Ask the right questions

Getting the right answers to life's greatest challenges requires asking the right questions.  Too often asking impulsive questions leads to impulsive answers; answers that may easily gain validation from Christian friends but are not Biblically founded.
  
The question I have asked most of my life is "What is God's will or purpose for my life".  The error lies in the focus of the question; "Me".   Lately, I have begun asking a different question.  Although it may only appear as a simple semantic difference, it has made a significant difference in outcome (e.g., peace of mind and joy).  I have now begun asking, "What is God doing in the people around me and how can I be part of His plan?" 

The question changes my focus and puts me in the present.  I now focus on the person in front of me and ask God what He is up to?  God is always working in everyone's life, all the time.  It can be a great ride!

Personal Statement

A Conqueror's Morning Prayer

Lord by faith here's what I'm doing right now to prepare myself for the coming day.

I'm putting on the belt of truth. I ask You to make it very clear to me what I am to accept into my life and what I am to reject. Help me to see clearly the motives of others as they deal with me and converse with me. Let me walk in Your truth, making decisions and choices according to Your plans and purposes for my life.I am putting on the breastplate of righteousness. Guard my emotions today. Protect my heart. Help me to take into my life only the things that are pure, and nothing that is poison or pollution. Help me to live in integrity and to have a reputation based upon doing, saying, believing, thinking, and feeling the right things. Help me to live in right relationship with You every moment of this coming day.I am putting on my spiritual boots. Help me to stand and walk in Your peace and to move forward in ways that bring Your peace and love to others. Help me to have the full confidence and assurance 6that come from knowing that I am filled with the peace that only You can give to those who are Your children. Help me to be a peacemaker. Show me where to walk and how to walk as You would walk.I am picking up the shield of faith. Help me to trust You to be my Victor in every area of life today. Help me to trust You to defend me, provide for me, and keep me in safety every hour of this day.I am putting on my helmet of salvation. Guard my mind today. Bring to my remembrance all that You have done for me as my Savior. Let me live in the hope and confidence that You are saving me---rescuing me and delivering me---from evil.I am picking up my sword of the Spirit, the Word of God. Bring to my remembrance today the verses of the Bible that I have read and memorized, and help me to apply them to the situations and circumstance I will face. Let me use Your Word to bring Your light into the darkness of this world and to defeat the devil when he comes to tempt me.

Father, I want to be fully clothed with the identity of Jesus Christ today. I am in Christ. He is in me. Help me to fully realize and accept that he is my Truth, my Righteousness, my Peace, my Savior, the source of my Faith, and the ever-present Lord of my life.
I want to bring glory to Your name today. I ask all of this in the name of Jesus. Amen.