I Am A Kept Woman

A Kept Woman!

I’m not ashamed, I am a kept woman!

Are you?

My heritage of faith. Grandma Emily Chamberlain prayed John 17.15 over my sister and I our whole lives.

Keep them from the evil one and sanctify them with Your Truth.

Now, we pray those words over our children and their children and their children.

Blessing

This is how we give our families a legacy of faith. We pray and speak blessings over their lives. My sister and I are blessed to an extreme because of the prayers of our grandparents and our mother.

I will never ever forget the day my grandmother, as she laid on her deathbed, said to me, “Who will pray for my little ones?” I hung my head low and whispered, “I will.”

She quickly pointed out to me that until I stopped living in a lifestyle of sin, my prayers didn’t make it past the ceiling.

Ouch!

Jesus’ prayers

In Matthew 6 we find Jesus teaching His disciples how to pray.

Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
¹⁰ Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.
¹² And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
¹³ And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

In John 17 we find Jesus interceding on behalf of Himself, His followers, and those who come to faith at a later time (us!).

Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,² as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.³ And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.⁴ I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.⁵ And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

John 17 – The Real Lord’s Prayer

About four years ago, at the end of a big writing project, the Lord spoke to me and clearly instructed, “Write a devotional on your favorite New Testament chapter, John 17.”

I knew I would but I resisted for a season or two because I was afraid I wouldn’t do it justice. Yet, this pivotal prayer doesn’t need my help – because everything Jesus wanted us to know He said! The entire chapter is printed in red. It is a true Intercessor’s Prayer prayed by our very own Lord Jesus. How could I go wrong!?

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I am KEPT

So, now you know I am a kept woman – kept from the Evil One by the One and Only, True and Living God!

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