Soldier of The Cross, in Romans 13, Paul tell us that the peaceable fruit of righteousness comes from submitting to divine discipline.

     What do you want from Him ?

     When you pray, are you asking Him to fix things?  What else do you say to Him?

     Soldier of The Cross, learn to pray about the things that you know are important to God.  Tell Him you want to be able to pray according to His Word and His Will.  the Indwelling Holy Spirit will lead you.

     The issue is, are you available?

       Soldier of The Cross, where is your treasure?

      Do you know?

     Is it in your daily schedule?  Are you devoted to just getting through each day?  Are you aware of your thoughts about your goals and priorities?
     Is it in your family?  Do you see yourself as being responsible for everyone else's behavior and opinion?
     Is it in your financial security?
     In your reputation?
     In your resume?
     In your looks?
     In your position in the church?
     In your schedule?
     Can you say that you want what He wants? 
     Do you love His Word?

     What pushes your buttons?   The Indwelling Holy Spirit reveals the things that must be yielded up to the Lord.  He is gentle and He is not loud.  But, He is articulate.  Those who have decided their Treasure is in Christ are able to discern the elegant silver thread of the leading of God.

     Soldier, tell Him where you want your investment to be.  Tell Him aloud.
     Tell Him today.
    

     Those who pray do not have to interpret circumstances.

     They simply recognize the Lord.
 

     Whe God answers prayer, He always does it in a way that exceeds expectation.  Where there is no prayer, much of what the Lord does passes  by as coincidence, or goes entirely unnoticed.

     Similarly, the one who trusts the Lord and tells Him so in prayer, knows that He will do what is best.  Prayer also enables the Soldier of The Cross to wait for God's time.

     His way is the only way.  He is known and seen by faith and by nothing else.
    

      Can He really make His likeness in you?

      If you had been created for anything else, He would not have required your agreement and submission in this area.  When will you know He is doing it?

     From the minute you tell Him you agree with Him and tell Him that you will take up the Cross and follow Him.  Will you feel Christ-like?

     No.

     How will you feel?  Like a sojourner and a pilgrim.  Like one who is learning the death of the flesh.  Like one who is discovering the freedom from fear, anxiety, anger,  passivity, depression and confusion.

     Soldier of The Cross,  you have decided to follow Jesus.  You accepted Him by faith because of Grace, and you must live by faith because of Grace.

     The most important thing? Take Him at His Word, no matter what. 
     Put your all on the altar.

       Prayer takes the Soldier of The Cross to the Bottom Line.

     What are you praying about?  A physical need?  A trying circumstance?  A  pressing financial issue?  How about your own longing for His Presence?

     The Holy Spirit leads the one who prays.

     Come before Him in simplicity and honesty.  Soldier, He is the supreme Listener. 

     What is the issue today? 

     Soldier, you have a Place to go.  You have One who listens and who holds the stars in place.  Could you possibly want more?

     Tell him about it today.
     Aloud.

 Do all things without murmurings and disputings.
                                     Philippians 2:14

    What does this verse mean?  Exactly what is says.

     Complainers create and atmosphere that is repugnant to those who are eager to serve cheerfully.    It is one thing to call it as it is.  It is another to swarm over a matter and knead it in order to proclaim the extent of one's own ability to see how bad things are.

     Complainers bear a mark on the personality and  loose the ability to see clearly.  If there is no turning, the complaining becomes recreational, then habitual and finally dominates all thought and conversation.

    Complainers are always looking for ratification and want to find other complainers.

     The King of Glory is asking that we take up The Cross and follow Him.  Things fall quickly in perspective for the one who tells the Lord that he is eager to be changed and that he will agree with God.

     Soldier of the Cross,  memorize the Word.  Repeat verses aloud.  The Holy Spirit will bring them to mind.

     The battle is in the mind.  Take every though captive and lead it away.  Begin in prayer.  Agree with Him.

     Grace always exceeds the offense.

     Many seem to think that the grace of God is equal to our sin. That is not the case. His Grace far exceeds anything we could ever do or think of doing. 

     Such is the nature of Grace.

     Soldier of The Cross, it is a stunning thing that our sins have been forgiven.  Were it not for the fact that His Grace is infinite, we could never be forgiven.  

     Grace is available to those to whom the Blood is applied.  It is not cheap, and the farther we go with Him, the more we understand the awesomeness of the Grace of God.

     Freely we have received.  Freely we should give.

     Remember, we are sojourners and pilgrims.

     Those who see beyond this life are able to enjoy things that are missed by those who are desperately hunting for a place to plant their treasure.

     We are passing through.  Our treasure is to be laid up in the Beyond, where there is no decay and increase is eternal.

     Soldier of The Cross, this must be considered in prayer.  Coming before the Lord about this matter means having His perspective.  It means there is the freedom to let go of thing s that are not productive.  It means an added freedom in the tasks that otherwise seem tedious.

     We have the Indwelling Holy Spirit.  We are not alone.  We are not without direction.  We are not without encouragement.  We lack for nothing.

     Soldier,  look up and move on!

      There is always more.

     There is more of Him.
     There is more He needs to do in you.
     There is more he can do for you.
     There is more you can do, even when you feel straight-jacketed.
     There is more ministry that awaits you.
     There is more delight in Him to be experienced.
     There is more you can give.

     Life in Christ means being born into the experience His own Life without measure, limited for us only in God's design of time.

     Soldier of The Cross,  you serve a God who is not limited.  the human mind is not able to wrap itself around this truth.  It must be accepted by faith.  We know it is true because the Indwelling Holy Spirit gives witness.  It is just that the flesh is so drawn to the gravity of limitation.

     Tell the Lord you will be available for anything He has.  Ask Him to change you.  
     Tell Him today.
     Tell Him aloud