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Sign Guestbook \| View Guestbook Comments? Questions? [email protected]	Prayer topics Abandonment Breaking Bondages Hands Off Jesus the Core My Children God's Word Abandonment Date: March 13, 2006 Yesterday, the visiting speaker at church urged us to quit being spectators, to put aside our agendas, to really become disciples, to quit just watching the show and get into the dance, the music, the song - into the real life that is about Jesus all the time. To engage! Well, that's what I want. And that is abandonment, isn't it? I just have to keep abandoning, as things come into my life that tempt me away from abandonment to my Savior and Lord, or as God shows me things in my life that I haven't abandoned totally because maybe I just wasn't aware that I was even holding on - or being held by - them. I get discouraged, because I think I have abandoned all, or totally surrendered, and then I discover there is more to let go of, more of Christ to take hold of (obviously - how could I, in my humanness, ever take hold of all of the Almighty God!). I have to understand and accept it as a process, and obediently take each step just as it comes before me. It is not just a giant leap and I've arrived. Yes, my salvation is done, is sure. I've arrived in that sense. But the real life, the true journey, has only begun, and will go on eternally, in one sense or another. Return to the top Breaking Bondages Date: March 14, 2006 Lord, please take away my bondage, my craving for alcohol (even though I haven't drunk basically for almost 25 years). I have always said You have allowed it to remain so I would remember what addiction is like, and not get self-righteous. But Lord, You died to break all bonds to evil, and I have simply not asked for and accepted freedom from that bondage. I have even wanted to look back at it and talk about it - yes, proudly, as in "I was cool" - and to have a "proud" testimony: "Even though God hasn't taken it from me, and I get these cravings, I stand firm." Forgive me, Lord; it has been about me. In that sense I have kept crucifying You. Please take all my bondages from me. Break all these forms of slavery which I have hung on to, in my mind and attitudes if not in outward behavior: addictions to alcohol and marijuana, lying, wanting to be cool and accepted, lustful thoughts, self sufficiency and so on. I have thought that You break some bondages for some people, but not all bondages for all people. But yielding to You should break all bondages if I am truly yielded and obedient to You alone. I have to want those other bondages to be gone, altogether. No "fond memories" hanging on to them. Recognizing them for the terrible sin and darkness and total final judgment that they bring. Recognizing that they are totally wrong and that they are still totally enchaining me and enslaving me, as long as I hold onto them in even the slightest degree. Oh Lord, purify my heart. Break all these chains of slavery and let me be committed, yielded, obedient, in love with, enslaved to You alone. Forgive me for all these years of holding back. Thank You for making this so clear to me this very morning. Thank You, Lord! (This is going to make some big changes in outlook, words, and actions, isn't it? Oh my. Oh my!) "May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be truly acceptable in Your sight, my Lord and my Redeemer" - You, the only One who can make them pure. In Jesus' name, Amen! Thank You. I love You, Lord! This is an opportunity to make a fresh start, to "say no" the first time to each temptation. But this time with the Spirit of Jesus guiding and strengthening me. To also face the temptations of the flesh and world that I still live in (though not of), this time also with the privilege of wearing the armor of God. But I must be careful to wear it, polish it, keep it up, sharpen it, not lay it aside or grow weary and drop the weapons. Thank You, Lord. Amen. Return to the top Hands Off Date: March 24, 2006 "You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it." (cf Mt 10:34) (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, March 24). Heavenly Father, this is a word from You to me. I must leave my grown-up children to Your dealings, and stop stepping in to "rescue" them. The problems You are bringing into their lives are the only way they will be forced to wake up to the fact that they must totally submit to You, no matter what they may have to give up of the pleasures and attractions of the world. When I go rushing in to bail them out of their difficulties, even when I pray that You would end their upsets, I am defying Your plans and purposes. I am not praying or desiring or cooperating with Your will and purposes for their lives. I must step back and let You deal out the surgery that is required to cut the world and the flesh out of their lives (as You have done in mine). I have had my time to raise my children as much as I knew how, to love and follow You. But it is only You who can now take those lessons and make them experimental. Only You! Take my hands off, Lord. Thank You. No pruning, no growth - just like in Your Word in John 13:1-5. I guess it is the same for myself as well! Stop trying to "fix things." Allow Your processes to go all the way, to do all their work till completion is reached. And in Your church too. Patience, trust, obedience - and then rest will result. Sorry for trying to "work so hard" Lord. Return to the top Jesus the Core Date: March 30, 2006 In the little book my young JW friend gave me to read, there are all kinds of things I disagree with. But all of them in the end exist because the JWs have not understood or known You, Jesus, the core of the gospel, the one way, the one truth, and the one life. Without knowing You, without accepting the truth of who You are, everything else falls apart, everything else becomes the thoughts of men, rather than the mind of God. Oh, Lord, how easy it is for all of us to fall into this trap. Dear God, almighty, wonderful, perfect, just, holy, righteous, loving, all-powerful, terrifying, wrathful, kind, patient, peaceful, warring against sin and evil, God. To know You, in all Your attributes, to know You in personal relationship, and then to worship You, bowing flat on my face before You in eternal awe and adoration and perfect knowing and worship of You; that is the cry of my heart. And then I will be able to pray and intercede and preach Your gospel with joy, with strength, without ceasing. And because it will be done in righteous and holy and intimate knowing, relationship with You, it will be You doing Your work, in Your way, for Your purposes and plans, with me only being Your humble, undeserving but amazingly, incredibly, unbelievable loved servant and child and heir! What a mighty God we serve! "Christ in me, the hope of salvation!" Cleanse my heart, Lord. Cleanse it and make it Yours alone. In Jesus' name and for His precious sake, amen. Thank You, Jesus! Hallelujah! Praise God! Amen! Return to the top My Children Date: April 2, 2006 Lord, I tried to bring my children up for You. But maybe I didn't teach them to depend upon, trust in, and love You, because I hadn't really learned that myself. And I didn't pray enough - and still don't. Oh, I am not going to go down that "poor me" road again. The past is past, and I am sorry about it, but I can't change it. I can change now. I keep feeling helpless about my kids because they are far away and "I can't do anything." But the two youngest are still home, and what am I doing for them? And the others? Oh, Lord, I need to get praying, big time! ... Norma, my child! (Yes, Lord, I know You've been trying to talk to me all morning... I'm sorry; go ahead, please!) ... I love you, child. You are my little lamb. And your children are My children, too. My children first, far more than they are yours! Remember, I created them, I brought them into being, I have been with them all their lives, every moment. I know them in every detail. I know their happinesses and their every day lives and their deepest pain. (But Lord, I have been so sure that I have heard from You that You have all under control and that all my children will walk with You, if only I give them over to You. But now I find myself panicking, wondering if they have all really given their hearts to You. I don't know if I am hearing from You, or the enemy, or my own fears, or my own flesh. I want to do something. I want to make it happen now so I can "be sure." I want to push the issue and make sure for me - more even than for them. Forgive me, Lord, Please. I was just about to say again that I want to be a "good mother". And I do, only even as I was about to say it, I realized - heard from You - how much that longing is about me, about attaining the "mother of the year award." Oh, I am sorry, Lord. I am sorry to have made it all about me, when I really don't have any ownership over my children. They are Yours. You have been kind and loving to loan them to me for a season, to give me this wonderful "mother" experience. But they were created by You, for Your purposes, not for me and for my fulfillment and my purposes, except as those things are part of Your purposes for me, for my children, and for all Your children and all the world. Which makes me feel very much smaller. And very much, suddenly, hurled out of the center! I see I've tried to be the sun in my children's universe, displacing both my husband and You. And I guess it hurts me and panics me when they go looking for other centers (outside of You). Lord, despite all that, I do want them, now, finally, to become centered in You alone. Because without You, there is no satisfaction, ever!) ... Norma, relax in Me. Let Me lift your burdens. Let me lift you, like the little lamb I am holding in the picture at your bedside. You need to rest in My arms, against My heart, and look up into My face, into My eyes, as the lamb in the picture is doing. Do you see Me gazing back down at you? Do you see the love and care and faithfulness in my gaze? Do you feel the warmth and protection and safety of My arms enfolding you, holding you, protecting you, loving you? Don't you know that I love your children just as much as I love you? Don't you realize that I long for them to walk in perfect oneness with Me, abiding in Me, as I abide in My Father - just as I long to abide with you and be the center and the core and the meaning and life of your being. Be in Me. Let me live out My life, My being, through you. Let your children be free to turn to Me for all their needs. They are Mine. They need Me. Only in Me can they find the meaning and love and purpose for which they are seeking and longing. Loosen, totally untie, your apron strings, mommy. Let them go. Let them go. Stop hanging on. Stop making knots. Kiss them goodbye. Give them total freedom. Freedom to come to Me, on My terms, My relationship, My purposes, not yours. I know you love them. But mom, it is time to push them out of the nest, to let them fall, to give them a chance to try their wings - and then to cry out to Me when the ground rushes up toward them, when the hawk swoops down to swallow them. And I, like the mighty eagle, will in My perfect timing pick them up, bear them up on my wings, and take them to great heights, to the heavenly tableland, into My eternal glory - just as I am doing with You. I will teach them to fly, I will bring them into genuine, forever freedom, the freedom that can only be realized in accepting the destiny I have planned for them, purposed for them, my children, from before time began and for ever. Let them go. Entrust them to Me. Keep loving them. Keep praying for them. But trust Me to do what must be done to bring them into full knowing of Me, their God, their purpose, their true satisfaction. It won't always look to you like I am in charge. It doesn't look that way to you right now. That is why you panic. But trust in Me. Rest in Me. I love you and I love your children - my children - all of them! Let go. Stop clutching. Stop worrying. Stop even being embarrassed. Stop even blaming yourself. I knew you from the start. I knew your strengths, and your weaknesses. I even knew your weaknesses that you thought were strengths. And I gave you those children because I had a plan for them, and you were part of that plan. And you still are. It's just that your role is changing a bit. But no matter what happens, you will always have the joy and privilege of loving them and praying for them. And those are the most important things you can do - right after loving and trusting Me with them. Okay? That's my word for you today. And always remember, I love you. With love, Your Heavenly Father, Your Savior and Shepherd and elder brother and guide and creator. Abide in Me, and let Me abide in you. Be one with Me, and allow your children the same indescribable privilege. (Amen, Lord. Thank You). Thank You, Lord, for the privilege of having had my children - Your children - for a season. They have let me learn about Your love, Your parenting role in my own life. And yes, Lord, now I release them unconditionally back to You. Thank You, Lord, for the time You shared them with me in the mothering way. Amen. Return to the top God's Word Date: April 3, 2006 Heavenly Father, one good thing about going back and typing up what I have heard from You is that I am reminded of things I have forgotten. And one thing I have forgotten - or neglected, or allowed my flesh and the enemy to downplay and push away - is worshiping You. Especially, Lord, focusing on knowing and worshiping You directly through Your Word. Lord, my focus has been on "What are You teaching me?" rather than "What can I learn of You, so that I can worship and glorify You better?" I have wanted to learn about You, but my goal has been my walk, my holiness, rather than Your honor and glory. And again I see that I have been focusing on the devotional book more than on Your Word. Maybe I just need to set the book aside for awhile. It has almost become an addiction, while I have neglected Your Word in the rush to see what You would say to me through the book. It is a great book and You have used it greatly. But I have come to depend on it and learn from it more than from Your Word. The thing is, as I have just now realized (Your Spirit teaching me again!), is that I have been depending on the explication by a man more than on the explication by Your Spirit. The author may have been a Godly, Spirit-filled man, but only Your Word is pure, inspired by You alone, and only Your Spirit can purely explicate it. Even though some scripture seems to be from an awfully human viewpoint (like much of Ecclesiastes) or includes a lot of awfully horrific history (like Joshua and the Kings), it was all inspired by Your Spirit, and thus Your Spirit is the perfect teacher for it. While I have no doubt You have also inspired other writers (including the writer of the devotional I have been using - and even me, amazing as that seems to me!), I do not believe there is the same level of inspiration, the same working of Your Spirit, as there is in Your Word. Scripture is Your Word, Your revelation. Lord, please forgive my mind for losing focus from Your Word. Please help me to know always what is key, what is priority. Even though I don't "want" or "like" to do it, I have just now set aside my devotional book, and am going to really focus on Your Word for this upcoming time, until You direct me to again include the devotional as a balanced part of my time with You. Lord, please help me to "own" the scriptures as I read them, to make them part of my worship and my prayers to You, my Father; and part of my interaction and relationship with You. Please help me to worship and pray aright. Thank You for showing me this, Lord God. Return to the top
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Sign Guestbook \| View Guestbook Comments? Questions? [email protected]	Prayer topics Abandonment Breaking Bondages Hands Off Jesus the Core My Children God's Word Abandonment Date: March 13, 2006 Yesterday, the visiting speaker at church urged us to quit being spectators, to put aside our agendas, to really become disciples, to quit just watching the show and get into the dance, the music, the song - into the real life that is about Jesus all the time. To engage! Well, that's what I want. And that is abandonment, isn't it? I just have to keep abandoning, as things come into my life that tempt me away from abandonment to my Savior and Lord, or as God shows me things in my life that I haven't abandoned totally because maybe I just wasn't aware that I was even holding on - or being held by - them. I get discouraged, because I think I have abandoned all, or totally surrendered, and then I discover there is more to let go of, more of Christ to take hold of (obviously - how could I, in my humanness, ever take hold of all of the Almighty God!). I have to understand and accept it as a process, and obediently take each step just as it comes before me. It is not just a giant leap and I've arrived. Yes, my salvation is done, is sure. I've arrived in that sense. But the real life, the true journey, has only begun, and will go on eternally, in one sense or another. Return to the top Breaking Bondages Date: March 14, 2006 Lord, please take away my bondage, my craving for alcohol (even though I haven't drunk basically for almost 25 years). I have always said You have allowed it to remain so I would remember what addiction is like, and not get self-righteous. But Lord, You died to break all bonds to evil, and I have simply not asked for and accepted freedom from that bondage. I have even wanted to look back at it and talk about it - yes, proudly, as in "I was cool" - and to have a "proud" testimony: "Even though God hasn't taken it from me, and I get these cravings, I stand firm." Forgive me, Lord; it has been about me. In that sense I have kept crucifying You. Please take all my bondages from me. Break all these forms of slavery which I have hung on to, in my mind and attitudes if not in outward behavior: addictions to alcohol and marijuana, lying, wanting to be cool and accepted, lustful thoughts, self sufficiency and so on. I have thought that You break some bondages for some people, but not all bondages for all people. But yielding to You should break all bondages if I am truly yielded and obedient to You alone. I have to want those other bondages to be gone, altogether. No "fond memories" hanging on to them. Recognizing them for the terrible sin and darkness and total final judgment that they bring. Recognizing that they are totally wrong and that they are still totally enchaining me and enslaving me, as long as I hold onto them in even the slightest degree. Oh Lord, purify my heart. Break all these chains of slavery and let me be committed, yielded, obedient, in love with, enslaved to You alone. Forgive me for all these years of holding back. Thank You for making this so clear to me this very morning. Thank You, Lord! (This is going to make some big changes in outlook, words, and actions, isn't it? Oh my. Oh my!) "May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be truly acceptable in Your sight, my Lord and my Redeemer" - You, the only One who can make them pure. In Jesus' name, Amen! Thank You. I love You, Lord! This is an opportunity to make a fresh start, to "say no" the first time to each temptation. But this time with the Spirit of Jesus guiding and strengthening me. To also face the temptations of the flesh and world that I still live in (though not of), this time also with the privilege of wearing the armor of God. But I must be careful to wear it, polish it, keep it up, sharpen it, not lay it aside or grow weary and drop the weapons. Thank You, Lord. Amen. Return to the top Hands Off Date: March 24, 2006 "You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it." (cf Mt 10:34) (Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, March 24). Heavenly Father, this is a word from You to me. I must leave my grown-up children to Your dealings, and stop stepping in to "rescue" them. The problems You are bringing into their lives are the only way they will be forced to wake up to the fact that they must totally submit to You, no matter what they may have to give up of the pleasures and attractions of the world. When I go rushing in to bail them out of their difficulties, even when I pray that You would end their upsets, I am defying Your plans and purposes. I am not praying or desiring or cooperating with Your will and purposes for their lives. I must step back and let You deal out the surgery that is required to cut the world and the flesh out of their lives (as You have done in mine). I have had my time to raise my children as much as I knew how, to love and follow You. But it is only You who can now take those lessons and make them experimental. Only You! Take my hands off, Lord. Thank You. No pruning, no growth - just like in Your Word in John 13:1-5. I guess it is the same for myself as well! Stop trying to "fix things." Allow Your processes to go all the way, to do all their work till completion is reached. And in Your church too. Patience, trust, obedience - and then rest will result. Sorry for trying to "work so hard" Lord. Return to the top Jesus the Core Date: March 30, 2006 In the little book my young JW friend gave me to read, there are all kinds of things I disagree with. But all of them in the end exist because the JWs have not understood or known You, Jesus, the core of the gospel, the one way, the one truth, and the one life. Without knowing You, without accepting the truth of who You are, everything else falls apart, everything else becomes the thoughts of men, rather than the mind of God. Oh, Lord, how easy it is for all of us to fall into this trap. Dear God, almighty, wonderful, perfect, just, holy, righteous, loving, all-powerful, terrifying, wrathful, kind, patient, peaceful, warring against sin and evil, God. To know You, in all Your attributes, to know You in personal relationship, and then to worship You, bowing flat on my face before You in eternal awe and adoration and perfect knowing and worship of You; that is the cry of my heart. And then I will be able to pray and intercede and preach Your gospel with joy, with strength, without ceasing. And because it will be done in righteous and holy and intimate knowing, relationship with You, it will be You doing Your work, in Your way, for Your purposes and plans, with me only being Your humble, undeserving but amazingly, incredibly, unbelievable loved servant and child and heir! What a mighty God we serve! "Christ in me, the hope of salvation!" Cleanse my heart, Lord. Cleanse it and make it Yours alone. In Jesus' name and for His precious sake, amen. Thank You, Jesus! Hallelujah! Praise God! Amen! Return to the top My Children Date: April 2, 2006 Lord, I tried to bring my children up for You. But maybe I didn't teach them to depend upon, trust in, and love You, because I hadn't really learned that myself. And I didn't pray enough - and still don't. Oh, I am not going to go down that "poor me" road again. The past is past, and I am sorry about it, but I can't change it. I can change now. I keep feeling helpless about my kids because they are far away and "I can't do anything." But the two youngest are still home, and what am I doing for them? And the others? Oh, Lord, I need to get praying, big time! ... Norma, my child! (Yes, Lord, I know You've been trying to talk to me all morning... I'm sorry; go ahead, please!) ... I love you, child. You are my little lamb. And your children are My children, too. My children first, far more than they are yours! Remember, I created them, I brought them into being, I have been with them all their lives, every moment. I know them in every detail. I know their happinesses and their every day lives and their deepest pain. (But Lord, I have been so sure that I have heard from You that You have all under control and that all my children will walk with You, if only I give them over to You. But now I find myself panicking, wondering if they have all really given their hearts to You. I don't know if I am hearing from You, or the enemy, or my own fears, or my own flesh. I want to do something. I want to make it happen now so I can "be sure." I want to push the issue and make sure for me - more even than for them. Forgive me, Lord, Please. I was just about to say again that I want to be a "good mother". And I do, only even as I was about to say it, I realized - heard from You - how much that longing is about me, about attaining the "mother of the year award." Oh, I am sorry, Lord. I am sorry to have made it all about me, when I really don't have any ownership over my children. They are Yours. You have been kind and loving to loan them to me for a season, to give me this wonderful "mother" experience. But they were created by You, for Your purposes, not for me and for my fulfillment and my purposes, except as those things are part of Your purposes for me, for my children, and for all Your children and all the world. Which makes me feel very much smaller. And very much, suddenly, hurled out of the center! I see I've tried to be the sun in my children's universe, displacing both my husband and You. And I guess it hurts me and panics me when they go looking for other centers (outside of You). Lord, despite all that, I do want them, now, finally, to become centered in You alone. Because without You, there is no satisfaction, ever!) ... Norma, relax in Me. Let Me lift your burdens. Let me lift you, like the little lamb I am holding in the picture at your bedside. You need to rest in My arms, against My heart, and look up into My face, into My eyes, as the lamb in the picture is doing. Do you see Me gazing back down at you? Do you see the love and care and faithfulness in my gaze? Do you feel the warmth and protection and safety of My arms enfolding you, holding you, protecting you, loving you? Don't you know that I love your children just as much as I love you? Don't you realize that I long for them to walk in perfect oneness with Me, abiding in Me, as I abide in My Father - just as I long to abide with you and be the center and the core and the meaning and life of your being. Be in Me. Let me live out My life, My being, through you. Let your children be free to turn to Me for all their needs. They are Mine. They need Me. Only in Me can they find the meaning and love and purpose for which they are seeking and longing. Loosen, totally untie, your apron strings, mommy. Let them go. Let them go. Stop hanging on. Stop making knots. Kiss them goodbye. Give them total freedom. Freedom to come to Me, on My terms, My relationship, My purposes, not yours. I know you love them. But mom, it is time to push them out of the nest, to let them fall, to give them a chance to try their wings - and then to cry out to Me when the ground rushes up toward them, when the hawk swoops down to swallow them. And I, like the mighty eagle, will in My perfect timing pick them up, bear them up on my wings, and take them to great heights, to the heavenly tableland, into My eternal glory - just as I am doing with You. I will teach them to fly, I will bring them into genuine, forever freedom, the freedom that can only be realized in accepting the destiny I have planned for them, purposed for them, my children, from before time began and for ever. Let them go. Entrust them to Me. Keep loving them. Keep praying for them. But trust Me to do what must be done to bring them into full knowing of Me, their God, their purpose, their true satisfaction. It won't always look to you like I am in charge. It doesn't look that way to you right now. That is why you panic. But trust in Me. Rest in Me. I love you and I love your children - my children - all of them! Let go. Stop clutching. Stop worrying. Stop even being embarrassed. Stop even blaming yourself. I knew you from the start. I knew your strengths, and your weaknesses. I even knew your weaknesses that you thought were strengths. And I gave you those children because I had a plan for them, and you were part of that plan. And you still are. It's just that your role is changing a bit. But no matter what happens, you will always have the joy and privilege of loving them and praying for them. And those are the most important things you can do - right after loving and trusting Me with them. Okay? That's my word for you today. And always remember, I love you. With love, Your Heavenly Father, Your Savior and Shepherd and elder brother and guide and creator. Abide in Me, and let Me abide in you. Be one with Me, and allow your children the same indescribable privilege. (Amen, Lord. Thank You). Thank You, Lord, for the privilege of having had my children - Your children - for a season. They have let me learn about Your love, Your parenting role in my own life. And yes, Lord, now I release them unconditionally back to You. Thank You, Lord, for the time You shared them with me in the mothering way. Amen. Return to the top God's Word Date: April 3, 2006 Heavenly Father, one good thing about going back and typing up what I have heard from You is that I am reminded of things I have forgotten. And one thing I have forgotten - or neglected, or allowed my flesh and the enemy to downplay and push away - is worshiping You. Especially, Lord, focusing on knowing and worshiping You directly through Your Word. Lord, my focus has been on "What are You teaching me?" rather than "What can I learn of You, so that I can worship and glorify You better?" I have wanted to learn about You, but my goal has been my walk, my holiness, rather than Your honor and glory. And again I see that I have been focusing on the devotional book more than on Your Word. Maybe I just need to set the book aside for awhile. It has almost become an addiction, while I have neglected Your Word in the rush to see what You would say to me through the book. It is a great book and You have used it greatly. But I have come to depend on it and learn from it more than from Your Word. The thing is, as I have just now realized (Your Spirit teaching me again!), is that I have been depending on the explication by a man more than on the explication by Your Spirit. The author may have been a Godly, Spirit-filled man, but only Your Word is pure, inspired by You alone, and only Your Spirit can purely explicate it. Even though some scripture seems to be from an awfully human viewpoint (like much of Ecclesiastes) or includes a lot of awfully horrific history (like Joshua and the Kings), it was all inspired by Your Spirit, and thus Your Spirit is the perfect teacher for it. While I have no doubt You have also inspired other writers (including the writer of the devotional I have been using - and even me, amazing as that seems to me!), I do not believe there is the same level of inspiration, the same working of Your Spirit, as there is in Your Word. Scripture is Your Word, Your revelation. Lord, please forgive my mind for losing focus from Your Word. Please help me to know always what is key, what is priority. Even though I don't "want" or "like" to do it, I have just now set aside my devotional book, and am going to really focus on Your Word for this upcoming time, until You direct me to again include the devotional as a balanced part of my time with You. Lord, please help me to "own" the scriptures as I read them, to make them part of my worship and my prayers to You, my Father; and part of my interaction and relationship with You. Please help me to worship and pray aright. Thank You for showing me this, Lord God. Return to the top
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