Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire.
Corrie ten Boom
Your are forgiving and good, O LORD, abounding in love to all who call to you. Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my cry for mercy. In the day of my trouble I will call to you, for you will answer me. PSALM 86:5-7 NIV
David knew how to call on the Lord, he knew how to pray and use prayer. Many of the Psalms that David wrote are prayers. I see David as using prayer as a steering wheel and also as a spare tire. As I heard in my study group last night, at times, you cant help from picking up a nail and getting a flat tire, so we need to have a spare tire. We need both, prayer in steering our lives and guiding us, and also prayer for the unexpected situations in life. This morning I just finished reading the Book of Deuteronomy and was reminded once again how Moses knew God face to face, and spoke to Him face to face. I have not experienced this and must communicate with God through prayer, as I am sure that many others must do the same. I get much assurance from the Scriptures by hearing that God does hear us and will answer us. Not only that, but I can look back in my life to many times when God answered my prayers and get assurance again that God hears. My prayers dont all get answered the way I want, but I am learning to change myself and my attitude to be able to accept the way God has applied His will to my life. I do know that as I pray each morning I develop spiritual renewing which gives me strength for the day ahead of me. I am grateful for a loving God that extends mercy that is renewed each day. I am so grateful that God is forgiving and good. God does for me what I could not do for myself JRE
Now Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Since then no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. DEUTERONOMY 34:9-10 NASB
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Chuck Swindoll from his book Moses, A man of selfless dedication. Share this with me ..JRE
I want to live my life so eternally committed to my Savior and so available and free to Him that all it takes is a whisper from heaven, and Im obeying. I want that for my wife, my children, and my grandchildren. I want that for us as a people of God.
Let me return to the question we started with: If you could put yourself into the skin of any Bible character, which one would it be? In these closing lines, I urge you to put yourself in the skin of Moses. Consider what he gave up and what he received in return. There was no monument to this man of selfless dedication. No towering sphinx. No imposing pyramid. Egypt was more than willing to forget that such a man ever existed. He was buried on some lonely peak on the barren slopes of Mount Pisgah, without so much as a single flower on his grave.
He willingly traded the earthly monuments and acclaim, the perks, the power, and the pleasure for a reward in an invisible realm. He cashed it all in, every shekel of it, for a relationship with the living God.
It was the best trade anyone would have made. What he lost, he couldnt have kept anyway, and what he gained, he could never lose.
Moses couldnt do any better than that.
Neither can we.
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Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask.
BILLY GRAHAM
Corrie ten Boom
Your are forgiving and good, O LORD, abounding in love to all who call to you. Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my cry for mercy. In the day of my trouble I will call to you, for you will answer me. PSALM 86:5-7 NIV
David knew how to call on the Lord, he knew how to pray and use prayer. Many of the Psalms that David wrote are prayers. I see David as using prayer as a steering wheel and also as a spare tire. As I heard in my study group last night, at times, you cant help from picking up a nail and getting a flat tire, so we need to have a spare tire. We need both, prayer in steering our lives and guiding us, and also prayer for the unexpected situations in life. This morning I just finished reading the Book of Deuteronomy and was reminded once again how Moses knew God face to face, and spoke to Him face to face. I have not experienced this and must communicate with God through prayer, as I am sure that many others must do the same. I get much assurance from the Scriptures by hearing that God does hear us and will answer us. Not only that, but I can look back in my life to many times when God answered my prayers and get assurance again that God hears. My prayers dont all get answered the way I want, but I am learning to change myself and my attitude to be able to accept the way God has applied His will to my life. I do know that as I pray each morning I develop spiritual renewing which gives me strength for the day ahead of me. I am grateful for a loving God that extends mercy that is renewed each day. I am so grateful that God is forgiving and good. God does for me what I could not do for myself JRE
Now Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Since then no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. DEUTERONOMY 34:9-10 NASB
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Chuck Swindoll from his book Moses, A man of selfless dedication. Share this with me ..JRE
I want to live my life so eternally committed to my Savior and so available and free to Him that all it takes is a whisper from heaven, and Im obeying. I want that for my wife, my children, and my grandchildren. I want that for us as a people of God.
Let me return to the question we started with: If you could put yourself into the skin of any Bible character, which one would it be? In these closing lines, I urge you to put yourself in the skin of Moses. Consider what he gave up and what he received in return. There was no monument to this man of selfless dedication. No towering sphinx. No imposing pyramid. Egypt was more than willing to forget that such a man ever existed. He was buried on some lonely peak on the barren slopes of Mount Pisgah, without so much as a single flower on his grave.
He willingly traded the earthly monuments and acclaim, the perks, the power, and the pleasure for a reward in an invisible realm. He cashed it all in, every shekel of it, for a relationship with the living God.
It was the best trade anyone would have made. What he lost, he couldnt have kept anyway, and what he gained, he could never lose.
Moses couldnt do any better than that.
Neither can we.
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Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask.
BILLY GRAHAM
