daily prayer

Good morning! How are we faithing? A friend of mine was talking about how the fitness club she uses will be over run for about a month with new years resolute people. Interesting that over half give up in a month, and the majority give up the next month. About 10% stick to their resolution. I don't do New Year Resolutions because the motivation isn't worth a hoot. If you need or want to accomplish something, start right now. The only resolution I ever made that I stuck with was reading the Bible in a year. I ended up doing it 2 years in a row because it was so cool. Not bragging because the other ones I made before and since...failed miserably. Starting this week, analyze your life and write down the good and the bad. If you need to loose weight, be realistic and strive for a goal. If you need to quit smoking, get help. If you want to read the Bible in a year, make your self by picking a time every day. If you plan to get out of debt, don't let frustration get you down so you toss the plans out the window.
This year I want to hear God's voice. This year I want to live like I have a savior and I know it. This year I want to be more compassionate and loving. This year I want it to be a year that I can refer back to as the year God solidified the path for the rest of this life. Sure there are house maintenance goals and stuff like that but that stuff will happen anyways out of necessity. I want others to see God in my life and be encouraged to press on with theirs. When I am asked for guidance, I want the Word of God on my lips. Does this strike a chord with anyone else? On our knees as it were is where we need to be. God bless each and every one of you and know you are on this man's heart every day.

James 1:22-27
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it-he will be blessed in what he does.
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
NIV

Matt 7:24-27
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
NIV

remember Linda Handzel...remember Billy who lost his bride recently...remember our troops...

Heavenly Father,
Thank you for your saving grace and love. Lord help us be the men and women we should be. Help us see truth and seek wisdom from you. Lord we lift those hurting and ask for your touch on their lives. Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice for a lot like us, in this we know you have to love us. Protect our troops and help them be merciful where they are suppose to be. Protect their minds and hearts from evil, in Jesus name, Amen