children's choices

God please give us your wisdom with all this.

And thank you for the way you've helped so far,

identifying things that were amiss

& thinking of fresh ways to serve that are

a-smelling of your generosity,

and service to us as we learn to trust

the one who's given all of our housing,

and bodies, transport, treasure that won't rust.

And save us please, oh God, from fretfullness,

and thinking that we have to "make it work",

as though you weren't around, or wouldn't bless,

we know you can provide, and you won't shirk!

We trust the word of Yeshua. Our King's

command: "Seek first God's kingdom (that's his rule)",

and we will see how God provides "these things",

and if we have to "wait", why that is cool.

Please help us see creative options too,

and other ways to help out Russ & Sue,

to live their lives by walking before you,

to stand and wait in your council that's true*.

* Jem 23: 16-22

This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord .  They keep saying to those who despise me, “The Lord says: you will have peace.” And to all who follow the stubbornness of their hearts they say, “No harm will come to you.”  But which of them has stood in the council of the Lord to see or to hear his word? Who has listened and heard his word?  See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked.  The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will understand it clearly.  I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.  But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds.  Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?’ declares the Lord . ‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’ declares the Lord .

Jer. 23:16‭-‬22‭, ‬24 NIVUK https://bible.com/bible/113/jer.23.16-24.NIVUK