Daily Prayer_June 17, 2011

The Word for wisdom:

Proverbs 17:27 (HCSB)
²⁷ The intelligent person restrains his words, and one who keeps a cool head is a man of understanding.

The Word for inspiration:

Psalm 91:16 (HCSB)
¹⁶ I will satisfy him with a long life and show him My salvation.

The Word for encouragement:

2 Timothy 3:1-5 (HCSB)
¹ But know this: difficult times will come in the last days.
² For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
³ unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,
⁴ traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
⁵ holding to the form of religion but denying its power. Avoid these people!

My observation:

The verse from the Psalm today is appropriate because it reminds me and my wife of the faithfulness of God. We received the news yesterday that two of our friends, one 82 years old, and the other 98 years old ended their journey down here, and went to their eternal dwelling place. The Lord satisfied these two women with long lives.

I know in the place that they are resting this morning they don't have to face the difficult times that the Apostle Paul refers to in his letter of encouragement to his mentee Timothy. To prepare for these times we should expect them.

2 Timothy 3:13 (HCSB)
¹³ Evil people and imposters will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.

My prayer:

Father God, Almighty God, I praise and thank you for being a God who knows my name, and who loves me supremely. Father, I thank you for loving me first. Father, I am so grateful that you have already demonstrated your love for me in sending Jesus to be my Savior.

Father God, I pray that in these difficult times your people will not be the wrong kind of lovers that the Apostle Paul described in his letter to Timothy. Father, deliver us from being lovers of self, lovers of money, unloving, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

Father God, create in the hearts of your people a burning desire to return to their first love; the love of God, and your beloved son, Jesus, our Savior.

My song:

O, How I Love Jesus (click on link below to listen to this song):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Bc-GBHAvg

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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.