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Tuesday... Yes, we need it.


Tuesday... Yes, we need it.

There is a lot that I love to give to my kids and their mates and their kids. That is what parents and grandparents do, isn't it? But I feel one of the greatest things that I can give them is not advice and even money but it is the gift of prayer. Everyday and many nights I mention each of them by name in prayer to God. I don't alway know what they specifically need but Colossians 1:11-14 (NLT) is a great place to start.

In verse 11, Paul writes, "We also pray that you will be strengthened with all the glorious power so you will have the endurance and patience you need." We need that each and everyday, don't we? Oh, God, oh God, oh God. That is what they need and it is what we need so that is what we pray for today, "May we be strengthened with all the glorious power so that we will have the endurance and patience we need." Now that is for sure a need we can pray out to God. 

Do you need to pray that prayer today for yourself and for your family and your friends? Oh we are so hoping that the right person will be elected president but that is not where we go for strength and power and endurance and patience.

Paul goes on in verses 12-14, "May we be filled with joy, always thanking the Father." And that is a way to change our day. That is a prayer we each one need to pray that will make a difference in our day, isn't it? Now if we are filled then there is something that must be emptied out of our life. Joy and thanks takes care of despair, worry and discouragement. There is glorious power in being joyful and thankful. It changes our perspective.

He goes on, "He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light. For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins."

Oh, how much he can and will make a difference in our days and he is who we need to face what we are facing in this day. If we are facing this day alone, then we do have a problem. Yes, we need to pray that we and they will be strengthened with all the glorious power so we/they will have the endurance and patience we/they need today. 

Yes, "We also pray that you will be strengthened with all the glorious power so you will have the endurance and patience you need." And yes, we need it! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginnings





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