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Genesis chapter 24, verse 12.

And he said,

O Lord God of my Master Abraham,

please grant me success today

and show steadfast love to my Master Abraham.

So the context here, Genesis 24, this is a servant who has gone to look for a wife for Isaac, Abraham's son.

And the servant gets to this point where he stopped and he basically just looks up to

God and he says, I pray for success. In other words, help me to find a wife for Isaac that is good for

him, pleasing to you. And I just love the way the servant knows

that apart from the intervention of God in this picture,

he's hopeless, I think about my own life.

So obviously kind of stepping out of this context for a moment,

my life, I need the intervention of god like all day long every day now i'm not looking for a wife i have a wife and i thank god for my wife

but i just think about decisions I make during the day, things I'm doing,

even my responsibility as a husband to my wife.

I find myself every day saying, God, please help me to love her, honor her in a way that most honors you and it's best for her.

When I think about my kids, I'm asking God for divine intervention every day.

God, please help me to be the dad.

You call me to be.

Please help me to parent them well and wisely in ways that are good for them.

In my work as a pastor, I can pray the time god please help me to be the pastor these people need me to be i want to love them well i want to serve them

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