Interceding For Me

At times I'm weary. I carry little ones and I carry the pain of women in my heart and prayers. What runs through my mind in a day would cause a head to shake in shear bafflement at the complexity of it all. So much analyzing, so much planning, so much burden-bearing. I must leave it all. The only safe place to leave it is in Jesus' hands. I am easily brought to tears at the sound of this song, which describes the intercession of Jesus on my behalf (and yours!). This is where my rest comes from... the very thought that the One who died for me is ever praying for me to the Father. If that isn't enough to calm a frazzled spirit, I don't know what is. Soak it in, Friends. (Taken from Romans 8:34)

Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus

Spread His praise from shore to shore

How He came to pay our ransom

Through the saving cross He bore

How He watches o'er His loved ones

Those He died to make His own

How for them He's interceding

Pleading now before the throne

Oh the deep, deep love

All I need and trust

Is the deep, deep love of Jesus

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Train, Don't Try

As Christians we try, try, try and pray, pray, pray for God to change our situation, our habits, our hearts. Our Pastor shared I Timothy 4:7 with us yesterday and encouraged us to train ourselves to be godly. All the trying in the world will get us nowhere. Which are we feeding, our flesh or our spirit? If we're training ourselves by reading the Word, coupled by fasting and praying, the spirit will begin to win over the flesh and the things we've been so desperate for will one by one become clearly defined, answered by the Lord, or discarded by us.

So many times I've thought I was "waiting on the Lord", but in reality, He was waiting on me to be obedient to His Word first. What a waste of time. Now my prayer is, Lord, am I trying on my own strength, while "desperately praying" to You OR am I training myself to live according to Your will and to know Your ways so that I may clearly see what Your desire is for me. As we sang yesterday, "For it's only in Your will that I am free!" Train yourself to be godly, stop trying.