Proverbs 3:5-6 TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART; DO NOT DEPEND ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. SEEK HIS WILL IN ALL YOU DO, AND HE WILL SHOW YOU WHICH PATH TO TAKE.
Let our gaze be on God.
If we allow our gaze to be on our request, it will dominate our prayers, we will tell God what we see and tell Him what needs to be done. However if our gaze is on God, we will ask Him to tell us what He sees and tell us what He want done.
( Strategic renewal – Igniting the heart of the church)
Proverbs 3:5-6 TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART; DO NOT DEPEND ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. SEEK HIS WILL IN ALL YOU DO, AND HE WILL SHOW YOU WHICH PATH TO TAKE.
Let our stop and take stock and then act. ‘The following are my observations about the current condition of most of us in our churches today. We are: • Living off other people’s spirituality. • Scattered, fragmented and un centred. • Physically, spiritually, and emotionally tired. • Existing with one inch deep spirituality • Praying and communing with God very little • Struggling to stop our life on the run.’ ( Peter Scazzero) We need to stop. Take stock. Act.
Proverbs 3:5-6 TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART; DO NOT DEPEND ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. SEEK HIS WILL IN ALL YOU DO, AND HE WILL SHOW YOU WHICH PATH TO TAKE.
Let our priorities be in order ‘I realize that this is not a original revelation Don’t get me wrong, I love my job, and I really love being a wife and mother, but in between the sales reports, the housecleaning, the emails, the volunteering at my boys’ school, the texts, the cooking, the phone calls, etc. I found it hard to be present in the moment without wondering what I have to do next. I found that my prayer life suffered heinously because even if I made time to pray I worried about all the other tasks I had to do while I prayed. This is not the best mind-set to have when trying to have quiet time with God. Clearly my priorities were out of order, because I was treating prayer time as something I squeezed into my schedule rather than making prayer the centrepiece of my existence.‘ Catherine ( St Peter’s List)
Proverbs 3:5-6 TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART; DO NOT DEPEND ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. SEEK HIS WILL IN ALL YOU DO, AND HE WILL SHOW YOU WHICH PATH TO TAKE.
Let prayer be your first choice – not your last. It is honouring to God when our immediate and first response to any situation is to talk with Him. If we are going to “acknowledge Him in all our ways,” and “...seek first the Kingdom of God,” we need to seek to make this the way we do things. So often we lean on our own understanding and exhaust all other ‘advisors’ before falling on our knees.
Which path is He calling you to take?
What does the scripture say to you?
How does He lead?
Can you make this prayer?