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A thought by Steven Furtick from his book, Seven-Mile Miracle: Journey into the Presence of God Through the Last Words of Jesus (p. 56). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) How about you, what kind of day are looking at today?   Oh you may have blown it yesterday, you messed up and you are starting this day with a lot of guilt.   You don’t have a lot of hope because you believe that you are also going to mess up today. Steven says, “Isn’t that what the mercies of the Lord are for us? They are new every morning, new every twenty-four hours.” He goes on, “Every day when we wake up, we can remind ourselves that God’s compassion will not fail. His mercies are renewed with the rising of the sun. “Need some deliverance today? Need a reminder that God has forgiven and saved you?” Steven then says, “You’ve got a new twenty-four. God in heaven remembers you.” And he has created this day for you because

A thought by Steven Furtick from his book, Seven-Mile Miracle: Journey into the Presence of God Through the Last Words of Jesus   (p. 52). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) If you remember seeing a picture of the three crosses in the story of Calvary, you remember that Jesus was on the middle cross and two thieves were on both sides of him and one of them repented and ask for Jesus to remember him.  (Jesus, remember me.) Steven says, “Jesus told a story about a widow who had been treated unfairly by someone else. (Luke 18:1-8)   She kept bothering a judge about granting her justice. I picture one of the many conversations between the two of them going something like this: WIDOW: Remember me, Judge? JUDGE: All too well. WIDOW: You haven’t done anything about my case yet. JUDGE: I’m busy. I’ll get to it. WIDOW: Why not now? My adversary was in the wrong. I need justice! JUDGE: I’ve got better things to do

A thought by Steven Furtick from his book, Seven-Mile Miracle: Journey into the Presence of God Through the Last Words of Jesus (p. 40). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Yes, he does.   Steven says, “Like one of the criminals who occupied a cross beside Jesus, we can remain hostile toward God to the end. Or like the other criminal, we can turn to Jesus for mercy. The difference in the outcomes between those two possible choices is as extreme as it could possibly be.” He goes on, “Despite Jesus’s incredibly merciful prayer for the Father to forgive those responsible for his murder, there was a strange outbreak of malice shortly after he was crucified. It was as if God had taken the leash off the wild dogs, and now the devil had set them barking around the cross. That’s the thanks Jesus got for understanding these people’s ignorance and asking the Father to forgive them. “Jesus faced a lot of moc