Illustration: I may be a testimony for many events that have happened in my life, but the one thing that I find difficult to do is to stop worrying. I just give up and then pray that the Lord takes over, believe you me, IT WORKS.
I was once in a financial fix, and had to plan the monthly grocery very carefully. So I tried shop hopping at the malls to see the season’s best offers. It was the dawning of Diwali, Big Bazaar had everything on offer that I did not require, so I wanted to go to another mall. Spencers was looking very expensive from the outside, so I did not want to take the shopping cart as I might have nothing to buy. But curiously as I entered to just check out, and I was pleasantly surprised a Spencers very well decorated, friendly ambience. The tube music was playing, “Joy To The World” in the midst Diwali and as an Event Manager I found that extremely funny, and started singing my favorite Christmas Carol.
As I walked along I could see more than my eyes were looking for my cart was getting full and there was no room for more. That day I could not stop buying, I got everything and much more that I wanted and for the first time I walked out paying Rs 999 out of the Rs 1000 I had saved for the grocery. I could not believe my purchases; I could not handle the bags I was carrying as there were too many. That’s when I realized I had prayed to witness the glory of the Lord. It cant be a coincidence for the store manager to play a Christmas Carol amongst the Diwali mayhem, they cant make a mistake like that, but my Lord can make a miracle, just like that.
From that very day I decided to make the Lord my manager and I his assistant, things in my life just evolved without being involved. I wake up every morning, put my hands up say this simple prayer.
Proverbs 6
Warnings Against Folly 1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge for another,
2 if you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
3 then do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Go and humble yourself; press your plea with your neighbor!
4 Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest-
11 and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man. [a]
12 A scoundrel and villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
13 who winks with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,
14 who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up dissension.
15 Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.
16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
Warning Against Adultery
20 My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
21 Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten them around your neck.
22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
23 For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,
24 keeping you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.
25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,
26 for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
28 Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
29 So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
32 But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
33 Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away;
34 for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
35 He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.
Prayer:Dear God, This is your day, not mine. You are my master and I am your slave. You are my manager and I am your worker. You are my financer and I am indebted to you Lord. You are my advisor and I seek your intervention. Lord you manage my day, thy way, lest I might fall. Lord you are my foundation, you are my way, you are the truth, and you are my life. Lord you know my needs, my challenges, and my desires. Lord my life is in your hands, do not forsake me Oh Lord, lest I tumble and fall. Lord be my rock, my strength, and my grace. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whose name all good things come.
I was once in a financial fix, and had to plan the monthly grocery very carefully. So I tried shop hopping at the malls to see the season’s best offers. It was the dawning of Diwali, Big Bazaar had everything on offer that I did not require, so I wanted to go to another mall. Spencers was looking very expensive from the outside, so I did not want to take the shopping cart as I might have nothing to buy. But curiously as I entered to just check out, and I was pleasantly surprised a Spencers very well decorated, friendly ambience. The tube music was playing, “Joy To The World” in the midst Diwali and as an Event Manager I found that extremely funny, and started singing my favorite Christmas Carol.
As I walked along I could see more than my eyes were looking for my cart was getting full and there was no room for more. That day I could not stop buying, I got everything and much more that I wanted and for the first time I walked out paying Rs 999 out of the Rs 1000 I had saved for the grocery. I could not believe my purchases; I could not handle the bags I was carrying as there were too many. That’s when I realized I had prayed to witness the glory of the Lord. It cant be a coincidence for the store manager to play a Christmas Carol amongst the Diwali mayhem, they cant make a mistake like that, but my Lord can make a miracle, just like that.
From that very day I decided to make the Lord my manager and I his assistant, things in my life just evolved without being involved. I wake up every morning, put my hands up say this simple prayer.
Proverbs 6
Warnings Against Folly 1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge for another,
2 if you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
3 then do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Go and humble yourself; press your plea with your neighbor!
4 Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest-
11 and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man. [a]
12 A scoundrel and villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
13 who winks with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,
14 who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up dissension.
15 Therefore disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed—without remedy.
16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
19 a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.
Warning Against Adultery
20 My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
21 Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten them around your neck.
22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
23 For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life,
24 keeping you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of the wayward wife.
25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes,
26 for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?
28 Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
29 So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30 Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
31 Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold, though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
32 But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
33 Blows and disgrace are his lot, and his shame will never be wiped away;
34 for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
35 He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse the bribe, however great it is.
Prayer:Dear God, This is your day, not mine. You are my master and I am your slave. You are my manager and I am your worker. You are my financer and I am indebted to you Lord. You are my advisor and I seek your intervention. Lord you manage my day, thy way, lest I might fall. Lord you are my foundation, you are my way, you are the truth, and you are my life. Lord you know my needs, my challenges, and my desires. Lord my life is in your hands, do not forsake me Oh Lord, lest I tumble and fall. Lord be my rock, my strength, and my grace. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whose name all good things come.
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