Doors to the Sea: Prayer: A Planned Future with Hope

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Prayer: A Planned Future with Hope

O Guardian of my soul, You know the plans You have for me, plans for good and not for evil; plans to give me a future with hope. Your Divine Mind and its wonder-working power on my behalf is far beyond my understanding. May I know with surety that nothing happens by mere chance. May I hear Your voice above the murmuring of my doubts, above the shouting of my self-will. Come, O Lord, and fill me with Your peace, quiet me with Your love, let me hear You rejoice over me with singing. May I, like King Josiah, choose to love you with all my heart, and soul, and might -- trusting You not only with my past, and my present, but with my future, as well. You tell me that Your Kingdom is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. O move me into Your Kingdom, O Lover of my soul! (Jeremiah 29.11, Zephaniah 3.17, 2 Kings 23.25, Romans 14.17)

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the blackwells said...: This is a great reminder -- that God is in control of it all -- especially when I turned in my application for Tesco this morning. *weeping and wailing* just kidding; February 1, 2007 at 4:04:00 AM PST

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Welcome to Doors to the Sea

The title, Doors to the Sea, comes from Job 38.8-11: Or Who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb? -- when I made the clouds its garment and the thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'? These verses record part of God's response to Job's questions regarding his confusing circumstances. God is much more grand than we imagine -- the bounding and pounding surf of the sea abruptly halts at the command of God! Living on the Oregon Coast it is a constant reminder that God is not unaware of our circumstance -- we are to simply come to the One who created the Doors to the Sea and lay out our requests and praises. We may not get an immediate answer; but we can be assured that God knows our situation and has established parameters on our circumstance: Thus far shall you come, and no farther! God is faithful and will see us through. Each day's prayer is based upon quiet time readings taken from three different Old Testament chapters and one New Testament chapter. Key verses are highlighted and then a prayer is crafted from the thoughts expressed in the verses. Amazingly, each day's prayer speaks directly to the author's circumstances. We pray you will be blessed as you share this journey of prayerful contemplation.