When You Feel Like Giving Up
Are you struggling today? We’ve all been there. You can press forward no matter what!
In all 150 of the Psalms, the phrase I will was sung 140 times.
When Asaph was disillusioned with the circumstances in his life, he sang, “I will meditate on all Thy works…I will remember your deeds.”
When David was wondering if God heard his cries for help, he said, “I will come into your house; in reverence I will bow down.” And when he felt like he was being defeated, he sang “I will know that God is for me…I will not be afraid.”
The Psalmists didn’t say “I think” or “I feel” or “I should” it was “I Will.” Saying “I Will” is a determined course of action.
Today start your day with “I Will…”
You Have Confidence
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of him.” (First John 5:14-15).
The Bible assures us of the confidence we can have in praying.
A Teenage’s View of Heaven
This is a very moving story. It is about a 17 year old boy named Brian Moore who had only a short time to write something for a class. The subject was what Heaven was like. “I wowed ‘em,” he later told his father, Bruce. “It’s a killer. It’s the bomb. It’s the best thing I ever wrote..” It also was the last.
Right after Brian wrote it he was killed in a car accident.
The Moores framed a copy of Brian’s essay and hung it among the family portraits in the living room. “I think God used him to make a point. I think we were meant to find it and make something out of it,” Mrs. Moore said of the essay. She and her husband want to share their son’s vision of life after death. “I’m happy for Brian. I know he’s in heaven. I know I’ll see him.”
