Blessings!
Ephesians 6:2-4
Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
"Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because He loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing not to have what God is not willing to give. Furthermore, faith does not insist upon an explanation. It is enough to know his promise to give what is good--He knows so much more about that than we do."
~ Elisabeth Elliot
"...(P)eople also need to be filled with some sort of strong drive to have a family life no matter how much work and sacrifice it may take, to demonstrate what it to that is being lost!"
~Edith Schaeffer
"Running away is the easy way out, Charlie Brown!" Charles Schultz
"The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind."
~G. K. Chesterton
Matthew 6:9-15
Pray, therefore, like this: Our Father Who is in heaven, hallowed (kept holy) be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven (left, remitted, and let go of the debts, and have given up resentment against) our debtors.
13 And lead (bring) us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
14 For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses.
"A
faith untried is no faith at all," someone has said. Today I declared
my faith before a hundred women and came home to a startling piece of
bad news. Hopes were dashed, plans ruined, over a seemingly trivial
thing. We did not know what to do. "Trust me" is always the word at such
a time. "But Lord, we did trust You. You answered us and everything was
working so beautifully. Now this. What shall we do?" "Keep on trusting
me. That is my assignment for you tonight. Commit your way to Me; trust
in Me; stand still and see."
Why,
of course, Lord! I see what You mean. How could I be sure I'm trusting
You unless You keep giving me "pop quizzes"? These are the exams in the
school of faith.
