Good morning Father!

Thank you for this day!

Thank you for my life!

Thank you for my sweet bride and our baby girl!

All that we are and possess, we give thanks to you Lord!

🕊️ “The Greatest Gift”

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. 

Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE. 🕊️

1 Corinthians 13

🕊️ “Submit to God, Resist the Devil”

Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for

“God resists the proud,

But gives grace to the humble.”

Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 

To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. 🕊️

1 Peter 5:5-8

As I travel away from my loved ones, I prepare my heart, mind and spirit, for I don’t know what I will face along my journey.

In my morning routine, on this day, I include in my prayers, my family’s experience and my spiritual wellbeing, I reminding myself I need God’s Spirit to be with my family, to keep them safe and strong while I am away. For myself, I ask God for His Spirit of Love, to reign in me on my journey this day and all the time I am away.

I hope to accomplish all my work well, sure, and I ask God to keep me safe, sure, but in addition I ask God to bless me with His Spirit of “Love” to guide my way, my words as I greet others, and that my behavior in all I do, so I will bring God glory and praise Him for every step I take, in Jesus’ name, Amen!