Psalm 90:10 Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

When we are children, we see our parents as old and our grandparents as unbelievably old!

When we are grandparents, we see ourselves as normal and everyone else as really young.

When God sees us, we are the youngest of children who are only just starting out in the world...

No matter what age – He still loves us!

Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?

How often do you pray like this? Is this how Jesus taught the disciples to pray? No!

Christ wants us to acknowledge God and Him for who they are, to lift up our prayers with confidence and have to faith to wait for them to be answered.

God knows what state we are in – we must be honest with Him and ask for the things we really do need... and He will answer!

Numbers 14:8 If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.

When Joshua got up to try and convince people to stop doing things wrong, his argument was quite simple...

If God is pleased with us... good things will happen...

This doesn't mean He will let you win the lottery when you ask or when you are good... it means God will fulfil His promise to you to supply your needs!

Allow God to bless you and thereby encourage others!