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Today's prayer 🙏
Dear God, please enter the deepest parts of my heart and remove anything that is not from You. Cleanse me of anything that hinders my walk with You. Surround me with Your presence and guide me with Your truth, so I may reflect Your will in all I do. In Jesus' name, amen.
Bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
-- Luke 6:28
What is the best way to defeat an enemy? Certainly it's not
to insult or abuse that person. No, the way we defeat our enemies is by having Jesus' grace capture their hearts by doing good to them and praying for them. Have you been mistreated, ridiculed or hated? Just bless the person who has been mean to you and pray for them and then see the peace and joy you will have in return!
PRAYER: Loving and gracious God, please soften my heart and toughen my resolve so that I can love as Jesus loved. Help me to love and pray for those who oppose, abhor, ridicule, and hate me. Use me, dear Father, to bring others to the grace of Jesus. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Dear LORD, if this will help me turn more fully to you, then please let my heart be heavy, and my mind be weak. Amen
Jesus+nothing>everything
“If you love someone, pray for them. Pray for their peace. Pray for their growth. Pray for their success. Pray for their happiness.”
Friend, we haven't met, but we are brother or sister in Christ. 😊 So I pray for your peace. I pray for your growth. I pray for your success. I pray for your happiness. I pray Psalm 23 and The Lord's Prayer over you. I pray the Lord keeps you strong in Him.
May The Lord bless you and keep you; May The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you; May the Lord turn his face toward you and give you His peace. (From Numbers 6:24-26)
In the name of Jesus, Amen. 🙏
Morning Prayer Our Father who are in Heaven, hallowed be Your name. Teach us how to hallow Your name. Show us how holy it is, and how sacred. Even the angels in Heaven speak it in reverent breath. It shines like the sun in its glory. All Your attributes are manifested in Your name. All that You are, is in Your name. All the glory of the universe which You have made — is less glorious than is Your name, for You are greater than all Your works. Hallowed be Your name. Help us to hallow it in our own souls, to hold it as sacred. Teach us to reverence You. Give us a glimpse of Your holy glory, that we may know how to adore Your name in our hearts. Then teach us how to hallow Your name in all our life. May we hallow it in our speech. Let us never speak Your name without love and reverence. May its every mention fill our hearts with holy thoughts of You. We are Your children and we bear Your name. Teach us how to live, so that we shall hallow Your name in ourselves. Let us never dishonor You, by living in any way unworthy of You. May we be holy, as You are holy. May we in our speech, in our conduct, in You whose name we bear. May our light so shine before men, that they may see our good works and glorify You, our Father in Heaven. Then may we have grace to do much in the world to bring honor and glory to Your name. Help us to win others to You, so that in their lives Your name may be hallowed. We are little in Your sight and cannot do much; but may we be enabled, in our own place and manner, to honor You, and to help to bring all the world to say, "Hallowed be Your name." We ask in Jesus Christ. Amen.
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How A Hero Prays
I have a friend with Down syndrome. Actually, he has a lot of friends. They love his joy, and affectionate nature. They say “hi”, give him hugs, and take pictures with him. Then, they typically move on and get back to their own lives. I think it is similar to how you might treat a well trained dog. They genuinely like him, and have affection for him. They might even receive the blessing that being in his presence offers. But, they still underestimate him. They don’t recognize that he has something they lack. They don’t regard his intelligence. They don’t respect his experience. They love his heart, and disrespect his mind. I have seen something the others haven’t. That is why I am among his closest friends.
My special friend loves God, deeply and purely. He spends much time in prayer, praise, and worship. So I asked him if he could teach me how he prays. He said, “I just open up my heart, and let-er-rip!” I think this is a great expression for phase two of prayer. My friend finds phase one to be so easy, that he forgot to mention it. That is because he is more advanced than most of us.
Much of prayer is positional. That is to say, that the first phase of prayer, is remembering who we are, and who we are talking to. We need to get ourselves aligned under God. Who is God, that we might talk to Him? Who are we, that He would be mindful of us? My friend is always in the right position. We should learn from people like him. He remains, in many ways, like a little child; exactly as the Master taught us to be.
We allow ourselves, and the world we live in, to be too big. We see our problems as way too big. Then we see God as too far away, too small, less sufficient, and less loving than He is.
Let me put it this way. We need to focus on God’s Holiness, but then He seems distant. We need to see God as our Father, but we might settle for familiarity that fails to regard Him as Holy. We need both. “Our Father, who art in Heaven, hollowed be thy name.”
Remember, our God created the heavens, the earth, the seas, and everything therein. God is the author, and we are characters being written in His story. We are also His children; created in His image, for His pleasure, for the purpose of His glory, redeemed by His only begotten Son. By Him, we have come to have the privilege to be called the children of God, co-heirs with Christ.
As we rightly turn our focus to God’s holiness, we become so small. As we truly recognize that He is our Heavenly Father, we realize that to Him we are so very precious. When we realize that God is the creator of time, we know that He has time for us, and even our most trivial concerns. When we know that He created everything through His Word, we know He is the author with complete authority. He is the God who sees and hears everything, even before the foundation of the universe. And He sees you and me.
I don’t know if my friend can conceive the greatness of God. But, he trusts God so completely. He never exalts himself. He embraces God’s sufficiency in all things. He knows that God hears prayers, and answers them. He keeps his heart wide open. He loves without fear. He knows that God knows every heart completely. Sins are forgiven. Problems aren’t a problem. God is good; all the time. Nothing more is needed, than to…
Open up your heart, and let-er-rip!
Amen
“The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.”-Proverbs 16:9
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
Psalms 121:1-2 KJV
It is wise to stop what we are doing and look up every once in a while. We can get so trapped and consumed in our day to day lives that we forget to look to the mountains, to the heavens, at the one thing that is really important: God.
Almighty God, maker of both heaven and earth, mover of mountains, splitter of seas, you are the all-powerful and loving God that we do not deserve. I shall never forget what you have done for me, and I shall strive with every fiber of my being to love you with all my heart and with all my strength, as you have commanded. Amen.
There is never a bad time to Pray!
17 Pray without ceasing.
18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
1 Thessalonians 5:17-18
There are many possible responses to circumstances of desperate need and great fear. However, the only response that matters is crying out to the God of the universe for His comfort, His peace, and His help. When we can’t sleep, we can pray. When we feel like we can’t pray, we can read and meditate on passages in the Bible. We gain hope when we reflect on God’s promises to us and reflect on the ways that He has saved us in the past.
What has been your pattern when faced with desperate circumstances? How has focusing on the Lord helped during those times?
Father God, I thank You that when You are for me, no one can stand against me. Help me to wait patiently and confidently for Your answer when I am in desperate need. Make my first response be one of total surrender and trust in You. Strengthen my resolve so that I remain confident that no weapon formed against me shall prosper. Remind me that You are always faithful, always trustworthy, and always active in my life, even when I may not see it or appreciate it. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
YouVersion Bible plan Love God Greatly Psalm 119
Adoni (Lord, Master) Yahweh (Lord, Jehovah) Jehovah Nissi (The Lord My Banner) Jehovah-Raah (The Lord My Shepherd) Jehovah Rapha (The Lord That Heals) Jehovah Shammah (The Lord Is There) Jehovah Tsidkenu (The Lord Our Righteousness) Jehovah Mekoddishkem (The Lord Who Sanctifies You) Jehovah Jireh (The Lord Will Provide) Jehovah Shalom (The Lord Is Peace) Jehovah Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts)
Wisdom Calls Out
Proverbs 8:22-31
“The Lord made me at the beginning of His creation, before His works of long ago. I was formed before ancient times, from the beginning, before the earth began. I was born when there were no watery depths and no springs filled with water. I was delivered before the mountains and hills were established, before He made the land, the fields, or the first soil on earth. I was there when He established the heavens, when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean, when He placed the skies above, when the fountains of the ocean gushed out, when He set a limit for the sea so that the waters would not violate His command, when He laid out the foundations of the earth. I was a skilled craftsman beside Him. I was His delight every day, always rejoicing before Him. I was rejoicing in His inhabited world, delighting in the human race.”
Proverbs 8:22-31 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/pro.8.22-31.HCSB
Wisdom transcends time and space. It is paramount to time, and all creation. Wisdom is an expression of the will of God. Through Wisdom, God establishes His rule and order. Therefore, when God creates, wisdom is like a “blueprint” of that creation.
There is wisdom that is focused on spiritual and Heavenly things. There is wisdom that applies to earthly things. Remember that these are not contradictory. No one can be “too heavenly minded to be any earthly good.” Yet, “earthly” wisdom is still an expression of God’s precepts. These are both a part of God’s will that governs creation. To be wise is to pursue His will and to glorify His name. In fact, living the redeemed life is the embodiment of wisdom.
