daily prayer

Good morning! How are we faithing? You know, we all suffer loss in one form or another. Some are simple like losing your car keys and others are life altering like losing a child or a spouse. A yoke of slavery to these things comes when we dwell in them. When we fondle and not let these things go,when we do not forgive and release to God the things that hurt, we become captive to them and that yoke, like plow mules, is adorned. Man, it ain't easy to take these yokes off or to completely hand it to Jesus because gosh dern it, it frikin hurts! Well Jesus understands. He bore the biggest yoke ever. We're talkin about bearing all sin for you! We're talking about his life sacrificed for you! Religion isn't even the issue here but God coming down to our level to take these burdens away. Man, I see so many people hurting and so deep in anguish over things that have been and it breaks my heart that the have become yoked to these events. God can take these on so you don't have to pull all your days. Pray for these yokes we carry to be shed so we can walk in the peace of the Lord.

Isa 9:4
For as in the day of Midian's defeat,you have shattered the yoke that burdens them,the bar across their shoulders,the rod of their oppressor.
NIV

Isa 14:24-25
The LORD Almighty has sworn,
"Surely, as I have planned, so it will be,and as I have purposed, so it will stand. I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders."
NIV

Nah 1:13
Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away."
NIV


Ezek 34:27-28
They will know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.
NIV

Jer 30:8
"' In that day,' declares the LORD Almighty,'I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds;
no longer will foreigners enslave them.
NIV

There are many more on this theme in the Word and I pray you think about this today and fall on your face repenting so these yokes we all don fall off as if they have turned to powder. Here's the thing, our heavenly father already has forgiven us, we need but only confess it and come before him to receive that peace that passes all understanding. We live in such a world where things happen over and over but this world is already defeated and we stand amongst the counted when we see messiah as our savior. Bless those who are hurting and remember that our God is so much bigger than the pain you feel right now.

Got a list today, remember Tony Beers, Connie McAfee,Christy Fulfer, Stephanie Kroes, Trisha Guidas, Terry Churchill and family, Tim Gillan...

Heavenly Father,
We come before you with burdens and yokes that we have donned that we ask to be removed. We repent of our sins and ask we be shown when we goof up so we don't repeat those sins. Lord we ask for healing today for all the physical and the emotional things that are effecting us. Lord, we lift those mentioned and those who are not in print here. Heal them and let them be of no doubt that it is you who is doing the healing. Lord we ask for all those who are searching find you and recognise the power and majesty that only you have, We rebuke the evil that tries to invade our Psyche every day. Create in us a clean heart so we can hear your voice. In Jesus name we pray, amen