Prayer has always been a struggle for me.  In fact, I've described it as the fight of my life.  The one thing consistent about it is my struggle to maintain a quality time alone with God every day.  I have failed more often than I have succeeded. 

What about you?  How's your prayer life? Are you rushing through your prayer time?  Neglecting it altogether?  Isaiah 50:4 (NIV) says, "The sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning."    AGL

Ah is this not the sum of my life?
Intentions are good, motives good but the fruitfulness is never there in the end.


Psalm 23:2
He leads me beside quiet waters . . . . . 
AMP ~ He leads me beside the still and restful waters.


I do not feel restful and the waters seem a bit choppy in my corner of the pasutre.


Lean = to guide
               to direct
               to tend toward a definite result


He tends, directs me toward still and restful waters.
This tending and leading and directing process is toward sill and restful waters . . . . .not journey.


What if all the trials in our life were God's mercies in disguise


I am still not sure i really understand.   My trial right now is finances and a job or some letter from the State.
My trial is confidence and physical ability to perform a jobs with a smiling face.
My most immediate trial is getting the toilet to unclog so I dont need to buy a new plunger.


Third Day sings....CRY OUT TO JESUS !!


"GET TO YOUR PLACE OF PRAYER AND LEAN MY GIRL"


He does lead to restful quiet waters on the journey 


(John 10:28). Our second layer of security is the Father; "My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand" (v. 29). Friend, you are safe in His everlasting arms.