As I sit here thinking (typing in this case), COME ON THROUGH HOLY SPIRIT!!!! I don’t know what to share this morning because I have NOT been sharing with GOD. TRUST, I KNOW that HE IS ALL to me: JOY, PEACE, COMFORTER, LOVER OF MY SOUL, FRIEND, PROVIDER, PROTECTOR-YOU NAME IT!!!!
I AM STILL STRUGGLING with “…FAITH WITHOUT WORKS…” OR “…LEANING TO MY OWN UNDERSTANDING.…” EVERY NIGHT, I PRAY before I go to bed. I still KNEEL beside the bed to PRAY. It doesn’t matter WHERE I am. No matter how LATE it is or how TIRED I am. I WILL PRAY on MY KNEES before I go to bed. I EASE DOWN and SLOWLY AND CAREFULLY get back up.
THE order of PRAYER–GIVE GOD PRAISES-HONOR AND WORSHIP HIM, REPENT AND MAKE YOUR REQUESTS KNOWN. “GLORY TO YOUR NAME, GOD!!!!….“
GLORY TO YOUR NAME, GOD!!!! GLORY, TO YOUR NAME, GOD!!!! GLORY TO YOUR NAME, GOD!!!! is what I continued to repeat over and over again as I PRAYED the other night. My DESIRE and INTENT IS, ALWAYS GIVE GOD HIS GLORY EACH and EVERY time I PRAY. THANK GOD FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT!!!!! I WAS to and YES I have been DECLARING GLORY to the name of GOD and it has been BRIEF. THANK GOD FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT INTERCEDES ON MY BEHALF.
I was FOLLOWING the order of PRAYER and was CHASTENED by the HOLY SPIRIT . I HAD PROFANED “…GLORY TO YOUR NAME, GOD!!!!” IN THE MIDST of the PRAYER, because of ITS DELIVERY, I was THINKING of EVERYTHING that NEEDED or SHOULD be done in ORDER to FINISH. I WAS IN the PLACE TO CAST MY CARES AND UNLOAD MY BURDENS. I WAS PRAYING!!!!????????
I have been USING SOUND BITES when PRAYING. SOUND BITES is defined as a brief catchy comment or saying. My PRAYER/PRAISE “GLORY TO YOUR NAME, GOD!!!!” HAD (LORD HAVE MERCY) BECOME A SOUNDBITE. IT SOUNDS GOOD AND IT IS IMPERSONAL.
MY PRAYER/PRAISE/WORSHIP IS DUE TO THE NECESSITY OF MY DESIRE TO HONOR GOD IN ALL THINGS. NOW IT APPEARS THAT PRAYER/PRAISE/WORSHIP IS FOR EXPEDITENCY–MARKING MY LIFELINE (GOD ALMIGHTY) OFF A LIST OF THINGS THAT DON’T MATTER AND WOULDN’T BE IF NOT FOR GOD.
FORGIVE ME LORD, I HAVE ALLOWED THAT LIST TO BECOME MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE GOD WHO ALLOWS ME TO KNOW THAT THERE IS A LIST AND THE SKILLS, ABILITY, KNOWLEDGE TO WORK THE LIST.
Quoting and Paraphrasing the Mighty O’Jays, “….Your Body is here BEFORE ME….AND YOUR WORSHIP IS AN AFFRONT TO ME….!!!! MY PRAYER AND PRAISE that night, “…GLORY TO YOUR NAME, GOD!!!!...” WAS SUCH AN AFFRONT TO GOD ALMIGHTY THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT INTERCEDED IMMEDIATELY. I STOPPED “GIVING” GOD HIS GLORY. I THANKED GOD FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT. I ASKED GOD AND THANKED HIM FOR HIS MERCY AND REPENTED.
After I REPENTED for UTTERING SOUNDBITES, I RESISTED the attack of the enemy (the THOUGHTS that tried to infiltrate my mind after my repentance-even DURING my repentance) : Should I still be praying? What should I pray for or say? Should I call my sister? Will I finish my work? What’s for dinner? What should I clean first? Should I order from Amazon or go to store? What am I going to do with my hair? Why? What? When? Where? How? Who? (…RESIST THE devil AND he WILL FLEE...”).
After I REPENTED for UTTERING SOUNDBITES, I RESISTED the attack of the enemy (the THOUGHTS that tried to infiltrate my mind after my repentance-even DURING my repentance). (…RESIST THE devil AND he WILL FLEE...”). I DESIRED TO BE IN GOD’S PRESENCE!!!! I SAID NOTHING. I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
THE ATTACK of the enemy WAS RELENTLESS!!!!!!!
I DESIRED TO BE IN GOD’S PRESENCE!!!! I SAID NOTHING. I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
After I REPENTED for UTTERING SOUNDBITES, I RESISTED the attack of the enemy (the THOUGHTS that tried to infiltrate my mind after my repentance-even DURING my repentance). (…RESIST THE devil AND he WILL FLEE...”). I DESIRED TO BE IN GOD’S PRESENCE!!!! I SAID NOTHING. I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
THE ATTACK of the enemy WAS RELENTLESS!!!!!!!
I DESIRED TO BE IN GOD’S PRESENCE!!!! I SAID NOTHING. I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
After I REPENTED for UTTERING SOUNDBITES, I RESISTED the attack of the enemy (the THOUGHTS that tried to infiltrate my mind after my repentance-even DURING my repentance). (…RESIST THE devil AND he WILL FLEE...”). I DESIRED TO BE IN GOD’S PRESENCE!!!! I SAID NOTHING. I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
THE ATTACK of the enemy WAS RELENTLESS!!!!!!!
I DESIRED TO BE IN GOD’S PRESENCE!!!! I SAID NOTHING. I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
I DESIRED TO BE IN GOD’S PRESENCE!!!! I SAID NOTHING. I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
I DESIRED TO BE IN GOD’S PRESENCE!!!! I SAID NOTHING. I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS PRAYING AND CONTINUES WITHOUT CEASING, TO PRAY FOR ME!!!!
My PRAYERS TO GOD, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, INTERCEDED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT IS WHY I BOLDLY DECLARE THAT….
…Nothing will separate ME from the LOVE of GOD which is in CHRIST JESUS…..”
Tangey V.
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