daily prayer

     Good morning!  How are we faithing? We as a people tend to try to put a spin on tragedy.  We dump platitudes on hurting people and it usually is out of a heart that is trying to comfort them but it actually is useless and somewhat condescending. Me telling someone whose wife was just killed that it will get better and she is now looking down on him, besides being half untrue, doesn't help at that time.  They need a hug and a meat loaf.  They need someone to cry with.  They need us to pay attention to their needs for a while and shut up unless asked something. As a body of believers we are suppose to help each other not tell the hurting how we would handle things. Jesus went out in the crowds and healed.  He met people where they were at. Part of our maturity in the Lord is to remember where we came from so we can be a blessing to others and not that guy who talks to much. It is tiring to listen to vague bumper sticker sayings when you feel like curling up and dying. We as maturing believers in Messiah need to watch and listen instead of trying to come up with a saying  that makes US feel good. Yesterdays Ecclesiastics verses are very true and apply to this. We also need to remember that Jesus taught us to love and that brings up a question before we act or speak and that question is,"What does love require".



1Co 13:1-8
  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.  And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.  And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,  Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;  Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;  Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.  Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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Heavenly Father,
  Thank you for your kindness and blessings. Lord help us to love like you do.  Help us to speak or not to speak.  Open our eyes to what is really happening and teach us to listen and not just wait for our turn to talk.  Lord we ask healing on the people who are suffering. Give them a vision of you that calms and assures.  Lord we praise your holy name and lift you high every day.  Speak to us Holy Spirit. Convict us so we may be a blessing to you...in Jesus name we pray, amen