My Heart Is On Fire By Doug Apple - A Short Christian Devotional To Open The Scriptures And Make Your Heart Burn Within You!

I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire! (Luke 24:32) Here’s a prayer I’ve been praying lately, “Lord, let this land yield her increase.” It’s based on Psalm 85:12 where it says, “The Lord shall give that which is good, and our land shall yield her increase.” I think your “land” can be whatever God has given you, whatever opportunities you have. I think your job is your land. Your family is your land. Your business is your land. Your church is your land. I think we can learn from Jesus’ Parable of the Talents that God gives us raw materials, or land if you will, and He is looking for an increase. Of course we can work and work and work and work, but like it says in Psalm 127, unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the Lord gives the increase, we labor in vain. And so I pray, “Lord, let this land yield her increase.” And then I got to thinking, “You know, that word ‘let,’ it’s kind of weak. It seems passive. “Lord ‘let’ this happen.” I don’t want Him to let i