On the Go - January 28, 2010

Question for question deserves answer for answer, unless you're clueless.

Live it
My first job after getting married was in sales for a door company. That didn't work out too well so I used my new resume to land a position with our local power company where I worked as a draftsman. For two years I used a LeRoy ink pen to modify mylar block maps as changes were made to the city's infrastructure. After a while I jumped ship to take a job as a structural engineering draftsman. A year and a half later I used my newly gained knowledge of buildings and technical drawings to land a job estimating for a steel fabricator. Before leaving the metal industry, I had performed every facet of metal work including actually fabricating the steel and aluminum products we sold. Now, forty years later I've made full circle. As the Door Man, I sell, fabricate, install and service the security business in our city. It's so ironic how we use the sum total of our experience to remain in or around the thing we've done most of our life. My joy however, has always been music and leading singing in church is what I've enjoyed most.

After the birth of my first child, there was hardly a time she didn't hear me singing around the house and at church. Kelly was just a couple of years old when I was doing technical drawings at home for extra money. One day a church member told me my toddler had told them I was drawing at night. That amazed me for she was barely able to talk and had no understanding of technical drawing. Then it dawned on me. Kelly was referring to a song I sang with the lyrics, "Your Redemption Draweth Nigh." What people heard her say was true, even though what they thought she said was misconstrued. I've come to the conclusion that's exactly what people have always done with Jesus' words. We hear him, but without personal experience with Him, we're left to draw the wrong conclusion about him and then spread the news of what he never said.

Pray it
Thank you for revealing truth to babes and frustrating the understanding of wise and intellectual bigots. Please keep me from ever getting like that.

Resources
What would become of us if we learned to respond to God in the right way? (2001)
If we don't get rid of the articles of sin in our life, we'll probably pick them up again. (2002)
Devotional. (2003)
Some of us never get past our past to forgive ourselves. (2004)
We must learn to appropriate God's power . (2005)
Have you prayed and asked God to make you mighty? (2006)
Coincidence according to God's Word. (2007)
Love for family should be a dominant trait in us. (2008)
Prayer supercedes personal intelligence. (2009)

How to Pray for...
My husband or wife.
Extend their loving influence.

My children.
Give them godly goals.

Their school.
Expel false teaching.

Their teachers.
Extend the influence of godly ones.

My children's friends.
Give them a virtuous best friend.

My friends.
Make them strong in Your might.

My work.
Give me grace to do what must be done.

My city.
Turn back the tide of unrighteousness in us.

Governmental leaders.
Shine Light on them so laws are passed that honor You.

My country.
May we desire to correct wrong before doing anything new.

My President.
May the State of the Union reflect Your opinion and not his.

My church.
Give us direction parallel to Your's.

My pastor.
Take him where You need him.

My church leadership.
Support their Pastor with accountability.

Sister churches.
Find the help they need and unafraid to ask for it.

Persecuted churches.
May they find joy in being faithful.

Missionaries.
Prepare the way before them.

The sick.
Restore the joy of their salvation.

The lost.
Open their eyes to see what they lack.

Those in despair.
Give them victory today.

Those in the hospital.
Make their stay short and productive.

Those grieving.
Wash their face with Living Water.

Widows.
May they meet a best friend today.

Orphans.
Deliver them from feelings of futility.

Myself.
Remind me often today why I serve You.

Prayertower Devotionals are the original creation of James R. Green:
Just Thinkin'... (2000-2003)
Read the Bible Thru in 365 Days (2004)
Pray Thru the Word in 365 Days (2005)
One-minute Devotionals (2006 to present).

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