How We Should Pray

We should pray up rather than calling God down. We do not need to call God down because God knows our needs before we ask. When we pray, our spirit is to be directed upward rather than downward. When we pray upward, whatever problems, needs, and issues we face in the here and now can be left in the here and now. When we pray upward, we do not need to ask God to work on what we face each day. Instead, when we pray upward, we let our spirit soar upward to God rather than asking or seeking for God to come down to us. Praying is a matter of taking our spirit and going home to be with our Father in Heaven while we are alive upon the earth. Once we go home to be with Christ in prayer, then we can sit and talk to Him about what we face each day. What is most important we be willing to go to where God is rather than asking God to come to be where we are. When we pray up for others we cast the needs of others up to God. We take their needs and send their needs upward in prayer so God can work on the needs of others and do miraculous work in their life.

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God Has Given You Direction

What talents and traits have God given you? Most people have some idea of their talents and traits. The talents and traits God has given you can be an indicator of His will for your life. Your talents and traits are pointers you can use to measure your hopes and dreams against God's will. If you are great in math and accounting, God may need you to use your math ability to fulfill His will for your life. If you are mechanically inclined then work or service in a mechanical field may be God's will for you. God's will is like the wind. You can either go with the wind or go against the wind. Walking is easier with the wind at your back. Likewise pursuing hopes and dreams using your native talents and traits is easier than pursuing hopes and dreams requiring you to use talents and traits you do not have.

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Never, Ever, Give Up

To reach any goal you must try again, and again, and again, and you must never give up. To never ever give up you need power. You can choose an infinite power or you can choose a finite or limited power. In any pursuit in life, you have a choice about which kind of power you use to keep going so you never ever give up. The limited evil power does not want you to win. The limited evil power wants you to give up. The limited evil power wants you to live in defeat and darkness. The limited evil power wants you to fail and fail miserably. God is the infinite power of the universe. To keep going so you never ever give up, you need an infinite power. God is infinite power. God wants you to never ever give up so you can claim a resounding victory with Him against the limited evil power.

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When You Talk To God

When you talk to God, you ought to tell Him everything all. Even the bad things you think you can't say to Him should be told to Him. When you talk to Him, tell Him you love Him, and then tell Him the hard-to-speak-about-things first. Recall how He understands and He knows about difficult life is for you. When you pray, instead of praying for big things, perhaps God is more interested in giving you small things first. When we pray, we often ask for miles of progress when God may be more interested in our making progress in inches rather than miles. When you pray, remember believing must come before praying. One of the most important ingredients in prayer is believing God hears you and He will answer according to His will rather than your own. Believing you will get what you want is not what we call believing in prayer. We must remember when we pray we must pray God delivers to us what is first in His will and not what is first in our will.

Your Destiny

Your destiny in life may not be a specific street address. Your destiny in life may not have anything to do with being in a specific place at a specific time. Your destiny in life is more general than being in a specific place at a specific time and also more difficult. It is generally easy to be at a specific address at a specific time. It is a great deal more difficult to fulfill your destiny in spiritual terms. Your destiny from the time you are conceived until you leave your earthly body is to be a child of God. We do not always want to fulfill our earthly destiny because being at our address is so much easier than being a child of God.  To be a child of God is a great deal more difficult because to be a child of God we must renounce part of our humanity. To be a child of God we must turn away from the part of our life that makes us a sinner and turn to God. It is easier to arrive at our address than it is to reject our sinful self. It is because our destiny is to reject part of our sinful self and be children of God, that to reach our destiny in life we must kneel at the foot of the cross of Christ.  His cross is the ultimate address at which we are supposed to arrive. His cross is the ultimate address at which we are to live out our life.

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Does God See Me Or Know I Exist?

Our God is a forgiving God and He wants to forgive each of us. God does not want to hand out a punishment to us in the form of suffering. Our God is a God who loves us. When we pray, we can feel and experience His love and forgiveness inside ourselves. God is inside of you and has been in your life from the very beginning, no matter how bad the suffering might be in your life at the present time. In suffering, we have a great battle in being responsive to God because our suffering separates us from God. God is a personal God who wants to be alive inside of you all of your life. However, suffering comes between us and God. In suffering, God is not impersonal or far away, even if our suffering makes us think He is far away. God is not impersonal because He knows your name. God knows every nuance of suffering you endure. God loves you even if in your suffering you doubt Him and turn away from Him. How can this be? Is this not the greatest wonder of all time? This wonder of how God could love us in spite of us, that He would love us even when we turn away from Him or turn against Him? God does not condemn us to darkness and suffering. He wants us out of the darkness. He does not punish us with the darkness. He wants us out of the darkness and into the Light. The darkness is a fact, but darkness in life is not an act of God. If you will let Him, God can use your darkness in powerful ways to help you. God can if you let Him, use your darkness to inspire you to turn to Him and to His Light. If you will let Him, God can use your darkness to change your life and to give you a place in eternity.

God Has Given You Direction

What talents and traits has God given you? Most people have some idea of their talents and traits. The talents and traits God has given you can be an indicator of His will for your life. Your talents and traits are pointers you can use to measure your hopes and dreams against God's will. If you are great in math and accounting, God may need you to use your math ability to fulfill His will for your life. If you are mechanically inclined then work or service in a mechanical field may be God's will for you. God's will is like the wind. You can either go with the wind or go against the wind. Walking is easier with the wind at your back. Likewise, it is easier to pursue hopes and dreams using your native talents and traits than to pursue hopes and dreams requiring you to use talents and traits you do not have.

Peace In The Midst Of The Storm Text—Matthew 8:23-27

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Growing Each Day

Our life can get so full of daily activities we forget we are supposed to grow, mature, and develop each day. As we get older, we often look forward to “retirement”. For many people, retirement from a career or a life pursuit means forgetting entirely about growing and getting better each day. God’s will is for you to grow each day. God will always smile upon those people who seek to grow in His wisdom, love, and grace. Too often, we think just surviving on a daily basis counts as a period of growth. However, if we do not intend to grow and get better we can stagnate. If we do not take active steps to grow and get better each day, we can remain in this stagnating state until we die. Every day you can grow in God’s wisdom, love, and grace. Every day you can read, pursue, inquire, ask, seek, knock, question, investigate, learn, add new skills, communicate more, pray more, and meditate more. Age must never be an excuse for not growing. Age must never be a barrier to growing. The mind is a terrible thing to waste at any age. God is not glorified when we refuse to use our gift of thought to grow. God is glorified when we choose to plan, reason, and think ahead in His name and for His work each day.