daily prayer

       Good morning! How are we faithing? Sometimes it's difficult to decipher events. Watching things happen can typically be read simply because we've been there or it is plainly obvious what is going on. Then there are those times when we flat cant figure out why anyone or any event  would take the course it does.  Like we've talked about before, selfishness always plays into people events.  When people retreat into themselves while swinging the sword of self preservation, others will be hurt. Reacting out of protecting oneself from physical danger is a result of training and or the "fight or flight" mechanism we all have. Putting up walls and then acting in vengeance such as "get them before they get me" is blatantly ungodly and is acting in a manner that is in no way scriptural or Christ like. Why would we do it? Afraid of what people might say, afraid one might look bad to others, afraid of more hurt.  Gee, that sure sounds like our trust in God has waned. It's not up to us but up to God. Follow God and leave all the fallout to him.  Don't worry about protecting your rep or worrying about what others think of you. Know that you are a child of God when you accepted his grace, he loves you and your future is already set.  This, whatever is happening, isn't yours to carry.



Col 3:23-24
  whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ.

Php 2:12-13

  So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;  for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure. 

1Co 15:58 

 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord. 

Rom 8:28 

 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose. 

Heavenly Father,

  Thank you for the cross. Thank you for salvation.  Help us be men and women of God not back biting or tearing down your children. Lord grant us peace and understanding of events so we may minister justly and wisely for your honor, in Jesus name, amen