What a wonderfull prayer.
Yes Lord help us all to over come the things that come to harm us,the emotions that over come us like a sea of despair.Help us to stand on your Word and know that you have everything under control.Thank You Jesus.
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"Fly by the Instruments"
Posted on 10/31/09, 05:21 pm
Gloria Okes Perkins compares times of trail and emotional instability in the believer's life with the clouds, fog, and air turbulence and airplane pilot experiences. The answer in both cases is to fly entirely by the instruments.
"When there is no visual contact with the earth....when no horizon is in view, stability can be achieved only by depending on what those vital gyros have to say," she writes " What is true as pilots in the skies is just as true in another sense for believers in the difficulties of life when normal conditions of stability seem to vanish in clouds of sorrow and confusion. Sooner or later every believer will have to 'fly by instruments' spiritually and emotionally through bad times....
While piloting a plane in a thick fog, a pilot cannot be sure of his direction unless he gives full attention to his instruments. When flying through thunderstorms, the turbulence will throw him about, and the darkness within the clouds will threaten to disorient him. sometimes he will feel as though he is going up or down or turning around. But he cannot depend on His feelings. Only the gyros can be trusted, so the pilot must hang on to the controls in the turbulence and discipline his mind to concentrate on the instruments while he flies through the storm.
" The parallel truth for the Christian in troubled times is clear. Undisciplined feelings...can cause a crash unless one keeps himself stabilized by the facts of the Word of God... Every promise in the Word of God is like a gyro giving information to stabilize him in a specific situation...With daily practice one learns not to panic but to believe a specific truth from the Bible fitted for his own unique circumstances. By experience one learns not to fight his feelings, but to look away from them to the "instrument panel' of the Word of God which is utterly dependable.
Father God from the depths of my heart I ask that you would help me and the others on here to learn not to fight our feelings but to learn to look to the Word of God and stand on it. It so hard Father. Feelings wash over us like waves on the ocean. Trying to take us under, but God give us the strength to rise above the circumstances and feelings and was as the overcomers we are in You. In Jesus Name
"When there is no visual contact with the earth....when no horizon is in view, stability can be achieved only by depending on what those vital gyros have to say," she writes " What is true as pilots in the skies is just as true in another sense for believers in the difficulties of life when normal conditions of stability seem to vanish in clouds of sorrow and confusion. Sooner or later every believer will have to 'fly by instruments' spiritually and emotionally through bad times....
While piloting a plane in a thick fog, a pilot cannot be sure of his direction unless he gives full attention to his instruments. When flying through thunderstorms, the turbulence will throw him about, and the darkness within the clouds will threaten to disorient him. sometimes he will feel as though he is going up or down or turning around. But he cannot depend on His feelings. Only the gyros can be trusted, so the pilot must hang on to the controls in the turbulence and discipline his mind to concentrate on the instruments while he flies through the storm.
" The parallel truth for the Christian in troubled times is clear. Undisciplined feelings...can cause a crash unless one keeps himself stabilized by the facts of the Word of God... Every promise in the Word of God is like a gyro giving information to stabilize him in a specific situation...With daily practice one learns not to panic but to believe a specific truth from the Bible fitted for his own unique circumstances. By experience one learns not to fight his feelings, but to look away from them to the "instrument panel' of the Word of God which is utterly dependable.
Father God from the depths of my heart I ask that you would help me and the others on here to learn not to fight our feelings but to learn to look to the Word of God and stand on it. It so hard Father. Feelings wash over us like waves on the ocean. Trying to take us under, but God give us the strength to rise above the circumstances and feelings and was as the overcomers we are in You. In Jesus Name
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