First Things First
Something awakened me at 3:30AM and the anxiety of things I cannot change set in. My hot water bottle of a husband was already up. About 6:20 I called to him saying I was not going to make our morning walk. I brought up that it had been several weeks since we'd done our morning prayer books for our marriage and reflected on how easy it was to get out of the habit.
He responded, "You are trying to go back to sleep, so why don't we do them tonight." I challenged, "If I had said let's praise the Lord would you say, 'Nah let's wait?'"
"Here's a compromise," I continued, "I'll keep my eyes closed and you can read the entries in both books out loud."
God showed up, for what I was to read for him was what my heart needed to be reminded of.
The one I was to read over him, he read to me...
"Lord, I pray for Your protection on Boo's mind. Shield her from the lies of the enemy. Help her to clearly discern between Your voice and any other, and show her how to take every thought captive as You have instructed us to do.
May she thirst for Your Word and hunger for Your truth so that she can recognize wrong thinking. Give her strength to resist lying thoughts. Where the enemy's lies have already invaded her thoughts, cleanse her mind. Lord, You have given me authority "over all the power of the enemy" (Luke 10:19).
By the authority given to me in Jesus Christ I command any lying spirits away from my wife's mind. I proclaim that You, God, have given my wife a sound mind. In Jesus' name I pray."
We live in this world, but we don't act like its' people or fight our battles with the weapons of this world. Instead, we use God's power that can destroy fortresses. We destroy arguments and every bit of pride that keeps anyone from knowing God. We capture people's thoughts and make them obey Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
The good "God" thing was that I finally fell back to sleep until I was awakened by the voices of 15 men chatting away downstairs for their weekly Bible Study.
The Song
"First Things First" Consumed by Fire
