A Stranger in a Foreign Land

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 May the peace of God guard my heart and mind through Jesus Christ and since Jesus knows that God brings me this peace beyond my understanding, He will test my heart to ensure His Father's peace is effectively keeping me focused and seeking the kingdom.  Keeping out anything that's intrusive, keeping Satan at bay and continuing down the hallway and out the door to reside in the garbage bin outside.  Let me stand back and watch You work through Your glory; for a change i can say, "it's not about me."

Keep me away from the ways of the wicked, for i know they are an abomination to you -[Proverbs 15:8]  Keep me civil-minded and don't let me fall into the toilet when the neighbors slam down their commode seat again and again and over and over.  Keep me from busting my own seat when i slam mine down in retaliation.  Keep my prayer for peace upright and to Your delight.  How many times this past year have i been so displaced, a stranger in a foreign land even though i was born here!

Search me, O God. and know my heart, try me and know my anxieties.  See if there is any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting- [Psalm 139: 23-24]

I will praise You with my whole heart Before the gods I will sing praises to You  I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name For our lovingkindness and Your truth; for You have magnified Your word above all Your name In the day when i cried out, You answered me.  And made me bold with strength in my soul.  All the kings of the earth shall praise You, O Lord.  When they hear the words of Your mouth.  Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord, For great is the glory of the Lord--[Psalm 138: 1-5]

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