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Philippians 4:6 -- Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication (humble request or prayer) with thanksgiving let your requests be made unto God. Prayer and supplication should be made with thanksgiving. We are to thankful when we pray before we get an answer. Sounds a little different. But the Word often stands the world's logic on its head. If we haven't got an answer yet, or we asking with thanksgiving, what could we be thankful for? I would venture that we could be thankful that we as human beings can even approach Almighty God with our prayers and supplications. And, we can be thankful for the peace and comfort of bringing our prayers and supplications to a God who cares. " Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you." I Peter5:7 And, we can be thankful for the measure of faith He builds in us, when we bring our prayers and supplications to Him and are able to surrender our care and control into His hands. At these...

Luke 11: 23 He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with Me scattereth. There is not middle ground; no straddling the fence with Jesus - no politicians here. You are either "all in" or you are all out. On a secular level I have found this to be true with ironman training. The cost and reward are high, the training rigorous. A half-hearted ironman attempt can lead to serious problems out on the race course. You can't be "almost an ironman. The time limit is 17 hours. Finish within that time and you are an Ironman. Don't finish within 17 hours and you are not. And one who does not gather is one who scatters. If I call myself a Christian, claim to be "all in " for Jesus, yet my life is no different from the way of the world, am I gathering or scattering in the expression of my faith to the world. And, when the world hears my profession of faith and does not see the evidence of Christ acting through me, my confession a...

The more I read the Bible, the more I am made aware of how much I don't understand---yet. But, the hunger to know more, to be more, to live more closely to God, has brought me to many personal revelations in studying His Word. It has been impressed upon me that these revelations are not my own personal property but belong to all who would read, or hear. At the same time this is an opportunity for me to step out in faith, and by exercising my faith, become stronger in it. Faith is the bird that feels the light And sings when the dawn is still dark. (Rabindranath Tagore)