In His Hands

In His Hands

Betty and I have had a very busy week. We are honored to serve our family and friends, along with our community. Always acknowledging this awesome group of people and your faithfulness to God.

I am not a good time manager. However my thoughts are almost always on God’s work. Listening, reading, praying for revelation and understanding.

I often think of the past while praying. Mostly my past and the awesome love and grace of God. At times it brings me great sorrow. The pain you feel when you realize you could have done better. Then that feeling turns into tears of joy when I begin to worship and praise the God who has forgotten my past, and moves me forward in His amazing purpose.

Micah 7:19 Message, “And compassion is on its way to us. You’ll stamp out our wrongdoing. You’ll sink our sins to the bottom of the ocean.”

In Prayer, when I began to write notes and research scriptures for this message a phrase came to mind. I stopped in my tracks, lifted my eyes towards the heavens and said, “Jesus, Were It Not For You”

“Can you think on that for a moment?”

Psalms 31:14-15

14 But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord, I say, “You are my God.”
15 My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.

Verse 15 says my times. It literally means, my days, hours, weeks, years. MY TIMES

The Message says, “Hour by hour I place my days in your hand, safe from the hands out to get me.”

“In His Hands”

Jesus said.

John 10:27-30

27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;

28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

30 I and the Father are one.”

“Do we really understand what this says?”

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them”= speaks of mutual recognition.

“They follow me, and I give them eternal life” = speaks of reciprocal activity.

“They shall not perish forever, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand” = this is an authoritative assurance, and its promise and justification.

“This stuff is awesome. What promises God has provided for us.”

“He knows us, He has given eternal life to us, and nobody can take us away from Him.”

Job said this in describing his cataclysmic loss of family and wealth.

Job 12:9-10

9 “Who among all these does not know That the hand of the Lord has done this,
10 In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind?

“Do we really understand the presence and power of God that keeps us, and empowers us.”

Isaiah 49:14-16

14 But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, And the Lord has forgotten me.”
15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.
16 “Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.

David shared this from Psalms 139.

Psalms 139:9-10

9 If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me.

Psalms 138:7

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me.

“The safety and power of the promises we have inherited as we live our lives, in His hands.”