"We Go From Glory To Glory..."

Encouraging yourself to get up early on a Saturday morning takes a good discipline. My flesh wants to make earthly excuses that maybe since we have an icy- weather temperature
that it's okay to miss or skip today's prayer time at our church this morning. I signed up for 
this commitment just like what I did with the 21- day Daniel Fast & the 31- day of Writing
500 Words and this Saturday-prayer fellowship should take more precedence. I have a lot of prayer requests to lay it on the altar--from my personal needs, my sons'needs, my entire family's
needs, my congregant's needs, and our nation's needs to unite for God's greater purpose.

There was a brief weak moment when I almost didn't go this morning but that would have
been a great loss on my end not to experience the fresh anointing of God's presence among brethren and sisters-in-Christ worshipping God through prayers. And it dawned on me the meaning behind the teachable event on the Biblical account of King David & Bathsheba.
I believe that if King David did not choose to stay home in Jerusalem and led the Israelite army
to fight other nations and kings, his infamous and forbidden affair with Bathsheba would not have happened. That just tells us that the devil is working day and night whom he can devour
and amidst our pauses, relaxation, and downtime, we have to make sure that we don't lose heart
to what God's appointed time and negates secular time. 
After our corporate prayer time this morning, a nice couple I've known for 2 months now asked
me, "How are the children in your classroom behaving at school?" Would you believe I hesitated
for a moment to proclaim God good plans for them? I just shrugged my shoulders like a sign
of desperation and come to think of it that I just came out praying for my special needs kids.
I realized that being human, how fast we invalidate the virtue and power of prayer as it happened to me. The right Biblical response should have been, "God is doing all things for their good
and that God continues to empower me with spiritual wisdom, patience, understanding and that God's
love for them will always prevail." Well, the first step is recognizing that I am a working progress vessel of God.
And that I will rise up behind moments of discouragement and that I will speak the truth
of what God says in His Holy Living Word not what the physical surrounding circumstances
are invoking to sway me around.
Thank You, Lord, for Today...