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God is Ready when we are.

Whether it is a country’s flag or the flag of our soul, when it is up side down, we are displaying a signal of distress. Distress is not what God intends for a nation or for an individual, but it happens when that nation or individual is not living in a proper relationship with their Creator God, and sin is at the root.

God’s Word says that He is there to hear us and bring us back from our distress, and heal us. Let us all humble ourselves and confess our sin and the distress it causes, turn from it, and trust in Jesus to save us, and heal us from all unrighteousness (that improper relationship).

Many students will gather around their school’s flag pole September 26, 2012, for the annual “See You At the Pole” prayer event. It is a time for praying to God for one another, for friends, school, community, country, and the world.

It is great that our children know what-is-needed, and that is to go to God for healing for our distressed souls, the souls of others, and the whole world.

Do we know-the-need to go to God? He is ready when we are.

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God is Glorious
- mankind is not unless we glorify God.

One needs-to-know that everything can have its own degree of glory, but there is no comparison to the glory of God. Everything is for God’s glory, because everything ultimately comes from God, the creator of it all.

If you plant a vineyard, you might step back a harvest time, and think what a glorious thing I have accomplished, yet it is God who made it all possible. From the materials you used, to your strength to complete the task, it all came from God who deserves the glory.

Our work can glorify God and benefit others as we plant our grapevines, and make our wine or jelly to be enjoyed by all, but if one drinks all the wine or eats all the jelly, it becomes a selfish act that doesn’t bring about anything but drunkenness or selfish gluttony and a life not well enjoyed. It is our choice as to how we live our lives, either for God or for self.

It is great to know what we need to enjoy life and God forever, is to glorifying Him in all things.

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God is Merciful to those who yield to Him.

To yield must mean that there is some sort of conflict going on. With God, the conflict is the result of sin that separates one from God. Sin can be referred to as a wall of separation. Building one comes naturally to humankind, but this wall of sin can be expanded upon until it is not only high, but surrounds the builder until there doesn’t seem to be a way out. In reality, a large wall of sin is not any easier to breach than a small one. A wall is a wall, and sin is sin. Either one will entrap us.

What you need-to-know is that God has made a way through. Jesus destroyed sin on the cross when He took our wall (big or small) on Himself to make it possible for all to have a right relationship with our Heavenly Father. This right relationship is available to everyone who yields by confessing one’s sin, turning from it, and trusting that Jesus has destroyed that wall (sin) and is now our Lord and Savior.

Isn’t it good when we know our need to bust through is as close as our cry, “I yield! I yield!!!”