Watch and Pray!

My GRANDkids, 2009

     "Keep watching and praying that you may not come into

         temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak"

                                       (Mark 14:38)

      Today's picture has absolutely nothing at all to do with today's message, but aren't my grandkids just the cutest things EVER! :)

       Anywho.... 

       Yesterday, I read "watch and pray" in the context of Mark 13  where Jesus offered His disciples a lesson on His return in the last days, and then afterwards admonished them to stay their post - keeping watch in prayer so they wouldn't be found sleeping.

        I confess to the Lord and you that twice yesterday I "dozed" allowing a sarcastic remark and later, a selfishness comment to ooze from my tongue. (Sounds nasty doesn't it!?! Sin is!)

      Through another devotional reading today, the Lord reiterated "watch and pray" - this time in the context of Mark 14 where He warned: the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak!

      O readers, let us watch and pray!

O Holy Spirit, please help us to stand our post, keeping watch  in prayer! "May the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be pleasing to You, O Lord, our Rock and our Redeemer!" (Psalm 19:14)