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(02/17/2001) giving up?


Hello prayer warriors, 1. Prayer note: giving up? [Psalm 37:4] Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. One of my favorite scriptures is the verse above. I hold on to that verse for my life. I believe in God and what He has promised me. But sometimes, I'm not as strong as I want to be. Sometimes, I don't feel like holding on anymore and I don't seem to want to fight some of the battles in front of me. I just feel like running away. It's very easy to run away. Just leave everything and go somewhere else. But then God will speak to me again through His very silent way, through my spirit, through that knowing in my heart that I am to continue my fight. Recently, in one of my quieter moments when I was confronting God with some of my issues, God spoke to me through the next verse. I've always looked and scrutinized and remember Psalm 37:4 but I've never really looked at Psalm 37:5. Well, Psalm 37:5 just popped up in front of me and I felt God pounding me again and again with this next scripture. Here it is: [Psalm 37:5] Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. It's easy to focus on what God has to do. God has to give us the desires of our heart because we delight in Him. We've done the numbers, our part, so to speak. We fulfill the condition of delighting in Him, now God, the ball is in your court. (Of course, we know it never works that way and praise God for that.) What exactly is our part? Our part is to commit our ways to God. It is easy to live a life without God, to abandon all and just live life our way. To escape when the going gets tough. Instant gratification and escapism may seem easier but many times the road of instant gratification leads to destruction. If we are the sons of God and He is Lord of our lives, we live to please Him and not ourselves. It is such a simple rule. [John 12:25] He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. What exactly does committing our ways to God mean? One of the meanings of "commit" in the dictionary is "to pledge or assign to some particular course". So, when we make a commitment, even in the midst of adversity, we stay on our course. We stand on His Word (our desires needs to align with His Word). We hold on. We fight our battles, the battle of faith and of trusting God. Once we do that, Psalm 37:5 says "and He shall bring it to pass". If we can do that [Psalm 37:6] says "And He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday." The time will come when we will see God bringing forth our righteouness as light and our judgment as noonday. But it doesn't mean that everything will come easy. We are not to run from every battle and expect God to give us everything with a silver spoon. I heard a very interesting statement. We are not to ask God so much as to give us strength for the battle, because many times we are to get strength from the battle. So, whenever you feel like giving up, remember that the strength is from the battle. If you commit your ways to God and trust Him, don't worry, you're not fighting it alone. God is with you and He has promised that He shall bring it to pass. 2. New prayer requests: i. I need deliverance from Anger! -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1694&table=prayer ii. Pray that God will bring me & partner together to fulfill God's purpose! -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1695&table=prayer iii. Please Pray for Grandmother(Oma West)! -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1696&table=prayer iv. Pray for my father -- anna http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1697&table=prayer v. URGENT - last stage of divorce -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1699&table=prayer vi. Lost Notebook -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1700&table=prayer vii. suicidal -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1701&table=prayer 3. Number of prayer warriors: 688 We welcome oil of joy, claire, bethany, dmrowland, dkvarner, scooter6328, pippy, sandiim1, kdj0711, kimblessed, amhar1, rm, ljac834673 and martybutts into our prayer group. 1 has unsubscribed & 4 emails have become invalid. in Christ, Wai Hun
Saturday, February 17, 2001 10:17:08 AM waihun

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