RantandRave

This is a hot topic among Christians.

Couple of questions:

What do you do for devotions?
Is it a planned time?
Do you use organized materials(ie devotion book)?
If married do you do devotions together? Do you pray together?

It is important that we are in the Word of God, that we allow the Word of God to become worked into the very fabric of who we are as individuals living our lives for Jesus Christ. The Bible is not there just to read like an ordinary book, glancing over the words, skipping words, phrases, meanings. But the Word of God is God given, breathed, meant to study over, to infect our minds, apply it to our sinful hearts and minds, lived out in our everyday goings.

I believe that it is equally important that we are in prayer with God. I always struggle over what prayer is to be, to look like. Some often use it as a sounding board to vent frustration, anger, confusion, and still others just use it as a giveme list of things that they must have and need. I must confess that I have used prayer in my own life as all of the above. But over the last few weeks I have mulled over something that my Grandmother used to say, "I don't pray, I just talk to God!" How do you pray? Is it only in the heat of the moment? We should be about talking to God. We should praise God each day that God chooses to breathe life into our dry bones as Ezekiel says. Giving God glory for allowing the pleasure of this Earth that was created by Him, and ultimately we are responsible for.

God is Good and we should be about living out His Word and we should be about talking to Him giving Him glory and honor only due to Him.

Labels: Bible, devotions, glory, God, honor, praying, Word of God

I wake to a day of
hopelessness and pain.
I look to the end before the
day even starts.
No matter what this day
holds, I will

I will rise up to the glory,
I will rise up to the honor,
I will rise up to the hope,
of Jesus.

I walk through my life
living with shame and guilt.
Each moment held together
by careful thought.
With all of this

I lay my head down hoping
for a better day tomorrow.
Thoughts run through me
in ways no one can explain.
As my eyes drift and droop
I will

Bridge:
The devil can not hold me down
There are better days ahead
Because of you, because of
you, I will rise up


(I have been going through an interesting part of my life right now. But above all things, there is Jesus Christ. My Savior and My Lord. There are better days ahead. Please tell me what you think, any comments are welcome)

Labels: glory, honor, hope, Jesus, rise, walk