SCRIPTURE
Boy! Today it was hard to narrow in on just one scripture. Daniel 3 &4 one of my favorites and Revelation too, but Psalm is one of my favorites so...Psalm 81 it is!
Psalm 81:11-14
"But my people would not listen to me; Isarel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. If my people would but listen to me if Israel would follow my ways, how quickly would I subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!


OBSERVATION
Here it is again! God wants to move on Israels' behalf, they just won't listen! They're stubborn and trying out their own way...again! The win over their enemy could "come quickly" if they would just listen and follow God's way and not their own.


APPLICATION
Its so simple! Who doesn't want to win over the enemy in their life? And yet, I am just like the children of Israel! And if you're honest about it, so are you! All we have to do is give up our own stubborn ways and follow God's. All we have to do is just listen to Him! So often when we feel like we are loosing in some area of our life we think God is holding something back from us or we wonder why we continue to struggle over and over and over. It might just be the time to give up our own stubborn ways and follow His?
PRAYER
Lord, help me to listen and hear you! Help me to lay down my ways and take up yours. Help me to submit my stubborn heart to You! Show me your ways so that I may walk in them always! And Lord, this is also my prayer for my husband and my son and all those who know you! And as we do, I pray that those who do not yet know you are drawn to you because they see you at work in us!