Governing Authorities
13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
Oh Lord of heaven, how shall I subject myself to institutions and authorities contrary to Your laws and statutes. You appointed many who are evil and cruel to rule over us and do not fear You so that our faith may be tested and stand under the trials. Forgive me when I failed to seek refuge and trust in You. Help me to serve you in all times and situations. Give me wisdom and understanding of Your will.
“But this purpose of God is frustrated as long as we are content to say it is perhaps because my prayer is not according to His will that He does not hear me. Oh, let’s not throw the blame for our unanswered prayers on the secret will of God, but reconize instead our own praying amiss. Let that Word, Ye ask and receive not because yet ask amiss, be as the lantern of the Lord that searches heart and life to prove that we are like those to whom Chirst gave His promises of certain answers. Let’s believe that we can kjow if our prayer is according to God’s will. Let’s yield ourselves unreservedly to the Holy Spirit as He teaches us to abide in Christ and to dwell in the Father’s pressence, and we shall soon understand how the Father’s love longs that the child should know His will and should know that He bears the petitions which we ask with confidence. This is the confidence that we have in God, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us. “
With Christ in the School of Prayer- Andrerw Murray
Love
8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
I cannot love on my own, but through Christ Jesus, I’ve learned to love. Holy Spirit, guide my steps and heart to seek Your word more faithfully.
“Love does not wrong to a neighbor, therefore Love is the fullfilling of the law.”
Prayer written in journal April 14/23
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