Look to Jesus

These are simply a few quotes and prayers that I currently have posted around my room. Hopefully, they are as helpful to you as they are to me right now.

Psalm 119:33-37 (possibly RSV, but found in Discipline: The Glad Surrender, by Elisabeth Elliot)

Teach me, O Lord, the way set out in thy statutes,

     and in keeping them I shall find my reward.

Give me insight to do thy law,

     and to keep it with all my heart;

Make me walk in the path of thy commandments

     for that is my desire.

Dispose my heart toward thy instruction

     and not toward ill-gotten gains;

Turn away my eyes from all that is vile

     grant me life by thy word.

5 Rules to Live By (found in Calm My Anxious Heart, by Linda Dillow)

1. Never allow yourself to complain about anything, not even the weather.
2. Never picture yourself in any other circumstance or someplace else.
3. Never compare your lot with another's.
4. Never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise.
5. Never dwell on tomorrow. Remember that tomorrow is God's, not ours.

A Prayer (composed by Betty Scott Stam)
"Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Your will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to You to be Yours forever. Fill me and seal me with Your Holy Spirit. Use me as You want, send me where You want, work out Your whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever."

Philippians 2:3-13 (ESV)
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.