Thanks much, Joy 🙂

Thanks so much, Lynda, and welcome to my blog.

In his Narnia books, C.S. Lewis repeatedly says, “All get what they seek.” I wonder if Jabez’s prayer ‘that I might be free from pain,” was granted because that is what he asked. “Whatever you ask in my name,….” “ask anything in my name.” I must admit I do, cowardly, ask, like Jabez “that I might be free from pain.”
And, similarly, I wonder if we would have more protection over our lives if we prayed with faith to be delivered from evil. That is something else I want to pray regularly (please remind me God:-)

Thanks so much, Holly!

Oh, thank you so much for your encouragement, Ron!

And yet… there is a self-righteous, prideful part of me that rejects grace, in my mistaken thinking that I am doing something good in choosing to suffer unnecessarily. When I place myself on the altar instead of accepting the sacrifice of Jesus on my behalf, I’m taking the role of antichrist. So it’s good to be reminded of these parts of the Lord’s Prayer! Thank you, Anita, for another insightful essay.