In prayer, I am stripped of my camouflage, for to God I am always me.  This world and its crises, are sometimes beyond my capacity to tolerate, reason or comprehend.  It seems, even when we have the opportunity to rise above our own motivations and simply adhere to the wisdom each of our grandparents taught us, we backtrack and choose the lesser options of self gratification, anger and unforgiveness.  Even our love is tainted by stubbornness and insubordinate passion.  We have relegated reason and wisdom to contemptuous standing.  Now prudence is mocked and pronounced folly by the masses, replaced by ambition, ideology and covetous fear.  Father, may they listen to Your Words as mine have lost all weight in purchase.

Thanks be to God that Glorious victory is ours in perpetuity.  No matter the appearance of loss, suffering-though it be mortally real and chaos this arrogance is short lived and will soon see expiration.  My challenges are minor compared to the brothers and sisters who have died, lost their families, careers and voice for the sake of faith.  Forgive me for my ignorance and my weakness in standing for Glory’s sake.  There are those whom need my love, Lord give me the wisdom to see and the Words to say appropriate for their requirement.  The enemy reminds me that I will never win and sometimes I laugh, but there are still moments when I pay his lies heed and give in to momentary despair.  For he is correct in that I shall never win, with regard to a worldly sense of victory.  But he twists the truth about my overcoming this life, my own death and eternal sleep.  That victory is Yours Lord Jesus and I am blessed to share in the bounty of Your Glorious Appearing.  Forgive me for even for a moment forgetting that the war is not my own, but Yours.

I pray that they get to know you Father.  I beg you to set them free from their personal prisons so that they might see the truth.  Father forgive me for missing the slightest opportunity to tell people of Lord Jesus and His sacrifice for mankind.  Open our hearts to real understanding of love and forgiveness so that we might never be held captive to hate, spite and bitterness.  Let me lead so that others might follow where I am going and find You.  In Jesus Holy and Precious Name I pray.  Amen.