Did You Think to Pray?

Lyrics: Mary A. Kidder
Music: William O. Perkins

Ere you left your room this morning,
Did you think to pray?
In the name of Christ our Savior,
Did you ask for loving favor,
As a shield today?

Refrain:
O how praying rests the weary!
Prayer will change the night to day;
So when life seems dark and dreary,
Don't forget to pray.

When you met with great temptation,
Did you think to pray?
By His dying love and merit,
Did you claim the Holy Spirit
As your guide and stay?

When your heart was filled with anger,
Did you think to pray?
Did you plead for grace, my brother,
That you might forgive another
Who had crossed your way?

When sore trials came upon you,
Did you think to pray?
When your soul was bowed in sorrow,
Balm of Gilead did you borrow
At the gates of day?

-emphasis mine.

Just another day on the farm

Battle unproductiveness and feelings of incompetence and self worth with the Cross. All that was accomplished there. I was bought for a price and that price is the blood of the Lamb, Son of God, who did not count equality with God a thing to be grasp. Fight hard the temptations to wallow in self pity for our value comes not from within us for we ARE all Losers and failures, rather turn my eyes upon Jesus, my Savior and my Lord. Who is worth more than I ever will be.

Women are crazy...

Incredible perspective on women, and how we should not simply accept the silly phrase "women are just crazy"

Because I don't understand how it happened.  I don't understand how Satan convinced our churches that men should fight lust like it's dragging them to hell, and women should laugh about their sinful emotional outbursts.  It seems like somehow in the beautiful movement to challenge men to lead more, we accidentally began to avoid the insecurity in women in the name of 'grace'.  We began to blame men for women's craziness.  We began tiptoeing around truth out of fear of creating drama. 

I wonder to myself what would look different in the Church today if women fought insecurity the way they expect others to fight pornography or adultery.  I wonder what would be different if women would stop laughing at the way they get irrationally angry or sad and instead acknowledge that there are some emotions that are an offense against a Holy God. 

God made women beautifully and fearfully.  And one of the best things about them is that they experience deep emotions.  The call to fight emotional sin is a call not to remove emotions, but to redeem them.  God designed us to have emotions that reflect His worth.  An emotionless life is just as sinful as a life filled with ungodly emotions.

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Happy 1 John 4:7-10!

Yield Not To Temptaion

Lyrics and Music: Horatio R. Palmer

Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin;
Each victory will help you some other to win;
Fight manfully onward, dark passions subdue,
Look ever to Jesus, He'll carry you through.

Refrain:
Ask the Savior to help you,
Comfort, strengthen and keep you;
He is willing to aid you,
He will carry you through.

Shun evil companions, bad language disdain,
God's Name hold in reverence, nor take it in vain;
Be thoughtful and earnest, kindhearted and true,
Look ever to Jesus, He'll carry you through.

To him that o'ercometh, God giveth a crown;
Through faith we shall conquer, though often cast down;
He Who is our Savior our strength will renew;
Look ever to Jesus, He'll carry you through.

Purity

Purity means freedom from contamination, from anything that would spoil the taste or the pleasure, reduce the power, or in anyway adulterate what the thing was meant to be. It means cleanness, clearness no additives, nothing artificial- in other words "all natural" the sense in which the Original Designer designed it to be. // 'Passion and Purity' Elisabeth Elliot

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