Many of us have complicated relationships with our earthly fathers. While some had fathers who reflected the attributes of our Heavenly Father, others experienced fathers who were preoccupied, too busy, angry, abusive, or completely absent. Unfortunately, all too often, we superimpose our earthly experiences with our dads onto our Heavenly Father. This can make experiencing His love more complicated than it should be.

I believe that to truly begin to understand and experience the Father’s love, we need to separate our real-time experiences with our earthly father from those with our Heavenly Father.

One of the most challenging topics to pray about is our enemies, or those who do wicked and perpetrate evil in the world. Thanks to our modern information highway, there is no shortage of information about the evil and injustice happening in the world. Our emotions get stirred up by injustice and wrong-doing and if we are honest with ourselves, praying for the people responsible is about the last thing we want to do.

In this post I want to look into Psalm 140 and explore how we as Christians can connect to this prayer as we seek to ‘pray for the wicked’.

None of us live or have a perfect life. In our present culture there are many things that seek to pull us away from His presence so here I will reflect on some tings that help us in our walk with Jesus, the primary thing being who we walk with. So let’s begin our journey.

While hiking in the mountains with a group of people this past summer I was at the front and in conversation with someone near me I said, “When you are leading you need to pay attention to two things, people and pace.” The idea here being that you need to make sure everyone is okay on the hike and you need to set a pace that people can follow. Now, given that I added the word presence to my title and introduction let me explain why.