when the enemy comes like a flood

 I went to relax in the family room and realized a pipe was leaking by the fallen ceiling panel. It has happened multiple times over the years. I generally have a better attitude and a sense of hope than i did this time. :(
The LOCATION of the leak on this pipe is in an area that is NOT CONVENIENT, and takes much WORK to fix. The pipe would push up so i could not work on it as i would have liked, so after 2 hours, and 3 "sharkbite" pipe joint joining ATTEMPTS I gave up for the night since it was still leaking and i was anxious and angry.

Morning devotions i was reading an article by Billy Graham from 1956 and it was straight shooting and when i saw the picture of him with his finger pointed, i felt like this was a WORD for me "

The Mystery of lawlessness and the Tide of Evil

"Have you ever wondered about the tumultuous tide of evil in the world? How it overwhelms society, how it engulfs nations, how it infiltrates all races, how it devastates the individual, how it ruins the family and destroys the home?

"The mystery of lawlessness is the power unseen, unknown except by its effects, that is ever working in the world for evil. It is working against the law and will of God, corrupting what has been well done and well begun, causing misery in the natural world and in all that people do. We try to trace evil back to its origin, and we soon see that there is indeed a mysterious element to it." (Bily Graham)
It ended with a hopeful scripture and encouragement!
" When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him."

"Great is the mystery of lawlessness. However, there is another mystery that is even greater. It is called in the Bible “the mystery of godliness”—the secret, unseen, unmeasured power that lies in the inspiration, guidance and comfort of the Holy Spirit, who is within all those who have trusted Jesus Christ as Savior."


So TODAY I decided to try again, met a very CALM shopper at the hardware store and asked him for advice. I wish i was calm. He told me he would "sweat it" in, solder it using a torch. I have caught the floor on fire a few times and didn't want to take this ROAD but i did with his ADVICE-- and it worked!

Many times God is working on our heart attitudes to help us change to serve others. It is not convenient at times to grow, and the location of the problem is not always easy to resolve and takes work and Many Attempts. Direction comes from theWord, and others willing to take the time to give Advice along the Road. The Holy Spirit is our strength against the tide of evil and helps us to refuse to alllow evil to devastate me, ruin my family, or destroy my home.

as long as you are glorified

"Shall I take from Your hand Your blessings
Yet not welcome any pain
Shall I thank You for days of sunshine
Yet grumble in days of rain
Shall I love You in times of plenty
Then leave You in days of drought
Shall I trust when I reap a harvest
But when winter winds blow, then doubt

Oh let Your will be done in me
In Your love I will abide
Oh I long for nothing else as long
As You are glorified" 

So quiet my restless heart
Quiet my restless heart
Quiet my restless heart in you"

(Verse from song by Mark Altrogge)

"So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him." Isaiah 59:19