REAL MAN TRUCKWORKS & SURVIVAL
GENERAL TOPICS => Faith Discussion => Topic started by: Flyin6 on January 10, 2022, 10:48:43 AM
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Gentlemen,
I attended a rather profound service yesterday at 7-Hills church in Florence KY. We enjoy a gifted orator of a pastor who time and time again delivers messages that just get right at your (Christian) core.
This weeks message was a standout and I learned some secrets of the bible and about how God moves.
One thing I learned was that The kingdom responds mightily to prayer requests at two times daily, those being 9 AM and 3 PM. There are example after example of heaven showing up at those two times. Those two hours, by the way, coincide with prayer time for the Jewish nation, no small coincidence.
Another thing I learned was to keep petitioning God over and over until he answers your prayer. Keep in mind, he may not answer it in the way you have asked, but he will answer your prayer.
Example: If you pray for God to give you a million dollars just so you can buy a bunch of things, he may not do exactly that. But you just may someday realize you have always had everything you needed, and lots of money showed up at times of great need, especially when you were being generous.
You see I thought you asked God once for something, like, "God please protect my wife and children." I believed if I kept praying for that it was as if I was thinking God needed a reminder and to keep him from forgetting. But I was wrong about that. We are to keep petitioning our Father until we see movement and resolution.
I heard and felt the word of truth from Pastor Mechum yesterday.
So, I am committing to 100 days of prayer for all the men who come to this place in the universe. I am going to ask God every day for his protection over all ov you. I am going to ask him for prosperity, health, and for all of you to have the giants in your life set aside to the glory of the kingdom. If you want to, PM me with your particular need, and I will write it down and pray over that every day going forward for 100 days.
I would like to ask as many of you as can to pray with me for the health and welfare for all the men who come here. Ask God to enrichen their lives with a new hunger for him, and for righteousness, to order their steps that their toes would not strike a single stone. Our world is plummeting into an abyss with wars and hard times on the horizon. We already have disease, and famine may well come. We will have our freedoms challenged more than ever as the enemy working even through the highest seats of our own government will work to quelch the fires of Christianity. Sure enough times will get tough, but our God wins! Jesus will return and reclaim this world and destroy the enemy. We may not survive with an earthly body, but we will return to reign over this world,
So
Pray with me if you will
For the next 100 days
and
Let's all experience what God does in our lives!
Oh, and I cheated...I started yesterday so I could get 101 days in recognition of a certain Army division, and just an extra day of praying for all of you!
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Day 1, 10 Jan, 2022
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I'm in. I have used the acronym PUSH, pray until something happens.
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I'm in prayer is a very powerful weapon
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Day 2
Who else is with us?
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Have a meeting at 9:00 so praying early
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^^^ OK!
Day 3
Who will join us?
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On it.
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I’m in, there’s power in prayer, both individual and group.
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Day 4
Some more join us...
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Day 4
Some more join us...
It’s possible some have, just didn’t say anything.
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Day 4
Some more join us...
It’s possible some have, just didn’t say anything.
Indeed, Likely.
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Day 5
Looking for many to join in
Let our voices be heard on high!
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I'm here
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I'd like to see everyone who visits the site to join in
I have a prayer list
You are on it
On that list amongst the other things I pray for, I am specifically praying for the health and welfare and prosperity of the men who visit this site. I pray that through their interaction and what they read and see here, that they will be strengthened against the plans and schemes of the enemy. I pray for their strength in the growing war against the kingdom of God which is already raging.
For what part I have in this place, I am lifting you all up.
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Day 6
Prayed this morning around 0900...
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Me too.
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I used to pray every day, but I slacked off. No reason, I guess. This is just the thing to get me back on track.
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I used to pray every day, but I slacked off. No reason, I guess. This is just the thing to get me back on track.
Welcome to this one Jon
Day 7...Prayed at 0900ish
Added another man and his son to the list
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Day 8
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Morning prayer
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Day 9
I have many things on my prayer list
But
I pray this for all of you
I pray for and lift up all the men who visit this web site. I pray for their health and prosperity. I pray for strength for them to fight against the enemy. As iron sharpens iron, I pray that men will find friends and encouragement, and truth and strength in numbers here. Father, bring many.
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Day 10...
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Day 11
Got up and prayed between 8 and 9...
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Day 12
Prayed this morning, but forgot to post up afterward!!!!!
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Still going
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Day 13...
Added a member's wife's father and that family to the list...
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Day 14
Got it done at dawn...
I'm enjoying this, you?
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Day 14
Got it done at dawn...
I'm enjoying this, you?
Love it may not always get it done at 09:00 but get it done
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Day 14
Got it done at dawn...
I'm enjoying this, you?
Love it may not always get it done at 09:00 but get it done
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^^^^ A true prayer warrior! Way to lead, Air Force!
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Day 15
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Day 16
Got it done just before 0900
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Day 17
Continuing...
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Got it done at 05:00 but like Jimmy Buffet said in a song it's 9:00 somewhere
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Still at it
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:likebutton:
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Day 18
Woke up really needing to pray for our nation, and our soldiers...don't know why...
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We all do...
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Started day 19 off early. Nothing like some quality time with the Father to get you ready for the world. Have a blessed day men
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Day 19...
Lifting up the men here
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Day 20
Feeling strong in the Lord!
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Day 21
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Day 22
And Thank you Lord for answered prayer that the Bengals would win!!!!!!!!!!
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Day 23
Got it done earlier this morning
I seem to be getting up a bit earlier, wanting to get to this prayer time...
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Day 24
Making new wine skins for the Lord to pour new wine into...
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Day 25
In the midst of an ice storm...God is great!
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Day 26
Earlier this morning
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Day 27
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Day 28
Strong in the Lord!
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Day 29
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Day 30
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Day 31
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I'm with you.
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Thanks...
May not post for a few days, but I will be faithful to pray every morning
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Day 32 happened on the road in southern Kentucky
and
Day 33 in the great state of Georgia!
God Bless all the men here!
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Day 34
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Day 35 while driving through Georgia or Tennessee...
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Day 36
A bit later than normal...
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Day 37
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Still on it
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Still on it
You are faithful!
Day 38 Got it done earlier
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Day 39 complete
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Lets get day 40 off to an early start
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Indeed!
Day 40 Complete
Lifting up our nation today. Asking for our corrupt leadership to be removed and for God to send us good men and women to lead us from the high offices. And
Always
Lifting up the men who come here
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Day 41
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Day 42
Forgot to post it up yesterday!!!
But got it done
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Day 43
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Day 44
Payed a little later than usual. Had an early departure to a meeting with some ROTC people
But
Got it done
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As war breaks out in Europe
And sons of America prepare to go to that place
With a heavy heart that is leaning on faith
Day 45
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As war breaks out in Europe
And sons of America prepare to go to that place
With a heavy heart that is leaning on faith
Day 45
Many prays on that subject
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As war breaks out in Europe
And sons of America prepare to go to that place
With a heavy heart that is leaning on faith
Day 45
Many prays on that subject
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I knew you would.
I never understood this feeling until now. Never had a son going off to war before. Announcement is now all over the news about the 3rd Infantry Division moving out.
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I never understood the feeling either until that happen to us. All we can do is put out trust in the Lord. Much easier to say than to do.
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Specifically lifting up Nate.
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Specifically lifting up Nate.
I am as well.
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Day 46 done early. Special prayers for our military and their families
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Thank you all
Day 46 of this 100 day adventure and dedicated prayer
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Day 47
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Day 48
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Day 49
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Day 50
Half way
And a very significant day in the life of my family...
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Anoter day of prayer. Not sure about anyone else but a bonus I found do this is the more time I spend in prayer the more blessing I find in my life.
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Day 51
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Day 52.
Felt a strong "feeling" to pray for our nation. Pray to remove the corrupt and evil leadership from everywhere and get us pointed back to a nation which fears God
And to pray for a member here whose father in law needs prayer bad, to come into the fold and accept Jesus
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Amen
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Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 4:2 ESV
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Amen
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Day 53
This prayer must be effective because it sure seems to be angering the devil. I would say my family and I have under considerable and steady attack by the evil world ever since I started
But inside all that, I/we have also experienced some blessing as well.
Doesn't matter, I'm a soldier, so I'm going to finish this no matter what
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Day 54
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Lifting up leaders at all levels of government. Deployed persons. Lost people.
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Lifting up leaders at all levels of government. Deployed persons. Lost people.
Day 55
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After praying today the Lord lead me to Habakkuk 1: 1-11 felt very fitting for the world we are in.
The prophecy(A) that Habakkuk the prophet received.
Habakkuk’s Complaint
2 How long,(B) Lord, must I call for help,
but you do not listen?(C)
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not save?(D)
3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate(E) wrongdoing?(F)
Destruction and violence(G) are before me;
there is strife,(H) and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law(I) is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice(J) is perverted.(K)
The Lord’s Answer
5 “Look at the nations and watch—
and be utterly amazed.(L)
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told.(M)
6 I am raising up the Babylonians,[a](N)
that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth(O)
to seize dwellings not their own.(P)
7 They are a feared and dreaded people;(Q)
they are a law to themselves
and promote their own honor.
8 Their horses are swifter(R) than leopards,
fiercer than wolves(S) at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
9 they all come intent on violence.
Their hordes advance like a desert wind
and gather prisoners(T) like sand.
10 They mock kings
and scoff at rulers.(U)
They laugh at all fortified cities;
by building earthen ramps(V) they capture them.
11 Then they sweep past like the wind(W) and go on—
guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”(X)
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Day 56
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Day 57
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Day 58
Had Ezekiel 38 in my mind...
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Day 59
Cool story from this morning
Was getting my hair cut
My barber is a nice girl, Jessica, age 32
We were talking as we often do, and I introduced the subject of Jesus and salvation.
She said that she was good with that but didn't like to go to church. So I pressed further.
I asked her if she was saved. She said she was. I asked her how did she know. She answered that she was a good person and lived a good life.
I told her that was not being saved. She gave me an expression of confusion.
I then told her she could only be saved through accepting Jesus as her lord. She said, she just felt she was saved.
I asked her to read Romans 10:9.
The conversation went on for another minute, when I said to heck with it and pulled out my phone to look up and share the verse. Check this out: When the phone turned on it was already on "BibleGateway.com"!
How cool is that?
I typed in Romans 10:9
It immediately came up. she squinted to read it, so I read it for her. Confess with your mouth and believeth in your heart...
I was reading it and she literally said, "I do believe that Jesus is the son of God, I believe it in my heart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
That was the coolest thing.
I told her "Well, miss Jessica, you are saved now for sure."
I checked out a moment later and handed her a $20 tip. She smiled. I said that was to mark the occasion. I told her, "You will always remember this day."
She responded, "I will always remember this day."
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Great. Target of opportunity pop up all around.
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Great. Target of opportunity pop up all around.
Makes ya feel good when one closes the deal.
Speaking of which, that young man we've been chatting about is moving out. East bound I hear...
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Lifting him up. All of them.
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Day 60
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Day 61
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Day 62, a warm pleasant early spring day
Thank you Lord!
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Day 63
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Day 64
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Great day
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Day 65
The day after we reached 1,000,000 views on one thread
WDYDT
What did you do today...
Introduced by a godly man in 2016, it took six years and a week to cross the one million threshold.
A simple thread, but looking back on it, I see shared lives. Shared between godly men, strong men, good men. So what we see in this achievement is a growing fellowship where men doing life from all corners of our hemisphere chose to share those thousands of experiences with fellow men who they trusted. They knew that in sharing these experiences, they could do so in a safe environment because men with God in their heart are safe places. They are refuges not only for other godly men, but also for outsiders who don't know Christ. So it is that the witness of the holy spirit works. It is one of the mysteries of the universe which I can illustrate with bees and flowers. Sweet nectar and honey simply attracts more bees! A good word attracts interest, and in this we see how God set up the community of believers. We naturally find one another through the sweet scent of the honey. We know it is good, and nourishing, and will sustain us. That is how the holy spirit works like tendrils of smoke that get into everything near the source. And so it is that men who are strengthened here should go forth where they will likewise attract more bees, for God does not seek to destroy but to gather every single living soul into his bosom...
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Amen
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Day 66
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Day 67
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Day 68
...That you may be encouraged
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day 69
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Day 70
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Day 71
Day 72
I prayed those prayers on the road.
The day 71 while I was on I-77 in some crazy mountains in West Virginia, I think or maybe Virginia or possibly North Carolina... All I knew was to stay glued to that windy road and keep from getting smashed up by all those semis!
Day 72 I prayed somewhere around Winston-Salem North Carolina.
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Day 73
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Day 74
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Day 75
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Day 76
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This is great.
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This is great.
Seeing anything happen????
I want to think God is moving in some of your lives out there...
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I think things are happening. Sometimes we (I) have to slow down and look. It's like praying for something without checking to see if it got answered and then finding it has been.
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Day 77
As usual, I sit down and open up the page and read the scripture of the day that the Lord has provided through our retired First Sergeant, Matt...Thank you!
Then many times I close my eyes and pray the same prayer, but now with additions
This morning during prayer some things came to mind. Not sure if it was my mind wondering or if those thoughts were placed there, but I think I'll write them up and post them...
And so it continues
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Day 78
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Day 79
Oops, forgot to post it yesterday, but it got done
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Day 80
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Day 81
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Day 82
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Day 83
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Day 84
Discovered an unknown blessing and surprise in all of this...Quite remarkable, really. CIEMR time, I'll share in a wee bit...
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CIEMR: How close is God?
How close is God to us and how much attention does he really pay to all the goings-on in our busy lives?
It is an honest question and both a thought provoking one and one that may show you a surprise. I can confess it sure has for me, and on more than one occasion.
Luke 12:7 tells us this: Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid you are worth more than many sparrows. I don’t know how many hairs I have, do any of you? Anyone out there ever try to count them? And no, I’m not asking a certain Colonel who I cherish as a friend, who could easily count his (Because the total sum is around zero!!!).
This verse shows us something. God cares about us quite a bit. Arguably, if he took the time to count hairs, one must wonder how much exactly, does he know about the rest of us? And the question further begs, How much would one have to care about you if one of the least most important things to know in all of existence, that being how many hairs you have, is of some importance to him? Maybe it’s just my cra-zee pilot mind here, but it makes me wonder just how focused God might be on me? What about you or the rest of us if he takes the time to count hairs?
Something happened to me yesterday which once again brought me right back to that simple realization. The realization that God really does love me! I’ll share that in a moment because it is said that your strongest testimony that you can bring to a discussion is a personal experience.
Years and years ago I was in one of those moods where I was just worshiping Jesus. Not as a God, but more like a cool friend, which is how I view him a lot of the time. I know he is relevant, and suspected he was always near. So, on that day, it was shower time and I jumped right into that steamy wonderfulness and lathered right up. I was literally singing and praising him when my mind drifted to my second love, Coffee! Oops, I meant, third love or fourth love or something like that. Really, sweetie, you are number two! And the kids must be number three, and oh yea, your dogs, they must or should be number four, five, six, and sometimes, seven!
Anyway, I was in this fun sort of mood, doing some worship time in the shower, when my mind drifted off to coffee. Yea, I was right there, I had my imaginary creamer, some whipped cream, and some sweetener in it and it was making one of those picture perfect wisps of steam (That no one ever saw, ever) and I just spoke the words.
I was worshiping and I said: I literally said right there in the shower, Jesus, you are so cool, I bet you love coffee too. And then it happened, and this is true. I heard his voice. I heard it as surely as I take my next breath. In the silence of my mind I heard a voice and immediately after I said, “I bet you love coffee too,” The unmistakable voice simply said, “I created it.” I’m not kidding folks, he said that to me, and I’m sitting here typing through eyes filled with tears because every time I remember that, a moment when he reached down to me, I get emotional. That was such an insignificant time in my life, apart from God showing up, but nevertheless, there he was right there in the moment, speaking to me!
And yesterday it happened again. He showed up again! So, way back in January during a time in my church life normally devoted to fasting and prayer I was in the house listening to my pastor. This year, however, I did not fast. During a sermon then, the pastor spoke also about being in 100 days of prayer. I immediately knew what to do. I came home, put together my prayer list and began on my 100 days of prayer. I intended to stay faithful to it, and I have. I believe I could achieve a breakthrough for myself, my wife, family (all of it) friends, the men on my forum website, our nation and some other things.
On and on it went. I would sometimes wake up and pray like I did this morning and other times I’d be driving in another state, once in the beautiful mountains on Interstate 77 in West Virginia, I think. Every day I would also then go to my website and post a simple comment, in the “Faith section under a thread called “100 days of prayer.” As the number of days grew, we approached April. I was thinking about the advanced number of days and how close I was to arriving at that three decimal milestone and for some reason I was also noticing the rapid approach of my birthday.
Yea…
Seeing the convergence, I added in the remaining days on a scrap piece of paper, one column represented the calendar date and the adjacent one the number of prayer days, and guess what? 100 days of prayer that I started on some random day way back in January, falls on my birthday!
How should I read that? How would you? For me I believe God loves me so much he not only knows my diminishing number of hairs but cared enough to give me that idea back in January. He knew the notion to pray for 100 days would culminate on the day I came into this world. He made it personal, and once again showed me he is right here with me, closer than a breath away.
God loves me! He loves you too!
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Amen
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Day 85
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Day 86
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Day 87
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day 88
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Day 89
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Day 90
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Day 91
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day 92
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PUSH. Pray Until Something Happens. This is good.
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Day 93
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Day 94
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Day 95
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It sure doesn't seam like we have been doing it that long
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It sure doesn't seam like we have been doing it that long
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Indeed!
Time flies!
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Day 96
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Day 97
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Day 98
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Day 99
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Well, we have arrived at our 100th day of prayer
Many thanks to those who accompanied me on this journey.
I would hope that we saw change take place in some of the areas that we sowed prayer into. I do know that some very specific areas I talked to the Lord about, I saw some of you write comments about confirming that there was change.
Coincidence? possibly, but you have to believe something. And I believe God wants us to pray to him, to lean on him, to trust in him to do what we ask in his name. And I believe that he does move.
Does he move exactly as we have asked him to? Frankly, not often for he is timeless and knows the future. He moves is clever and in ways that reveal greater purpose as time gives way.
I feel about telling God how to solve a problem would be equivalent to an ant trying to guess the calculations of a cray super computer. But every once in a great while, the super computer comes up with the same thing that the ant asked to begin with. Most times, however, God sets things in motion that do create a change but not in a way we may even recognize.
So, I believe the things I have prayed for, and specifically the health and welfare for all those here will walk itself out in a manner which is good and helpful to all those who grace our pages.
God Bless all.
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Amen.
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Amen