There is SO much we could talk about in today's Bible reading! I love Psalm 30! Verses 4-5:
4Sing to the Lord, O you saints of His, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.
5For His anger is but for a moment, but His favor is for a lifetime or in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
We are to sing to Him and give Him praise for Who HE is, but also for every good thing that He has done! In The Spoken Word Church we like to say: "For anything good in my life, I give GOD the credit, thanksgiving and praise! For anything bad, DON'T BLAME GOD"! He is such a GOOD GOD! His favor on our lives will last forever! Weeping (over tests, trials and tribulations) WILL come, BUT, the promise of God IS that joy (rejoicing and celebration!) WILL come in the morning, or early! Earlier than you think, IF you don't give up and quit! The result of this blessing is that we thank and praise Him more! Verse 12:
12To the end that my tongue and my heart and everything glorious within me may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.
AMEN! Then in Acts chapter 2 we see the disciples filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking in other tongues! What a wonderful gift in our lives, to be able to communicate with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit through our own Heavenly prayer language! It's a language that only THEY understand! Our minds don't know what we're saying, so we can't be distracted and doubt and fear cannot enter the picture! The devil cannot understand it, either! He can't read our minds. He only knows what we tell him! Praying in other tongues goes right over his head, and he can't do a thing about it, EXCEPT to try and get us NOT to do it! NOW you know better! We'll talk more about this as we continue to move through Acts!
Then in Genesis we see something very interesting! Remember back a couple of chapters when Abraham gave Lot the first choice in the land that he wanted? Lot looked at the very best land and chose that for himself. He then chose to live in the city of Sodom. Abraham let him choose first, then God gave Abraham all the rest! NOW see what has become of Lot! He's lost everything, including his wife. The lesson here is to ALWAYS put others first and God will honor and protect that which belongs to you! He even told Abraham what was happening and allowed Abraham to intercede on behalf of Lot. We truly DO have an incredibly awesome God! Hallelujah!
Shalom in Him!
