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A Prayer for 2020

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Philippians 1:9-11 is a scripture that will breathe life into our year of 2020. It is important how we see things in 2020. It is important how others see us in 2020 AND it is important how God sees us in 2020. Pray this for yourselves, pray this for your loved ones. Memorize it, write it on the tablet of your heart. This is 20/20 vision right here. This is a scripture to memorize and pray (beginning now) through 2020. That our love abounds and increases, that we reflect the love of God in all we do, that we have discernment and spiritual insight (clarity of vision) that we can distinguish (through the eyes of God-our spiritual insight) moral differences between holiness and sin and choose holiness in all we do, big and small, walking out the commandment of God to “be holy as I am holy...” (found in both Leviticus 11:44 and 1 Peter 1:6), that we walk pure in heart, with clean hands and blameless before the Lord for our motives, that our words AND our actions help others to walk away fro...

Are You Expecting?

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In Psalm 5:3 David calls out to God saying “In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I plead my case to you and watch expectantly.” In David’s morning prayers, he releases his heart to the Lord, his wants, his needs, his inner desires and then he watches expectantly, with an expectation, that God will do something. David has an expectation and that expectation will be met. A lot of times, we may pray, we may petition the Lord but then we go about our day WITHOUT a real expectation that God will actually respond to our heart’s cry. There’s a difference between watching and waiting. Waiting can bring weariness whereas watching includes hope and expectancy that something is about to be produced. Watching puts a demand on us to leave our spiritual eyes open to look beyond natural circumstances in our life and trust that God did indeed hear the cry of our heart and He is going to respond. Let’s flip this over...God is also watching us with expectation. He is watching us...