Simple Short Daily Prayer Books Series Book 2

Other Simple Prayers P30

July 23rd
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to which ye also are called in one body and be ye thankful. Colossians 3:15

Prayer 224
"Every animal of the forest is mine and the cattle on the hill". Psalm 50:10. God speaks through Asaph. Psalm 50 is called the Psalm of Asaph. Asaph has also authored Psalm 73 to 83. Psalm 50:10 reminds us God created our animals back in Genesis Chapter 1:20–24 and Chapter 1:26-28 are some verses that hit hard for me they always enter my head when I dog-sit other peoples' dogs. The Hebrew word for rule is Radah and it means to actively partner with God in taking the world forward. So in the context of Genesis 1: Chapter 26–28 or go on reading to Verse 30 means when we are stewards of our livestock of a gift of God to provide us with the means of provision of living on this corrupted earth of sin nowadays we have an obligation to attend to needs of the nature of his Creation. Jesus preached in the Gospel that His Father loved his animal creations and still consistently to this day continues to provide for them. This is why I adore Pocahontas Colors of the Wind song from Pocahontas the people who wrote that song meant to also get out all Nature that scrambled or flew or crawled over earth or where roots of trees traveled deep to rivers needs to be care for and respected for. In fact even after Adam's sin he still instructed Cain and Abel to tend to their livestock and plants because it is what God told him to do before sin began. So even though Adam had been so naive he still had some good to teach his sons' following the rule of taking care of plants and sheep given to them. You can always find good buried in a person and if you can praise it you'll help the Holy Spirit today lead them back down the right path.

Let's bring you the full context of Psalm 50:9–12.
I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens for every animal of the forest is mine and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountain and the insects in the field are mine. (Yes, you heard that right, God loves his insects he created even the ones we don't like wasps, bees, cockroaches, locusts, fleas I can go on and on but I won't.) If I were hungry I would not tell you for the world is mine and all that is in it.
Psalm 50:13 "Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?"
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭50‬:‭13‬ ‭NIV‬‬
I'll let you figure out what the last verse of this passage actually means on your own. Part of believing in God is making a real effort in Your heart to believe in Him and work to understand Him, Skylights, and that is something I can't force Non-believers or Shallow Christian believers to do so; it's not how building a relationship with the One True God in Three Persons works. The point is if God is very involved in caring for his creatures in Nature then it should be all the same to us that we take of the animals who provide for us too.

Owner or Stewardship? Devotional Time
"Am I an owner or a steward?" The CEO of a multibillion-dollar asked himself that question as he weighed what was best for his family. Concerned about temptations that can come with vast wealth he didn't want to burden his heirs with that challenge. So he gave up ownership of his company and placed 100 percent of the voting stock in a trust. Recognizing that everything he owns belongs to God helped him make the decision to allow his family to earn a living in exchange for work while also using future profits to fund Christian ministry. (This is a very smart Godly parent in the midst of a sinful world. This parent knows he was sinful and rejects that natural path by removed temptations from the next generation's path that could have corrupted his Fatherhood to the deterioration of whomever his heirs were daughters or sons.)–James Banks

Matthew 18: 6
"If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!" Jesus preaches to us right here the future in our world right now is not going to be easy at all. And He knows how hard it is to do uneasy things because sacrificing His life to take away our sins was not an easy thing in the body he was dwelling in during His walk on Earth. 
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭18‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭NIV‬‬
Why did I connect these together? Matthew 18:6–7 tells us and I'm paraphrasing to remove temptation from our path but most of all our temptations could have lead to severe consequences for other people so when we choose to remove certain temptations from our path we remove those dreadful consequences from other people caring for them like God does for us through the Holy Spirit sent by Jesus, in act of regretful resentful love, saving them from continuing to ruin themselves by showing them how to not hang out with bad influences because bad influences will corrupt good character.