The Morning Watch

Heavenly Father, Creator of heaven and earth, I pray for many that are contemplating suicide. I pray that the light of your Spirit would pierce the darkness of their heart and mind.  I pray that those who are strong will comfort those who are weak. I pray that we would not become self-absorbed in this time of self isolation, and self protection, but more than ever before we would become others focused.  “Others Lord, yes others! Let this my motto be, help me to live for others that I might live like Thee!”   I pray that each of us would find someone to reach out to. I thank you Lord that you reached out to us! I thank you for leaving the comfort and protection and beauty of Heaven, to enter this sin cursed earth. You came to redeem it. You laid your life down to save us.  Help us to lay down our lives to save others! Show us how in the best way possible.  Help us not to love our lives but to lose our lives for the good of others! In Jesus precious name, amen!...

I was reading in Job chapter 35, when my eyes stopped at verse 10, “God my Maker, who gives songs in the night.” Are you going through a night of trial and testing my friend? Read on below, a devotional by L.B. Cowman, that will lift your heart to sing songs in the night!  But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and  salvation ; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer. And our hope for you is steadfast because we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.   —2 Cor 1:6-7 Are there not some in your circle to whom you naturally betake yourself in times of trial and sorrow? They always seem to speak the right word, to give the very counsel you are longing for; you do not realize, however, the cost which they had to pay ere they became so skillful in binding up the gaping wounds and drying tears. But if you were to investigate their past hi...