Praying to Want What We Get

Mark Farley June 21, 2023 0 Likes 348 Views

**Focus…**

It’s amazing to me how elite athletes stay focused on their game despite the distractions all around them, or how actors and artists keep their focus on their craft and avoid distractions.

It’s a great testimony to how focus leads to the end result.

**Spiritually speaking, we have the same opportunity with our focus.**

Practice in prayer over the years has taught me that when I focus my prayer life on being in tune with God’s will for the person, place, or thing I am praying for…

**I get the blessing to be free from praying to GET what I WANT**

….and instead….

***I have the Spirit, heart, and mind to WANT what I GET from my prayers.***

**How’s this working out for you?**

Check your experience…

***“praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.” Big Book pg. 59***

*Lord. Let us pray to want what we get instead of praying to get what we want, AMEN.*

***“Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion.” Ephesians 6:18***

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Where is Your Treasure?

Mark Farley June 20, 2023 0 Likes 346 Views

***“For wherever your treasure is, there will be your heart also.” Luke 12:34***

I enjoy this verse because it brings me instant perspective along with a truthful reminder to watch my motives and efforts.

When I am struggling, frustrated, stressed, and just plain mad, reflecting on this verse gives me the path I need to take to find happiness and let go of whatever it is that is causing these negative emotions and feelings inside of me.

**Do I WANT to look at myself at times like this?**

Heck no!

**I like to sit in anger and resentment and focus on the wrongs that I perceive being done to me!**

***I have learned that I must look in order to restore order to my mind and peace to my soul.***

**I look at my motives first.**

I ask myself what I am trying to gain, get, or avoid through my actions, attitudes, desires, and behaviors.

**I next look at my efforts.**

***Am I sitting in the negativity of the situation?***

**Am I refusing to see the other side?**

***Am I willing to accept this person, place, thing, or situation exactly as it is for this moment and refocus my mind toward the positive attitude I need to move on?***

**This is when I learn firsthand where my “treasure” is.**

***When I look at my motives and efforts, I can see where my heart is!***

*Lord let us fill our hearts with the treasures of Your Truth, Grace, and Love, AMEN.*

“As we felt new power flow in, as we enjoyed the peace of mind, as we discovered we could face life successfully, as we became conscious of His presence, we began to lose our fear of today, tomorrow or the hereafter.” Big Book pg. 63

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Actions and Asking

Mark Farley June 19, 2023 0 Likes 382 Views

**Just ask…**

**It’s a fact of life that things don’t happen unless we provide the efforts and actions.**

**We have to work to support ourselves and our loved ones.**

We have to put the right foods in our bodies in order to be healthy.

**It’s the same in our Spiritual life and growth.**

***We have to provide the actions in the forms of prayer, grace, and humble motives so the Lord can see that we are freely providing our own efforts to meet His will…***

Check your experience…

**“Before we begin, we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.” Big Book pg. 86**

**Lord let us come to you in prayer with open hearts and minds, AMEN.**

**“And when you pray, your Father in heaven knows what you need before you ask him.” Matthew 6:7-8**

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Minding What Matters

Mark Farley June 18, 2023 0 Likes 348 Views

**When we mind what matters, what matters will be on our mind…**

It’s pretty easy to see what matters to us.

Just look at who we associate with and what we tend to do.

**The things that we focus on as well as the people, places, things, and situations we seek are a great indicator of what matters to us.**

***It’s a spiritual principle that what we allow to influence us shapes our attitudes, thoughts, behaviors, and ultimately our life.***

**I learned long ago and it’s still shared in AA and most 12-step meetings to this day that when we mind what matters, what matters will be on our mind…**

Check your experience…

***“Here was something at work in a human heart that had done the impossible.” Big Book pg. 11***

***Lord, let us fill our hearts with the things that matter most to us, AMEN.***

***“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21***

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Motives and Efforts

Mark Farley June 17, 2023 0 Likes 359 Views

Loving our aging parents

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Change From Within

Mark Farley June 16, 2023 0 Likes 379 Views

**The blame game…**

***It’s because of them, or they made this happen, which leads to the famous, ‘it’s not MY FAULT’.***

Think about it, we all tend to have these feelings from time to time and it’s very easy to garner support from others when we share this thinking.

***Now while it is true we cannot control what other people, places, situations, or things do or say,..***

**we CAN control how we allow it to affect us in our actions and attitudes.**

This is why God allows us to keep our free will even after we turn it over to Him.

**He wants us to have the ability to use our gifts and grace to not become “sheeple” getting caught up in the emotions of the moment blaming them and they.**

***Rather, He wants us to look inside ourselves and choose how we respond…***

Check your experience…

*“That is how we react so long as we keep in fit spiritual condition.” Big Book pg. 85*

***Lord, let us control how we react and respond using the grace You have given us, AMEN.***

***“There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.” Mark 7:15***

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Renewing Our Spirit

Mark Farley June 15, 2023 0 Likes 340 Views

**New day, fresh start, new attitude…**

Sometimes we get into the routine of our daily lives and what used to be exciting or fresh in our hearts becomes dulled by the daily monotony of habit and comfortable routine.

Over time, if not checked and renewed, these tasks, routines, and even relationships can suffer from our being taken hostage by monotony.

**There is a solution.**

***Even when our tasks and routines need to contain the same things, we can renew our spirits daily by simply turning our will and our lives over to the Lord daily!***

**Come on.. Give it a try… and as always… Check your experience…**

***“This means a new attitude and spirit all around.” Big Book pg. 99***

*Lord thank You for allowing us to refresh ourselves and our lives through renewing ourselves daily with your Spirit, AMEN.*

***“Let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.” Ephesians 4:23***

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Inner Peace

Mark Farley June 14, 2023 0 Likes 342 Views

Inward peace…
Have you ever noticed how many products out there that are marketed to us to either provide a solution or bring comfort to help us with our stress, pains, and general discomfort?
There are a few products that I use that help me.
I have a special brand of shoes I wear for my duck feet.
I have a special pillow for my weird neck, and even ergonomic office products to help me with my posture.

These items bring my body peace but how do we find that inward peace?
Like most of us I have sought my inner peace through a myriad of outer solutions, but the only thing I have found that works and continues to work no matter what is

my relationship with Jesus and the peace He brings me through His Holy Spirit in me.
Worldly clamors will continue

but I can always look inward and know that there is peace in my heart if I seek it…
Check your experience…

“We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.” Big Book pg. 84

Lord, let us know that the peace of mind and heart You have given us remains in us as long as we seek it, AMEN.

“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.” John 14:27
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Root and Branch

Mark Farley June 13, 2023 0 Likes 372 Views