When you fall...

Lord, help me to just keep doing the next right thing. You have given me this day. This day that You ordained for me before it even existed. So let me live this day with hope in You. Let me live this day by faith knowing that what You have planned for me on this day is good. Knowing that even in the shadows of the valleys that I walk in that You are with me and that I am safe in your arms. Father strengthen me. Let me not be weary in my labor whether it be in my home or on my job. May I give You my best and my first fruits. Let me walk in obedience to your Word one step at a time and one choice at a time. Give me You. In Jesus name. Amen

Yesterday, the Lord placed this prayer on my heart.  I was struggling with fatigue and physical pain and I did not see how I was going to be able to give God my best.  I knew I needed Him to help me to do the next right thing according to His Word.  So I prayed the words He gave me and today  I am praying this prayer again.  I pray it with gratitude and thankfulness for the mercy of a new day and another chance.  

Not every step I made yesterday was the next right thing, but God knows my heart.  His Spirit continued to prick me when I turned my head to left or to the right.  He brought me back to where I needed to be and kept me straight even when I wanted to be crooked  and curvy in my steps.   Abba knows that this daughter He creates hates to mess up.  He knows how I will let condemnation rather than conviction creep in, but He always has a word.  A word that comforts and leads me to refreshing waters and green pastures. Perhaps you can relate to the nagging pain of feeling that  you’ve let down God in some way.  If you fall down like me, something that we all do, may this word bless your soul at it has blessed mine.

Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come (2 Corinthians 1:22-23).

It is God who makes me stand firm in Christ.  Yes, I fall down, but it is God who calls His daughter to stand up.  It is He who gets me up on my feet again to stand in and on the foundation of Christ.  It is Christ who saves me and covers me.  It is Christ who reconciled me and redeemed me.  God makes me stand firm so I don’t have to quiver in my own strength.  I am His daughter.  He has placed His Spirit in me.  His Spirit seals me and reminds me that greater is coming.  Soon, I won’t have to worry about this freshly body.  Soon, I won’t have to worry about the cares of this world that trip me up.  

This is His promise to me and His promises are always Yes!  My response is Amen!  For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God(2 Corinthians 1:20).

His promises preserve my life(Psalm 119:50) and I am grateful.

So with a grateful heart and with joy I pray this prayer again in confidence knowing that He hears and answers.  I pray it today with a heart ready to respond In obedience to His  commands.  Thank You Jesus.  Amen