daily prayer

Good morning! How are we faithing? How we train out minds and the eyes we see through has a direct impact on our life and how we live it. I know guys who speak sexual innuendo constantly. I know women who complain about everything and are never happy. I know people in general who sacrifice everything for work. These are but a few examples of thinking and outlooks that are not healthy. Without Jesus and the mindset of things bigger than just what is in front of us we are destined to live a very narrow selfish life. You know what's scary? Most don't even recognise the folly of this type of thinking. They are convinced they are right and everyone else is nuts. This thinking is like walking down the street with blinders on never to turn left or right to see what God is and has for them. How sad that the consideration of others never crosses their minds. We see it on the highways and in line at the supermarket. We see it at work and even at church. The whole council of God is taught in the scriptures and picking out one to justify ones behavior is foolish and so sad because the big picture is missed. God is love and God is mercy, he also is just. Just like a father that loves his child even when they mess up God never stops loving us but he also will let us pass through things to learn and to grow. Woes passed through while complaining only and not seeking a lesson will cause one to become bitter and most likely they will repeat it. Our minds being clear and focused is not an automatic thing. We must train ourselves to handle daily our daily bread so we can become what the Word describes as holy. Think about that.

1 Cor 2:14-16
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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Phil 4:8-9
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things; and the God of peace shall be with you.
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Rom 8:6-11
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.
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Remember JR...remember our troops and our leaders...

Heavenly Father,
Lord we seek your face and desire to be more holy. Thank you for teaching us how to live and how to be your children. Lord we ask for wisdom and discernment for each event in our days. Help us see with your eyes the things you would have us see. Lord we lift our troops and our leaders to you. Grant them mercy and wisdom and courage to act as you would have them act, in Jesus' name, amen