July 24, 2012 - Asking For Help!

I love reading the Word of God. I know each of us has our favorite authors for various reasons, as do I. But God's word is filled with such HOPE. Just reading this Psalm communicates so much - God is our helper, God gives food to the hungry, the Lord frees prisoners......ON and ON and ON. On our journey sometimes we can become self-absorbed. I hated the way I looked; I hated that I had no self-control and I was consumed with me and desperate I was. While I had convinced myself that God could heal this food addiction "if he wanted to" - which he always did - I often forgot to PRAISE him for just WHO HE IS and not what he could do for me. God never opened my mouth and inserted the food, nor did He consume thousands of calories daily "on my behalf." I did that and it became a huge distraction. Let's get off that stand and stay off! This Psalm begins with PRAISE.....let's begin there today! Let's not put our confidence in powerful people, but in a God who always keeps His promises. And, let's thank him that he sees our day and let's ask for Godly wisdom in EVERY AREA of our life. His word declares that if we ask for wisdom - he gives it. SOOOOO......have you ask today? I have. And God will honor his word. Tomorrow, before our feet hit the ground let's ask for wisdom AGAIN and then follow the plan of the Lord. Much love, PK Psalm 146 1 Praise the LORD! Let all that I am praise the LORD.2 I will praise the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.3 Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there.4 When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them.5 But joyful are those who have the God of Israelt as their helper, whose hope is in the LORD their God.6 He made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He keeps every promise forever.7 He gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are weighed down.