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"I'm not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them
safe from Satan's power." (John 17:15) (Life Application Bible)


"Make them pure and holy through teaching them your words of truth."
(John 17:17) (Life Application Bible)

"A person becomes pure and holy through believing and obeying the Word
of God (Hebrews 4:12) and accepting the forgiveness of our sins through
Christ's sacrificial death (Hebrews 7:26-27). The process of becoming
holy and pure involves God's workmanship with respect to our past,
present, and future. Through Christ we have been saved from sin;
through the Holy Spirit we are growing in our Christian life, according to
God's plan, we will be made perfect when Christ returns." (Hebrews 9:24-28)
(Life Application from Life Application Bible)

WALKING WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

In the middle of the night do you toss and turn? Not being able to
sleep for some unknown reason? Do you have night sweats of fear? Does the
feeling of hopelessness creep upon your time of refreshing slumber?

Do the memories of sin slink through your mind like a river of hot lava
flowing through your soul?

In the glorious morn of the day does your desire to pray slowly slip
away like a ebbtide? Already gone before it has begun?

During your drive to work does your mind and soul fret and worry over
the day's coming events?

Seeing that the day is half way through, have you put aside that
yearning n your soul to pray for others? Has something more urgent in
today's world "preyed" upon your heart and soul?

Have you forgotten to be thankful for the blessings that God has so
graciously and lovingly given to you this day? Perhaps your sorrows
seem to outweigh those blessings. Do you, then, really feel blessed when you
allow the thoughts of  unforgiveness, envy, greed, and selfishness to
raise their gruesome faces of evil to overpower the goodness in you?

You can be lulled to sleep by the waves of the Holy Spirit washing over
you. You can be cooled by the breeze of angel's wings. A blanket of
hope, joy, and love can be pulled over you to cover and warm your heart
and soul of it's hopelessness.

The river of hot lava sins can be cooled, hardened, and then broken in
to pieces of dust to be blown away by the sweet forgiving breath of the
Holy Spirit.

You can soak in the glorious sunshine of  morn or see the silver
sparkle in the raindrops if they fall this day. You can pray in thankfulness
for whatever the morn may bring.

You can be thankful for the drive to work because you have a car, you
have a job, you have blessings some others do not have this day.

Do not let the evil one "prey" upon your time. You can PRAY at any
given time of day. Think of others, send those loving "target" prayers to
those you come close to this day. You do not have to know them
personally. The Holy Spirit is there, He is whispering in your soul,
take time to LISTEN TO HIM.

Think upon your blessings, not your sorrows. That is often so difficult
a task to do. Open your heart and He will plant the seeds of blessings
and take away the weeds of sorrow.

The soot of unforgiveness, the green gorged eyes of envy, the greasy
stench of greed, the black heart of selfishness will be washed away by
a rushing waterfall of cleansing hope that overpowers those chains of
suppression in your soul.

Call out His Name, Holy Spirit, come walk with me today.

Truly walk with Him this day, refresh your soul this day, go in peace
this day. When the night stars shine in the heavens above you this
coming night, He will remain, if only you will ask.