🕊️ The Lesson of the Withered Fig Tree

And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither away so soon?”

So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. 

And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” 🕊️

Matthew 21:20-22

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It is not good to eat much honey;

So to seek one’s own glory is not glory.

Whoever has no rule over his own spirit

Is like a city broken down, without walls.

(Proverbs 25:27-28)

Starving the Ego

Oh Lord, as I experience success in different ways, I pray I will always give You the glory. 

Keep my head level. Help me not to become bloated with pride and false importance. 

It is so easy to feed on the sweetness of compliments rather than on the hard kernels of Your truth.

God, build up my self-control so I am protected from the desire to stuff my ego with empty words. 

I pray that You see me as a person of substance and integrity. 

Let my honor come from my association with Jesus, the King of Kings!

Reference taken from: One Minute Prayers For Men [INTEGRITY]

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Good morning Father!

Thank You for this day!

Thank You for my life!

Thank You for my sweet bride, Amy!

Thank You for my beautiful daughter, Selah!

All that I am and all I possess, they are blessings from You O Lord!

Thank You!

Father, being filled with Your Holy Spirit, and putting on the “Full Armor of God”, Lord, I still reach out to You for All things, as Your child of the light, I am constantly checking myself, looking to be preventative, rather than reactionary, I know my character flaws and my limits, I also know when I exceed them or when I am tempted to act in my flesh, rather than allow Your Spirit within me to calm my own spirit.

This war of flesh and spirit wages on, but so does my morning prayers, reaching to the “God of the impossible”, my Lord and my Shepherd, daily consulting You O Lord, to help me to fight the desires of my flesh and walk in the spirit, my spirit, which bears witness to Your Spirit strengthening me for my day, so thus I pray, may I walk in my spiritual man and not by my fleshly man. 

Father I lift up All my loved ones, All my children, All my grandchildren, and their little ones, may they each sense Your presence in their lives, may they learn to hear and obey the leading of Your Holy Spirit, guiding them in making good choices, and living as Your children of the light.

Bless me O Lord, may I complete all the tasks before me today, and may I shine in and through all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Praise Yahweh!