I've picked up my One Year Bible again. I read it completely through a couple of years ago. I've been reading some devotionals but haven't felt like I've been getting enough scripture so I started The One Year Bible again.
I enjoy this because it is a lot of scripture each day and because it is a translation I do not normally read. Everyday I get the Old Testament, the New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs. So, I am enjoying reading more of the Bible again. There is an online blog that goes with this each day but I haven't started using it yet. Here is a link to it if you are interested.
When I picked up the Bible, I started on the date that it was. So, I started very late in the book of Judges, then through Ruth and onto 1 Samuel. This is where I noted a passage that I can use and have used since I found it for prayer, even though that isn't what it is in 1 Samuel. The passage is 1 Samuel 14:7: “Do what you think is best,” the armor bearer replied. “I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” The armor bearer was talking to Jonathan, King Saul's son. Jonathan was going off on his own (sort of) to fight the Philistines as he thought was best. The armor bearer, perhaps not wanting to buck his boss, said, “Do what you think is best. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” What a great servant, huh? Fully committed to follow wherever Jonathan leads, even to war and death.
As I read this, knowing what all I've been thinking lately, I decided this is a perfect prayer for me: "Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” Isn't that just perfect for so many circumstances? God wants us to serve and we respond, "Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” Or God wants us to give or do more and we respond, "Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” We become ill and respond, "Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.”
I've said this several times since I first had the thought of it as a prayer. Some of those times, it has been in a prayerful attitude; other times it is more pleading/whining than actually saying, "your will be done". I am trying though. I am trying to mean it as I say it. I'll keep it up. Perhaps it will come to pass that I do actually mean, "Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.”
Dear God of everything, Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide. Help my unbelief and insincerity! Amen.
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When I picked up the Bible, I started on the date that it was. So, I started very late in the book of Judges, then through Ruth and onto 1 Samuel. This is where I noted a passage that I can use and have used since I found it for prayer, even though that isn't what it is in 1 Samuel. The passage is 1 Samuel 14:7: “Do what you think is best,” the armor bearer replied. “I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” The armor bearer was talking to Jonathan, King Saul's son. Jonathan was going off on his own (sort of) to fight the Philistines as he thought was best. The armor bearer, perhaps not wanting to buck his boss, said, “Do what you think is best. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” What a great servant, huh? Fully committed to follow wherever Jonathan leads, even to war and death.
As I read this, knowing what all I've been thinking lately, I decided this is a perfect prayer for me: "Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” Isn't that just perfect for so many circumstances? God wants us to serve and we respond, "Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” Or God wants us to give or do more and we respond, "Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.” We become ill and respond, "Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.”
I've said this several times since I first had the thought of it as a prayer. Some of those times, it has been in a prayerful attitude; other times it is more pleading/whining than actually saying, "your will be done". I am trying though. I am trying to mean it as I say it. I'll keep it up. Perhaps it will come to pass that I do actually mean, "Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide.”
Dear God of everything, Do what you think is best, [Lord]. I’m with you completely, whatever you decide. Help my unbelief and insincerity! Amen.
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