If You Are Looking For a Great Prayer

"Uphold my steps in Your paths, that my footsteps may not slip." (Psalm 17:5)

Our text in the NASB is a declaration, in the NKJV, the basic translation I use, it's a prayer.  I'll take both, but, if I can so say, I prefer the prayer.  It may seem a "simple" prayer, but then, again, the greatest prayers are "simple," and this, my friend, is indeed a great prayer.  Now some of the more "mature" among us, who are always looking for some "new" and "deep" teaching, revelation, "prophetic word," may find such a prayer too simple, even unnecessary.  I find it neither.  If religious "deep" is what you desire, this probably not the place to be.

I started this journey in Jesus in a simple love for Him.  Later, at the age of 10, I responded to a call to publicly declare my surrender to Jesus in a Child Evangelism tent meeting right next to the town playground in Somerset, Pa.  Not too much later at a summer camp, I responded to the call to "full time ministry."  Over the years, I too may have looked "beyond," but discovered there is nothing in the "new" and "deep," only in the daily, "Abide in Me," a "Moment By Moment" relationship in Jesus Christ, which began as a young boy.  My favorite songs then were, "Jesus Is All the World to Me," and, "Moment by Moment."  Nothing has changed.  They are still my "song"------ and, my life's prayer.

They refer to kings as "His Grace."  So today I refer to our Lord Jesus Christ as, "His Grace."  And, it is "His Grace" Who "brought me safe thus far'," and it is "His Grace" Who "will lead me home."  And on the journey to Glory, I pray:  Father, in Jesus' Name, I confess I have no strength for the journey apart from Thee.  "Uphold my steps in Your paths, that my footsteps may not slip."  Amen.

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