Frank’s Random Thoughts for the Week
Keep what you like as your own. Discard the rest.
- The Creator of the universe knows our thoughts and heart’s desire before we pray one word.
- Knowledge and understanding without the direction of the Holy Spirit is like having tools with no clue as to how they should be used.
- We can always do our best now, with no need to wait until later.
- The Lord’s Prayer is much more than a roadmap of what to say, for it is all about focusing our desires in total surrender to God and having his benefits from doing that.
- Please God with what you have, because you can’t please God with what you don’t have.
- If we can’t hear well, we can’t know whether we are speaking well, so we do need God’s help with our hearing.
- God’s presence is the greatest of all gifts, which we should treasure more than anything else.
- We can be sure that God will do what he wants to do, within the framework of what he can do, because he already has and already is.
- Walking in the presence of God can answer all the questions that we don’t even know to ask.
- I won’t waste much prayer time asking for what I want, because I think knowing what God wants and how I can fulfill his purpose is much more important.
- Wisdom comes when we can see beyond our doctrines and know how things really are.
- If were looking for guidance from the Lord, we should do everything possible to maintain a good connection with his presence, or we are likely not to hear anything.
- Without our desire to please the Lord, his direction doesn’t help us much.
- Unbelief misses the truth for lack of desire, and misbelief misses the truth because it isn’t yet made known.
- We are smart to anticipate and recognize the mistakes made by Artificial Intelligence.
- If the exhortation to reckon ourselves dead daily is important, then we should also anticipate the need for daily resurrection.
- All I can do is much more than all I can do—if I can have the Lord’s help in all I do.
- When Jesus prayed, “Not my will but yours be done,” he was expressing his total commitment to pay the high price for what God wanted.
- To accept God’s ways, we must know they are better than any alternative.
- With my own creativity, I can produce a mess, but with the certainties that God provides, I can proceed with confidence.
- A new discovery is exciting because we didn’t know it has always been true.
- We could prove the effectiveness of prayer if we knew how to evaluate the results from God’s perspective.
- Walking with God, we can see no finish line, because there is no end to eternity with him.
- If it weren’t for the unknown that only God knows, we would be deprived of a wonderful, interesting adventure.
- The glory of walking with the Lord is greater than any pain we might endure.
- The process is an unavoidable necessity in order to accomplish everything God wants to work in our lives.