Quote from Forum Archives on September 18, 2000, 11:46 pm

Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>

Dear friends,

I'd like to send you another issue of Bob Gass's Word for Today.
I don't know about you, but the title of this message is a frequent
personal prayer of mine.

My own prayer might go something like this:

Dear Lord, I am very aware of just how much I need You today.
Please give me constant assurance of Your Presence, help in
every situation. Lord, You know how easy it is for me to get
caught up in the busy activities of the day and leave You behind
in my thoughts and actions. I want You to know right now that it
hurts me when I realize that I do this to You. Please forgive
my insensitivity to You. I need You, I admit that, and my heart's
desire is to be with You. Help me to make appropriate choices today,
and remind me to consult You before making any choices. I know that
every time that I give You first place in the events of my day, You
go before me, and make a way for me.

Lord, I do not fear death, for I want to be with You. I do fear
the pain that comes with suffering, and I also fear that I may leave
things undone if I do not deal with the things that come before me,
as You lead me. May each step I take, each breath I make, every
moment that lies ahead, be moments where not only You are in control,
but moments that I conscientiously give them to You. Work in me, that
this may be so!

Dear God, I'm thinking of a song that a Vineyard Music worship leader
wrote, not long ago, as a prayer to You. It is my prayer, too:

I want to be closer to You
To be a delight in Your eyes
My greatest desire is to humbly obey
And to worship, worship You.

Brother Brian

--- ChristianNet <admin@christiannet.org> wrote:
> From: "ChristianNet" <admin@christiannet.org>
> Organization: ChristianNet
> To: Word For Today mailing list <wft@welovegod.org>
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:18:18 +0100
> Subject: [WFT] Tue 19 Sep 00 - Lord, teach me how to live!
>
>
> WORD FOR TODAY with Bob Gass - 19th September 2000
>
> Lord, teach me how to live!
>
> "TEACH US TO MAKE THE MOST OF OUR TIME . . ."
>
> PSALMS 90:12
>
> A neighbour of ours, a man in his early 40s, was killed last
> Christmas in a terrible car accident. He and his wife had two
> teenagers. They had also just built their 'dream home.'
>
> The day it occurred, another neighbour, who happened to be in our
> house at the time, said to me, "I think I'll go home and hug my wife
> and kids." So often it takes tragedy to remind us of what really
> matters! It shouldn't, but it does!
>
> When I hear of such things I think, "Did they live well? If they could
> come back for even a week, what would they do differently?"
>
> None of us has any idea how long we have to live, yet we act as if
> we're going to be here forever. We postpone things that deep down
> we know we ought to do and come up with elaborate reasons for
> doing things that really aren't that important.
>
> The poet said, "When it came time to die, I discovered I had not
> lived." Don't let that happen to you! Be like Paul who could say, "I
> have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the
> faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,
> which the ...Lord, the Righteous Judge, shall gave me at that day"
> (2Tim 4:7-8). Live each day as if it were your last - for one of these
> days it will be!
>
> (c) Bob Gass Ministries 2000 (used by permission)
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