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A Question A Day From Rory Pt. 4

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Here is part 4 in my question a day series. I GOT THESE GREAT QUESTION FROM RORY OVER AT A GUY CALLED A BLOKE. CLICK HERE TO VISIT HIS BLOG.

Here is today’s question and my answer:

What’s something you know you do differently than most people?

I pray differently more than most people.

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Kokenhauf Gardens, Lisse

For me prayer is a lifestyle that consumes vast amounts of time in my life. This lifestyle has developed over years. When I began I thought I was just developing a little devotional life. It has become this thing that informs everything I am and do. I used to ask the question, “How can I fit prayer into the rest of my life?”

Over the course of the last twenty years that question has changed to become, “How do I fit the rest of my life in around prayer.”

The other difference is that for me most of prayer has become about listening for the voice of God in the world rather than trying to get Him to hear my voice. I don’t spend so much time asking for things anymore. I spend more time waiting in His presence than anything.

Isaiah 40 :31 “They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles…”

Evening Devotional 4-3-19

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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and grieved him in the wasteland!
41 Again and again they put God to the test;
    they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember his power—
    the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43 the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,
    his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44 He turned their river into blood;
    they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
    and frogs that devastated them.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
    their produce to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
    and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52 But he brought his people out like a flock;
    he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
    but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
    to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55 He drove out nations before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes. Psalm 78:40-55

Is there ever a time when we will not be seeking to drive out an enemy?

A Question a Day From Rory Pt. 3

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I AM CONTINUING TO ANSWER RORY’S INSIGHTFUL QUESTIONS ONE BY ONE. YOU CAN FIND A LIST OF THEM ALL BY CLICKING HERE.

Today’s questions is…What do we all have in common besides our genes that makes us human?

I love this question! One thing all humans share is a likeness and image of God that is stamped upon us by the Creator Himself. We are made in the image of God. Not only that we each are born with a hole inside of us that can only effectively filled by God Himself. To that end every one of us is born into a spiritual quest. If the destination is always the same the quest is the same. We were made for relationship with the Divine.

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A Question a Day From Rory Pt. 2

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RORY OVER AT A GUY CALLED A BLOKE HAS ASKED SOME REALLY GOOD QUESTIONS THIS WEEK.

I am taking one a day to task and seeing where the questions lead me.

Here is today’s question:

What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?

This one is actually pretty easy. I would regret not fully following Christ, not being His child and servant and I would regret not having Him in my life.

I thought once I could make it without Jesus. I thought I could do it on my own. I sent Him away. The darkness was terrible. The emptiness was profound. The sorrow was heavier than anything I could bear.

I cried out to Him my repentance and He had mercy on me! He erased my guilt shame and regrets. Today I am His and He is mine and I will never let Him go again!

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Jesus said, “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” Rev. 3:20

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Morning Direction From Scripture 4-2-19

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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and grieved him in the wasteland!
41 Again and again they put God to the test;
    they vexed the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember his power—
    the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,
43 the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,
    his wonders in the region of Zoan.
44 He turned their river into blood;
    they could not drink from their streams.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
    and frogs that devastated them.
46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
    their produce to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
    and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.
51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52 But he brought his people out like a flock;
    he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
    but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
    to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55 He drove out nations before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes. Psalm 78:40-55

Has God ever settled you?