...because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever:  ~~~ Do we have peace or panic in our difficult moments and decisions? Let's picture this:  We are in a crowded hotel elevator and it is stuck and stopped between floors and the temperature in the packed elevator-car is rising... Or..we are sitting in an emergency room examination room.  The pain is high, the results are due back any moment, and we have no idea what the diagnosis will be... Or...we are at the tippy-top of the 1,083 foot-tall Eiffel Tower.  There are 1,665 steps to climb up  and 1,665 steps to climb down .  But we are in a torrential thunderstrom with high winds and driving rain, and the structure is swaying.  T he elevators are prohibited and frightened people are mob-mode.  Hundreds of people are pushing (each other and their limits) to descend the 1,665 steps to safety. What do we do in panic-possible situations? We can  rely on God in unknown ...

Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.   ( 3)  In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord .   ( 4) And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock.  The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, ( 5) but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.   (6) Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? ( 7) If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”  ~Genesis 4:1-7 ~~~ God must have known something that we don't.  Why wasn't Cain's offering (from the field) accepted as favorably as Abel's offering (from the flocks)? We aren't told. We don't know why Abel's was acceptable and why Cain's was sub-par to the Lord's liking.  We don'...

The truth is, the sales-equation has not been working out in our favor at work lately.  We are making the phonecalls, and completing the sales communication cycles...and our prospectives-funnel is larger than it's been in years.  Yes, our team is definitely putting the work in , but for the last couple months...sales just haven't been happening, and  it is not for a lack of effort, teamwork... or prayer.  And so...we keep pounding-the-pavement and we keep lifting our provision up in consistent and specific prayer to the Lord, because  I  know that He knows what we  need before we  ask him. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. (8) “ Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.  ~Matthew 6:7-8 He already knows , Brothers and Sisters in Christ.  Our Heavenly Father knows  when His children are lacking, or looking, or hur...