From All of That You Provide I Remain Full

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 My Heavenly Father,  


Thank You for all the houses filled with good thigs that i did not fill, for all the dug-out wells and ditches that i did not dig and for giving me the strength to dig the ditches i dug.  Thank You for those orchards of apple and pear and walnut trees and that grapevine all of which i did not plant.  From all of that i remained full. - [Deuteronomy 6:1] From All of That You Provide I Remain Full.  i shall not engage voluntarily in any further idolatry, and i know only You can give me the inner power and strength to overcome such temptations.  i cannot possibly do it all by myself.  Help me to do what is right in Your sight, so that i may righteously dwell wherever You see fit to dwell, according to Your will.

My emotions may clamor against the surrender, but my will must hold firm.  It's my purpose God looks at, not my feelings about the purpose. . . Your thoughts are not as my thoughts.  Your ways are not as my ways.  Help me to forsake all that i have so i an be Your disciple.  i am not to depend on my unenlightened human understanding, but upon my human judgment and common sense enlightened by the Spirit of God, speaking to me through the faculties He Himself has given me.  i must refrain from action until God give me light to know more clearly. 

It's all about what's on Your mind, not mine and You already know that i have too much on my mind.  Jesus, You love me now.  You save me now.  i have no doubts that the enemy is fleeing now.  i will sing unto You.  The horse and the enemy has been thrown into the sea.  The enemy who brays like a burro shall be tossed into the sea only by Your Hand.  In Jesus' name .  Amen

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