Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Good morning. Good morning. How are you on this fine, fine, beautiful day? I hope you're having a great day today, and I hope you're excited today, as I am.
[00:00:11] Today is a day that the Lord hath made. We will be glad. We will rejoice in it. Rejoice, be happy, be blessed. In every moment that you have, it's a miracle that we're alive, that you're walking, that you're healthy. Every moment that you have under the sun, be thankful, be happy, continually. Give God that sacrifice of praise. Last night was a celebration, and I'm not really celebrating this morning, but I hope you're having a great day, and I hope you're, you know, just thankful for the things that God's given and then thankful and recognize how much God's in your life. And yeah, man, he's a good God. I want to start in Psalms, chapter 145, verse 8. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. And that's that act of compassion. Slow to anger and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies, that loving compassion are over all his works.
[00:01:08] God loves everyone, regardless of whether or not you believe Him. Believe in him. And that love is unconditional. And he's full of compassion, and he's full of grace. Grace, which is that. That loving disposition. I mean, we're set in a place of undeserved favor.
[00:01:25] What God's given us the gift of eternal life, the gift of sonship. Like, you can't pay for that stuff. You can't do what Christ Jesus did, which is walk perfectly in life and then die for us. That we can live like this.
[00:01:41] And our God is gracious and compassionate, ready to forgive, everlasting. And I just. I love the idea of when you look upon him, he radiates your face. Your face just lights up.
[00:01:57] Look upon him. Verse 16. Thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. And it talks about this with the birds and everything else. The birds. He totally takes care of his creation. There is nothing more beautiful. If you look at a flower, any. Any flower. Look. Look at the color. My mom was an art director and would explain, would just like kind of show us the color combinations and flowers or trees or even when it starts getting dark at night, the way the sun and the reflection and it's just off the water, it's just beautiful.
[00:02:35] He's everlasting. He's everywhere in our lives.
[00:02:40] And he. He takes care of everything and everyone. And he's certainly going to take care of you.
[00:02:46] Verse 17. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works. He sets forth the laws which really, when you read them, they're kind of pretty, they're not that bad. But when you read them, knowing that, like, his ways help us, it's not to get you, it's not to condemn you. His son, Christ Jesus came not to judge the world, but. But to free him up, to save us.
[00:03:17] And it's just. I love that he's righteous in all of his ways. He takes care of everything. He's gracious, he's compassionate. Verse 18. The Lord is nigh or close or hears them all that call upon him. And there's a verse in here, I think it's. I actually think I have it written or like bookmark or whatever that talks about how when you call upon God, he will respond.
[00:03:41] He's going to respond in your life. Sometimes it's not on your timeframe, I can tell you that, but he's going to respond to your needs. He's going to respond to the things that you pray for.
[00:03:52] Verse 19. He will fulfill the desires of them that fear or have reverential awe towards him. He also will hear their cry and will save them. The Lord preserveth all them that love him.
[00:04:07] He's going to hear your cry. And it just kind of hit me. I'd say, like within the last week that it's. It's ever like, he's not going to get tired.
[00:04:16] And I love that his thoughts are infinitely diversified.
[00:04:20] It can go in any direction, infinitely. Anything that you're going through in life, God can satisfy and satiate and help you.
[00:04:29] Just look towards him and watch your face light up. And it's also true in life, I think if you walk with that spirit and you want and you walk with that confidence, knowing who God is, people respond to that.
[00:04:43] It's impossible not to, because God's love just fills you up. And don't forget that love when you're facing him and when you're towards him. That love cast out fear because fear hath torment. God is love. He. He talks about it in first John. And that love is in you and around you and surrounding you.
[00:05:05] He's there for you. If you jump over to Psalms chapter 100, you go to verse 5. It says, for the Lord is good. And I love that too, man. We could have a God that wasn't good, that wasn't full of compassion. The Lord is good. His mercy or his loving kindness and his grace is everlasting and. And his truth endureth to all generations.
[00:05:28] It's going to endure. This Word will endure past you, past me, past everyone.
[00:05:34] He will. We will be able to. At some point, we're going to be risen again and look back and you're just going to know and be thankful for the gift that God gave you. And you can. You can have that joy and that peace right now.
[00:05:49] You can. Once you start to trust God and believe God and go to God, and it starts with the little things, it's constantly going to God when you have a problem, constantly praying, knowing that he's going to take care of it, not wavering. You start doing that. You can live in the peaceful state right now. And I'm a testament to that. And the people that surround me know it.
[00:06:13] We have a big God, and he loves you so much, and he talks about that love.
[00:06:18] Have a beautiful day today. Pray the big prayers. Lift everything up in the name of Jesus Christ. When you pray, you pray to God. You lift it up in the name of Jesus Christ. Have a beautiful day. God bless you and your family. And I'll talk to you tomorrow.
[00:06:31] I want to hear it.
[00:06:35] I don't have the fear.
[00:06:40] Well, Heavenly Father, thank you so much for today. And I thank you for figuring out that tax stuff, even though I'm going to have to redo all of it. But I thank you for that. And again, I thank you for just the peace that you provide. I pray for each and every person we work with, all the contractors and the people that work within our businesses that you just take care of, each and every one of them. I thank you for the people you've surrounded me with. I'm very, very grateful for just how you answer all my prayers and how you answer the things that I don't even know I need. And I'm thankful for that. And, yeah, I just. I thank you for everything you do for us and especially for what your son did for us. I lift up a great day to you in the name of my Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.
