daily prayer

Great morning! How are we faithing? The significance of family cannot be understated. I don't know what your situation with yours is but everything does revolve around family. From youth up to now you have been influenced by family. Some good influence and some not so good. Being able to bicker and still love, to be put out yet still enjoy coffee with them, to sometimes not like but love are all normal. It so is this way with our savior. Once you believe, you are saved. You may screw up pretty badly but Jesus still loves you. I know some of you think that just doesn't seem enough to just believe, but it is. The Word doesn't say "earn" your salvation, it says to "work out" your salvation. The difference? Your eternity is set upon the believing. How you live with the rest of your life is how you work it out. Look, we all have our battles and none are new. The battles we rage against are the same ones the patriarchs battled against. The forces against God are the same ones around today that have been here since the garden of eden. The advantage we have is our savior's presence in our lives. In a family when you have ups and downs, at least in my family, we always seem to move on. Love doesn't falter. We may not like them for awhile but the love remains. That to me is a good example of "hate the sin and not the sinner". With family we do this without hesitation at times and yet with outsiders we hold that grudge. Doesn't seem logical does it. That person you hold that grudge against is in someones family and is experiencing exactly what you are. Think about that for awhile...

Prov 15:17-18
Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.
A hot-tempered man stirs up dissension,but a patient man calms a quarrel.
NIV

Prov 17:1
Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife. NIV

Rom 1:18-25
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.
NIV

Remember Diane and family...remember Darrel, MRI today...remember Marvin McKinney, stress test...remember Josh...

Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the family we have Blood or not we thank you for our families that enrich our lives. Lord we ask for wisdom when we are at odds with them. We ask for peace and understanding when they struggle. Thank you for watching over us and being available when we but ask. Lord, keep us ever mindful of your principles and help us learn quickly to be an example of your love. In Jesus name, amen