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Psalm 139:18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.
We can never really understand just how much God loves us or how much He thinks of us, but the psalmist tries to give us a bit of an insight.
If we try to count the number of thoughts God has of us they would far outnumber the grains of sand on a beach.
Whilst that may sound like a bit of a dream, no matter whether we are awake or asleep, God continues to be with us. No thought is too great for Him. No dream too high for Him.
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Psalm 16:8 I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.
We don’t often think about keeping the right person at our right hand anymore like they did back when this was written; but we do think of keeping the right people in our lives still.
If we are willing to keep God in our lives at all times, we are guaranteed of keeping the right person in our lives; He wants to be able to guide us and keep us continually.
Setting God before us should simply mean keeping our eyes on Him and His ways at all times.
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Psalm 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And He delights in his way.
God is more than willing to lead us every step we are willing to allow Him to lead us; but we have issues with giving other people control of our lives!
I have tried to give God as much control of my life lately but I have found it very difficult.
Listening to God amongst the clamour of the world is hard. Obeying God even when we are convinced He may have made a mistake is a challenge.
Trusting God and having faith He knows what you want is something we need to aspire to!
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Jeremiah 10:23 O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
No matter how much we think we are in total control of everything in our lives, God is the one who is guiding and placing our feet in the right places!
It is not what we do physically that always dictates which way we go but the spiritual side who may well change the universe right here and right now!
God is trying to dictate every step we take, but each step can be protected and encouraged through Christ!
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Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
If we were to trust in God as much as we could trust in any person, then we would fall short of the mark!
God wants us to trust in Him further and beyond anything we can trust in on earth because our version of faith or trust falls short of God’s definition of it.
God’s understanding is far and beyond anything we can grasp in our minds or even in our hearts.
These words are meant to inspire us to look for more in our relationship with God than we can understand with anyone on earth!
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John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
One of the most amazing things is the fact God has chosen each one of us to be the way we are. Yes, we have got a choice as to how we react to things in our lives, but God has pointed us on each of our unique journeys.
We may struggle to understand how someone can give up everything for someone else until we find out how special love is; but when someone gives up their lives for every bad person in this world, that amazes me.
God is special and so are each one of us!
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Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
It’s not just that Christ said He loved us or the fact He died for us. It is because this all happened before we even knew Him properly.
He has known us from the beginning and even though He knew how we would act in our lives, He still went ahead and gave His life for us!
I know I struggle with doing things for people when I know they are going to be rude, unkind or disrespectful toward me; but Christ still stepped forward in pure love.
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John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
My first memory of this verse was learning it for confirmation classes when I was young; but the real treasure held in the verse only came to me when I was a few years older.
This is God’s one and only Son who was willingly given for us; that is how much God loves us and cares for us.
Being willing to give your own life for others is something easier said than done. Jesus had time to sit and think about what He was doing; it was not a spur of the moment reaction.
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Psalm 12:6 The words of the Lord are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, Purified seven times.
Have you ever tried to purify or change something by applying heat to it? Simple things like making jam or fudge rely on a lot of heat being applied at the right amount to change the food being cooked.
Too much heat and the food will get burned. Too little heat and it will not change into what you are trying to make.
God has supplied us with just the right amount in our Bibles for us to get to know Him in the right way. Not too much that we get drowned in details and not too little that we lose sight of Him.
Think about how He could do that for the same words to be just right for so many people all around the world…
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Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
When someone says the Word of God is without error, how can we believe them knowing that the Bible was written by people?
The answer is that the words may well be penned by people but the inspiration came from God.
God is the one who will look after us, not God’s Word. You cannot expect God’s word to fill the place of God, but we can expect God to back up His word.
Through His power and grace we expect our faith to be rewarded and fulfilled.
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Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honour Me with their lips, But have removed their hearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,
Honouring God means a whole lot more than just telling others you love God or just going to church faithfully or even giving all your money to the poor and needy.
Honouring God is all about being in a proper and meaningful relationship with God.
God wants us to be honest with ourselves and with Him. He knows our thoughts and our feelings so pretending with anything else is only fooling ourselves.
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James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
A tree is so much more than the show of branches, leaves and even flowers it displays above ground!
In order for that tree to survive it has to put down some pretty awesome roots to bring up the goodness and minerals required to survive and expand.
In order for us to show our compassion and kindness God would have us display, we have to send our roots deep down in the goodness, mercy and trust He lays down for us.
Our roots may be humble in comparison to what comes out the top, but those humble beginnings will allow great trees of faith to grow which will encourage others!
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Psalm 32:9 Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you.
Being stubborn and not accepting God’s ways just because the world says so is not wise. We do not have to be controlled by the world or by mankind, we are free to choose to follow Christ and His ways.
The world continue to try and dictate how we should live our lives and governments try to control people to make their jobs easier or more profitable; we do not have to follow those ways.
God instructs us to keep the law and follow His ways because He knows His ways are best for us all. We do have a choice.
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Ephesians 2:3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
No matter how perfect we think we are there are always things which we can find wrong with ourselves or with others.
We were probably blissfully unaware we were that bad before God opened our eyes to how much we were doing things wrong; we may well have been simply doing what we thought was right at the time, but that did not make it right!
The most amazing thing to me is that God continues to love us even after we have messed things up good and proper!
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Ephesians 2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience
Who is it that makes you do things wrong? Who is it that gets you to break the rules and sin against God? Who do you blame?
The first person who pops into my head when someone asks this is Satan because he is the master of all things evil and of all temptations in this world.
We are actually to blame. We are the ones who choose to do wrong and choose to break the rules. He is the one who knows all the tricks of the trade to get you to ignore the rules.
He no longer has power over you. You can break free. You are free.
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Ephesians 2:1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
When we accept Christ as our Lord and Saviour we are accepting Him as our forgiver and guide to a new life.
He has changed the rules, changed the outcome and given us true hope in a world which has broken us and shoved us out the door.
We walk away from God without realising it and we walk in the ways of the world because everybody around us seems to be doing the same.
We do have a choice and we do need to make a conscious decision to change our ways back to God’s ways.
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Proverbs 21:8 The way of a guilty man is perverse; But as for the pure, his work is right.
Have you ever wondered how some people can live with themselves after seeing just how wicked or guilty they are?
I do find it difficult to imagine how some people can accept the way they live or act and find it difficult to see how they can remain oblivious to other people’s feelings and needs.
But when we are willing to accept God’s rules and laws and act accordingly, our ways are also righteous.
God does want us to be good example and honest and upright people; this will give us the best chance of living a life which will bless others instead of cursing them.
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Isaiah 55:8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
Thoughts are a part of life; there is nothing abnormal about having thoughts and working them through your mind.
But each one of us is very different and our thoughts and the way we think are very different to each other’s. Trying to think like someone else is almost impossible.
God’s thoughts run so much deeper and further than anything we can or do think.
Now think of God’s ways being as different as our thoughts are to anyone else’s thoughts…
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Psalm 139:17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
What makes something precious? Probably the fact it is of limited availability or hard to get. So what makes God’s thoughts for us precious?
We cannot hope to understand His thoughts for us and we cannot hope to wonder why He should be thinking of us; but He does.
The following verse describes the number of them as being greater than the number of grains of sand.
God is truly amazing and full of love!
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Psalm 139:14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvellous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
One of the things I found as a youngster was knowing there must be something or someone out there who is in control of things because nobody around me seemed to see the big picture and know enough.
Somehow we know there is a God even before we get to know Him. We know we have something to look forward to even before we get to know Him.
When we do get to know Christ we then begin to understand how much He loves us through seeing how much He is responsible for in our lives.