Daily Prayer_April 11, 2011

The Word for wisdom:

Proverbs 11:17 (MSG)
When you're kind to others, you help yourself; when you're cruel to others, you hurt yourself.

The Word for inspiration:

Psalm 119:19 (HCSB)
I am a stranger on earth; do not hide Your commands from me.

Psalm 119:18 (HCSB)
Open my eyes so that I may contemplate wonderful things from Your instruction.

Psalm 119:21 (HCSB)
You rebuke the proud, the ones under a curse, who wander from Your commands.

The Word for encouragement:

1 Peter 2:11-12 (HCSB)
¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you. ¹² Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

My observation:

Those of us who belong to the family of God must always remember the words of the psalmist, "I am a stranger on earth". Our focal passage from 1 Peter also reminds us of this truth, and encourages us to walk honorably in the world so that your life brings glory to God.

Living in the world has its obstacles. The world is a battleground and not a playground. There are temptations and hidden snares everywhere. To navigate through this world we need a roadmap, and that roadmap is the Word of God.

We need to pray daily for the wisdom and the strength to keep our eyes open to what the Lord wants to say to us in the Word, and to keep us from wondering from the path where the Word leads us. We need to walk in the Word, walk in the light, and walk in the Spirit everyday and each step along the way from our temporary home to our heavenly home.

My prayer:

Our Father in heaven, I praise and thank you that this world is not our permanent home. Father, I thank you that we are just strangers down here in route to our heavenly home. Father, while we are here I pray that you will help us keep our eyes open to the bible, which is our roadmap to guide us safely home. Father, help me to stay in the Word; read up, fed up, and watching to be caught up.

My song:

When We All Get to Heaven (Click on link below to listen to this song):

http://biblestudycharts.com/SH_When_We_All_Get_to_Heaven.html

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Proverbs 3:5-6 (HCSB)
⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; ⁶ think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths.