God, I know I can never doubt whether or not your timing is perfect because it always is and always will be. And there is no doubt that you honor those that seek you and honor you. So I want to thank you for that and being the faithful God you are and blessing my time in your Word directed in today’s Jesus Calling. How cool is it that the chapter (Ephesians 4) with the verse that is the title to my blog is one of the directed readings. Thank you for that reminder and the faith challenges that come along with that chapter.
We are to live in the light so we can be a light, and I pray that you can lift Mason and I up as we seek you through this trip so that we may be able to salt the earth and be placed on a hillside to light up a city, god, and maybe even a nation. Zimbabwe desperately needs you. I pray how David consistently did in Psalms that you would please frustrate the plans of the wicked and ultimately save their souls. God, protect the people of Zimbabwe and be their support. I pray that Mason and I could just be encouragers for that. “I will praise you forever, O God, for what you have done. I will trust in your good name in the presence of your faithful people.” - Psalm 59:2. You have led our hearts to these people and to this trip, and ultimately, we have followed you. We have not been perfect, but we have been persistent.
Forgive me for what I feel a lack of preparation mentally, spiritually, and emotionally specifically for this trip, but thank you mightily for the time I had with Conner, contemplating and experiencing our relationship. Please use all that I have learned and felt during those 5 weeks with him to bring glory to Your name here. Please let me be clay in the Potter’s hands and mold my thinking, feeling, living, etc., in any which way you please so that I may bring more glory to Your Name. And I pray that even in the moments, weeks, or months where my flesh is trying to battle Your will, that I could bring You glory in the form of communication, questions, patience, and then my humility. Blessed be Your Name.
I pray that Deuteronomy 31:6 would be forever on my heart and I can remember it and call it out to expel all fear that leads me to doubt You or cling to my own human forms of safety and security. I pray that trust and boldness in You and with Your Name would couple together to change someone’s heart and open their eyes to the power, love, grace, and freedom given access to us through the cross. Your Son’s death is a sacred thing, and I pray that I would live a life that honors His sacrifice. And as Ephesians 4:1 says, “…lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God.” And Ephesians 4:30 says, “And do not bring sorrow to God’s Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own, guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.” Let me honor my Father and follow the Holy Spirit’s leading in my heart in everything I do so that I may help His Kingdom come by glorifying things of heaven and not of earth.
Lord, you know my fears and you know my heart. You see my bitterness, jealousy, unforgiveness, selfishness, insecurities, ugly words, actions and thoughts, and You have chosen to look over them and instead look at the heart YOU first created for me. I pray that You would reveal more of it to me and I would continue to learn how to use it as a greater reflection of Your own heart You have placed in ME. Help me have persistence to try and live by and with that heart, covered in Your grace and glory, not the heart covered in fleshy motives and sin. You can overcome ANY human weakness.
“So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the Lord your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you.” – Deuteronomy 31:6.
Love, Me
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