Good morning, Lord! Thank You for Steve. Thank You for his caring. Thank You that when we sing Your praises, our attitudes also elevate.
The Bible says we will be like the angels, neither married nor given to marriage in heaven. Will we also be like the angels in that we will constantly be singing praises to You? If so, why not start now? Why not start now either way? I love to sing Your praises!
Sara Kern's status was from Chris Tomlins song "How Can I Keep From Singing Your Praise? I am loved by the King and it makes my heart want to sing…" She wrote one line from the song, someone added another line and pretty soon a whole bunch of people were "singing" on facebook!
I wrote down a few days ago, that when I'm in a trial, I need to do three things: 1) sing praise music, 2) look at/add to my thankful list, and 3) remember who my enemy is and fight there, ie: pray! I feel like I am closer to heaven when I sing Your praises.
Oh! I was reading the sermon notes from this past Sunday. One of the points was that "Challenges in life are not necessarily a result of sin. (Some, of couse, are.) Some challenges are so God's work can be displayed in my life. Think of Paul's thorn in the flesh. Three times he asked God to remove it and God said no. Paul prayed to have Christ's power manifested in his life by asking God "perfect your power in me through this weakness." We are to pray that God would use our weaknesses to glorify His name.
So! Father, I pray that Your power would be manifested in my life and Your power displayed by using my weakness to glorify Your name. Father, glorify Your name by using this weakness. I don't know how You are going to do it, but that is not for me to know. All I need to know is that You are going to use it.
Progress! I have identified the statement that is not true with I have been repeating to myself!
Philippians 4:8 (New International Version)
8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
I was not thinking on what is true. I was building up a false generalizing statement. I will now choose to replace that statement with, "What I have has been given to me from the Lord. It is not mine. Let my will die; God's will be done."
Things are not important anyway.
GREAT! What a break through today! Really, is that all that counselors do? They try to pinpoint the wrong thinking that is underlying and then replace it with the truth? Hmm…maybe I can help other people, too. Steve is great at this. It comes very easily and naturally to him. Thank You, Lord!
Bless this day and make me a blessing, Lord! Give me wisdom and direction! In Jesus' name, AMEN Y AMEN!
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