WHAT IS YOUR MAIN THEME EVERYDAY?

Or, in other words, what do you concentrate on, what do you mostly think about, or practice????

It is my hope that when you look at this picture you think of God's creation.  How did He do that?  Why there?  Sun coming through and just that amount of trees, and you can't see the blue sky, but it is there, how?  I have searched and searched my files for the picture of Jesus standing on a rock in a stream.  He is leaning over to the outstretched hand of a young child to help him up to his rock. 
I love that painting and want to find it and put it up everywhere.  It is that moment when you know you are practicing the presence of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.   

Hebrews 13: 15  

"Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of Praise - the fruit of lips that confess His name."

When we practice the presence of God through praise and thanks it brings us His full armor and Peace for the day.  Sounds weird doesn't it?  It is the greatest mystery I have ever uncovered.  How do you get peace everyday.  Okay, I'll study the Word, I will pray for everyone, and I will be nice all day.
Ah! that didn't always work, and then when I started reading Jesus Calling, I realized He was telling me everyday;   that because I sit quietly with  praise and thanks plus do that all day even when I am busy, things change.  I have actually been fitted for the dress code of ARMOR and my PEACE  in Him equips for all the obstructions and distractions our enemy throws our way.

And, so I put all that to the test and He delivered.  Instead of thinking and then practicing all those performance things each day;   I just spent time thanking Him - even for a parking place.  Or answers to a prayer that surprised me.  He is our sovereign God you know.  He's Got It!  Practicing reaching for His hand takes a mind set.  Do you have that mind set?  Develop it and see what I mean.
He does love it, of course, because we spend time in His Word, and we pray for others, but things changed for me when I started Practicing the Presence all day long.