It Is Going to be a Great Day!

The interaction of Faith, Vision and Service or Ministry in our lives.

“There are things only you can do, and you are alive to do them. In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song , and you owe it go God to play them both sublimely.”? Max Lucado “In his insightful and challenging book, The Call, Os Guinness defines our purpose as “the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion, dynamism, and direction lived out as a response to his summons and service” This perspective give meaning to every moment, and it challenges us to live with integrity in every choice and relationship because we represent God at all times.”

Beginning Your Day. My time is in Your hands!

Father, as I begin this day I commit it to You. I lay all things at Your feet. I place all things into Your hands. I move forward in faith, believing that You go before me. I receive from You -Your strength, Your enabling, and Your anointing. I embrace Your love, Your mercy, and Your grace.

"This is the day which the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it" Psalm 118:24        

God has divided our time into days and nights so that we can ask for fresh power for each day. When we begin the day with a quiet time with the LORD, it’s like reporting in for duty, getting the strategy for the day, and hooking into power to make each day maximum. Job discovered that the morning stars sing together. We can join in that song.

Today Is All We Have

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about it's own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. (Matthew 6:34)        

Most of us get so tomorrow-oriented that we do not enjoy the present moment. We are preoccupied by what is coming, and we fail to experience what is. We press on in preparation as if some new plan, relationship, or opportunity will make everything different. It is good to plan but not to the point that we miss what God is saying in the difficult or unpleasant thing we may now be living through.

"Then the LORD spoke to Paul in the night by a vision. "Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent, for I am with you, and no on will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city (Acts 18:9,10
        

A Vision for the Night

Paul’s vision while in Corinth gives us a formula for stable, confident living. Paul was one of the most stable persons in Christ who ever lived. We are given the source of that stability in this passage. Note the condition of this great man’s heart during the turbulent times of reject and trouble He was afraid, tempted to be silent, and in constant danger. Balance that with the confidence the LORD gave him. The LORD promised that He would be with him and that He had many people in the city who would help him.

Do we have in our lives?