WEDNESDAY, January 7th, 2009

Hey guys! Good to see you online again yesterday! Keep it up!

A Few Thoughts From Yesterday:
McCue!!!! Good to see you on here man! When are we going to hang out? How is school going?
Jake: yeah, those pretzels are delicious! Did you guys make them or buy them?
Jessica B: I will be praying for that Christian group after school... I thought that there already was a Christians group that you told me about?!?!
Michael: CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!! You were not first yesterday!! Wow! Go Bethany!! :)

Psalm 5

1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.
12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

This is a great passage about calling out to God even when you are surrounded by ungodly people. Verses 1-3 is Davids cry out to God... David says: HERE ME GOD!!! I will call out to you in the morning and I want you to hear my words!! That is powerful! The creator of the world, the most powerful being that exists is willing to hear our cry and LISTEN!!! Why dont we cry out to Him like we should?? We need to make prayer a priority... I know I am going through some struggles right now, and I have made Prayer more of a priority than I ever have before. I should pray like this all the time, not just when I need something!

As we continue reading: we see that verses 4-6 and 9-10 talk about the wicked man. These verses make it clear that GOD HATES SIN!!!! God HATES it!!! Because it severs our relationship with Him!! Think about it: God hates sin so much because it takes you away from Him!! We should hate sin too!!!

I love verse 11, let all those that put their trust in thee: REJOICE!!!! SHOUT FOR JOY!!!!! and LOVE THY NAME!!!!!

Lets do that today! Let's Rejoice, lets shout for Joy and lets love the name of the Lord by hating sin!!!!!

See you tonight!!!!