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Titus 2: Your Teachings Are Good

Prayer dated May 8/22

ADORATION (v.1)

1 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.

O Lord, your teachings are sound, truthful, profitable, holy, and perfect for my soul. All your instructions are good, and your Word saved my soul from the pit of darkness and gave me a purpose in life. Your teachings suit everyone, and you’ve given us excellent and profitable instructions. Through your Word, we shall know You.

CONFESSION (v.2-5)

 2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. 3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

My Savior and comforter teach me to be self-controlled, sound in faith, and love, reverent in behaviour, and not slander others with harsh and unnecessary words. Help me to become wiser from your teachings so that I may teach young women to love their husbands and children, but most importantly, to have a deeper relationship with You.

” We do not forget to eat or go to work or go to our beds to rest, but we often do forget to wrestle with God in prayer and spend long periods in consecrated fellowship with our Father and our God. With many believers, the worldly ledger is so bulky that you cannot move it, and the Bible-representing their devotion- is so small that you might almost put it in your coat pocket. Hours for the world! Minutes for Christ!”

Charles Spurgeon

THANKSGIVING

 6 Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. 7 Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, 8 and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. 9 Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, 10 not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

Thank you for your steadfast love and love-kindness toward my soul. Thank you to all the young men you have called to minister to us. Keep them sound in faith as they face cultural and political pressures. Thank you to our children for our property, friends, and health. Thank you to our good neighbours. In you alone, I shall trust.

SUPPLICATION

I pray for the W. family and protect their foster children from harm and deception. I pray for our friends that need a new home to rent. (I prayed for my children).

“Still remember that prayer is always to be offered in submission to God’s will. When we say that God hears prayer, we do not mean that He always gives us literally what we ask for. We do mean, however, that He gives us what is best for us and if He does not give us the mercy we ask for in silver, he bestows it upon us in gold. If He does not take away the thorn in the flesh, yet he says, “My grace is sufficient for thee’ (2 Cor. 12:9). We never offer up prayer without inserting the clause, either in spirit or in words, “Nevertheless not as I will as thou will” (Matt.26:39). We can only pray without an ‘if’ when we are quite sure that our will must be God’s will, because God’s will is fully our will”

Charles Spurgeon

I’m reading through the book of Isaiah and just finished the audiobook on Joshua. Also, I will recite Titus’s entire text to a friend this Friday. Now lets us pray! How was your weekend?

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