Today I was visiting in Waco with my family before working in Austin tomorrow. I had the honor to attgend service with my daughter and her family. The service was very good. Since it is the Sunday before Election Day the Pastor wanted to remind everyone of our right, responsibility and priveledge to vote.
His main point was on fixing our focus, course of life, on Jesus and His kingdom, on God and His desire for mankind. His foundation verse 2 Chronicles 7:14, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land."
Our focus, our fixed point, those core issues for which there must be no debate because it is settled in our heart, keeps us on course and then all applications of life flow out from them. The main ones are:
1) God is good
2) Life is breathed from God
3) Marriage, between a man and a woman, is ordained by God
4) Created beings, male and female, were designed in God's image
Fixing our entire foundation on these four points give us a solid foundation to live a life in honor of the God who created also the entire universe. The same God who reigns in power in our lives.
Then being able to also watch the live broadcast at my home church in Southlake, TX I got to hear the continuation of Pastor Morris's message on the Lord's Prayer. Today being the section on "lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil..."
His key points were four also
1) God can't tempt us
2) God won't mislead us
3) God will deliver us
4) If we will pray
Our responsibility and direction is to PRAY. Every day, everyday...pray. We can't live without it.
Lord, I ask that we all beef up our prayer lives. It is our crucial link to all you have for us. Without it we can't stay connected to You. Amen
So as I journey up, going steeper and steeper, I need God for each step. I have my fixed point, I need the deliverer. I am trusting God and He is my protection, redeemer and healer.
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