Hey Lord,
Thank You for a nice evening in church. Thank You for confirming to me that I need to spend time in Your word, learning Your character, putting it in my mind so You can bring it forth when I need to know it. My memory verses are a little rusty and I still feel so compelled to read the Bible through. Please help me to be more consistent with that. I need Your help. You know I am not consistent by nature.
Thank You for Your nudge toward where You want me to be working and what You want me to be doing. I like it when You are clear with me. I don't like to guess if I am doing what You would like me to do. Thank You for not making me guess right now.
Thank You for a good music day. Thank You for all of the folks that You have brought into the music program and into our circle. Thank You for allowing us to be used by You. Thank You for a fresh perspective, for helping us find a way to relax the process a little bit so we could enjoy the worship more. Thank You for guiding us.
Thank You for restoration. It's just stuff, but I am very excited to be welcoming a new piano to the house tomorrow. Thank You for Your provision.
Please Lord, help me to be an encourager to those who are struggling. Please be with a few of my friends who are really struggling right now to keep their bearings. Please pour out Your wisdom and allow me to be a blessing to them. Please share Your strength with them at their weakness. Please protect their hearts from the lies of the enemy. Help them to lean on You and trust You to carry their burdens for a little while. I know that You love them with and everlasting love and will not leave them to struggle alone. Your mercy is new each morning, please help them to find it and walk in it. Thank You for being a big enough to God to be able to handle our honesty in prayer. Thank You for providing a covering for our imperfection. Please do not allow fear to take hold and take power over their lives, but allow them to walk in Your perfect peace. Remind them that they are Your children, Your cherished ones and You will not leave them alone. Thank You for allowing me to do something today I know I am called to. Thank You for clarification.
Help me Lord to seek Your face and not be distracted by the snares of the enemy. Please help me to walk Your way, show Your love, sing Your praises, and be Your hands and feet. Please forgive me when I fail, because You know I do so often. Thank You for Your son, for making the way for me to be able to have a relationship with You, for the Holy Spirit so that I can be confident in Your leading.
Please Lord, send the right one to lead, help us know it for sure, help us be confident when we are following Your perfect will in Your perfect time.
In Jesus Name
Amen
Sunday, March 30, 2014
March 30, 2014
Good Morning Lord,
It seems I am always in a bit of a hurry, but at least today I am in a hurry to go to worship You with folks I love. Thank You for Your presence.
Please prompt people's hearts to desire to be in a house of worship this morning. Please help us as a praise team to lift Your name high and worship You for who You are. Please help us to remind other folks why it is that You are worthy. Please help us to have tight harmony, not be distracting, and to more importantly always have a heart that is humbled before You.
Please be with those who are not able to be in church this morning, and please be with those who have no desire to be there. Please grow within them a desire for Your presence, please help us show Your love and Your character well and not be a stumbling block to anyone.
I love You Lord. You are my rock. I know that I could try to walk without You, but I don't want to.
Help me to be a blessing today.
In Jesus Name
Amen
It seems I am always in a bit of a hurry, but at least today I am in a hurry to go to worship You with folks I love. Thank You for Your presence.
Please prompt people's hearts to desire to be in a house of worship this morning. Please help us as a praise team to lift Your name high and worship You for who You are. Please help us to remind other folks why it is that You are worthy. Please help us to have tight harmony, not be distracting, and to more importantly always have a heart that is humbled before You.
Please be with those who are not able to be in church this morning, and please be with those who have no desire to be there. Please grow within them a desire for Your presence, please help us show Your love and Your character well and not be a stumbling block to anyone.
I love You Lord. You are my rock. I know that I could try to walk without You, but I don't want to.
Help me to be a blessing today.
In Jesus Name
Amen
Saturday, March 29, 2014
March 29, 2014
Good Morning Lord,
Well, it's already not quiet, but we'll try this anyway. Thank You for a nice evening and a good night sleep. Thank You for the few blades of grass peeking up through the dirt in the front yard. Thank You good friends. Thank You for the opportunity to help someone yesterday.
Lord, I would love to see miracles happen in the families that are struggling right now. I ask that if true and complete restoration cannot happen, that You would bring healing for the pain and hurt and bring peace to difficult situations. I pray that You would not allow satan to have a foot hold in the lives of our families and that You would help us to keep You in the center.
I ask that You would continue to be with my friend Vicki and give her Your strength. Her burdens are heavy right now Lord. Please sure her up and allow her to walk and rest in the Peace that passes understanding.
Please be with those who are struggling with illness, cancer, surgeries, and weakness today. Your strength is made perfect in our weakness. I believe in the power that is held in the name of Jesus. I know that You can heal any one of them with just a word. I ask that You would heal Bill. I ask that his story of healing would be told and that You would receive glory each time the story is told. I ask that You would move mountains on his behalf and decrease the effects of his cancer. I know that You are able and I pray it is within Your will. If it is not Your will to heal, I pray that You will extend his life, bless his time thoroughly, and give us grace to understand and accept that You are God and worthy of praise even when we do not get our own way.
Thank You for the birds singing outside my window this morning, and the bit of rain to grow my grass. Thank You for my children and my grandchildren and the ability I have to see and talk to them all - even the ones who live far from us. Thank You for the opportunity to go visit soon, I am so looking forward to see my babies and my girl. Please help us to be able to travel safely.
Help me to hear Your guidance and do Your will above my own today. Help me Lord to speak Your name, show Your love, and preach Your gospel to those around me consistently and without causing anyone to stumble. I would never want to cause one to stumble Lord.
Please be with my friend who is struggling spiritually. I don't know how to help him, but I ask Your wisdom in that situation. I love him, I know You love him. Please give me the right words, the consistent Jesus love that is only possible through You. Help me Lord not to cause him to stumble more than he already is.
In Jesus Name
Amen
Well, it's already not quiet, but we'll try this anyway. Thank You for a nice evening and a good night sleep. Thank You for the few blades of grass peeking up through the dirt in the front yard. Thank You good friends. Thank You for the opportunity to help someone yesterday.
Lord, I would love to see miracles happen in the families that are struggling right now. I ask that if true and complete restoration cannot happen, that You would bring healing for the pain and hurt and bring peace to difficult situations. I pray that You would not allow satan to have a foot hold in the lives of our families and that You would help us to keep You in the center.
I ask that You would continue to be with my friend Vicki and give her Your strength. Her burdens are heavy right now Lord. Please sure her up and allow her to walk and rest in the Peace that passes understanding.
Please be with those who are struggling with illness, cancer, surgeries, and weakness today. Your strength is made perfect in our weakness. I believe in the power that is held in the name of Jesus. I know that You can heal any one of them with just a word. I ask that You would heal Bill. I ask that his story of healing would be told and that You would receive glory each time the story is told. I ask that You would move mountains on his behalf and decrease the effects of his cancer. I know that You are able and I pray it is within Your will. If it is not Your will to heal, I pray that You will extend his life, bless his time thoroughly, and give us grace to understand and accept that You are God and worthy of praise even when we do not get our own way.
Thank You for the birds singing outside my window this morning, and the bit of rain to grow my grass. Thank You for my children and my grandchildren and the ability I have to see and talk to them all - even the ones who live far from us. Thank You for the opportunity to go visit soon, I am so looking forward to see my babies and my girl. Please help us to be able to travel safely.
Help me to hear Your guidance and do Your will above my own today. Help me Lord to speak Your name, show Your love, and preach Your gospel to those around me consistently and without causing anyone to stumble. I would never want to cause one to stumble Lord.
Please be with my friend who is struggling spiritually. I don't know how to help him, but I ask Your wisdom in that situation. I love him, I know You love him. Please give me the right words, the consistent Jesus love that is only possible through You. Help me Lord not to cause him to stumble more than he already is.
In Jesus Name
Amen
Friday, March 28, 2014
March 28, 2014
Good Morning Lord,
Thank You for a quiet morning. These quiet mornings, when I use them correctly, seems to set my day off on a great direction. When I have time to think on You, talk to You, consider our day before it get's started. Thank You for yesterday, for just day that You seemed closer and more involved in my life. I enjoy it when I can see that I am walking according to Your will.
Thank You for allowing praise team practice to go well. Thank You for helping me be able to get some of the music I was looking for. Help us always Lord to be pointing to You, helping others to see You as worthy of praise and then helping lead them to the place where their hearts can truly worship You in spirit and in truth. I know that our lives are worship. I know that every time I bow my will to Yours it is worship. Help me to do that more. Help me to praise You out loud and in the open and freely. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Help me to enjoy the freedom of my salvation and not allow satan to make me feel bound. Help me not to fall for the lies of the enemy. Your word tells me we are made free to BE FREE. Not to be bound again! Thank You, thank You for revealing that to me. Help me see clearly when satan is trying to bind me up with things that don't matter, that aren't true, and that are seriously only meant to shackle me down.
Thank You for Your presence in my life, for being so tangible to me and never leaving me - even when I was running away from You. Thank You for chasing me, for leaving the 99 to find the one.
Thank You for my husband's salvation. Thank You for the privilege of discussing Your word with him and for being able to listen to him lead prayer in church. Lord, please move in power in those families where wives have been praying for their husbands for years and waiting for them to realize Your love for them. Help them to show Your love to their husbands, help them to strengthen up and survive conviction, and help them to wait. Please send people to speak truth and show Your love to their husbands, 10 people a day who really show Your love well and speak Your truth IN LOVE. Thank You Lord for the ones who followed the leading of Your Spirit so closely and who loved my husband before he had surrendered his heart to You. Who proved Your love to him so that he could see it in action and know that it was different. Thank You for a million acts of obedience that ended with one man's salvation. Please help me to be that obedient to help in any way bring about the salvation of another.
I have my list of husbands, my list of prodigals. I pray them again to You. I put their names before Your throne and ask that You move in power to bring them to themselves, allow them to understand Your love for them, allow Your love and Your truth to begin filling their hearts and removing the lies of the enemy from their lives.
I pray for those who are in Satan's grip right now, walking in rebellion. I pray that they would come to themselves. I pray that the season of the pleasure of sin would be short and stop abruptly. I pray that You would allow the pig slop to look, taste, and smell like pig slop. I pray that very shortly they would realize what they are wallowing in and have a desire to return home to The Father. I pray that You would protect them from death so they would able to live to repent. I pray for Your mercy for them and pray for Your revelation for them. Please do not give up, I know they are as precious to You. Your love never fails, it never gives up, it never runs out on me. . .
Thank You for my encouragers, for the ones who help me stay focused on You, who are the cheerleaders when I am down. Thank You for the people who have shaped my life, one little step at a time. I can think of most of the big ones, but not really all of the little ones. Thank You for the one little Sunday School teacher who didn't have a heart attack and didn't attack me when I had a very unique and unchurchy answer for one of her questions. Thank You for her. I have always been impressed by her grace.
Please be with my friends who are struggling with situations that stress their faith, that wear them down, and steal their joy. Please be real and tangible to them and send them encouragers. Please strengthen them and give them Your truth to lean on.
Please strengthen my friends with cancer. Please bring healing to their bodies, and peace to their minds and families.
In Jesus Name
amen
Thank You for a quiet morning. These quiet mornings, when I use them correctly, seems to set my day off on a great direction. When I have time to think on You, talk to You, consider our day before it get's started. Thank You for yesterday, for just day that You seemed closer and more involved in my life. I enjoy it when I can see that I am walking according to Your will.
Thank You for allowing praise team practice to go well. Thank You for helping me be able to get some of the music I was looking for. Help us always Lord to be pointing to You, helping others to see You as worthy of praise and then helping lead them to the place where their hearts can truly worship You in spirit and in truth. I know that our lives are worship. I know that every time I bow my will to Yours it is worship. Help me to do that more. Help me to praise You out loud and in the open and freely. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Help me to enjoy the freedom of my salvation and not allow satan to make me feel bound. Help me not to fall for the lies of the enemy. Your word tells me we are made free to BE FREE. Not to be bound again! Thank You, thank You for revealing that to me. Help me see clearly when satan is trying to bind me up with things that don't matter, that aren't true, and that are seriously only meant to shackle me down.
Thank You for Your presence in my life, for being so tangible to me and never leaving me - even when I was running away from You. Thank You for chasing me, for leaving the 99 to find the one.
Thank You for my husband's salvation. Thank You for the privilege of discussing Your word with him and for being able to listen to him lead prayer in church. Lord, please move in power in those families where wives have been praying for their husbands for years and waiting for them to realize Your love for them. Help them to show Your love to their husbands, help them to strengthen up and survive conviction, and help them to wait. Please send people to speak truth and show Your love to their husbands, 10 people a day who really show Your love well and speak Your truth IN LOVE. Thank You Lord for the ones who followed the leading of Your Spirit so closely and who loved my husband before he had surrendered his heart to You. Who proved Your love to him so that he could see it in action and know that it was different. Thank You for a million acts of obedience that ended with one man's salvation. Please help me to be that obedient to help in any way bring about the salvation of another.
I have my list of husbands, my list of prodigals. I pray them again to You. I put their names before Your throne and ask that You move in power to bring them to themselves, allow them to understand Your love for them, allow Your love and Your truth to begin filling their hearts and removing the lies of the enemy from their lives.
I pray for those who are in Satan's grip right now, walking in rebellion. I pray that they would come to themselves. I pray that the season of the pleasure of sin would be short and stop abruptly. I pray that You would allow the pig slop to look, taste, and smell like pig slop. I pray that very shortly they would realize what they are wallowing in and have a desire to return home to The Father. I pray that You would protect them from death so they would able to live to repent. I pray for Your mercy for them and pray for Your revelation for them. Please do not give up, I know they are as precious to You. Your love never fails, it never gives up, it never runs out on me. . .
Thank You for my encouragers, for the ones who help me stay focused on You, who are the cheerleaders when I am down. Thank You for the people who have shaped my life, one little step at a time. I can think of most of the big ones, but not really all of the little ones. Thank You for the one little Sunday School teacher who didn't have a heart attack and didn't attack me when I had a very unique and unchurchy answer for one of her questions. Thank You for her. I have always been impressed by her grace.
Please be with my friends who are struggling with situations that stress their faith, that wear them down, and steal their joy. Please be real and tangible to them and send them encouragers. Please strengthen them and give them Your truth to lean on.
Please strengthen my friends with cancer. Please bring healing to their bodies, and peace to their minds and families.
In Jesus Name
amen
Thursday, March 27, 2014
march 27, 2014
Well, let's see how this goes! Hopefully, I will not lose any of my email followers. I may copy and paste to be sure until I get it all together.
Old ladies and technology!
Lord,
Thank You. Thank You for being up early enough to be able to start my day with a bit of quiet time with You before it all goes crazy. Thank You for a McDonald's breakfast and 30 minutes alone in a car! Thank You for friends who keep me sane when I am sure that I am leaning toward crazy. Thank You for showing up in the little things of my life and reminding me again that Your love is universal, but it also very personal and individual.
Please help me to be able to meet my friend and be a help to her. You know how difficult she is having it right now. Please give her Your strength and sure her up. Help her lay her burdens at Your feet and trust that You have her in Your arms even now. Please help her to get some rest.
Thank You for giving me more than I ask or imagine.
Thank You for Your wisdom. I sure need it. I don't know how anyone parents without prayer. Please remind me the next time the eyes roll, that they are given to me by You to teach Your ways. Help me to know how to do that without crushing who they are or will be in You.
Thank You for providing for my family through difficult circumstances. Thank You for every day past the "blow-up", every day past the "end of the marriage", every day past the "day in the elevator". Thank You for the gifts that You have given me which I take for granted every day.
Lord, I feel a little numb right now. I have a strong desire for something spiritual that I can't place my finger on. I just ask that You would evaluate my heart, show me if there is anything wicked in me and help me to lay it down. Please bring healing and restoration to the hearts of the people I love. Please show us, as a church, the way You would have us to go. Please give us wisdom to choose Your pastor and not our own. Please pour out Your wisdom liberally, as You promise in Your word. I am asking for it,
Please Lord, break down the lies of the enemy in the hearts of Your children. Please reveal them to people who are still believing them to be true. Please send "truth tellers" and speak to our hearts that truth will sound like truth to us, to those who are wandering, to those who do not yet believe. Please work miracles in the hearts of the prodigals and help them to "come to themselves" and seek to head home to the Father's house.
Please bring healing to the homes that are in the middle of a battlefield. Please draw the hearts of the husbands and fathers to You, and help them to lead their families in Your ways and toward Your will and plan. Please guard the hearts of our children against the attacks of the enemy and give them peace in who You are.
Please be with my list of those who are struggling with cancer. You know every name, every situation, every struggle that ensues. Please strengthen their immune systems, let their body see the cancer cells and not allow them to grow. Please let the healthy cells grow and begin to function as they were designed. But, most importantly, please draw each individual and their family and friends close to You, be very tangible to them and allow them feel Your arms around them. Please let their situation cause others to draw nearer to You and know You more fully. Please help them set their hearts toward You and trust You with their outcome. Please give strength to their families and friends.
Help me Lord to seek Your will above my own, complete the tasks You would have me accomplish today, show people Your love, and speak Your gospel to those who need to hear it. Please bring restoration and healing where it is needed and grace where it isn't possible.
In Jesus Name
Amen
Old ladies and technology!
Lord,
Thank You. Thank You for being up early enough to be able to start my day with a bit of quiet time with You before it all goes crazy. Thank You for a McDonald's breakfast and 30 minutes alone in a car! Thank You for friends who keep me sane when I am sure that I am leaning toward crazy. Thank You for showing up in the little things of my life and reminding me again that Your love is universal, but it also very personal and individual.
Please help me to be able to meet my friend and be a help to her. You know how difficult she is having it right now. Please give her Your strength and sure her up. Help her lay her burdens at Your feet and trust that You have her in Your arms even now. Please help her to get some rest.
Thank You for giving me more than I ask or imagine.
Thank You for Your wisdom. I sure need it. I don't know how anyone parents without prayer. Please remind me the next time the eyes roll, that they are given to me by You to teach Your ways. Help me to know how to do that without crushing who they are or will be in You.
Thank You for providing for my family through difficult circumstances. Thank You for every day past the "blow-up", every day past the "end of the marriage", every day past the "day in the elevator". Thank You for the gifts that You have given me which I take for granted every day.
Lord, I feel a little numb right now. I have a strong desire for something spiritual that I can't place my finger on. I just ask that You would evaluate my heart, show me if there is anything wicked in me and help me to lay it down. Please bring healing and restoration to the hearts of the people I love. Please show us, as a church, the way You would have us to go. Please give us wisdom to choose Your pastor and not our own. Please pour out Your wisdom liberally, as You promise in Your word. I am asking for it,
Please Lord, break down the lies of the enemy in the hearts of Your children. Please reveal them to people who are still believing them to be true. Please send "truth tellers" and speak to our hearts that truth will sound like truth to us, to those who are wandering, to those who do not yet believe. Please work miracles in the hearts of the prodigals and help them to "come to themselves" and seek to head home to the Father's house.
Please bring healing to the homes that are in the middle of a battlefield. Please draw the hearts of the husbands and fathers to You, and help them to lead their families in Your ways and toward Your will and plan. Please guard the hearts of our children against the attacks of the enemy and give them peace in who You are.
Please be with my list of those who are struggling with cancer. You know every name, every situation, every struggle that ensues. Please strengthen their immune systems, let their body see the cancer cells and not allow them to grow. Please let the healthy cells grow and begin to function as they were designed. But, most importantly, please draw each individual and their family and friends close to You, be very tangible to them and allow them feel Your arms around them. Please let their situation cause others to draw nearer to You and know You more fully. Please help them set their hearts toward You and trust You with their outcome. Please give strength to their families and friends.
Help me Lord to seek Your will above my own, complete the tasks You would have me accomplish today, show people Your love, and speak Your gospel to those who need to hear it. Please bring restoration and healing where it is needed and grace where it isn't possible.
In Jesus Name
Amen
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