daily prayer

   Good morning! How are we faithing?  Did you forget you are saved by grace? Did you forget that salvation isn't based on your screw ups or successes? Have you started to fall for the premise that you have to work at being holy to maintain that salvation? Do you think because of a screw up or two you now have to be saved again? All these ideas and feelings are from the loser of all that the Bible promises. Scripture is very specific about salvation and either it is right on or it all is a pack of lies. Jesus is the only way to salvation or he is a total liar and all we are doing is in vain. Anything we do or don't do has no impact on that said salvation once we have accepted the free gift offered. The scripture tells us we cannot be snatched from Gods hands so if that is true, you and I are secure in this salvation so with that being a settled issue, we press on with the other things God would has for us do. "I feel God has turned his back on me", no, you have lost sight . He is still right where he always has been. "I goofed up, how could he still love me?" because he said he would. Because he said he will. Your feelings of abandonment are not from God but a sense of guilt or simply the devil interjecting condemnation to render you ineffective and to push you into that state of depression. Don't read into that last statement. Clinical depression is very real and there are many reasons for it, injury, chemical, malnutrition etc. so recognize it for what it is. You need to be convinced of your salvation. You need to read the scriptures and speak them aloud so they are heard. Settle this once and for all so when it crops up again you have the faith based on truth to stand on and you are able to deal with whatever is taking place and not revisit an old issue that distracts from the present one. These are but a few of the verses we all need to remember when the enemy tries to steal our peace;

2 Peter 3:9

⁹ The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

Ephesians 2:8-9

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; ⁹ not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 1:13-14

¹³ In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.

Ephesians 2:10

¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

John 5:24

²⁴ “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

John 10:28-29
and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

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.

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Heavenly Father,

   Thank you for salvation and grace. Thank you that your Word sustains us. Thank you your scripture reveals truth. Lord we ask for4 such a steadfastness assurance of things already taught. Lord, we lift those hurting today. We ask for wisdom so we do not mislead or cause pain. Lord we love and honor you and in your name we pray, amen