2 Samuel 7

25 “Now therefore, O LORD GOD, the word that You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house, confirm it forever, and do as You have spoken,

Pretty bold praying, huh? And there’s not a hint of arrogance in it. You know how I know?

26 that Your name may be magnified forever;

Is this why we want ABBA to answer our prayers? So HE will be glorified? More than we want the answer to make our lives more comfortable and to our liking? Good question, isn’t it?

by saying, ‘The LORD of hosts is God over Israel’; and may the house of Your servant David be established before You.

And look at that! He is glorified when people can watch us and in truth say, ‘The LORD is indeed her/his LORD!’

And He is glorified when it is obvious to others that we are established in Him. That when prosperity adorns us or when famine encompasses us, we still love and worship Him. We still honor Him with our deeds. We still praise Him with lips.

What can I say? This just blessed me today. Hope it will you come Tuesday.

Colossians 2:6-8 (Amplified Bible)

⁶As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.

⁷Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.

⁸See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah).

Praying for These

LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, Our ABBA, You are so AWESOME to speak to us from Your Word. To make it alive to us. Now I pray HOLY SPIRIT that You make it alive IN us.  Help us to invite You to establish us and then to be still long enough to hear Your plan for us individually. And, LORD, You know the news I just got. Miley. So sick. JESUS, we are bringing her to You and asking that You heal her; that You restore her counts to normal numbers; and I pray for peace and strength for Britteny and Chad and the whole family. Their history makes this so tender, LORD. Please comfort.  And along with Miley, we petition You for the others on our list and our IDOK Troops. Voicing all the needs is not possible for us — we don’t know them all – Thank You, HOLY SPIRIT … for Your Own Glory, LORD, we bring them even as the four brought their friend to You and let him down through the roof — we bring these trusting You to do well; to glorify Father and that will be enough for us.  Thank You JESUS.   Thank You.

Until Wednesday + + + LORD willing,
Kathie