19091706 – FranLaff.com

September 17, 2019
5:46 am

Good morning, Father. Thank you for bringing me through the intense cram session of the last several months, updating thousands of pages of materials I’ve created in the last 15+ years, and creating a firm foundation on this website, including my Printables Shop. It is lovely to have a choice what to work on now at any given moment… even though the wifi has turned sucky and horribly unpredictable in the last week or so — enough to be discouraging and frustrating. Every day now there are times of the day when I cannot connect to the wifi at this lonely, dirty little RV park. Sometimes it makes me want to scream or cry, but most of the time it just renews my determination to work hard and earn enough to get my OWN mobile hotspot that will (hopefully) work anywhere we travel. For now, we are STUCK in more ways than one. But you know my needs, Lord, and I am trusting you to provide everything I NEED, and help me to let go of the things I only THINK I need. I know that I can trust you to make sure we have a way to get clean water and groceries as we need them, and I am grateful to have a roof over my head that does not leak, a way to cook and wash my dishes and clothes and body, and an awesome Mate who may be just as frustrated as me (or more so), but who is a delight within my day and a friend to my heart. I know that I can also trust you to keep guiding me in my work, Lord. Help me to know what to do when, making best use of the energy of my body and mind, as well as whatever time I get each day on the wifi. Amen.

Genesis 22:13-18 ERV

Then Abraham noticed a ram whose horns were caught in a bush. So Abraham went and took the ram. He offered it, instead of his son, as a sacrifice to God. So Abraham gave that place a name, “The LORD Provides.” Even today people say, “On the mountain of the LORD, he will give us what we need.” The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time. The angel said, “You were ready to kill your only son for me. Since you did this for me, I make you this promise: I, the LORD, promise that I will surely bless you and give you as many descendants as the stars in the sky. There will be as many people as sand on the seashore. And your people will live in cities that they will take from their enemies. Every nation on the earth will be blessed through your descendants. I will do this because you obeyed me.”

Father, we are simple people who do not always know what you are asking of us. I feel truly blessed that I myself have such a close relationship with you, your Spirit within me guiding me closely each day. However, I still pray that you have mercy on us, as we are but blind little humans who need your help constantly, to save us from our own failings. Lord, help me to be faithful to you… but also please make your desires plain to me, so that I have a CHANCE to obey. Amen. :)

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