Almighty God, Eternal Father, Son and Holy Spirit I come to You this day agreeing with You that I live in absolute dependency on You. You and You alone are my salvation. You alone are the source and substance of my life. You alone are “life within me”. Knowing that You have begun a good work within me that only You can bring to completion, I come to You to receive Your ongoing work of restoring my life. I come to You to be renewed in You and to receive the anointing of Your Holy Spirit to live in Your grace, authority and Power this day. I am utterly dependent on You and confident in Your eternal, faithful love for me that nothing can separate me from.
TIMING Years ago, I head an old preacher say, “The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.” That statement is an offense to the culture being worshipped world-wide today. There is a lust for the immediate, as a line from an old movie stated, “Immediate gratification takes too long!” We want faster internet, immediate responses to our texts, mobile orders at the ready when we walk into Starbucks. What we want, we demand to have NOW. We are masters at justifying ourselves. “Well, we’re engaged already and we’re going to get married anyway, so what’s wrong with us living together and being sexually intimate now?” God’s timing in human relationship is not arbitrary, it is protective and covering. Sad to say, even some who call themselves followers of Jesus Christ choose to justify their living in sexual sin now, because they promise that they will one day get married. The context where sexual intimacy finds its true meaning and purpose is in the covenant of marriage. ...
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