daily prayer

Great Morning! How are we faithing this fine day? Do you feel like you are spinning your wheels going nowhere? Chasing down the dream and never seeming to get there, always striving for more? It is very easy to go there. This society demands success and it recognises that success by wealth and tangible things. Let us ponder that and really look at that type of achievement. Does it really satisfy? Does it provide contentment? Is there a point when we can sigh and say "whew! I've finally arrived!" The answer is no to all three. Solomon said it best when he said, "all is futile and chasing after the wind". All you achieve and all you acquire will be left to someone else and we don't even know if it will be used right or even at all. An example is all the estate auctions I see around. A lifetime of work and acquisitions sold to the highest bidder. That just seems like a waste of time from this end of that life time. I'm sure that person who built that estate was reaching and doing what he or she believed to be proper but it begs the question as to what was it all worth? This by no means is meant to depress you but for you to explore your reasons for striving and to think about the direction your life is going.

James 4:14-15
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."
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Eccl 1:14
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
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Eccl 2:17-23
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. What does a man get for all the toil and anxious striving with which he labors under the sun? All his days his work is pain and grief; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.
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1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
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Matt 6:19-21
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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Remember Marilyn's friend...remember the people who educate our kids...the schools need wisdom...remember Ken and G-man...

Heavenly Father,
Thank you for what you have given each of us. Teach us to be content and to see truth in all we do. We lift those up who need a touch of peace and contentment in their topsy turvy world. Lord we pray for healings in this land and lift your people up in this tumultuous political time. We stand for your principles and your children that they find you. We ask for a touch on Leroy and his family and it is in Jesus name, amen