Today We Pray

Dear Lord, help me to kindle my fire this morning in the presence of Your Holy Spirit. Let that fire keep burning in my heart so that I can worship you truly in spirit and in truth. Increase our faith in You, Lord.

We know there is nothing that we have that we own and inherited. It’s all Yours, God. Help us to have open hands and heart for You to give and take as You please.

Thank You for Your Words where I can search and know the eternal life that You have given to us. Let us be inspired by it, and live with it, the total truth. Help us to preserve Your word so that every learning there will be applied in our lives.

 Amen.

Todays Godly Reminder - John 10:10

God came here on earth to give us eternal life. He wants us to enjoy this life that He had given to us. He wants us to have our life in abundance. Do not let the enemy steal, kill and destroy your God-given life. Rebuke him in the Mighty Name of Jesus!

Live life to the fullest. Enjoy the overflowing blessings that He has given. Do not make room for the enemy. He is like a thief who destroys and steals your life. Crush the enemy under your feet. Have that rich and satisfying life that only comes from the Lord.

The Daily Grace - Guidance Needed

We can all certainly identify with the need of guidance. In fact, Jesus addressed this very need during His Upper Room Discourse. He said that after His departure, the Holy Spirit would play a crucial role in the lives of believers. As part of that role, Jesus promised, "When He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth" (John 16:13).

What a marvelous provision! In a world of confusion and fear, guidance is often needed. We can easily be misdirected by the culture around us or by the brokenness within us (1 John 2:15-17). God's Spirit, however, is here to help, to direct, and to guide. How thankful we can be that the Spirit of truth has come to give us the guidance that we often so desperately need.

Set your course by His life, and you will reach safe harbor. The Spirit is a reliable guide in all of life's seas. Let Him guide you. We may be weak, but He is mighty. He will hold us always with His powerful hands.

Today We Pray

Dear Lord, grant me by the same Spirit to be guided in my work today, and in my every thought and deed and in everything I say. Let my decisions be wise and holy, and my ears open to Your wisdom. And let me always be open to change

Unstop my ears and soften my heart,. Help me learn Your way better and better every hour of this day. Guide me always to do Your holy will knowing that Your strength will carry me through.

Look into my heart and see my longing for peace. Watch over me, Lord. I know that You are always by my side.

Amen

Todays Godly Reminder - Romans 8:28

  

God has a purpose in everything that is happening in our lives. If we just love Him and invite Him into our hearts, He will make sure that whatever trials and pains that we will encounter, it will have great things that will lie ahead of it. 

As He promised in His Word, you will be victorious in the end in every battles that you will face everyday. God will turn our sorrow into joy, our mourning into dancing. Cling to His Word and promises, and put your trust in Him.

The Daily Grace - An Important Command

When asked to identify the most important rule in life, Jesus replied, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength" (Mark 12:30). In those words, Jesus summed up what God most desires from us. I wonder how I can possibly learn to love God with all my heart, soul and mind. Neal Plantinga remarks on a subtle change in this commandment as recorded in the New Testament. Deuteronomy charges us to love God with all our heart, soul and strength (Mark 6:5). Jesus added the word mind. Platinga explains, "You shall love God with everything you have and everything you are. Everything".

That helps us change our perspective. As we learn to love God with everything, we begin to see our difficulties as "our light and momentary troubles" - just as the apostle Paul described his grueling ordeals. He had in mind a "far more exceeding and eternal. . . glory" (2 Cor. 4:17). In the advanced school of prayer, where one loves God with the entire soul, doubts and struggles do not disappear, but their effect on us diminishes. "We love Him because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19), and our urgent questions recede as we learn to trust His ultimate goodness. The most treasured gift we can give to God is one that He can never force us to give - our love.

Today We Pray

Dear Lord, I will take refuge in Your loving heart. You are my strength in times of weakness. You are my comforter in times of sorrow.

We so often desire other things more than You. Forgive me for that. Kindle a flame in our hearts to love You.

Now all glory to God, who is able to keep me from falling away and will bring me with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault. All glory to him who alone is God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are his before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time.

Amen