Widows and Ravens

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 Turn me ahead facing Your direction, Lord, like You did yesterday when Satan blew his shofar.  A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead. --[Proverbs 21: 16]  i've loved gin, vodka, tobacco, and weed long enough and certainly didn't get rich from them. ---[v. 17]  Let me shut my door and pray to my Father who is in the secret place.  i know the walking definition of a counterfeit Christian.  i cannot and will not mess with the Lord who holds the keys to hell.  We Christians must endure to the end.  

Why should i feel uncertain or insecure?  i am with Christ and the Holy Spirit has His hand on my heart.  i need not worry about my shortness of breath and the left side of my heart not pumping at full capacity.  i'm prepared to go home when He calls me home.  Should i die on His earth, then i'll live in His new earth.  His guiding Star and Shepherd has watch over me.  

i can make testimonies out of trauma.  i choose to be in thrival mode.  May i have clean hands and a pure heart for i no longer pay attention to idols whose strengths are my weaknesses.  The Lord could have widows and ravens provide for me.  When they exhume my body in 100 years, why should they find a nice set of implants?  Thank You, Lord, for a new perspective when i engage in reading Proverbs this morning.  It reminds me and brings to the front people who've occupied my mind too much these days so as to lie awake at night rehearsing speeches of things i want to tell them.  Help me, Lord, to be at peace when i should be sleeping in the wee hours of the morning and if i must do so, then let the study be valid that oversleeping could cause dementia.

In Jesus' name.  Amen

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