Ben Pettit

How often do we not pray? I know, I’m guilty some times too. I have been on a spiritual journey for the past 6th months and the Lord has been shaping me a lot. I’d ask you today to read over this beautiful text. Just meditate on it. I pray that it would cause you to love.

“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:13

I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”

Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down
All down at Jesus’ feet.

Let’s just take our time
There’s nothing else to do
What better way to spend the night
Than wasting it with you
The moon has won the war
The daylight waits to end
Stay here by my side
We’ll watch the struggle start again

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I need you now and forever
So stay right here with me
Don’t ever leave
Love was kept from me like a secret
And I swore that I was through
Until you, until you

The city settles down
I watch you as you sleep
There’s a silent celebration for
Every breath you breathe
Now this all makes sense
With you as company
I left all I knew and found
A better part of me, yeah

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The time it took to find you
I would
Wait again my baby
The feelings that
I feel with you now, yeah

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until you until you until you

If Jesus is who he said he is and I’m pursuing who I’m suppose to be, would I really be stuck where I am right now? I’m not really questioning myself too aggressively, I’m more questioning the process. How fast does the Lord work?

I think I understand now that he works in whatever speed he chooses. I don’t think the Lord works in a cause and effect type relationship. I can’t do anything for him to love me any more and I can’t do anything for Him to love me any less. I think that that in itself is both comforting and frightening.

Rodney and I went to the VA hospital here in Anderson today. I played for a man suffering from prostate cancer. He served our country through the worse of times, through war, through hell on earth, and prostate cancer kills him. It just doesn’t seem fair.

See here’s the thing, I believe the Lord is the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, and Almighty over all. In that is he a healer? Does he heal? Yes. But on the whole, he does not heal those suffering from very serious conditions. Did we not pray hard enough for Hanna Sobeski, the Dorman High School student who passed so tragically of cancer. Did we not have enough faith?

I’m not sure that is it at all. I believe the Lord chooses who to heal, who to bless, who to save. Yeah I said it, I think there are people in this world who will never experience the Love of the Father. They will never be saved because he hasn’t choose them to be saved. I use to think so the opposite, I’ve come to this conclusion that I am literally in control of very little.

I need you Jesus, come to my Rescue, tell me where else can I go? There is no other name by which I am saved, capture me with grace…

I will follow you…