daily prayer

     Good morning! How are we faithing? It has become commonplace in this world for affliction to rear its ugly head.  Whether it's momentary flare ups of temper or bodily sickness that causes constant pain. Affliction is always around and how we deal with it matters. I teach the people at church that as soon as you realize you have sinned, regardless of the reason, repent quickly. Afflictions can cause us to sin or it can cause us to turn to Jesus. The lessons we learn from afflictions help us to better deal next time and also helps us encourage others who may not have discovered fully this truth. The relationship we have with our savior affords us the endless opportunity to repent. There is no limitation on times we are forgiven. That does not give us license to keep repeating the same sins knowing we are doing them with the thought we will be forgiven because that my friends is not true repentance. Inadvertent repeats may take place but a repentant mind is a changed mind to Jesus' mind. Are you down because of affliction? Are you struggling with things piling up on your proverbial plate? Seek the only lasting cure for our minds, Jesus.


2Co 1:6
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

2Co 4:15-18

  For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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Heavenly Father,

  Thank you for the opportunity to serve you. Lord, we ask forgiveness when we fail and ask for encouragement to pull up our pants and get on with it. Lord we ask for wisdom to act, speak and love as you would in every situation. In Jesus name we pray, amen.