Isa_26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS (Excerpt 4)
'When we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," we are, in a measure, shutting
tomorrow out of our prayer. We do not live in tomorrow but in today. We do not seek
tomorrow's grace or tomorrow's bread. They thrive best, and get most out of life, who
live in the living present. They pray best who pray for today's needs, not for
tomorrow's, which may render our prayers unnecessary and redundant by not existing
at all!
True prayers are born of present trials and present needs. Bread, for today, is bread
enough. Bread given for today is the strongest sort of pledge that there will be bread
tomorrow. Victory today, is the assurance of victory tomorrow. Our prayers need to be
focused upon the present, We must trust God today, and leave the morrow entirely
with Him. The present is ours; the future belongs to God. Prayer is the task and duty of
each recurring day -- daily prayer for daily needs.
As every day demands its bread, so every day demands its prayer. No amount of
praying, done today, will suffice for tomorrow's praying. On the other hand, no praying
for tomorrow is of any great value to us today. To-day's manna is what we need;
tomorrow God will see that our needs are supplied. This is the faith which God seeks to
inspire. So leave tomorrow, with its cares, its needs, its troubles, in God's hands. There
is no storing tomorrow's grace or tomorrow's praying; neither is there any laying-up of
today's grace, to meet tomorrow's necessities. We cannot have tomorrow's grace, we
cannot eat tomorrow's bread, we cannot do tomorrow's praying. "Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof;" and, most assuredly, if we possess faith, sufficient also, will be
the good.'
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Mat_6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Truth!
Jesus speaks ONLY truth!
So our doubting our Savior impedes our faith. When He spoke the words -- 'Take therefore NO thought for the morrow…' -- did He mean what He said? Did He mean it?! He had to mean it, He had to. Take therefore NO thought… how many thoughts? NONE, not a single one! No thought for the morrow, yet we can't help but think of the morrow all the time, right? Tell me how many time just today have you thought of not only the morrow but several morrows, weeks, months, years ahead. We tell ourselves that we have no choice but to think of the morrow, life forces us too and yes, it does in many ways but perhaps we need to think about tomorrow in the light of God's will and not our own.
All our prayers must be in light of God's will.
We truly cannot have tomorrow's grace now, and we cannot eat tomorrow's bread, and we cannot pray today the prayers meant for tomorrow.
We have to believe that we live now, pray now, trust now. The faith we have right now is a faith that believes in the reality of a very loving Savior, an all loving Savior. To live believing in our all loving Savior means that we KNOW, we BELIEVE that all that happens will be according to HIS plan for us. Every single thing that happens is by HIS design. Do I mean that He designs for us to suffer? Yes, but the suffering is not senseless as we often believe. We can't comprehend the how's and why's and so we believe it's meaningless, it's pointless, and therefore all that remains is that it is cruel and we doubt God's love calling Him a cruel Master, an unloving Master. We say that a loving God would not allow this horrific suffering, this real torture, we say this because we cannot fathom the whys of it all. All we choose to comprehend is the awful pain, the agony emotional, mental, physical suffering. Our belief has to comprehend that our GOD knows why it is happening even when we don't and never learn why. God's design is for us to be HIS. The pain and suffering isn't meant to drive us away from Him, but to move us ever closer to Him in FAITH, in His grace, HIS LOVE.
Our daily bread- spiritual and physical- we must PRAY daily. Every day we need this closeness with our SAVIOR, our LIVING, LOVING SAVIOR.
Yes, we must pray for the future, but live in today not allowing the anxiety of trying to live in the future overcome us.
Please, LORD, bless us, keep us in YOU! Teach us to live in today with YOU, believing in YOUR truth that we aren't to take thought for the morrow. All in YOUR LOVE!
THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS (Excerpt 4)
'When we pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," we are, in a measure, shutting
tomorrow out of our prayer. We do not live in tomorrow but in today. We do not seek
tomorrow's grace or tomorrow's bread. They thrive best, and get most out of life, who
live in the living present. They pray best who pray for today's needs, not for
tomorrow's, which may render our prayers unnecessary and redundant by not existing
at all!
True prayers are born of present trials and present needs. Bread, for today, is bread
enough. Bread given for today is the strongest sort of pledge that there will be bread
tomorrow. Victory today, is the assurance of victory tomorrow. Our prayers need to be
focused upon the present, We must trust God today, and leave the morrow entirely
with Him. The present is ours; the future belongs to God. Prayer is the task and duty of
each recurring day -- daily prayer for daily needs.
As every day demands its bread, so every day demands its prayer. No amount of
praying, done today, will suffice for tomorrow's praying. On the other hand, no praying
for tomorrow is of any great value to us today. To-day's manna is what we need;
tomorrow God will see that our needs are supplied. This is the faith which God seeks to
inspire. So leave tomorrow, with its cares, its needs, its troubles, in God's hands. There
is no storing tomorrow's grace or tomorrow's praying; neither is there any laying-up of
today's grace, to meet tomorrow's necessities. We cannot have tomorrow's grace, we
cannot eat tomorrow's bread, we cannot do tomorrow's praying. "Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof;" and, most assuredly, if we possess faith, sufficient also, will be
the good.'
*******
Mat_6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Truth!
Jesus speaks ONLY truth!
So our doubting our Savior impedes our faith. When He spoke the words -- 'Take therefore NO thought for the morrow…' -- did He mean what He said? Did He mean it?! He had to mean it, He had to. Take therefore NO thought… how many thoughts? NONE, not a single one! No thought for the morrow, yet we can't help but think of the morrow all the time, right? Tell me how many time just today have you thought of not only the morrow but several morrows, weeks, months, years ahead. We tell ourselves that we have no choice but to think of the morrow, life forces us too and yes, it does in many ways but perhaps we need to think about tomorrow in the light of God's will and not our own.
All our prayers must be in light of God's will.
We truly cannot have tomorrow's grace now, and we cannot eat tomorrow's bread, and we cannot pray today the prayers meant for tomorrow.
We have to believe that we live now, pray now, trust now. The faith we have right now is a faith that believes in the reality of a very loving Savior, an all loving Savior. To live believing in our all loving Savior means that we KNOW, we BELIEVE that all that happens will be according to HIS plan for us. Every single thing that happens is by HIS design. Do I mean that He designs for us to suffer? Yes, but the suffering is not senseless as we often believe. We can't comprehend the how's and why's and so we believe it's meaningless, it's pointless, and therefore all that remains is that it is cruel and we doubt God's love calling Him a cruel Master, an unloving Master. We say that a loving God would not allow this horrific suffering, this real torture, we say this because we cannot fathom the whys of it all. All we choose to comprehend is the awful pain, the agony emotional, mental, physical suffering. Our belief has to comprehend that our GOD knows why it is happening even when we don't and never learn why. God's design is for us to be HIS. The pain and suffering isn't meant to drive us away from Him, but to move us ever closer to Him in FAITH, in His grace, HIS LOVE.
Our daily bread- spiritual and physical- we must PRAY daily. Every day we need this closeness with our SAVIOR, our LIVING, LOVING SAVIOR.
Yes, we must pray for the future, but live in today not allowing the anxiety of trying to live in the future overcome us.
Please, LORD, bless us, keep us in YOU! Teach us to live in today with YOU, believing in YOUR truth that we aren't to take thought for the morrow. All in YOUR LOVE!
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