Hello Family pray with me on
this day,
Father God we offer thanks to
You for the blessings we discover in our lives this day. We offer thanks for all the goodness You
bestow upon us, our family, and our friends.
Father we seek prayer with You as a way to communicate with You and in
doing so we know You hear our words, each and every one of them. We ask for Your help in healing those who are
sick in one form or another, be it an illness, financial woes, or whatever
other issue that crops up, we know You are aware and have the power to help in
this circumstances, we pray that You will intervene Father with Your healing
hands. We are thankful for the sacrifice
You made in sending Your one and only son to earth, Jesus Christ, to work with
us and teach us so many wonderful things about life. We are thankful and forever indebted for His
glorious sacrifice, knowing He endured so much pain in His walk with the cross
all for our behalf. As He hung from the
cross and died, He did not die in vain but rather to wash away the sins of the
world, then and now….forever, for those who come to know Him and accept Him
into their lives as Lord and Savior. In
return we are filled with the Holy Spirit and we know our lives to be changed in
a great way as a result. We give thanks
for our abilities to make choices and decisions in our lives in how we live and
work, we pray we make the best choices and decisions that You find pleasing
God. We seek the light that You shine
upon our path as our constant guide. Let
us not stray from Your lighted path, but keep us from evil as we strive to live
in Your ways. We lift these prayers to You
in the name of Christ Jesus….AMEN.
Welcome again Family, we all
travel different roads in our routines that are a vital part of our day. Do you ever take the time with the roads you
travel to look around as you drive, and if you do what do you see, is it beauty
or simply something that is brown and mundane?
This isn’t really a trick question and either answer is right. I’ve worked in some areas of our country and
on our great continent that were beautiful and I’ve worked and driven in some
areas that were not so much.
What about those brown and
mundane areas though, do you just take them for granted or have you tried to
see deeper and maybe even tried to change things? I once lived in Wyoming along the I-80
interstate a highly traveled roadway across America. I-80 follows a historical trail of the US
infancy, that of the Union Pacific Railroad for much of its trek, especially
across the western part of the country.
Yes in that southern part of Wyoming to the untrained eye it can appear
to be very barren and yucky, especially as you zoom through it at 70 mph or so.
However, if you take the time to
look closer….to get off the interstate and see some of the detail, you will
discover a rather fragile environment that manages to survive hot summers, and
rather harsh winters year after year. There is beauty in the flora and fawna of the
area, but you have to look close to uncover it.
You have to take time to “smell the roses.”
There was also a mailman in Los
Altos Hills, CA who noticed a barrenness along his 50-mile daily route. Rather than settle for what was, he chose to
try and make a difference. He started to
throw wild flower seeds out along his route.
What a difference his little effort made. Today if you travel his route you will see
beautiful patches of blooming flowers all along the route.
God has provided in each of us
the ability to make such changes in the environment around us. He provides us with the ability to explore
and discover the inner beauty of what outwardly may appear dull and lifeless. But we have to find the time, make the
effort, we have to make a decision to change something in our life.
The same thing happens with
regard to God’s gospel, let us take the time to sow the seeds of the Gospel,
the very seeds that grow into salvation and a renewed life. We need to be sowing seeds that will blossom
into the tasty fruits of the Spirit……love, joy, righteousness, and more. We should want to be remembered as the ones
who sowed seeds that brought forth beautiful things, not the one who constantly
complains about the surroundings and does nothing. It is time for proactive actions that will
bring more of God’s beauty to the world in which we live.
But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears
the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a
hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown." Matthew 13:23
Go in Peace
Blessings to you all
Aloha
Randy
