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| Dear Elyon,
On the radio playing a few nights ago, I heard a preacher expressing the idea that when we wait for You we develop a Spirit of repentance. The next day, I prayed to You to show me if it was true and I came upon Hosea 12:6 "Therefore, return to your God (repentance) , Observe kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually. I praise You Lord for giving me this gift in Your Word so that I knew if I did not wait I could not have a spirit of repentance and it is precisely these things, a broken and contrite heart, that please You. I see Lord that the most important thing any one can do is to wait in Your presence...not to speak aimlessly giving our lists of legalistic jargon, but simply to wait and listen, to be still and know that You are God. Until we are refined and humbled by Your presence, our human words and notions are of no value. Though You in Your grace restore us instantaneously when we come to You in total submission. When we wait for You, I notice that some things happen:
1. we have a high view of You (as my dad always speaks of)...we see a glimpse of the extent of Your greatness, majesty, glory, and holiness
2. we see how worthless we are in comparison to You...we are humbled and brought to a state of Godly sorrow that leads us to repent of the things You direct us to. We see the ways in which we have sought our own glory rather than Yours, the ways in which we have been utterly selfish, the ways in which we have been setting our hearts and minds on earthly things rather than on Your truths from above
3. it sometimes becomes revealed to us by Your Spirit actions we must take to further Your kingdom...strongholds we must give up, people we must show love to and speak Your truth to
4. we are filled with Your love and forgiveness and are better able to love and forgive others...we know have the power to be humble and there is great power in humility for in it is encompassed freedom from selfishness and slavery to our sinful desires that wage war against our souls
Lord, forgive me for doing everything other than waiting for You. Father, give me the gift of grace to wait for You each day and continually surrender to You so that I may do Your will and be led by Your Spirit. It is only because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ that I may enter Your presence. This presence is so priceless now not only because by Christ we are not destroyed when we enter it, but because it is a refining fire that circumcises our heart, minds, and souls, that we may love You with all of them.
In the name of Jesus Christ,
Amen
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| Dear Elyon, I praise You for being worthy of keeping our wills safely in Your hands. Not only must we give You our wills to escape judgment and fire and to obey Your command to deny ourselves, but when we have given You our will, we no longer bear the agony of our own evil desires that wage war against our souls and bring our spirits to the brink of death. I praise You for constantly having Your hands open for me to put my wretched will into whenever I accept Your grace to do so. Give all of Your elect strength in the continuous surrender of their wills. We cannot do it on our own. On our own we are filled with selfish ambition and conceit; when we try to surrender our will, we stumble and fall, but when we humble ourselves and be still before You without using our own human efforts, You release us from ourselves and bring us into sweet fellowship with You...into freedom from self and evil desires and mindsets. Jesus, please change my heart so that I will surrender to You every moment of the day. Thank you for what You are doing in us all. Please bless Kaylen with the joy of Your presence. Thank you for Joanna and her sweet nature which seeks peace and harmony. May it be only Your peace that she ever promotes. Bless Anna Faith to remain steadfast and strong in Your truth. Help us all to pray! With Your love, sincerity, boldness in Your power, humility, and faith delivered to us we will hide under Your reigning truth forever. Save us always from SELF. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen | | |
| Lord,
I praise You for making us to be unified in Your Spirit with Christ as the Head. I pray that You would put it in the heart of someone to pray for me in these two things:
1. fatigue: I have been physically fatigued since arriving from India and has been hindering me many a time.
2. abiding: apart from abiding in Christ, I can bear no fruit and can do nothing..give me grace, Jesus, so that I can abide in You constantly.
Thank you.
In Jesus Christ's Saving Constant Name,
Amen
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| Psalm 119:45:
45 I will walk about in freedom,
for I have sought out your precepts.
Then after seeking God's law, we receive joy from obeying it, but
because we CHOOSE to obey, it is not forced. It is our free will. In
this way of choosing to obey, we are joyful in the freedom of Christ.
That is what Elizabeth was saying yesterday. The tree of knowledge of
good and evil was present in the Garden of Eden to instill freedom in
the joy Adam and Eve had with God before the fall. If the tree was not
there, there was no choice...there was no freedom. IT INNATELY HAD TO
BE THERE FOR TRUE FREEDOM. Thanks be to our Lord who has given us
everything we need for Godliness and Holiness that we may continuously
perfect holiness out of reverence for Him. | | |
| Dear Elyon,
I praise You for all those truths You keep on teaching me. Your Word brings life and joy to all who hear it, believe it, and obey it through Your Spirit in Jesus Christ. If we keep on sinning after having received knowledge of Your truth, no sacrifice for sin is left but only a fearful expectation of Your judgment and the raging fear that will consume Your enemies. Help us not to deceive ourselves, but to be doers of Your Word as well as hearers. Thank you for rescuing us from our bodies of sin and death and for letting us abide in You while in the next moment we are apt to live by our sinful nature. Keep showing us Your grace and mercy as we intend to show Your mercy to others. Help us not only to forgive others, but to possess such humility that we do not consider to have been wronged because we know our frailty without You. Your servant Solomon said that it is to one's glory to overlook an offense. Help us to be self-controlled and alert because our enemy prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Help us to resist him standing firm in the faith knowing that our brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of suffering. You are the God of all grace who has called us into Your eternal glory in Christ. After we have suffered for a little while, You will restore us to Yourself and make us strong, firm, and steadfast. I falter at the sight our my own weakness, but You are making me strong. Please help Divya's teacher in a coma from a bridge collapse injury. Help her and her child to be wrapped in Your Spirit through Christ because of Your love and grace. Thank you for Rebekah and Elizabeth. Give my dad Your compassion that he may have Your Spiritual fire. Give me wisdom and power in dealing with IV. Thank you for Pastor Lafollette and Pastor Anderstrom. Help them to be with You more. Protect the Ross's by the power of Your name. Send Your comfort and healing to Jeun and Karen. Thank you for being our heavenly Father. Please make me holy as You are holy.
In Jesus Christ's Name,
Amen
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