PRAYING FOR A DARKER SHADE OF BLUE....AMEN

"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favour with God and man." Luke 2:52.

Praying for a darker, or deeper shade of blue is to me, about growing in favour with God and man.  It is a daily deeper revelation of Jesus Christ in my life.  i find as i grow in God i am richly blessed in all my circumstances, trials, teaching and preaching, because i respond to them in Him.  This in turn keeps my relationships with man in a more Godly place whether they realize it or not..amen.

i was just recently talking with my Pastor and remarked that i have preached unto my family "til i'm blue in the face". He responded by saying, "just pray for a darker shade of blue"!!  It is good advice.  Lately God has been bringing the lost before me in a number of ways as i am here honoring and serving my Mom and Dad, Exodus 20:12. To be able to open the Bible, the sacred and holy Word of God, the Gospel of Jesus, to a searching man, woman or child is such an amazing and unparalleled joy in my life which the Lord affords me. Yet, in this my greatest joy comes especially the trials of an enemy so evil that he would do anything to destroy the people i love. The truth of God's Word is death to Satan, a knife in his hard and loveless heart. So the joy and presence of God that surrounds the preaching and teaching of God's Word, the unveiling of it by God, can be followed by intense attack by the devil.

My family are mostly babes in Christ, and my dad is lost.  It has always been me that lead the way in the things of God.  Sometimes it is a burden. Yet one i joyfully carry in the Lord, Matthew 11:30 . i am a sister, a daughter, an Auntie, in the natural world, but i am a mom in the spiritual realm. i never had a Mom and Dad to point me to God's answers for my life as i grew up and was searching, until i met my spiritual Mom and Dad In PT and Mel. When i came to Jesus, my family was still lost. Now i find myself in a season where i must again be pressing into the Lord all the time. But what i am realizing as i grow in the Lord is that every day of this life, without exception, is a day to press in, to pray without ceasing, to preach and teach the word of God in every circumstance of every day. In all i think, do, and say, it must all be God.  Every day is a day to stay in prayer for everyone without ceasing, to keep my mind, my heart, my eyes and ears on God so i do not miss a thing he has for me. i love him with all my heart, Matthew 22:27-40, the first and great commandment. i do what i do because my nature is being molded into the nature of Christ, no matter what the world is doing. No matter what the wold is saying.

So, for me to pray for a darker or deeper shade of blue has great significance. It is for me a deeper revealed wisdom of Jesus, a deeper knowledge where his Spirit flows out from me freely, unhindered by the circumstances or people of this world. For i am not of this world, John 17:14. It is a place of peace even amongst my enemies for i am in Christ, Proverbs 16:7.

i saw this story on-line..... pretty good.

There was this man who saw a scorpion floundering around in the water. He decided to save it by stretching out his finger, but the scorpion stung him. The man still tried to get the scorpion out of the water, but the scorpion stung him again.A man nearby told him to stop saving the scorpion that kept stinging him.But the man said: "It is the nature of the scorpion to sting. It is my nature to love. Why should I give up my nature to love just because it is the nature of the scorpion to sting?" Don't give up loving, Even if people around you sting.  >>End of Story <<

It is a hard thing to be Christ to those who sometimes are the closest to you. It can be heartbreaking. But it is an opportunity to live as Christ and take every circumstance back to God, to lead it to the godly solution. i sometimes fail in the initial attempt, but because there is no condemnation in Christ (Romans 8:1) and God forgives all our sin (1 john 1:9), i ask forgiveness, i repent with a sorrowful heart (2 Corinthians 7:9-10), for displeasing him. i continue to be faithful, to endure, to teach and preach and seek him first (Matthew 6:33) and early as He continually and faithfully reveals Himself to me...amen, amen and amen.



JESUS IS LORD OF ALL