Wow!!!! Lord you are SHOWING me. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. I thank you Father for the miracles of yesterday. In the last three months, I have seen your hand, by seeking your face.
Dear Lord,
I AM GUILTY of loosing sight of you, and your plan for me………….Please forgive me
I worried that the promises you gave me, some how had been forgotten. I worried about the pending eviction and becoming homeless again. The empty bank account, the uninsured auto, the bare cupboard, the unpaid bills, the pending appeals, having no gas in the car, the returning headaches from the tumor; the breaking /fracturing teeth, the new job start date, the school completion date, and why I was feeling so alone, when I really really need your help.
So I asked you to let me hear from you. Your word promised that you would be a PRESENT HELP IN MY TIME OF TROUBLE. ……. That I would not be forsaken, and that my children and grand children would be fed without having to plead for daily bread.
You reminded me that I was too caught up in the PROVISIONING, and I needed to be caught up in the PROVIDER. But still……..
I woke yesterday tormented by the prospect of being without substance for the day. I knew that the four (4) chapter exam on financial and transactional accounting would be here in less than twelve (12) hours. There would be tons of material to memorize, conceptualize and recant. 12 cost formulas, 6 decision analysis formulas, 45 vocabulary concepts………AND ENOUGH GAS TO GET TO TOWN AND BACK after I dipped in the penny jar. 4:00 am and already, my day was OUT OF CONTROL because my thought life had embraced FEAR.
Then, as you always do…....... when you do…………. Just like you do………….. YOU SPOKE to me. FEAR NOT. I recalled Pastor Jimmy saying on Sunday, “God said….. Fear Not”
BE LIKE THE GRASS……. “what if the grass were always complaining about every season it endured?” (Sunday was a blast…. I am so happy it is helping me to make it through my life full of Monday’s…. Rainey days and Mondays……..)
MY FAITHFULNESS DOES NOT WAIVER. Why does yours? I taught you to pray after this manner.
Our Father….. Identify me and my relationship to and with you
Which art in heaven. Understand that my wisdom is removed from your circumstance and is infinite, like I am.
Praise me for who I am. (MY NAME), Not just what I can do.
……… Give us this day (NOW) our daily bread. Yeah God,….. that’s the part I am having trouble with. I am overwhelmed and under encouraged, with all this critical junk. Biting just a little bit at a time is hard, when I don’t want to chew or swallow any of it and when all the demands on my life seem so dire and immediate.
THEN YOU GAVE ME THIS WORD.
Psalm 85:10Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
You love me and will always honor that love with faithfulness….. I AM NOT ALONE
You are holy in all your ways…. (Your instructions towards me are for good)… Knowing this in my head and heart should bring me peace.
Fast forward. I gave out of gas last night, in the natural, but not in the spirit and not before making it to the exam and scoring 98% plus extra credit.
A friend came after midnight with a gallon gas can to rescue me from the side of the road...PRESENT HELP.
I survived yesterday and God brought manna….. Daily Bread….. I even lived to tell about it!
The Master’sMime
Dear Lord,
I AM GUILTY of loosing sight of you, and your plan for me………….Please forgive me
I worried that the promises you gave me, some how had been forgotten. I worried about the pending eviction and becoming homeless again. The empty bank account, the uninsured auto, the bare cupboard, the unpaid bills, the pending appeals, having no gas in the car, the returning headaches from the tumor; the breaking /fracturing teeth, the new job start date, the school completion date, and why I was feeling so alone, when I really really need your help.
So I asked you to let me hear from you. Your word promised that you would be a PRESENT HELP IN MY TIME OF TROUBLE. ……. That I would not be forsaken, and that my children and grand children would be fed without having to plead for daily bread.
You reminded me that I was too caught up in the PROVISIONING, and I needed to be caught up in the PROVIDER. But still……..
I woke yesterday tormented by the prospect of being without substance for the day. I knew that the four (4) chapter exam on financial and transactional accounting would be here in less than twelve (12) hours. There would be tons of material to memorize, conceptualize and recant. 12 cost formulas, 6 decision analysis formulas, 45 vocabulary concepts………AND ENOUGH GAS TO GET TO TOWN AND BACK after I dipped in the penny jar. 4:00 am and already, my day was OUT OF CONTROL because my thought life had embraced FEAR.
Then, as you always do…....... when you do…………. Just like you do………….. YOU SPOKE to me. FEAR NOT. I recalled Pastor Jimmy saying on Sunday, “God said….. Fear Not”
BE LIKE THE GRASS……. “what if the grass were always complaining about every season it endured?” (Sunday was a blast…. I am so happy it is helping me to make it through my life full of Monday’s…. Rainey days and Mondays……..)
MY FAITHFULNESS DOES NOT WAIVER. Why does yours? I taught you to pray after this manner.
Our Father….. Identify me and my relationship to and with you
Which art in heaven. Understand that my wisdom is removed from your circumstance and is infinite, like I am.
Praise me for who I am. (MY NAME), Not just what I can do.
……… Give us this day (NOW) our daily bread. Yeah God,….. that’s the part I am having trouble with. I am overwhelmed and under encouraged, with all this critical junk. Biting just a little bit at a time is hard, when I don’t want to chew or swallow any of it and when all the demands on my life seem so dire and immediate.
THEN YOU GAVE ME THIS WORD.
Psalm 85:10Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
You love me and will always honor that love with faithfulness….. I AM NOT ALONE
You are holy in all your ways…. (Your instructions towards me are for good)… Knowing this in my head and heart should bring me peace.
Fast forward. I gave out of gas last night, in the natural, but not in the spirit and not before making it to the exam and scoring 98% plus extra credit.
A friend came after midnight with a gallon gas can to rescue me from the side of the road...PRESENT HELP.
I survived yesterday and God brought manna….. Daily Bread….. I even lived to tell about it!
The Master’sMime
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