Today is just one day, what could possibly happen in one day? What difference could one day make? This isn’t Christmas Day, this isn’t New Years Day, today seems to be just an ordinary Thursday in a busy week where we’re all preparing for Christmas. One day that seems insignificant and ordinary, but what is this one day?



In the hands of God, today could change everything.



Today will certainly pass quickly. It will come and it will go, and you will either do the things you said you were going to do, or you won’t. You’ll either live it well or you will sit it out. The danger is in our assumption that today doesn’t really matter and that tomorrow will always come.



But do you realized there are 1,000 years of heaven’s power wrapped up in this one single day of your life? 2 Peter 3:8 “But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.”



Who wrote this? The Aposotle Peter. Yes, the friend of Jesus who miraculously walked on water with him. I bet Peter woke up on that day thinking it was a totally normal day, and yet that day was the day he did the impossible with Jesus. Peter couldn’t have walked on that water if he would have practiced for a thousand years, and God just made it happen one day.



Now Peter says, DON’T FORGET THAT’S WHAT GOD CAN DO. It’s not only what he can do, but it’s precisely what he DOES. God does in 1 day what you couldn’t do in a thousand years. If you’ve forgotten that, you’re feeling hopeless. If you’ve forgotten that you’re feeling stuck. If you’ve forgotten that, your future has grown dark. It’s time to REMEMBER it now.



So here, in this single day of life you have been offered, God has the power to do what you couldn’t do in 1,000 years. 1,000 years of planning, work, divine timing and details have all gone into this one single day of life you woke up to today. And here you felt like it was all just ordinary.



Have you ever noticed when scripture starts with “One day …”, a remarkable story is about to unfold. “One day” signifies importance and distinction.



It was “One day” in Luke 5 that Jesus is standing by a lake teaching, and he asks to get in the boat with Peter (yes, the same Peter who told us to remember what can happen in one day with God.). On that one day, Jesus asks to get in his boat and what happened next would change the trajectory of Peters’s life and countless others. Peter became a disciple of Jesus that day and it happened on an ordinary day where he was out fishing. It was “one day”.



Luke 8:22 “One day Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Let us go over to the other side of the lake.’ So they got into a boat and set out. As they sailed, he fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger.” And this was the day they saw Jesus command the wind and the waves and they obeyed. This was the day they realized even the storms of life were under the command of Jesus. It happened “one day”.



Acts 3:1-8 “One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer. A man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money. Then Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” Taking him by the right hand,