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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Thank You, Lord for another day to exercise my faith in You. Thank you for another day in which I can bring life to someone, and make a disciple of them, to give them keys and tools for their walk. Thank You for selecting me as one You work through. I aim to be faithful with this task. I focus my eyes on You, oh God.
Lord, I need a heart of worship today. I need to be ever charged with vigor so that I can tread on the serpent. There is no fear here. You have not given me the spirit of fear, but of Power and of Love and of a Sound Mind. I have strength, because I have joy in You, oh God. My christian brother reminded me anew that I must think on these things... whatsoever things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and are of good report. I will think on these, and I will think on virtue and praise today. I aim to make this en-graphed into my very soul, so that it comes to me as a natural act, so natural that I would notice it if it were amiss.
I"m goning to ask for some encouragement for today, Lord. I feel sad just now. I hoped that things would be more clear, more direct... I hoped that my budget would be stable by now and that I could leave that for "auto pilot" and focus on things that are Your business. Instead, you have me hanging onto each day, as though its the only day in which I may be certain.
Rent is not due until tomorrow, but Lord, I'm lacking today, for tomorrows rent. I don't have the money to pay it. And because it's a new location, I simply cannot be late. I know you will move in the heart of the landlady, and that I will be asked to come, even though I don't have the full amount. Lord, I also know that I am the LENDER, I am NOT the borrower. If I owe that woman rent, especially that soon, then I have fallen short of one of my most base strengths. You don't want me to owe anyone. You even said so in advance. You want me to be in a position where I can give, not constantly receive as though my life depended on it.
I am not adverse to ANYthing you have planned for me, Lord... even when it don't make sense right away. I am always awed by how things work out when I simply trust in You. Its uncomfortable right now, in the mix of it all. I know from my experiences with You that it is often Your way to take me out of my little comfort zone. You purpose to bring me up and out of this miry clay. You purpose to put my feet on Your solid rock of the Word.
While You won't hold any good thing from me, I know that through it all when everything is manifest to its completion, it will have been a GREAT thing that You had accomplished in my life. So again now, and for the rest of this situation, I give it all to You, Lord. No matter what the day brings, no matter what it has in store... I will love You, Lord. I will server You. I will lift up my voice to you in Praise. I will offer Words of Life to whosoever You send my way.
Today, I will forget about myself, and the situation staring me in the face. Today I will look past all that and see the road ahead. I will see the people You send my way and I will offer them the You that is in me. I hope to inspire such an interest in the hearts of these people that every time one thing is finished, they respond eagerly, asking, "and THEN what happened?"
I pray this in Jesus' name, amen.
G. Neil Armstrong
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