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Praying for the year

Jan 5

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My wife and I sat and prayed for a long time together today, just thanking God for what he has done in our lives and committing the new year to Him. So yes, we are four days late I guess, but we really needed to find a good chunk of time to pray together.

Praying together gets easier the more you do it. In fact prayer gets easier the more you do it. I used to struggle to pray for 5 minutes, and now I can pray for an hour and wonder where the time went. It is just amazing how God answers prayers. I keep this online journal / blog so I can look back in time and see God’s faithfulness.

Praying together as husband and wife strengthens our bond and also makes sure our minds and hearts are aligned together so that God can work in us and through us. We prayed for our business, for the church, for our kids, for each other, for our families, for finances, for health and for discernment and understanding.

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God is interested in our lives

Jan 5

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1 Chronicles 22:  6 Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel. 7 David said to Solomon: “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God. 8 But this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. 9 But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon, [a] and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign. 10 He is the one who will build a house for my Name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’

David was a man after God’s heart. David wrote many of the Psalms and was the king that loved Gof most. It was David’s tabernacle that God wanted to rebuild. But here in this reading God shows that while David longed to build the new tabernacle for God, in all its glory, it was ultimately Solomon who got to build it. David got the materials together, he did the blueprint, but in the end God said to him he was not to build it.

I had never seen this before that God prevented David from building the temple because of Davids past and the number of people he had killed, albeit as king of Israel. But God wanted a peaceful man to build the temple. God is intersted in the details of our lives. He chooses to work with our character.

6 Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel. 7 David said to Solomon: “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God. 8 But this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. 9 But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon, [a] and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign. 10 He is the one who will build a house for my Name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’

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