daily prayer

Good morning! How are we faithing? Ok, my brain has been working overtime this week. From fire investigations to scriptures, from accident and fire scene evaluations to people I know suffering with all kinds of things. From having old Van Halen music playing note for note in my dreams thus waking up hearing them to thinking and praying for concerns I know about and those I don't. A realization and a perspective about what this salvation stuff is all about came about too. Here's the formulation of that realization; Jesus came to give us eternal life first. All those cool teachings are for us as acceptors of that gift to use for a plan for living. Those teachings are not for us to earn that trip to heaven. It's so simple that people have trouble accepting. People think "if I do this or that" I'll make it. Not true and the person who follows all the biblical rules can still miss the flight to heaven if they miss the simple gift Jesus is placing in your hands. I am so concerned for all of the people I meet as to whether they are aware of this. Don't make this harder than it is. I also see people searching and working so hard to find peace and happiness by all sorts of means. It's like the Van Halen songs I hear in my head, musically innovative in its time, melodic and the hooks just grab you but the lyrics...the lyrics man just make me sad when you put those up with the lifestyle lived through those times, it just breaks my heart that those writers were searching for God but turned to other things instead. Did they find what they were searching for? I don't know but after watching interviews over the years and seeing reports on their exploits, they hadn't at the time of the interview or reports. I also see and hear those same kinds of things everywhere I go and it makes me more aware of my own actions and speech and if God is seen in me by those searching for truth. I know the kind of peace that passes all understanding and I want everybody to find the same. Think about this and pray for truth and wisdom for your life. You think about this...

Heb 10:1-14
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming-not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, 'Here I am-it is written about me in the scroll- I have come to do your will, O God.'" First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made). Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
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Remember Kathy Fiowiat (I hope I spelled that right)...Chris Bell, a young man searching...Ben Hanzel...Floyd Griffin...Barb Fitch...and my bride...


Heavenly Father,
Thank you for such a simple gift you gave to us. Help us realize it is a simple gift that all must do is accept it. Lord we ask for your grace and a touch on those mentioned today and ask your presence be so overwhelming in their lives that transformation can no way be denied. Lord we praise and lift you up. Lord, we don't understand all this alot of times but we are trying to be patient and trust completely. Lay that peace on us and revelate the truths to us that your reflection shines bright to everyone we meet! in Jesus name, amen