Lord, it is very difficult to “put on humility” in a culture that idolizes self-promotion and individuality. I invite You to do a work in me, Lord, molding my life to be a useful instrument in Your hands.
-From the Mornings with Tozer, by A. W. Tozer

Had so much fun today hanging with my girls and exploring God’s creation!

“But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a mute who does not open his mouth.
Thus I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth is no response.”
Ps 38:13

David was being quiet before his enemies, and also foreshadowing the silence of Jesus in front of those accusing Him (John 18&19), which always blows me away…

I’m also reminded of an example that my amazing mom-in-law told me about, that just as you imagine a dead man and no matter what you do to him, he does not respond.
No matter if you poke him, slap him, pinch him or whatever – you will not get a rise out of him.

We are really to be like dead men in our flesh, and the only time we are to respond is in the Spirit.
And when we do, we are to respond in love and forgiveness. We are to respond in patience and joy…

I have a long way to go, but I’m journeying as hard as I can…

Love you guys and hope you have a wonderful day today.

Pls continue to pray for the victims of the flood and that people will continue to reach out.
It has been SO awesome to see the response of the churches and communities here! Praise the Lord!

Here’s a great and practical opportunity to serve people in Uganda…

http://www.villageofhopeuganda.com/index.php/move72-catalog

O taste and see that the Lord is good.Psalm 34:8

I insist that the effective preaching of Jesus Christ, rightly
understood, will produce Christian experience in Christian believers.
Moreover, if preaching does not produce spiritual experience and
maturing in the believer, that preaching is not being faithful to the
Christ revealed in the Scriptures.

Let me say it again another way: The Christ of the Bible is not
rightly known until there is an experience of Him within the believer,
for our Savior and Lord offers Himself to human experience.

When Jesus says, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy
laden” (Matthew 11:28), it is an invitation to a spiritual experience.
He is saying, “Will you consent to come? Have you added determination
to your consent? Then come; come now!”

Yes, our Lord gives Himself to us in experience. David says in Psalm
34: “O taste and see that the Lord is good.” I think David said
exactly what he meant.

Surely the Holy Spirit was saying through David: “You have taste buds
in your soul for tasting, for experiencing spiritual things. Taste and
experience that God is good!”

Lord, the great need of people within and outside our churches today
is to experience the “real thing”?God in all His power and majesty
and personal involvement in our lives. Help me to inspire others to
“taste” You, Lord.
Sent from the Mornings with Tozer

Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Ephesians 6:10

Too many of us object, perhaps unconsciously, to the rather evident fact that the maintenance of the devotional mood is indispensable to success in the Christian life.

And what is the devotional mood?

It is nothing else than constant awareness of God’s enfolding presence, the holding of inward conversations with Christ and private worship of God in spirit and in truth!

To establish our hearts in the devotional mood, we must abide in Christ, walk in the Spirit, pray without ceasing and meditate in the Word of God day and night. Of course, this implies separation from the world and obedience to the will of God, as we are able to understand it.

No matter how we may argue, true holiness and spiritual power are not qualities that can be once received and thereafter forgotten, as one might wind a clock or take a vitamin pill. Every advance in the spiritual life must be made against the determined resistance of the world, the flesh and the devil!

Dear Lord, thank You for watching over me and my loved ones last night. I look forward to spending time with You throughout the course of this day.

From “the Mornings with Tozer”