1 Kings 12; 2 Chronicles 10 - 11; Philippians 2

There is much flooding here in the Midwest. Just a fact and no worse than what is happening elsewhere, everywhere. Time for us, for me to just stand on Him, point people to Him, BE the church to all who are struggling. I don’t know just a lot of uneasiness, heaviness……prayer for….
I gotta stand on Romans 8:26 and know that He knows and let that be enough. Prayers for us to hear Him and move into and towards all that He says to and be RISKY however He defines the risk for us.

Phil. 2: 1 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
14 Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe 16 as you hold out the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. 18 So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

This morning thinking how easy it’s been for me. How I so readily offer advice out of my ease?? But was it easy? NO, it wasn’t…….It’s not easy to really believe what I read here is for me….I mean come on, think of the interests of others…really...…and I don’t readily…but to my point in giving advice with my husband when I listened to YOU and became about him, attempted to be about him in YOU more than trying to get him to be what I needed…because YOU were what I needed and I was going to kill Dan trying to make him be what I needed..in recognizing that in me and seeing that for what it was, a lack of FAITH in YOU. Something in me began to break and in the breaking there was this relief……there was what I had always looked for.
I don’t know but again to the point if I could do that with Dan and I am called to do that for others ALL OTHERS…..IF I listen to YOU it will happen…because YOU started this work in me…???? I hope so Father, I really do. And if it does it’s for YOUR glory and not my ease….just wrestling and trying to surrender quicker…….