GO, GO, GO, Your Boat!

Before any journey our life or work is like a boat sitting at the dock. When we pray it’s like starting the engines and turning on the radio. If we go ahead without prayer we will just drift aimlessly hoping to end up somewhere. We can take out the ‘oars’ and try to succeed in our own strength but we will just end up tired, burned out and discouraged. It doesn’t matter if it’s our own small skiff or a great ship with a large crew, we can try to “row, row, row, and our boat” all we want but we won’t end up going far or fast. To go against the negative life flow we need more than our own energy and volition. When we pray we receive Gods grace and it is the power to do His will. Prayer is also the radio that keeps us in constant contact with God. We need to ‘tune in’ every morning and chart the course. Then as we go we will hear God’s voice and be empowered to do His will. The Almighty Omnipotent and perfect planner desires direct all the details of our life and work. He is always watching over us and knows about everything surrounding us. But it’s still imperative that we have our radio on and be tuned in to His frequency. God offers Divine direction and protection but it’s the result of hearing and following His voice. It’s hard to steer a ship with the engine off and also one that is not in motion. So start your engines, be propelled by God’s power, go forth in faith, fulfill God’s will, walk in His ways and win!!

Acts 8:26-40
26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." This is desert. 27 So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, 28 was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet. 29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, "Go near and overtake this chariot."

30 So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

31 And he said, "How can I, unless someone guides me?" And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 The place in the Scripture which he read was this:

"He was led as a sheep to the slaughter;
And as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
33 In His humiliation His justice was taken away,
And who will declare His generation?
For His life is taken from the earth."

34 So the eunuch answered Philip and said, "I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?" 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. 36 Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?"

37 Then Philip said,"If you believe with all your heart, you may."

And he answered and said,"I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."

38 So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. 39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea.
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Heb 4:16
16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
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Acts 4:31
31 And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
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Jer 33:3
3 'Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.'
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Jer 33:3
3 'Call to me and I will answer you. I'll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.'
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Jer 33:3-4
3 'Ask me and I will tell you some remarkable secrets about what is going to happen here.
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Jer 33:3-4
3 Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.
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Jer 33:3
Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.
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John 16:13-15
13 But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].

14 He will honor and glorify Me, because He will take of (receive, draw upon) what is Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.

15 Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He [the Spirit] will take the things that are Mine and will reveal (declare, disclose, transmit) it to you.
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2 Cor 9:8-9
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
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