Pray on and Focus!

Please keep praying for SteveO. As you may know, (check archives), SteveO is a very close friend of mine who's cancer in his brain returned after 14 years. I had asked SteveO to share his quiet times with the Lord as the blog for Total Victory Ministries prior to his recent battle. Through his stay in the hospital, through his tests, through his diagnosis, through his paralysis SteveO has not missed giving me a call to share his quiet times with the Lord.

SteveO is still experiencing several painful seizures almost daily. He has a small business that is suffering because he is in pain and his paralysis seems to have gotten worse. He is concerned for his wife and son and taking care of the house, etc. All the things most of us deal with but with the ugly twist of brain cancer.

SteveO has told me that when he is feeling overwhelmed and down he turns to the Psalms and God reveals that He is big enough to hear our true hearts, our real aches, pains, frustrations, disappointments and concerns AND He is big enough to not judge but truly listen. He wants us to turn to Him and if we focus on Him, I mean really focus then by the end of our list of tough stuff we realize that our list has turned into praise to Him for all of the love that He has for us. That no matter the twist and turn we are in, He is there. No matter how unfair something may seem or unjust, He is there. If we focus on Him, I mean really focus we will know He is love and love never fails!

From the Lord to SteveO to us....here you go.

Psalm 63

A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.

O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water.
I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.

Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.

I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.