daily prayer

    Good morning!  How are we faithing this fine day?  One of my daughters friends has such a striking smile and I remember her as this little kid, all teeth with deep dimples, always waving and speaking kindly when ever she saw me and today I see this grown up with those same attributes with her own kids and this does cause reflection.  Reflection on the temporal life we all live in this vessel called flesh.  The flesh decays and wears out while we age and I don't like it.  As I age and mature in this faith I realize many things that I didn't even know there was a question about in my youth.  It is common to mankind to go through this sort of thing and I do see many that struggle very much with this.  The only thing that remains constant is God and his love. If not for that we probably would have killed each other off a few millennia ago.  Passing on this knowledge while realizing the younger are most likely viewing things like we did does teach us patience and a willingness to wait for their realization all the while presenting an example of Godly men and women for them to learn from.  When we look at things from that perspective we begin to realize just how important our relationship with Messiah is.  Important for our eternity and important for the next generations. The responsibility of our teaching example for them becomes so important so as to not instill that same anger and bitterness we carry. That is a big part of what we have talked about this week.



2Co 4:16
 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.



Psa 73:26
 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Eph 4:20-24

  But ye have not so learned Christ;   If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:   That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;   And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

remember Erin Lawson and her Mom...remember Tim Bailey...remember Jacey Byrd...remember our kids no matter the age...remember Sebastian Major...remember Baily Ford

Heavenly Father,

  Thank you for your teaching this week.  Help us apply it to our lives so we may live better and closer to you than we did before.  Grant in us a heart for the lost.  We lift those mentioned today to you.  Bless families in times of hardship.  Grant a peace that passes understanding.  Envelop us all in your love, in Jesus name, amen