Psalm 127:1-2\u00a0<\/b>\u2013\u00a0Unless the\u00a0Lord\u00a0builds\u00a0the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the\u00a0Lord\u00a0watches\u00a0over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.\u00a0 2\u00a0In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food\u00a0to eat\u2014for he grants sleep\u00a0to\u00a0those he loves.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cUnless the\u00a0Lord\u00a0builds\u00a0the house, the builders labor in vain.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Unless our plans originate in the mind of God it is like trying to predict the changing movements an ant in search of food.\u00a0 We should seek the will of God.\u00a0 We should not block or inhibit, but every day seek out the leading of the Holy Spirit of God.\u00a0 The Word of God brought alive in us by the Holy Spirit will guide our every step.\u00a0 As He changes our hearts and minds and purifies our souls, every move can be done with freedom and though a new God installed thought process.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Only the plans of God will stand and prosper.\u00a0 Plans without God are a weed that shoots up during the night and is plucked up the next day.\u00a0 It has no eternal value.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless the\u00a0Lord\u00a0watches\u00a0over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 We want security in our lives.\u00a0 We want to be safe and we want our loved ones to be safe.\u00a0 Change can be positive, or it can hurt or destroy.\u00a0 We try so hard to be safe and we meticulously plan, but unless our security is God, we have none.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food\u00a0to eat\u2026<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Education, talent and hard work amount to a house of leaves, the next wind determines its future unless our ultimate dependency is on God. If our dependency is on God and not ourselves, if it is God whom we rely upon, if it is God who told us to build a house of leaves, then even a house of leaves is impervious to the elements. God given talent, or education and hard work directed by God, will be a blessing to oneself and all whom one loves.\u00a0 We must remember that whatever we do without God is like trying to empty the ocean by scooping it out on our left side and tossing it into the ocean on our right side.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026for he grants sleep\u00a0to\u00a0those he loves.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Peaceful sleep is found only when peace if fully placed in the hands of God who has known the future from eternity past.\u00a0 Only He is the source for a peace that never fades, never fails and never leaves.\u00a0 True deep-down-in-the-soul-peace that cannot be overcome comes only from God.\u00a0 He gives it through Jesus His Son.\u00a0 Those whose trust is completely and solely in the Lord sleep well through the night because God is that person\u2019s eternal protector and provider.<\/p>\n
Praise God!<\/p>\n
Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n
Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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