daily prayer

    Great morning! How are we faithing? Do you know that all of our heroes struggled just like us? Did you know they were just as confused as we were? All of the people you look up to have passed through trials and turmoil just like we do. Time tends to remove these things and concentrates on the accomplishments and not the path to get there. All the things that kick your butt were kicking theirs as they grew too but they persevered. They didn't give up. Did they want to? I'm sure they did some times because they were human and encumbered by the same stuff we are. The same mental and physical fights we all face from time to time were just as normal then as they are now. I know it gets hard and we get discouraged and angry at things but take a step away from it for a few minutes. Make yourself go get quiet somewhere. It doesn't matter where. Put the computer down. Put the book down. Turn off the TV or the radio and listen to that still small voice. Now of course if the voice tells you to jump off a bridge it is suspect...We all need rest. We all need to reflect and relax. We all need time in the quiet with the Word. Think wisdom just happens? Every patriarch, every person you read about in the old and new testament got alone time with God. Some talking and a whole lot of listening. We have the luxury of checking what we hear with scripture to ensure the right voice is heard and we ought to thank God for that. The Patriarchs didn't. Now that's trust and faith. As you face the things you think you can't do, remember you are not alone and you actually can come out the other side. Just remember YOU can't but with God all things are possible. 

John 10:3-18

"To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. "When he puts forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. "And a stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers." This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.

Jesus therefore said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. "All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. "I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. "The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life, and might have it abundantly. "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. "He who is a hireling, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, beholds the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees, and the wolf snatches them, and scatters them. "He flees because he is a hireling, and is not concerned about the sheep. "I am the good shepherd; and I know My own, and My own know Me, even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. "And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they shall hear My voice; and they shall become one flock with one shepherd. "For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. "No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father."

NAS

Heavenly Father,
  Thank you for your Word. Thank you for hearing me. Thank you for ears to hear your still small voice. Lord we ask for mercy when we whine about things that bother us. Help us see beyond circumstance to the goal. Help us be peaceful inside when all comes against up. Teach us to get quiet and to rest. In Jesus name, amen