StillfollowingmyKing

  Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV) Trust the Lord: When we learn to trust someone, we place our faith in him or her. We do not doubt what he or she says or does. With all your heart : Curtis Zachary, the author of Finding Soul Rest ,makes a very interesting point. “ In order to trust the Lord with all your heart, you have to give Him all your heart. In all your ways acknowledge Him : Every thing we have, everything we are able to do is ours because God allows us to have those things and to do those things. He will make straight your paths . God will lead you down the paths that He sees best for you. That path may require us to do things that we have not thought we could do but He guides us through. Yes, we have to give Jesus every bit of our heart. By doing this, we find ourselves more patient, less judgmental, more a...

  Microsoft Bing Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me; And lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139: 23-24 (NKJV) Search me, O God, -Look at me as a laboratory researcher would view something under a microscope. Study me, look for the things that You need to clear out of who I am. know my heart;- truly know who I am really, not whom I think I am. know my anxieties; know what upsets me. Help me to work through them. see if there is any wicked way in me; Flush our anything wicked, evil, or unbecoming in me. Let Your light shine in me. lead me in the way everlasting . Guide me through ths quagmire I have found myself in. Help me through this extremely tough time. -------------- Originally written as a journal entry August 6, 2024

  In my reading of A.W. Tozer, I ran across a statement that has caused me to stop and think. He states that there are certain areas of seeking God's guidance and His answers to our requests in which we we do not know how to pray. Tozer explains that we sometimes ask God to bless us and then give us what we want. Sometimes we pray this way, and it is not what He wants for us. He tells his readers that we should seek God's will and ask Him for His desires for the circumstances we see around us and wish Him to change in our lives and the lives of the church. This is a huge challenge for me. I have to study the situation and then think of how God sees it. Then I have to ask Him “if it is in Your will,” before I present my petitions. Tozer also reminds us that God answers petitions that we ask in Jesus' Name. I find these things fascinating. I definitely have tried to add these approaches to my praying to Hi...