Father God let this touch someone’s heart today in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
Ever speak stuff that you learned as a child and saw on family’s walls and recited it and didn’t know where it came from or who wrote it?
God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world As it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right If I surrender to His Will; So that I may be reasonably happy in this life And supremely happy with Him Forever and ever in the next. Amen.
(Prayer attributed to © Reinhold Neibuhr, 1892-1971)
Well, the “Serenity Prayer” I have seen all my life. I have even painted plaques. Always thought it came from the bible. Which there are some bible verses that collide.
What is the origin of the Serenity Prayer?
History of the Serenity Prayer. The author of the Serenity Prayer has been a largely debated detail for years until a 1932 diary entry was recovered. It was found that the prayer was originally written by Reinhold Niebuhr, a German American reformed theologian in the 20th century. This man left such a legacy for God. When God speaks through someone. We will never know the impact we can make. All I know is God has made a living legacy with the bible that this poem has been in households, church’s and people’s hearts. Healing and changing lives all for God’s glory. Niebuhr used various versions of the prayer widely in sermons as early as 1934. The prayer spread rapidly, often without attribution to Niebuhr, through church groups in the 1930s and 1940s and was adopted and popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve-step programs. The Serenity Prayer appeared in a sermon of Niebuhr’s as part of the 1944 A Book of Prayers and Services for the Armed Forces, while Niebuhr himself first published it in 1951 in a magazine column.
A believer with the Holy Spirit would agree that one cannot control sinful urges within their own strength and power. It reads in Hebrews 2:17-18; Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.
A believer realizes the power to overcome sinful desires of the flesh is only by and through the Spirit of God.
It reads in Romans 8:12-13; Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
Isaiah in chapter 55:8-9, boldly declares “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.”
Colossians 3:16
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5-6
“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.”
James 3:17
“Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6
For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4
Life can get out of hand. Maybe you are suffering from addiction and trying to recover, or maybe you are subconsciously choosing to care about many different things that are making life tough. Grief, divorce, disagreements, healing from a illness of any kind as there are many reasons we fall short. We need to overcome life’s difficulties. I totally get it.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You for the family which was ordained by You from the beginning. Assist and guide me to be a good person and to instruct those in my care with patients and guide them wisely. Let me be childlike in my relationship with others and to respect and honor them, as unto You Lord. I thank You and praise You that You have given me all I need to be victorious in the spiritual battle in which all Your children are engaged. Guide me to rely on You and not on my own abilities. I am believing that I will Find all I need in You, also in the power of Your might as I stay fixed in Your word as I walk with You all the days of my life. Till You come back or I in turn go home to be with You in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse}
Who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God?
2 Corinthians 1:4
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