PRAYER: Dear God, I welcome your Holy Spirit to convict me, wherever my heart might be corrupt and not worthy of your Kingdom. It is my desire to live a righteous life, according to the standards set forth by your Word. The world would corrupt my thinking, Lord, with its ill conceived notions about what you would consider sufficient. Men often authoritatively say what they THINK, but the Holy Spirit often shows me that what they THINK adds and / or takes away from what Jesus taught. Thank you, Lord, for your Holy Spirit. He resonates within my heart, and I choose to listen to YOU over all that would otherwise confuse and cause ME to stumble. I am a lowly and simple man that must rely upon wisdom that comes from you. When Jesus said in John 15:5 ... apart from Him, I can do nothing; He made it very clear to me that I should abide strictly by His ways. Jesus always showed love, but He did not excuse sin under any circumstances. In John 8:1-11, your Word says that Jesus protected the adulterer, BUT He did not excuse her sin. He COMMANDED her to leave her life of sin, and He offered no exemptions for her weaknesses or temptations in life (whatever they might have been). We are ALL born with challenges and difficulties, Lord, BUT it has become my joy to overcome them so that your works can be displayed in me. Oh, God, your Holy Spirit has made it quite clear to me the seriousness of what Jesus meant when He declared Himself as the vine, on which we are to be the branches. If there might be anything that separates me from that life-giving vine and inhibit your works through me; then please, Lord, swiftly dispatch your Holy Spirit to reveal my fault. Please, do NOT leave me to be enabled by the world and its secular thinking. By your mercy, Lord, I am a branch that can grow evermore toward Heaven until my dying breath. Thank you, Lord, for your teaching and nurturing. Amen!
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