This morning prayer is about thanking You Father for allowing me another day to be a witness for You. Thank You for Your loving kindness and thank You for Your love. You found this lost soul and welcomed me home, that was something that I will never forget.
Your love was something I had never felt before. OH, yes I had love in my life, but nothing like the love you showed to me. A sinner bound for hell, in fact on the fast track to hell. You forgave me and gave me a fresh slate. Did I do it all right, no, have I made mistakes, yes. Have You ever questioned me about them, NO.
Your love has taken me through a lot of stuff and yes I turned away over something stupid. However, You have never turned away from me. Your love has seen me and gotten me through so much. I am sure some day I will understand it all. For You have never given up on me.
This Sunday I am going to sing in church a song I wrote about Your love. It was inspired by someone You placed in my life and the success of it will be because of You. You have given me this voice and You have directed me. Again some of the time I tried to do it on my own. Sometimes I did things that did not honor You, but, through it all Your love and Your strength got me through it all.
I sang music for years and never even thought about it. The enemy had me blinded, he had me all wrapped up until a preacher asked me to go to church with Him. And from that day to now, my life has never been the same. I know ask You Father to see me though this and let me give you all the praise and honor and glory for it…
I have never been wealthy nor have I ever had the finer things of this world. However, I have experienced something that some will never and that is the love of my Father, the love of Jesus and the chance to go to Heaven. It is available for anyone who wishes to change, but, the choice is theirs to make.
I can not get over John 3:16-18 (MEV) 16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
He so loved he world that He GAVE… Gave His only Son so that if we believe in Him we should not perish, Now there is a statement that the first time that I really understood it, it was scary. One word caught me, the world SHOULD, not shall not, may not but should not. Why did You say should not, and yes I know some have interpreted as SHALL.
Shall means one can not will not without a doubt and I think our Father has given us a choice and He will not make us take it. So SHOULD means one can accept and change and become what our Father desires. Now I am going to get in trouble here probably. But, we need to understand what God our Father is saying.
I think this scripture says what I am trying to say Matthew 7:21-23 (MEV) 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonderful works in Your name?’ 23 But then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice evil.’
This is not a game there is no backing up nor is there any bending of the rules. Our Father desires that none should perish, however, His love is real and those who wish to play with it will not be saved. As we read in Matthew 7. We are to do the will of our Father completely with no compromising with the world. All or none that is the choice…
My prayer today is that we all grow stronger in the love of our Father. That we all walk in the light all the time and if and when we slip we are quick to repent and turn from that wicked way. Believe and trust in our Lord and Savior completely. In the precious name of Jesus I do pray—AMEN!