Small Group Tonight

God spoke to me tonight in small group. The prayer leader lead us through the focus of praying through the scriptures. The passage she chose was psalm 26. She asked us to meditate on how we could turn this into a prayer. I began to write almost immediately after she read the passage. We talked about how bold and confident David was to say what he says in the psalm and the maybe he was being sarcastic. We thought that it was uncomfortable, at least, to say the first verse out loud.

What I wrote was this:

I have not led a blameless life or walked in integrity. I have frequently thrown my lot in with the wicked and have followed them and not You. And yet, because You have loved me and still love me, I can say,"I have lived a blameless life and walk in integrity", because you are my life and the life I lead is Christ and my walk is in Your Way.
When I am prone to stray, help me to remember that You love me and that I live Your Life and not my own. I have Your Strength and not my own. And when I am victorious remind me of who really won the battle and of how important I am because You love me that much.

GOD's Will

How do I know GOD's will? It is amazingly simple.

John 7:17
If any man is willing to do HIS will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of GOD...

WOW!

Want to know it, do it! Do what you know and HE will show you HIS will.

Knowing God

It has been a long time since I last posted but I thought I should write this down. I have been going through the story of Joseph and also reading Donald Miller's book "Searching for God Know's What". It dawned on me that Joseph's relationship with God must have been incredibly strong and real. He gets a vision from God that his whole family will bow down to him and the next thing you know he is a slave in Egypt, not where his family is. He hangs on to God through this and even seems like he is getting somewhere in Potiphar's house until Potiphar's wife falsely accuses him and then he is in the Pharaoh's prison, not looking up. But he holds on and when he finally meets up with Pharaoh he still gives God all the credit for the ability to interpret dreams. I can't believe that Joseph found some secret 3 step program that kept him trusting in God. I have to believe that he talked to God and he heard God and God was more real to him than Potiphar's wife or even Pharaoh. I also have to believe that he knew without a doubt that God loved him and that all that was planned for him was so much greater than he could imagine. Oh, that I could trust that way and have faith in what is true and not in how I interpret what I see. I will hang on to God's promises though, I know that I will not be disappointed by relying on God to make it happen.