Monthly Archives: January 2016

Recognize

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When did the journey begin?  At the moment of self-awareness or did it even require that conscious recognition of self?  What was I before my transformation, my rebirth as a child of Christ?  Was I nothing or could I be characterized more wolf than prey?  And now that I follow the Good Shepherd, have I taken time to understand, accept and walk as one of the fold?  Or do I still prowl about seeking what I might devour, depending upon my own instincts for my provision, to capture, conquer, gather or kill?  If I understand my role as a sheep within the flock are my actions muttonous or mutinous?  Am I aware of my unprotected predicament, thinking myself capable of flight or fight, when my only security is under the watchful eye and staff of God?

Do I kick against the goads, denying, arguing, casting off my identity in Christ?  Have I shirked the burden, fearing His light yoke and weighted myself down with a worldly load instead?  Am I really as stupid as a sheep appears?  Apparently.  Will I stand eating the same downtrodden grass, stripped of all nutrient, until I starve or am poisoned by infertility?  Will I wander hopelessly, directionless, on never ending quest, driven by thirst and insatiable belly?  Do I foolishly believe that I am capable of protecting myself and others when faced by ravenous wolves and wandering lions?  Or will I depend completely, reverently and lovingly upon the Shepherd, knowing beyond guess that He will provide for “All my needs”?

Jesus’ identity was mistaken, misunderstood and undervalued as He first came, as sheep for the sacrifice.  Now the role of sheep is ours.  And as our Shepherd, The Lord Jesus, The Lion of Judah, tirelessly watches over our health, wealth and wandering.  Though our time as sheep will someday transform, even as Jesus transformed, it is our current divine identity through Christ.  The part we fight against its that we are now helpless, dependent, the sacrifice and none of us wants to openly accept that may be our fate, if Christ tarries.  That is the price of sacrifice.  We are after all made in His image and if sacrifice is required then we ought to develop a willingness to climb upon the cross ourselves.  He wrote the script, I am but a player, but I hope to give an honest and authentic portrayal as a talented, gifted and willing representative of the flock.

In His Precious Name.

Irritant

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I don’t want to sacrifice my comfort, but that is what God is asking of me.  What shall I do Lord, knowing what you ask of me, constantly threatened to give way to the undertow of my own self importance?  When will this narcissistic yearning end?  We both know that I am incapable of answering your call for my life while simultaneously listening to internal urges.  What then of those within the Church who bid me follow siren’s call, shall I walk away from them, rebuking as I go?  Shall I join them on the satin couch, reclining as the Great Day of Lord draws unavoidably near?  How might I approach someone else to rouse them from slumber when I am rubbernecking in my own sedentary saddle?

Give me peace Lord, the peace that surpasses my own inadequate capacity to discern.  Let me take the actions of my destiny, relinquishing any harbored dream of conducting the orchestra within my own sonnet.  Give me courage to lose sight of the shoreline following you to the other side of the lake, where You said we must go.  Take from me this foolish desire to quell the pull of change.  Give me Your power, gentleness, kindness and patience so that my words remain Yours, such that they do not see me be instead hear only Your Call.  Wake us from our disobedience slumber at the entrance to the garden.  Give us vigilant hearts, diligent minds and obedient spirits.

What fool am I to rest while enemies march upon our summit?  What idle recklessness is this thing in my heart that calls me to serve my own ideas when all that we hold Holy is threatened?  Where is my good sense when all five continuously seek the bitter, temporary and unfulfilling taste of sin over lasting righteousness, prayer and truth?  Make of me a man of character in this vital moment of my history.  Make my legacy that of a man who made the choice to serve God above all else, even my own voice.  Remove this susceptibility to the forces tugging my feet away from the skinny path.  Remind my feet upon which Rock they stand.  I shall not be moved for I am a man created in the image of God, not in the frail timidity of mortality or futile, despair of disobedient angels.  My call is clear, please Father let it remain so until the day of my transition to eternal worship.  Let me come home without regret knowing that I was a good and faithful servant for Your Everlasting Kingdom.

Hear my prayers of God.  Heal my heart, give me strength and courage to stand even when to do so costs me everything.  Your Will be served by the Church and all within.  In Jesus’ Name.

Options

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What are the options for a man who has failed by all worldly perspective.  A man who has no material wealth, bad familial relations, a tenuous marriage, no lasting career, no children, no home and many talents leading to no resounding victories.  What is the natural, linear destination of this traveled path?  Is giving up, the normal and logical expectation?  Is feeling poorly, residing in darkness and despair, for this man, simply understood.  Shall this man entertain, accept and resolve to satan’s whispers that he is inadequate and thus never accomplish anything for God, being unworthy, cursed or simply forgotten?  Of course, that is only logical conclusion. By all accounts and perspectives this man is and always will be a failure, incapable of succeeding, unpopular, unhappy, unworthy or love, respect and emotional investment.

That evaluation lacks the one component to which miracles must always be embraced.  This man is saved by Grace, filled with Holy Spirit of God, capable of all things through Christ.  Not of his own strength, talent, wealth or intellect, but as a conduit for God’s authority, power and purpose.  That man is perfectly positioned such that any victory, any achievement, any marketable increase may only be attributed to his relationship with God, giving all the glory to the one whom always deserves our praise.  Yes, the world measures this man as loss, but not so in God’s economy.  For those who wait upon the Lord shall have their strength renewed and no one knows their capacity for performance when directed, encouraged, supplied and protected by the Hand of Almighty God.  Knowing and overcoming this illusion is essential to Christian growth.  Each of us may be labeled failure, or unimportant, disabled or ineffective by all the logical gradients of this world, yet in truth be an overwhelming success in the eyes of God.

How then may the enemy find success in the heart and mind of a man or woman who knows the world’s measures are themselves inadequate at determining a person’s worth?  All the efforts and powers, principalities and wiles of demons may have negligible effect when slung against a man who knows his place before God.  Rendered impotent the enemy will be left to attack surrounding members of this person’s family bringing in to paramount importance the need for edification of every Christian’s family through prayer, encouragement and consistent immersion in God’s Word.  How then may a Godly man fail, certainly not by poverty, lack of charm or land holdings?  The only failure for a Christian man is to forget to whom He belongs, blinded to his Father’s universal wealth, choosing to ignore a duty meant to offer the gift of salvation to a world, without which it would be utterly and eternally lost.

Do not listen to the condemning voices of them who are bound for the lake of fire.  Know that even at our weakest, lowest, desperate and impoverished moment we still belong to God.  Remember that often at that very point is when God chooses to evoke miracles, with our backs against the ocean our toes overhanging the precipitous drop our enemies aligned against our battlements.  How might despair have any affect against such as this?  Know your infinite and lasting worth to God, remaining safe and secure within the caress of His omnipotent love.  He looks upon each of us and sees the Lord Jesus Christ.  There is nothing that may even scratch the surface of our resolve when we remain armoured by the character of Christ.  My failures are good teachers, sanctifying me to His Good Will, but beyond that realized wisdom they hold no reflection upon my value as a man.  Silence world, for in your fear you pronounce unimportant those favored by God.  I pity your misunderstanding, pray for a cure of your blindness, encourage your humble willingness to put aside self and receive Christ.  Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.

In the Great and Mighty Name of Jesus Christ the King.

We are all cautioned by Jesus to be ready.  Are you, my friend?

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Simple

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If my wife cheated on me she couldn’t take it back, nor fix it, nor avoid it or repair without my forgiveness and willingness to reconcile.  Do you concede that point?  Regardless of her reasons for doing so, mistake, realistic cause, drunkenness, stupidity, deception or evil intent, once the act was committed it cannot be undone.  It may be forgiven but the impact of the act will be felt throughout our lives.

Adam was the first man, made from dirt, filled with God’s own breath, from whom all mankind looked for their foundation, origin and bloodline.  Therefore, since Adam’s relationship was entirely unique and his position direct before God, once he had committed the sin which God forbade the action of the original sin could not be undone.  There are no do overs with regard to sin, it only takes one to earn the its consequence, death.  My inability to grasp this idea of finality within justice will never free me from the act or its requisite consequence.  It is the same with simply choosing to ignore God’s existence, expecting that my sitting upon the fence or disbelieving in His existence will somehow free me of the unavoidable consequence of my own sin.

To understand this concept of unavoidable judgment, it is imperative that I understand at least the idea of God’s Holiness.  God cannot lie, cannot simply pardon sin or look the other way, because this would be entirely contrary to His Nature and His Word.  Therefore God, intimately knowing us, prepared a method by which we may be forgiven and cleansed of this stain of sin, indelibly inked upon each of our souls.  That is the extent of His love for mankind for it required His divine intervention in life as His human form, Jesus Christ.  That is also His hatred of sin, such that when judgment comes down, not only will believers be eternally pardoned but sinners and sin itself will be eternally condemned and removed from His presence eternally.  He cannot overlook the act, He is willing to forgive, but just as with the issue of my wife’s infidelity it is up to Him to decide the parameters for that forgiveness or reconciliation.  What He requires is repentance, belief and reliance upon the sacrifice Jesus Christ made upon the Cross of Calvary as adequate, final and substitutionary payment for my sin.  I am sorry for my adultery against God, but now I must ask His forgiveness, cleansing and reconciliation so that our relationship might be healed, renewed and continued.  I sinned, He told me how to fix it and I chose to act in reliance upon that offer of forgiveness and reconciliation, simple.

Father, forgive us for attempting to avoid, obfuscate or complicate this easily understood Truth.  I hate my own sin, but I cannot fix it.  My desire to absolve myself of its stain and the subsequent price of my sin are irrelevant, just are those other things over which I have no control.  I want to be back in Your Good Grace.  I want a living relationship with You Lord.  Therefore, I admit, ask forgiveness for and turn away from my sin, knowing that until I do so my sin prohibits that living and loving relationship we both desire.  Thank You for knowing me well enough to provide a way by which I might be cleansed, renewed and reconciled to You for all eternity.  Lord, help me, now that I have received this gift to tell everyone I meet about this tremendous opportunity for action.  May my Family all come to this simple and essential choice so that we might walk with You throughout this life and the next.  Praise You for Your Awesomeness.  In Jesus’ Holy Name.

 

 

Plausible

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What is so difficult to believe?  Do I have to connect in my imagination, my mind’s eye, within data points, the myriad of stepping stones leading to a logical, inescapable conclusion?  Does this in fact diminish belief at all, removing the content or quality of faith by presenting an unanimous argument, for which none may cogently disagree?  Must we become bereft of decision making, having imposed belief handed down for all to accept involuntarily?  Shall my thoughts be solely determined by a tyrant king or am I so precious to my Creator that He allows me to come to my own conclusions, and in so doing feel empowered in my faith?

Shall I simply bow down to the big lie strategy, embraced by hitler’s propagandists, just because the mantra has been repeated loud enough, long enough that it takes on what is perceived as inevitable truth?  Have I become so saturated by false argument that I have forgotten to question the seemingly obvious conclusion I have been told must be true?  What sort of life is this?  It is the false ideology being pushed upon our youth by those we have allowed control and ownership of our authorities, our leaders and our educators.  We have effectively left the devil at the helm hoping he will do anything but divide and conquer.  What else should we expect?  Aloof is a strategy that guarantees eventual failure through capitulation.

God offers Grace, accepted or declined by free will choice, breeding self-acceptance, commitment and agreement in Truth.  Certainly historic men and women have effectively attempted to hijack this perfect relationship and superimpose their own constructs leading to greater human enslavement.  Look now at some faith being spread by men intent on conquest.  This is not the will of any God that I might follow in good conscience.  This is deception perpetrated by the clever hearts of evil people, usurping direction given by a Holy and Righteous God to achieve the ego maniacal goals of would be emperors and czars.  Stirring up the desperation of miserable people, promising escape from a reality they find too hard to tolerate.  Channeling their anger, much as did hitler and turning them loose on their true enemy, those who follow Almighty God.  For they cannot hope to defeat the Creator and in this accepted impotence they are left with the only alternative to slaughter the innocent, laughing at God’s tears for those martyred.  Men cannot force their way into Heaven no matter their effort, strategy, cleverness or disregard for Holiness.  Actions always have consequence and in this case though judgment has been delayed that does not invalidate its eventual righteous, perfect and just dispensation.

Can I succeed if God does not Will that success?  Conversely, may I fail if God commands and supports my achievement?  See, these are simple concepts, understood by any child, having accepted their need and constraint by parental authority.  When we turn away from this truth we must then as Romans 1 indicates, be turned over to our own decadence.  And every one of us understands the implications of self-constructed reality.  We have all seen people who must maintain informational control on everyone within their sphere of consciousness, attempting to protect the house of cards they’ve constructed.  No child must be allowed to speak of the emperor’s nakedness or the mirrors are shattered leaving the construct swiftly imploding.  This alternative explanation for the origin of man shall not succeed for it is an invention of man.  This mankind long drive for one emperor to control the movements, wealth, thoughts and doctrine for all men shall never succeed for there has always only ever been one True King.  Man shall never solve man’s problems because man created all of them.  Only success in line with God’s Will for mankind is perpetually achievable.  Think on it, though men have convinced themselves they could conquer the world, has anyone ever done so?  They all died at some point following or during their attempt leaving chaos and destruction in their wake.  Some men may turn to powers and principalities of the air seeking to release themselves from the reality of God seeking a fulfillment of their own making, but even satan who supports them has never succeeded in preventing, avoiding, delaying or operating outside of God’s Will for humanity.  Their is no success in a world that violates the construct of its Creator.

Must I reduce my capacity to understand to a point where even the ample evidence of God is inconceivable?  No, that reduction is only temporary resolution.  For I may have a veil lowered, eclipsing my vision, but at some point reality always finds its way back into my sight.  That reality is the death that all men must face, it is the great equalizer bringing us back into line with consciousness.  All men seek to live forever, some by their own will and others by God.  It just seems plausible to me that God made us so He is the only one capable of providing the avenue by which we achieve the in-achievable.  It is simple logic to me that it is easier to put aside my rebellion and work with a God who loves me then to ignore, compete or fight against the authority of His inevitable and unavoidable Will.  That is why this generation will only be given the sign that was given to Jonah.  What was that sign, that if God has a purpose for your life, you can run, you can hide or you can become frustrated over what cannot or should not be avoided, but God will bring you to the very same place doing the very same thing He had commanded you do in the first place.  Even satan will be brought to that point of kneeling and confessing that Jesus Christ is Lord.  Some do it now some later, but all will face the same inevitable and plausible Truth of God.

 

 

Renewed

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How wonderful a thing to watch spring come to a frozen wasteland.  Smells, so fragrant washing away decay, suffering, palsy and putrefaction.  Sun seeping layer by layer toward the heart, promising, prompting, probing for life.  Moments captured for memory as sentience returns, each blade of the glade remembering its vitality, stretching forth.  Inspired by hope of something that had been forgotten in long vapid sleep.  Movement, then limbering, then joy leading to abundance.  Hearts set aflame by expanding dawn.  What a wonder to watch a thing filled with life.  What a wonderful thing to see God’s face.

What is cleansing but a second chance at life?  Cleaned of the existing filth, death or dying, renewed then glued to God’s Spirit for eternity.  Knowing life all over again but with a different set of senses, keener, sharper, capable of wisdom, where before I just existed, now I truly live.  And intimately understanding my connection, my place, my name and purpose.  Better yet watching those around me grasping hope, joy, abundance and faith.  Watching the Spirit of everlasting life take hold of their passion, aligning them with God’s intention.  What a beautiful thing to see something born again through Christ.  Knowing that this joy, this moment, basking in my fellow’s salvation is a gift of God itself, a gift given for my own edification.  Connected, cleansed, ready and enhanced a different man faces my finite future with eyes seeing beyond my own end.

Of all the gifts I have been given, perhaps the greatest beyond my own salvation is the joy that comes seeing others sealed by the Holy Spirit of God for eternity.  It is a thing unlike any other, the hope of spring in the midst of darkest winter.  I am so grateful Lord to be awoken each time, to learn, to remember, to see something beyond myself.  Thank you Lord God in Jesus’ Holy Name.

Response to order

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Is it loving to concern myself with my needs, never taking time to call, contact or visit my Christian Brothers and Sisters to intercede in prayer, bare burdens or encourage them in their walk with Jesus?  Is it loving to remain inside the comfortable walls of my church never taking the time to ascertain the status of widows, orphans, elderly, sick and disenfranchised within the one mile radius of our church?  Is it loving to concern myself with dress-code enforcement within my church when I know that this practice will potentially keep the poor, homeless and struggling from feeling comfortable worshiping by my side?  Whom am I feeding?  To whom am I offering assistance?  With whom am I praying for God’s intervention?  Does the public consider me a nuisance or do they even know that I exist?

What have we become through our slow degradation of the intended structure as the Bride of Christ?  What should be free from evaluation, questioning or conversation of revision?  Doesn’t humility require that nothing within our scope remain inviolate?  Are we ready to repent and turn away from our sins of omission or simply those of commission?  What is the price of religion or faith that includes no action?  Is it not dead as Jesus’ Brother James preached?  And if it is dead, why do we live within an empty shell beyond resuscitation?  Remember that James also said that if a man knows what is right to do and does not do that then he is committing sin?  Shall we collectively repent as the Bride, for we are all, all Christians guilty, falling short, in need of forgiveness and repair?

Whom do you know that you could help today, if you just for five minutes considered Christ’s call upon “your” life?  How many orphans suffer from our ignorance, never knowing the love that they have been denied by circumstance?  Do you even know how many orphans there are in your state?  What if the thousands of churches decided to symbolically or realistically adopt one of those children?  I bet that there are thousands of churches in your state and many less thousands of orphaned children.  We could obediently and effectively end the existence of parentless children.  What am I and my Church family willing to do for Christ?  Certainly suffering, sacrifice and volunteerism should be at least a little bit uncomfortable, for that is the nature of self-sacrifice.  Isn’t that the bar against which we are expected measure?

If we do not break the cycle of our own disobedience as the bond servants of Christ, how then may we ever honestly and logically entertain the transformation of the lost?  If you aren’t convicted by this conversation then you are either perfect or you have quenched/ignored the voice of God’s Holy Spirit.  Or worse yet you were never sealed by the earnest of salvation for eternity.  No Holy Spirit, No Eternity.  No evidence of salvation, fruit of the Spirit, should sound out an alert in each of our lives, causing upset, concern and action.  If you do not feel compelled to spread the Word of the Gospel, then something is missing and that something ought to sponsor a quest for answers, driving each of us to our knees.  If we are not ready to repent as a Church Body then we were never a body to begin with for each of us is essential to God.  What part of the body, what part of humanity, what single person did you pass bye today, relegating your duty to God toward harvest by not stopping and planting a seed, watering a seed, weeding growth or fertilizing it for Christ?  I am willing to bet if you ignored one then you have been and will continue to ignore others.

Who am I you ask to question us?  I don’t know maybe I am a son of God, prompted by His Holy Spirit residing in my heart.  What credentials may I present?  I present to you the fruits of His Holy Spirit having first called myself to repentance for my disregard of God’s direction.  I too fall short every single day, but using my guilt to ignore this message, you do so at the peril of not only yourself but all that frequent your church body.  Do we want God’s favor in this Nation, This UNITED STATES?  Then that favor must  first begin in the fervent prayers of those who believe in God’s favor.  That favor may only begin following God’s direction and humbling ourselves, turning away from our own sins and falling to our knees, together, crying out to God so that He may hear our voices in Heaven and once again shine His Holy Face upon this once obedient nation.  If not me then whom?  If not us then why are we meeting together, calling ourselves by His Name and worshiping in the first place?

Obey God, enjoy what He gives us and leave the outcomes to Him for His Good Glory, because He has already overcome this world.  His Will Be Done.  You are the vessel of that Will, how will it be done without your participation in your own purpose?  Obedience is truth, obedience is demonstrable faith, obedience is love for God.  Do you love Him enough to do today just a little bit of what He is asking?  I love You Lord.  May I be obedient to Your perfect purpose for my life.  In Jesus’ Name.

Whom Do You Serve?

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What would God have me say, especially when I don’t have the skill with words to convey anything Divine?  When I embrace this thinking is typically when He reminds me that it has nothing to do with my capabilities, talents, worthiness or eloquence.  He came to Earth in a manger to demonstrate the unimportance of the container.  It is His Character that defines the message, the inadequacy of the messenger has little impact.  It is about being a vessel for His Holy Spirit.  He has thoroughly demonstrated that He may use, unbelieving Kings, like Cyrus, or even an gentile prophet as Baalam.  God threatens to even use rocks and inanimate objects to deliver His message if His ambassadors will not.  Considering those facts, He certainly can use a man who believes, loves, surrenders and serves His Good Will.  I don’t know what He is saying to you while I am speaking, I only know that if you listen you will hear whatever He wishes to tell you.

Do you know your God?  For what we know and believe translates in to actions.  Solomon, whose name translates into peace, a man who was blessed with building the first Temple, knew God intimately yet disobeyed God’s warnings.  How is that possible?  A man so richly blessed to whom God appeared, how could someone in direct possession of the proof that all men crave fail to heed God’s direction?  Yet in Solomon’s disobedience we find the gold of God’s message to mankind, obey God and enjoy what He gives you.  Or the equally weighty concept that wisdom begins at the point where we fear Almighty God.  For Solomon knew God and yet He still fell.  What does that portend for any Christian, especially them who have not taken time to get to know the Father?  How can we hope to overcome where such great champions, who have known God directly, backslid to a distance far from His presence?

That is why it is so important for us to know whom we serve.  Not just talk about God, as some foreign concept or the basis of our Grandfather’s faith, but through intimate understanding, based upon a close pursuance of relationship with God.  The world will always call believers away from service, obedience and a walk of Grace.  The siren’s of satan whisper incessantly, haunting, luring, tempting believers away from God’s intended path for saints.  Diligence, vigilance, trustworthiness and dependence upon God are the believer’s greatest friends.  Remaining in the Word of God that sets the enemy to flight is our only protection from the incessant pull of trivial lust.  Believing that there is nothing in life more frightening than is an eternal, omniscient, omnipotent and jealous God.  That is the moment at the outset of our understanding and path to wisdom.  For if nothing in this world may hold dominion over our minds, fears, drives and ambitions but the Will of Almighty God, then we will always keep perspective.  We must crave, hunger for and eagerly pursue a relationship through a sanctifying walk in the Holy Spirit, redeemed and reacquainted to the Father by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

How do you know if you are doing anything to please God if you don’t know who God is or what He wants from each of us?  How will you dampen or silence the incessant temptings, condemnation and discouragements of the enemy if you do not know how Jesus defeated our worldly foe?  How will you give up the outcomes to God, living by His power, authority and intentions for this life if you do not recognize the direction and guidance of His voice within your heart and mind?  What is success in this life?  I challenge all of us to investigate and firmly establish this understanding within each of our hearts.  My job is to plant the seeds of God’s Word, tell people of the cleansing Blood of Jesus Christ and Walk daily with the Holy Spirit as my teacher, guide and comforter, indwelling me for His Good Purposes.  The outcomes are not my responsibility.  I have a relationship with the Father, loving Him with all my heart, mind, soul and strength as He commanded.  I know Him and He me.  That is my greatest treasure, knowing whom I serve.  In Jesus’ Name.

Given to pray

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This day will be here for a short time, never coming again, its value expended as night turns to tomorrow.  You are on my heart, this day, this twenty-four hours beginning a new year.  Since, it is so valuable, this moment in time, let me utilize its entire potential impact in the lives of those for which I feel warmth or burden.  What then should I say to God, knowing fully that my words are always insufficient, my petition to God so important?

These are the groanings of my heart.  Give them strength, dear, precious Lord.  Strength beyond reason, beyond reserve, beyond attribution to personal effect, wealth, health or power.  Let their tears of joy or sorrow be shared with You in honest appeal for transformation.  May we know, each of us, the authentic deployment of our purpose, no longer guessing but fully and certainly committing to the Divine Intentions of God.  Let them see fear as an indicator of contention, a radar return, showing that their next attempt is valid, important and worthy of their courage.  Give them guidance by Love, for Love, through Love, empowered by Love to do things that require Your intervention, authority, strength, provision and courage in completion.  Arouse their Agape Passions to do those things that have been grown within their spirit, planted by the seed of Your Holy Word, watered by the Everlasting Waters of sacrifice and salvation, nurtured by Your Glorious Provision and Hope.

What comes is certainly going to be difficult, displeasing and in many respects frightening, as are all those moments when we meet the Truth of God’s unfolding plan for humanity.  I pray that You Fear the Lord our God more than anything else in this universal struggle, responding to that fear with reverence, allegiance, obedience and prayer.  I pray that you Love Him more than this life, so that you may rise to each challenge beyond your own understanding.  Father, write Your Holy and indisputable Word upon each of our hearts, such that we dream in tandem with Your Truth.  For as a man dreams, so does he walk.  I pray health become wealth, a wealth utilized in its fullness to further the Will of God.  Give them diminishing doubt and increasing faith, improving their anchored footing to the Rock of Ages, our salvation and place in this masterpiece.  Grant them peace when there is no reason for such calm, hope where there remains no evidence for optimism and take from them the burdens that resist their flight.

Father, remove me as the reason for contention in and among the brethren.  Let me create, nurture and preach harmony, consistency and total reliance on Your Will.  Let them know how much I love them as reflection of the Love You first gave me.  Take away the weight of this world, its cares, worries, sorrows and finite failure.  Give them eternal hearts, bound for everlasting and the requisite intention to change all things here.  Most of all answer their calls Lord, walk with them in such a way that they are certain of Your Holy Presence.  Let them show devotion and love to a world that is as undeserving as I have been.  Give us the courage to stand proclaiming Your Name, with rejoicing at the hour of our greatest trial.  Make us Your own, removing any veils, deception or vacillation.  Let us be what we were truly meant to be.  In Your name I pray to God the Father, thank you Lord Jesus for saving me long enough to make my prayers heard in Your ears this day.