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I've got some things on my heart, and a great quote
from the book, "Fervent" but first I’m praying for all who feel that
aren't going to make it and need a journeymate today. I’m praying for people
who need healing, for families that are falling apart at the seams, for the
mentally ill and those who love them.
Yes, It starts with me, and you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pslWA2VRmxg
About Fervent prayer:
"Because this is war. The fight of your life.
A very real enemy has been strategizing and scheming against you, assaulting
you, coming after your emotions, your mind, your man, your child, your future.
In fact he's doing it right this second. Right where you're sitting. Right
where you are.
But I say his reign of terror stops here. Stops
now. He might keep coming, but he won't have victory anymore.
Because it all starts failing when we start
praying." Priscilla Shirer
Let's WAR today!
From 2 Corinthians: "Remember, our Message is
not about ourselves; we’re proclaiming Jesus Christ, the Master. All we are is
messengers, errand runners from Jesus for you. It started when God said, “Light
up the darkness!” and our lives filled up with light as we saw and understood
God in the face of Christ, all bright and beautiful.
If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness.
We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our
ordinary lives. That’s to prevent anyone from confusing God’s incomparable
power with us. As it is, there’s not much chance of that. You know for
yourselves that we’re not much to look at. We’ve been surrounded and battered
by troubles, but we’re not demoralized; we’re not sure what to do, but we know
that God knows what to do; we’ve been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn’t
left our side; we’ve been thrown down, but we haven’t broken. What they did to
Jesus, they do to us—trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did
among them, he does in us—he lives! Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus’
sake, which makes Jesus’ life all the more evident in us. While we’re going
through the worst, you’re getting in on the best!
We’re not keeping this quiet, not on your life.
Just like the psalmist who wrote, “I believed it, so I said it,” we say what we
believe. And what we believe is that the One who raised up the Master Jesus
will just as certainly raise us up with you, alive. Every detail works to your
advantage and to God’s glory: more and more grace, more and more people, more
and more praise!
So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though
on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the
inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding
grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times,
the lavish celebration prepared for us. There’s far more here than meets the
eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we
can’t see now will last forever."
The Message (MSG)
