The Kingdom Teacher

Was meditating on some Scripture this week and it seemed like my eyes opened wide to see this one thing! I had heard this on a news report. This was not on “fake news” but another news station who is consistent with actual truths and not folly! But this one lady in her speaking said that “ a group of people has not learned to grow to become the citizens they were meant to be. She mentioned their status as one who are really the needy in that they never learned to read nor write. My question, although this woman could not hear me, but I responded with a question “where was their parents when they were born, and where were those in academia when they had come into the school system?

There is always the “blame game” and to put off on others what “we” as parents or even as adults are expected to do! As I thought on Scripture again so as not to be carried away into what tangent of darkness this thought might take me,  I instantly returned to remember Jesus being found in the Temple asking questions of those who taught in the temple: 

Luke 2:41-52 His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. 42 And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast. 43 When they had finished the days, as they returned, the Boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem.  And Joseph and His mother did not know it; 44  but supposing Him to have been in the company, they went a day’s journey, and sought Him among their relatives and acquaintances. 45 So when they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking Him. 46 Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers. 48 So when they saw Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Look, Your father and I have sought You anxiously.”

49 And He said to them, “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” 50 But they did not understand the statement which he spoke to them. 51 Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but His mother kept all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and men.

Certainly the responsible party was Joseph and Mary in keeping their son with them. It was not up to others to see about Him. So you have a family returning to Nazareth, but the Boy Jesus was not with them. And when they find Him, the Boy is amazing scholars who know the law. He had understanding that was amazing. He was twelve and had both understanding and he had that which judged, yes, the discerning side as well!

And He told His mother, “Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” He was about His Father God’s business. Would we not want our children to be about being scholarly in respect to the things of God?

Back to the lady who talked about those who could not read nor write and they are today adults. She said they were needy.  Yes, they need to be taught. They need to sit down long enough to learn to write and learn to read and then go be the responsible. But again, you will find what people choose to blame when they find they do not meet that merit system.

My parents expected us to attend school and learn to be responsible. And we learned and did we sometimes need the extra help? Yes! And my parents were there even when the new books had come out for “new math” when I was going into Junior High School. I remember my dad asked what was wrong with the other math for it worked well for him! But we kept learning and by high school and then graduation, we had both learned to read and write, to formulate and speak a new language that was foreign to us. And that language was Spanish. For all the work and hours we put in: we earned a diploma. We got it for applying ourselves to that which was at hand: to read and write and be somebody!

Yet today, there are many wanting to do away with the ‘merit system’. You hear of it spoken by some governors of several states. They want to reward the Johnny come lately, the lazy Susan, and Typhoid Mary!

But Jesus was twelve and talking with those who taught in the Temple. They were not philosophers! Jesus advanced in wisdom and favor. He visibly displayed His unique relationship with the Father. Jesus returned with His mother and Joseph but He maintained His truths in the Father.

Then I continued to meditate Scripture. I came to this question: are we using the time wisely of knowing who we are in Christ? If we were saved like some twenty years ago and had begun that process, are we still trying to figure out who we are in Him, when the Bible has so much about being in Him!

You and I cannot be a grand-child of God’s. He has no grand-children! He has only sons! I am a “son” spiritually. 1 John 3:1-2 behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God.

Romans 8:14, 16-17 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God…….16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ…..

Born again unto God, we are the children of God! We are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ! We are to be those daring to take our place as God’s children. As those sons and daughters who have received Jesus today, we confess who we are in Him! Life is to be enjoyed and be known with purpose. God’s Word reveals to us how to not just talk about Him but to walk with Him and converse with Him.

What we hold in our heart will reveal what we believe! Some people are ready to hold aspirin up as their healer for pain. Others take the more exotic way of specialty drugs and love it till it kills them. What is reality to us?

Romans 10: 9-10 if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved. 10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

We are to confess Him by speaking it out loud for our own ears to hear it. We are stand and speak: we believe Him to be the Son of God. We believe Him to have been raised from the dead. He is our Savior, He is our Lord, and He is seated on the throne of our hearts. He is guiding us to the future by His Holy Spirit.

Acts 17:28 for in Him we live and move and have our being. You and I are to live within Jesus. We move as He moves. He is super power! He is super Lord………..He has energy and strength for the impossible tasks we face!

Have you ever had opportunity to stand where they produce power at a dam? I had never had the opportunity till about twenty-one years ago. It was one dam that was located in Concrete, Washington. My husband and I had a tour there one day. And I remember taking that walk into the area where those engines were operating and standing above the water forcing through the gates and that tremble under my feet. The whirring of the engines and the vibration of the floor under the engines, caused the ground beneath my feet to vibrate with a force I had never encountered before. This was power magnified, it was manifested and the combination produced light somewhere in America!

Now can you imagine God’s Word of water forced through little you and to light up someone’s life on your pathway in this world? In Him we are to live and move and have our being in Him. This is not philosophy. And it should not take us forever to find out who we are in Him! We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. ( Ephesians 2:10) We are in Him, In WHOM we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins. (Ephesians 1:7) Who in His own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: By WHOSE strips we were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)

WE are not going to be healed someday. We are the healed now. Jesus did this for you and for me and by His stripes we are the healed. We are made the whole with nothing missing, or lacking or broken in our lives. For the law of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

There was another plague in the last century that was written about: the bubonic plague. One such person who we read about was John G. Lake, who as a missionary to Africa,  relied on the Scriptures especially of the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

 He cared for the sick and buried the dead. When a team of British doctors had appeared with a ship of supplies and a group of doctors to bring aide and relief, he was asked what he had been using to protect himself against the bubonic plague. Of course his answer was: “I believe the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. And as long as I walk in the light of that law of Life, no germ will attach itself to me.”

The group of doctors wanted him, John G. Lake, to see the ferocious activity of the living mass of germs that killed.  John G. Lake told them that he would take that foam from the mouth of a dead person and place it on his hand and they could see it as he held it under the microscope. With the approval of this action, it was John G. Lake that proved to those doctors that what he was holding in his hand caused them to die instantly. Why? “That is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.”

John G. Lake believed God and His word!

Resist the devil and he will flee from you. ( James 4:7) The devil is a quitter. He always gives up. He is one who wants his own way and after a short time he goes away for another time to attack you. But his characteristics prove he is only a liar and short on patience!

He has certainly done a number on those who believe they cannot read nor write and use the blame game on others so actively today, so they free themselves from any blame to themselves. Yet we are to be responsible for ourselves. But all the devil had to work on was one parent, and the next generation parent and the next one. Because one left to do their own thing, the remaining parent had a double duty of providing for the offspring and seeing they were educated as well.

I am blessed that my parents wanted me to succeed. I was blessed in the truth that they worked as a team. They wanted me to receive a diploma and be responsible. It was not a blame game. I heard out of both their mouths that effort was needed. It was going to require some work and there would be some of those not set for learning and who would most definitely quit.  But I was told I was one who would never quit. And I have never stopped, not from my beginning in school or to this very day, learning is my heart's desire!

There is a group called the ‘Marines’. They are the few, the proud, the Marines’. They go in for a job. They go in to make a change. Now what if it took them some twenty to thirty years to finally go in and make a change. Well, most likely, the ones they went to rescue, the ones they were to save but could not because it took them some thirty years  or later to train for that rescues, most of them to be rescued would certainly be dead on their late arrival for said 'rescue'.

No, when these men or women go into the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines, they are in a place to be disciplined. They have a drill sergeant or someone like him who walks them through the early morning and into their day. You have someone who will drill discipline into you. 

They will drill into you what you need to know. They will drill into you the action to be taken. They will regard what the "end game is" and how to get there.

They know all about the merit system. They are no longer a Johnny come lately nor a lazy Susan. They are military. They drink military thoughts and eat military diets. Exercise is their choice. Could you image a PeeWee Herman showing up to try to rescue you, let's say in Iran? No, these are in uniform to show who they represent, they reveal who they are for and what they stand for. 

So why cannot a Christian be ready for active duty like Jesus was? Why does it take so long for a Christian, especially living in this day with all the technology to learn to speak as Jesus spoke? Are there not enough drill sergeants to give the word of God in teaching and to pray for them to become active for that purpose God has set before them to be and become? Is the 21st century Christian too absorbed about material things and not enough gusto for real life in God and His way and thoughts?

Christians are dressed in royal attire. They experience grace. It was divine. It was for salvation that was meant to save us from destruction!

Our Commander in Chief is Jesus Christ! He is warrior! Read Revelation chapter 1. That is a Warrior! Exodus 15:3 The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is His name.

Zechariah 14:3 then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle. 4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley.

This is Jesus in Revelation chapter 1 going to set His foot on earth. He is majesty, He is mighty, He is authority, He is greatness and honor!

 Colossians 2:6-7…6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.  NIV

 Jude 1:20-21..“But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”   

For Christians,  the wall represents the spiritual protection God wants to be established in each Believer’s life. In the New Testament Paul refers to it as “armor of God”: Ephesians 6:11-12

 Jesus was twelve and he had questions. He asked those who knew! And those who viewed His activity were astonished.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 

From that we know, Jesus the Christ, told us to seek the kingdom of God and all things are added to us. (Matthew 6:33) And in His righteousness we are in right standing with God. 

Let us be active as a military man or woman, to be those by faith active to apprehend what is ours in Jesus. Where we are weak Holy Spirit strengthens us, and He helps us to see and heed more clearly. 

Fill up on spiritual food and receive that which helps one grow, heal and reveal what is purposed for our lives. We tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt us. We are strengthened by that implanted word to hold firm. We have taken the whole armor of God to stand.

If you have issues with reading or seeing with clear vision, start by hearing His word. Put it in our heart! Hear it while you sleep and hear it while you eat! Put priority ONE on it....to Hear Him so that those truths suddenly can come into your life. Because if it is of the heart that will lead us when there is Jesus seated upon it. May we know the kingdom Teacher intimately so that we are disciplined to hear, disciplined to know Him, and disciplined to ride with Him when He returns to earth! Amen!

 

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A Boss Baby

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Yikes! Have you seen that first flick of the Boss Baby? Can you imagine being led by a baby Boss? Certainly one must be trained for the area of work they desired to be positioned in for hopefully good pay, and of course advancement within said company. Yet there is that "one thing" that one must remember and that is to be diligent to do the best work one can do and especially in knowing when we are doing it unto the Lord.
Of recent days, the house is painted a new color. In this process you find those who desire to do the job, show up early and get started quickly to finish their assigned painting for the day. Yesterday proved futile with the winds gusting to 35 miles per hour, but today is beautiful indeed and very little wind to stop the required work!
One shows up for the job and gets started early, but the other comes much, much later and gives their expertise on the subject. Again, we must be willing to learn but would be more apt to learn from someone who loved their job!

It was like the teen who wanted a job at the  local Hardware Store in this town called Carson. Yet, in the writing of this article in a letter to the editor of  the local paper, the young teen required a minimum of 35 dollars to start and wanted Saturday and Sunday off! Now I wonder when he was going to work and if there is that place that pays the clean-up person the minimum of 35 dollars to start...where can I speak with these folks! Now if school is out, then most likely he could work during the summer, but still this was while school was in session.

Education and training is very important. As our grand-daughter points out she is learning her math to see clearly the ingredients for her recipes she loves to prepare with her mother and dad! Her dad has created some games to play with coins and the such to learn algebra.
 It takes study time within a classroom or quiet place alone and time to actually do the work yourself and not use some kind of instrument to get the correct answer. Kids today are allowed calculators in what, the 4th grade? Not sure how one could learn the process of working the math out, if a machine or piece of handheld equipment does the answering for you.
For me I have always loved reading, and finding out information from history, from the Bible to learning what recipes came from which country!  (Consider this: it was stated that Sir Walter Raleigh brought the potato back from the Americas and it was promptly introduced at the royal court of Queen Elizabeth. The group viewed it and then ate it raw! Since that time England swings with the new concoction of fish and chips. And if you are in England try them, they are oh so good!)

To learn anything, takes time and the willingness to study to acquire that place of knowing good information that equates with going somewhere with that which one can stand on and not that which equates no quality, which brings pain, darkness and no favor anywhere.

Anyone seeking that study time will seriously seek some good  time and generally alone time in a quiet room. My quiet time is in the office.  I love looking up early preachers of the Word of God and love finding out what their lives were truly like over one hundred years ago. For a person to bloom into what God has for them today, it requires them to have that foundation of the Gospel. Reading and studying the Bible from cover to cover would be a good start. And what is awesome about that today, is that they have the Bible on CD! So you could take it in your car or truck, to work or to the beach and see some great change come into your life!


Was thinking of the teen wanting the "great paying " job, but did he know how to push the broom, clean up and stack things in order? Could he take out the trash or was that left for the owner to do?
I think also of those walking the "streets" for change in the schools and most who carry the signs are made by 13 -17 years old. Now what change could they expect...for they have only known a few years of life and hopefully it was in school?  Yet even today there are those who walk the streets during school time, so I ask you what are they missing that day of which they might require in the future?

My husband and I saw this story of a young woman who most likely was about 21 years of age and she had been raised as an orphan. Not of this country, she grew up in the slums of a third world country, but chose to attend school. Still within her inadequate care of good food and clean environment she became ill, not unto death but did  have the kind of sickness which affected her brain. (especially in the thinking region of her brain) Still she proved to herself she could study and become a responsible adult.
It took her some years, but she moved from the fantasy to living as the responsible and in that she actually found parents to care for her who were not her biological but loved her just the same! For many though who have the advantage here, seem to need proof to back their own opinions and ideas.
Saw a writing by a theologian who stated that many today lack resources, many have the lack of time and many lack the resource of education to make the search for God. Of course he was mentioning those of third world countries. Many have to walk to find water and then it is not drinkable. Many are women who have been abandoned by husbands and now must care for their children alone! But I am certain that would not be the case in the country of which we live like America! Of late, the leading was toward creating "a god or goddess"!  People like the Avengers and the false reality many adhere to living, and the feedback  that was sent out today echoed the sentiments of the writers or creators of such are getting tired of the new story lines. But many people choose a leading in that which makes them comfortable to their idea of living for the fun times. In their consciences, they truly dodge that which they should grasp in knowing God but conform to gods and goddesses where magic rules, and responsibility is thrown out the window.


Jesus was given the tongue of the learned. He as the Prophet was given the exact word given to Him by the Father. Ezekiel 3:17 NKJV   17"Son of Man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me. Matthew 13:52 NKJV 52 Then He said to them, "Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is life a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.
Jesus brought forth that which was spoken of Him from the Old Testament and Revealed the New Testament in and through Him!

Jesus spoke this in John 12:49 "For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

Jesus became the qualified. He became the Son . God opens our ears to hear. And like the Son we are not to be rebellious when He speaks. Jesus was willing to learn and to become what He was destined for as the divine sacrifice without sin! Despite the negative and the scorn, Jesus proved to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. He did not demand 35 dollars an hour to start out in His walk. No He was steadfastly set firmed and focused to accomplishe which even meant His death!

Isaiah 50: 7 continues with this: 7 For the Lord God will help Me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed. 8 He is near who justifies Me; Who will contend with Me? Let us stand together. Who is My adversary? Let him come near Me.

God, His Father vindicates Jesus' character, approves of what Jesus did and declares Jesus innocent. And this was a prophetic word about HIM! With Jehovah as His advocate and His help, Jesus would prevail!

No "boss babies" here please! Truly our eyes are to be fixed on the word of God, following righteousness seeking the Lord always. We have received deliverance out of every phase of the curse for all men who will conform to His will. For when God promotes, others will desire to hear God's word through you and through me. For when God promotes, favor on our lives will be seen. And by faith we must believe and receive that which is in God for our light will break forth like the beams of the sun on a clear morning. Our righteousness that is of and in God will be seen as whole and healthy and God's glory will be our rear guard! Darkness has passed, light has appeared and in this day we delight. For in this process of time, we become what he destined for us to be in this moment now for His glory for now and forever. Amen!

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Country Strong

God devotion makes a country strong! (Voice of Prayer)

God-devotion makes a country strong;

God-avoidance leaves people weak.  Proverbs 14:34 Message Bible

Proverbs 14:34   Amp. Bible Uprightness and right standing with God ( moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation ) elevate a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.

Came across this in my reading last week and made note of it! It inspired this writing.

When I was in school, I worked hard very on some subjects I took. For instance I loved history, geography, science, language arts and English. But really did not care for the math part, or P.E. Music was a fun period time, for we had a teacher who really loved music and all sorts of instruments. She made it fun to learn: like when a score was written and for what purpose the particular person proceeded to create it in music and lyrics. She would teach about the creator of such work and in what time period they lived. Her name: well we called her Mrs. Rich and she was truly rich in the knowledge of that history that was vital to America! She loved her job of teaching and her love of music to teach others. I pray I teach like she did and that others would experience that love I have for the Lord in every word and that it would be in harmony with God as an orchestra to those who will read and hear!

In church for time, you learn that the devil came to steal, kill and destroy in that order. The Amplified Bible states it this way: John 10:10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows); 11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd risks and lays down His [own] life for the sheep. 12 But the hired servant ( who merely serves for wages) who is neither the shepherd or the owner of the sheep, when he sees the wolf coming, deserts the flock and runs away. And the wolf chases and snatches them and scatters [ the flock].

My mother was wise in that she took us to church, and she talked with our instructors. She also saw to it that she met with our school instructors and took that instruction from them for her counsel in checking our work at home. In that she continued to train us. For whatever issues she had,  they meant nothing because she wanted her “kids” educated in church and in school!

Good job, Mom!

Making Jesus our Good Shepherd will keep the enemy away. But it is our faith that must be spoken, you know that language of faith to declare He is our God.  It is not by declaring a world spectacular as our god. It is not missing out on those school days when an education is required today to get a job interview or even the job tomorrow!

Any avoidance of God weakens our life, the life of our children, and even our community and nation! When people choose to do only that which strikes their “fancy” as to entertaining the flesh, one looks for all the great buys to get out there and experience “that world”! From this get- away to that get-away....and what are people getting away from?

Now when my sister and I were in school, our mother saw to it that we read the word at night and she would pray with us, especially if our dad was on a long trip away from home. Now her thinking was that we needed “Sunday school” and to school we went on Sunday! The same worked for getting that education, for both my parents knew that getting an education between reading and writing your name and not learning to write or read anything.  I remember stories of some great grand-parents in our family who had little education and how they had the chore of finding someone available so they could have something read to them before they could sign their name on any formal document. That was enough to influence me: I was getting a diploma to know for certain all I needed  to be educated in reading and writing  and to understand before I signed anything of the formal nature!

But today, so many young people seem to disregard education as not needed. I had heard an alarming report of those who have missed more school this year than the 10 days allowed by the district. It seems they choose not "to attend'.  But these teens certainly have seemed to miss an opportunity to learn something that might benefit them twenty years from now! 

My question: how do they graduate if they have not fulfilled their amount of time for study of those subjects required? Are they expecting some kind of handout all their life? Is there something else available I had not heard of in this day and time, for we know jobs are important to have for bringing in a check to care not only for oneself but also for the family if one is married. It is those important things: like renting a place when first starting out, buying groceries, paying bills and hey, how about the upkeep of a new cell phone? Who will pay that bill?

All the jobs I had applied for in my lifetime required you have the High School diploma or you were not hired.  Even up to the beginning of the 21 century I saw and heard stories that if you had quit school you would not be hired until he or she had produced a document proving that he or she had acquired that “diploma” (like G.E.D.)

In reading on to the next verses in the Message Bible, I read this Proverbs 14:35 Diligent work gets a warm commendation; shiftless work earns an angry rebuke.

Now if you are working for you, you still must have God as your lead in anything. For the above mentions that the king, any man or woman who is in charge of the company or business is the one who will commend another for the work done in the company or business. But if one is the “slacker” and does not required the paycheck they will certainly find his place in being unemployed.

Slacking also means you do not tell your boss how to do his job your way! If you have a boss, he got his job by the amount of years he remained faithful to learn and understand the way he sought in either learning a trade or field or area of work and maintained in a good position as he or she ages. Slacking also means that you do not go and change what the company or business is already doing. If you are hired you are hired to do exactly what you are paid to do, no more and no less…but be faithful to it!

We take a local paper here in this area. It is always delivered to our mailing address in town. In some of the editorials, we read of the frustrations by some local business owners who hire the teens for either the summer season or hire those who want to work  after high school is finished and they need regular work. One such individual wrote of his hardware business and what he had sent out in the paper that he was hiring for someone to do clean-up and haul large items of lumber or such to a customer's vehicle. He had a few other things listed, but in short, he put that he got people who wanted to work part-time hours, and required really enlarged salaries, like the starting pay at 30 dollars to start? Now where has this “kid” been living?

Anyway, the short of it, either the work for the said persons was not what they wanted and not enough pay! I remember when my mother made $1.65 an hour to start her job. And her increase was very slow paced. Of course that was back in the twentieth century!

Making demands should not be our lifestyle! If we are in the Lord, we learn His wisdom and how to grow not only in knowing Him and His word, but also how to work with others, learn the needed knowledge we require for a certain job and move ahead with God’s hand of favor on our lives.

Staying close to the Lord will give us the protection to know when some “unexpected something” is coming your way! Unless prepared by the Lord, we miss it! Many an opportunity has been missed by many people, just look at the graveyard you pass maybe to church or to work or maybe the next time you buy groceries. I always note seeing one somewhere when we are driving out any direction of where we live. And I wonder how many really did something that God had placed in them to do.

The most I have seen for the youth is they died suddenly when driving too fast while texting!
Now I do hear of some world changers and history makers, but they are not from around here!

God and prayer work for our families, our neighbors and our nation!

My thought is what is the heartache one experiences when their young teen dies so suddenly when it most likely could have been prevented. Now some things can occur, but prayer is important to keeping God’s power going out to keep our families strong in Him. Prayer amounts to the power of God released into their young lives. Prayer for our youth and those teens surrounds them with God’s power of protection to see that they come home safely.

Considering God is powerful and able to save, I desire to stay with Him. I have made too many trips to the “city” and see so many still disobeying the rules to answer that “all important” text while driving. I don't need to watch for horror movies on TV, I can drive in the nearest city to observe that and without the benefit of a good bag of popcorn.

Education is so important, and so is knowing the Lord. In the world where so many are missing the great opportunity of receiving a good education to thrive,  they miss out not only by being absent from school but also miss those days they might really be needed……..and within that, they vacate that which could have been a really good life being submissive to learn and to achieve. In the end, they most likely miss their opportunity to a life in God. If school is not important, would knowing God and learning the truths in the Bible be important?

God devotion makes a country strong! May our desire together in unity be for His kingdom to come and be done on earth as it is in heaven. May God the Lord be praised! He sent Jesus and with the thankfulness of our heart’s we can see things change when we pray! 

It is our God Who has delivered us from the evil one who came to steal, kill and destroy us, but God sent us HIS Son that we would have life and have it in abundance. Are our lives significant of abundance or that which is diminished, the lacking with no life of God in it?

Thank YOU Father for delivering us from every evil work and thank YOU for the authority YOU have given us with the name of Jesus. We love YOU and praise YOU.

Oh, Lord may we praise YOU every day and within that find those new reasons to praise YOU!

Father, according to Proverbs 14:34   Amp. Bible we desire to have the uprightness and right standing with God ( moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation ) elevate a nation but choose to push  past sin as we understand….it is a reproach to any people.

We pray for those who know YOU and their families today that any who have floundered may be brought back into the fold of YOUR truth and love. May all children everywhere know the importance of a good education no matter their age and within that may they have regard for God first and His plan for their lives that which brings abundance for every area of their lives. We pray for those who know the Lord, may their children grow spiritually, physically, financially, socially and emotionally through God’s Word of truth!

Father, may Your peace rule this nation, this state, and this community. May the people of this nation become kingdom people and give praise to the one true God. It is all about serving the Lord with gladness in our hearts. To God be all the glory. Amen and Amen.

Notice: 

The Voice of Prayer  has a new teaching:

Loving By Choice: Not By Circumstance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41y9YtcwiY4

You can also visit my You Tube channel The Voice of Prayer for more teaching at:  http://bit.ly/1tNyBhV