Lord don't let me neglect Your word the bible. Give me wisdom and understanding as I study it and meditate on it. Help me to hear Your voice more clearly each day. Give me strength to obey You. I love You and with all my heart I want to obey. Amen

A Desire To Glorify God

 Lord I put all of me in Your hand.

With all my heart I want to be used as You have planned.

Make me a loaf  bless me and break me.

Make me a blessing to all who partake.

May Your glory be all they see.

I surrender into Your hands for what ever You want to make.

Fill me please with Your living water to over flowing.

With all my heart I want others Your presence to be knowing.

Make me Your vessel bless me and pour me out.

That others may quench longer thirst.

May they in me see You and no longer doubt.

May Your light through me burst.

But Lord be it great or small.

Make anything at all.

I want to answer Your call.

With complete surrender.

I just pray how ever I'm used that people will know You are the sender.

Follow The Recipe

When it comes to bread making I can become very impatient. You know going through all the steps, waiting for the dough to rise two times, and baking for almost an hour. I like things with quick results. There have been times where I have tried to rush it by adding more yeast, kneading it for a shorter time, adding baking soda, adding baking powder, and lots of other things. The end result is it never comes out right. I have to follow the recipe because when I do I end up with a good loaf of bread. The person that wrote the recipe knew what they were doing, and knew the end result. They provided all the information I needed to make a good loaf of bread. I guess sometimes in my Christian walk I want to see quick results too. I want to see a sin I have been struggling with for years suddenly disappear for ever. I want to see Christian seeds I plant take root quickly, I want to mature and be more Christ like faster. I want to go to heaven were I will never sin again and always please my Master now, now, now, now, now! How silly! I should know from reading God's book that He does things in an orderly way and in His perfect timing. And that all these things I want right now; I may not see happen until I go to heaven. But I have confidence that if I follow God's recipe (instructions) in His recipe book the (bible) I will come out with a perfect loaf of bread (a good Christian life). Don't take this wrong I am not saying there is a formula to follow. I know I must follow Jesus through prayer, respectful fear, trembling, by studying His word, and by listening to those that He has ordained to teach me (pastors, and certain brothers and sisters, and my husband). Because if Jesus doesn't take this loaf and bless it and break it, it wont feed anyone. But I am also saying  that the bible has a lot of good recipes for how to live a happy, peaceful, contented, useful life. God wrote it for my instruction, correction, benefit, and to tell me who He is, how much He loves me, and to help me see where I am going and more! If  I carefully study it and with all my might try to prayerfully follow God's word I should end up a pretty good loaf  of  bread that God can use to feed many. I also should end up with a life that was abundant, full, wholesome, and good. Oh my! I can taste that life even now! He must be making a lot of loaves out of me because it seems I am always in one of the many bread making stages. I am being mixed into and with the family of God. I am being kneaded (God is constantly working on me). I am being left to rise (constantly sitting  and meditating on God and His word). I am in the oven often (a place in my Christian walk where things are so intense that I must wait for God to pull me out and pronounce me done with that for awhile). I go through a cooling off period ( a time of rest). But one thing I never really know is if  God is using me to feed anyone. I may not know until I go to heaven. But I am a happy loaf !

Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105,  need to be  Oh, how I love Your law ! It is my meditation all the day. You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Your precepts. I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word. I have not departed from Your judgments, for You Yourself have taught me. How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. Psalm 119:97-104, Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 12:28

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