Thursday September 11, 2025 - Lord

 Chapter 15: Lord Day 5

Praying the Name: 

Ephesians 5:8-10 - For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the [a]Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord.

Father, 

    I praise You for the grace that You have given to us so that we might follow Your Son and have a life worth living.  I pray that You will give us the desires of the heart that matches Your will. 

    Thank You for the reshaping of my life since I got the bipolar medications. That I am doing so much better on them and with them in my life. I praise You for the doctor finding the right set so that I can grow and love again and not be a horrid person that I was without my medication. 

    I am sorry for any tendency to resist You Lord and that I not want to do what You desire me to do in going to church. I just cannot go be in a big room of people. I do not resist so much but I just do not want to be around so many people again. 

    Please give me an eagerness to experience our Jesus as Lord, that I will hold Him and love Him and follow His every command to go and do and reach others. I pray that you will just give me the desire to be who You desire me to be. 

    Please be my all and all and that You will be allowed to work in my life without me stopping and running so often. 

In Jesus Name,

    Amen 


    The apostle Paul uses the characteristic phrase in the Lord many times in his letters. He speaks about believing in the Lord, loving in the Lord, working hard in the Lord, boasting in the Lord, being faithful in the Lord, being strong in the Lord, hoping in the Lord, standing firm in the Lord, rejoicing in the Lord, Paul even talks about being a prisoner in the Lord, and the book of Revelation makes it clear that it is possible to die in the Lord.  

    Clearly the early Christians considered Jesus to be not just their savior, but also their Lord. He was the atmosphere in which they lived, worked, prayed, suffered and loved. They understood that their happiness depended not on having things their way but being completely aligned with Christ, uniting themselves to His character and purposes regardless of the personal cost. And when Paul spoke about being in the Lord, he was necessarily implying that it is possible to do things outside of the Lord. 

    Sin has created an enormous structural problem in the world God made, allowing evil to deform it by threading its way through individuals, families, neighborhoods, institutions and nations, To say that creation is off kilter is to be guilty of an understatement. 

    But Jesus came to remedy this problem, and to restore fallen creation. His mission is to break sins power, and He does this by saving us and then taking our disordered lives and reshaping them into His likeness. But how much like Him we become depends on our giving constant consent to His Lordship. That is how we learn to do things in the Lord. 

    We know from scripture that Christ will continue His work until the end of the world when every kind of disorder from petty squabbles to world wars, from thunderstorms to tsunamis, from diabetes to death, the ultimate disorder will cease to exist because everything and everyone will be exactly as God intends. It is vital then that we know Jesus, not only as Savior but also as Lord because that is the only way that we can participate in building up His kingdom, Resisting His Lordship then is more than a personal tragedy because it not only impedes the way that God wants to work in us  but also in the way in which He wants to work through us. Our failures to believe and obey can have grave consequences for others,  

    Take a few moments today to be still in the Lords presence, bow your head before Him acclaiming Him as Lord, your Lord forever. Then imagine your life in perfect alignment with His and let this picture become your prayer. Pray that Jesus will be all in all working out His plans and extending His kingdom both in you and through you. World without end amen. 





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