If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. “Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
Cast everything else away and put all of your trust in the giver of the blessings as opposed to the blessings themselves. If you feel exhausted, stuck on a treadmill, or like you're about to swept away by the storm, maybe you have treasured the wrong things. So, how do we get out of the way of the storm? Here are three really good ideas: At some point we realize we are trapped, slaves to the world we live in. We spend our time chasing dreams but never catching them, and seeking acheivements, but rarely reaching them. The ever increasing expense of life takes more and more of the little we earn, yet the commercialzed world we live in continues to demand more. Our work, though a blessing, can be a struggle. This really is a normal part of the world we live in. Have you ever been to a point like the storm chaser who realizes he is too close and has to get out of there? The baffling thing is that it often seems like an uphill battle. We certainly have more than the majority of people in the world. Even in the midst of a poor economy, most of us have more than we need. That's when they realize they've got to get out of there.ĭo you ever feel like a storm chaser in life? Truly we are blessed to live in such a prosperous nation. I particularly enjoy the scenes where the wind is howling, the hail is slamming down around them and the lightning suddenly crashes in next to them. They track down these killer storms, getting as close as possible to get that one amazing shot. Wouldn't it be great to spend your time hunting down tornadoes? Some of the chasers use only a laptop and a cheap video recorder.
One of my favorite shows is Storm Chasers. Please make your desires my desires, so that my every thought will be in line with your will.įor Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Give me the strength and the courage to not put myself into situations that would compromise my relationship with you.
FAITH EVANS YOU ABANDONED ME FREE
Please keep me free from the temptations seeking to ensnare me. Please reveal to me any unforgiveness in my heart so that I may give it to you.Īnd do not lead us into temptation, but delliver us from the evil one. Forgive me for my pride and self assuredness. Please forgive me of the grudges I hold, the dishonesty in my heart and the fear in my life, which is really a lack of fatih. Please protect my wife and children, giving them opportunities to grow and prosper in your word and in your truth.Īnd forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. Make me a good steward of the worldly posessions you have entrusted to me. I pray that you will grant success to the work of my hands and my mind. Help me to be generous in the midst of your many blessings. Please continue to protect and provide for me. Thank you for your daily provision in my life. I pray that our leaders great and small will be subservient to your will daily. I pray for your will to be accomplished first in my life, then in the life of my family. I pray that your kingdom will come fully on this earth. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. You have exalted your son to the highest place and have given him the name that is above every other name, so that at Christ's name every knee shall bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue shall confess that Christ is Lord to your glory. You are the I AM without beginning and without end. Your name is holy, set apart and perfect. You sent your son to die in my place, taking my justly deserved punishment and clothing me in righteousness. You are not far away, but you are with me moment by moment.
You pulled me from the dregs of my wretchedness and have adopted me into your royal family.