Remember growing up and when we got into trouble we had to stay in our rooms or we couldn't go outside for a day or a week. It felt like our rooms were the biggest prisons in the world. We thought that our parents were the worst things in the world.
Each of us has had an experience where the current situation that we were facing made our future look grim. There was no way we could plan for tomorrow because today was so rough.
Many of us have started things and have not finished them. We have projects at work and at home that are just lying around waiting to be completed. Some of the things we said we were going to do we have started out well, but something got in the way and did not allow us to complete them. Each New Year brings new resolutions of things we say we are going to do, and now with four months left to this year we must ask ourselves, how many of those resolutions have not even been started?
It is so important that on a daily basis we ensure that we are following the direction that The Lord has given to us. Many times we take detours of the path that The Lord has given us and then we wonder why things are not working out the way The Lord said that they would.
Some of us may have experienced someone needing to ask us a question, and they begin by saying that they already know that we are going to say no, but they are going to ask the question anyway. If they really thought that the answer was going to be no then they already knew that it was probably not going to work in their favor, because they approached the situation with a negative viewpoint from the start.
Prayer is something that we can never do enough. Prayer should be an important part of each of our lives. Prayer is the thing that should get us from day to day. The song says, "whisper a prayer in the morning, whisper a prayer at noon whisper a prayer in the evening just to keep your heart in tune."
Each and every day we should give God thanks and praise for the great things He is doing in our lives. We should from the time we rise in the morning until we lay our heads down again at night, give God some praise and thanks for how He takes care of us daily.
There are going to be times when we are going to have to face an unexpected enemy, and out of nowhere we will find ourselves in a battle we did not expect. Then there are going to be times when we know we are in a fight and who our enemy is, and no matter how much we try to get along our enemy they will push us to a point that we will have to fight.
As Christians it is important for us to follow The Lord in everything we do. It is easy at times to get caught up in following the wrong crowd or the wrong people and we find ourselves doing things we would not normally do just to be accepted by others.
