daily prayer

     Great morning! How are we faithing? Such an interesting time of year. It can be daunting and it can be joyous. It also can be both. So did you accept the gift of salvation yesterday? Do you want to get on with it but are kinda stopped looking out the windshield trying to pick the right direction? Let me show you something that we've looked at before but I think your eyes will see more than before;

1 John 4

 ¹ Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. ² By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; ³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. ⁴ You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because  greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. ⁵They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. ⁶ We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

God Is Love

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. ⁸ The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹²No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. ¹³ By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. ¹⁴ We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God  abides in him, and he in God. ¹⁶ We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. ¹⁷ By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. ¹⁹ We love, because He first loved us.²⁰ If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.²¹ And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

  That chapter is so full of truths and concepts that are contrary to the worlds view. Retribution, revenge, pay back are all things love does not allow. Not because of a rule but because love conquers those things. True love from the heart may get hurt but wont want to "get em back" because it realizes how much what was done to itself hurt and wouldn't want it to happen to others. It is hard to stop and look for truth when one is hurt but the grace of God that we now enjoy will open our eyes if we look. We still sometimes revert but as soon as we realize that has taken place, this salvation has afforded us the right to confess directly to God and ask for wisdom and forgiveness. 

   The other concept we may never have considered is that something that seems right and good is worthless if it denies Christ. Remember that the enemy is a liar and a deceiver and will fool even the elect with crafty ideology and if we don't ask the right questions, we can be led astray. There's one way to God and it is his son Jesus. 

Remember Mary...remember Pam...remember Chris...

Heavenly Father,

   Thank you for the gift of your son that we celebrate. Grant us wisdom, courage and inspiration to act and speak as you have shown in your Word. Lord we do not wish to be misled but sometimes fall for stuff because it seems or feels good. Lord open the eyes of our hearts, we want to see Jesus. Lord we lift those mentioned and those not to you. Heal bodies, minds and spirits. Thank you in Jesus name, amen