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Daily Prayer Thread !!!Plus The Word
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Extremely happy. Power came back on at home - and I'm laying in bed next to my wife while she's feeding my newborn son and she's explaining to me that she's very proud of me being clean and sober, but she's going to get resentful if I can't understand how to be more of a team player. She's proud of Lord, Proud of everything - but, she can't eat when she wants, she can't shower when she wants -
and it dawns on me. Leeland Sound Of Melodies is playing in the background, relaxing worship music.
I've always had personal battles. Fighting to get off the pills. Fighting to get off the booze. Fighting the demons attacking me.
Yet, it's always been selfish. I just don't accept my families battles.
My struggle to find God has made me realize I am selfish, and it's time to go into a new chapter.
It's time to just pick up the baby. Make the bottle. Take the initiative. Clean. Include. This only child who isolates is now trying to learn how to be a team player -
My generational curses have rubbed off on my wife. She's crying now about not having a purpose, and I'm shouting from the roof I might of found mine.
"You're so absent minded I can't leave the baby with you - what are we going to do when I go back to work?"
It's time for me to fight for the family, the generation, not just my self - and it's scary.
Quoting: Intercessor Purpose? 1. Love God. That right there covers a lot of stuff, as whatever good that you do HONORS God. That's both you and your wife. 2. Love one another. God's given you and your wife the gift of life...a baby to raise. Both of you have to put away any me / myself / I stuff. "Pride comes before the fall". Heard this early this morning by Ravi Zacharias concerning purpose. Broadcast 26 mins [ link to rzim.org] At about 4:45 of that is this story... Webpage [ link to rzim.org] Approx text For example, I well recall an exchange I once had on the campus of the University of the Philippines in Manila.
A student from the audience shouted out that everything in life was meaningless. I responded by saying, “You do not believe that.”
He promptly retorted, “Yes, I do,” to which I automatically countered, “No, you don’t.” Exasperated, he said, “I most certainly do; who are you to tell me I don’t?”
“Then please repeat your statement for me,” I requested.
“Everything in life is meaningless,” he stated again without qualification.
I said to him, “Please remain standing; this will only take a moment. I assume that you assume that your statement is meaningful. If your statement is meaningful, then everything is not meaningless. On the other hand, if everything is meaningless, then what you have just said is meaningless as well. So in effect you have said nothing.”
The young man was startled for a moment, and even as I left the auditorium, he was pacing the floor and muttering, “If everything is meaningless, then …” And so it went!
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