February 21, 2023
4:23 am
I think it’s the hardest thing to forgive myself when I mess up. I’ve made monthly budgets (I do every month), but especially in this season, sometimes things don’t go how I budget and I’ll admit that I would literally be saying that I should be better than this.
Yahweh. Early morning angst. I was actually singing “Watch Him Turn It” – Travis Greene when I remembered that this month I do not have all the funds to pay the loan. Forgive me for messing up. I pray for wisdom to do miracles with your finances because I cannot do this on my own. Help me to know what to do and how to do it.
I pray for guidance and deliverance, to not just pay off this month’s due soon balance, but to pay off the loan completely. Teach me Yahweh, how to live, so that I live in accordance to your will.
I pray also for the vehicle that is in serious need of servicing. You are the only one I can turn to. Please show me what to do. Thank you. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for being good. Thank you for every season, every day, every mountain and valet. Thank you for being God. I promise, this wasn’t how I intended to start this morning, but the truth is, I truly don’t desire to be shackled by finances for the rest of my life. Yahweh, I pray for your divine intervention to break these chains that bind. To relieve me from this bondage. Help me to honour you. I desire to honour you in my life – with my whole life, my finances. My work, my walk.
Yahweh, thank you for who you are. Thank you for your amazing love and your grace. I love you. I love you for being God. I love you for loving me and saving me. I love you because you are amazing and because you are worthy of everything that I have. Thank you Yahweh for who you are. Amen.
We all desire to do great things. No matter who we are. We read so much about Paul (was just reading the passage where Eutychus fell out the window) and it feels so normal for Paul to just pick him and declare that he is alive and restore him to life. This is usually the type of great things we desire in our Christian walk. But the truth is, we are all called differently. Maybe I’m not called to raise the dead, but to feed the living. I think the change we need to make is what we define as great.
We so often equate famous with great, wealth with great, popular with great that we forget the greatest man that ever lived wasn’t wealthy (he was/is famous though). While he was followed, he wasn’t always popular and the same crowd that followed him turned on a dime. I’m not saying that popularity or wealth are bad things, but I am saying that there is more to being great than that. Let Yahweh define what great things we are supposed to do.
Yahweh, what great thing am I do today?
To worship you in spirit and truth.
Psalm 95:3 – The Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods.
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Psalm 147:5 – Our Lord is great, and his power is great. There is no limit to his understanding.
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Lamentations 3:21-23 – “The reason I can still find hope is that I keep this one thing in mind: the Lord’s mercy. We were not completely wiped out. His compassion is never limited. It is new every morning. His faithfulness is great.
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Job 36:22 – “God does great things by his power. Is there any teacher like him?
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Jeremiah 10:6 – No one is like you, O Lord. You are great. Your name is powerful
Great: gadol: aloud, elder, exceedingly, far, man of great, high, mighty, noble (Psalm).
Great: rab: much, many, great, in abundance, enough, full, exceedingly (Lamentations)
Job 36:22 in other translations read:
KJV – Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
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NIV – “God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
The word used for great in the God’s Word translation is:
Great: sagab: to be (inaccessibly) high, lifted, be excellent, be too strong.
Psalm 119:96 – I have seen a limit to everything else, but your commandments have no limit.
