A Prayer for today.

Lord Jesus, today is a day filled with obedience and hopefulness. You gathered Your disciples together to celebrate the Passover, to remember The LORD'S deliverance from death and from slavery and oppression into freedom. They were excited to follow in obedience and their hope was in You Jesus, but as the night went on their hope was tested, and some started to doubt and fear gripped their hearts. To them the unthinkable was happening, even though You warned them they had not listened. Instead of their hope growing, it started to fail and they started to hide.
We too hope in You Jesus. But some of us hope for You to do things our way in our time. We think that thus will lead us into greater faithfulness but it is really only to see if You will do it our way and show us to be in control. Help us to be faithful to You, to follow You because You are the Messiah, our Lord and Saviour, not merely for what You will do to bless us. Change our will and our hearts that we would seek to have a heart like Your's seeking to do God's will and not just our own. Help us to be patient as You unfold Your Divine plan even when it hurts us and we don't understand the why and wonder where you are. Help us to to remember that You are faithful to love us and care for us and that You will never leave us or forsake us. In this we lift up to You people that are important to us: Brenda, Paul, Nikki, Miranda, Charles, Judy, Sharon, and others that are on our hearts, and for those we do not know: for those who have given up hope, for people face war and persecution in Africa, in Syria, in Eastern Europe, to those who have been touch by violence here in Canada, for so many people who have health problems. Help all to know that You are still there with us, that even though we do not always see Your hand at work, You are still there with us loving us like no other. You will walk with us through whatever we face. You are here, we are not alone, Thanks be to God. In Jesus Name.