its people live in turmoil. I am the one who keeps its foundations firm." God said that to us.

Do you realize that? No matter what we are going through, "We thank you, O God! We give thanks because you are near."

I also read Luke 8 this morning and it tells of a time when the disciples were in a boat and a storm came up and they were afraid but Jesus was asleep in the boat, he was near.

Verses 23b-25 says, "The boat was filling with water, and they were in real danger. The disciples went and woke him up, shouting, 'Master, Master, we're going to drown!' When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and raging waves. Suddenly the storm stopped and all was calm. Then he asked them, 'Where is your faith?' The disciple were terrified and amazed. 'Who is this man?' they asked each other. 'When he gives a command, even the wind and waves obey him!."

Yes, it is so important to have God in our boat and to realize that he is near. Yes, it is so important for us to give him our life and to realize that he is in our boat, in our life.

Psalm 75:1 in the New International Reader's Version says, "God we praise you. We praise you because you are near to us. People talk about the wonderful things you have done."

I was reminded about this fact this morning because I spent time in the Bible. Yes, " People talk about the wonderful things you have done." Yes, God can also ask us, "Where is your faith?" Well, it comes from reading where, "People talk about the wonderful things you have done." Yes, we need to be reminded that God is near, don't we? Well, he is. He really is and we can thank him for that fact.

Oh and by the way, we can talk to him through prayer. Yes, this is so, so important to know. So give him your life and then tell someone that you did and then know that he is near. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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 ...

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...

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