#prayer walks

[getprayertoday]

Milwaukee Prayer Walks Tackle Poverty, Addiction, and Community Needs

MILWAUKEE — Each month on Milwaukee’s South Side, Pastor Marty Calderon leads volunteers with Street Talk Ministries through neighborhood streets to pray, listen, and serve. What looks like an evening walk becomes a moving testimony of faith in action, where prayer meets practical help. The gatherings follow a clear purpose. Volunteers lift prayers aloud, clear litter from sidewalks, hand out…

Milwaukee Prayer Walks Tackle Poverty, Addiction, and Community Needs

[prettyjesusfreaks]

prayer walks

If you are able to, I highly recommend going on regular prayer walks. It's nothing fancy. You just let your surroundings guide your prayer as you go. You can thank God for the trees as you walk under them. When you pass a house that has a graduation or happy birthday sign in the front yard, you can pray for that family. When you pass someone on the sidewalk, you can pray that God blesses them. Allow the world around you to inspire spontaneous prayer. You'll feel closer to God - and the vitamin D and endorphins are good for you, too!

[kimmdeannaa]

There’s something about going on walks, jogging, or just being outside in general, surrounded by trees and sky that makes you think about everything and appreciate things more… and then when you put your ear buds in and listen to worship music… those are the moments that I pray more. the moments I want to pray more.

[restlesswords88]

Restless Words: Emerging and Staying out of a Funk

Thank God for this new phase of the year. Each winter I go through my funk just like everyone kind of does. I lack all motivation. I’m generally unhappy, but try very hard to stay positive for those around me. I feel like my marriage is lacking, because…well…I’m not putting in any effort to sustain it.  All of my insecurities come to the table to tell me all the awful things I do/am. So on and so forth.

Luckily, I have a deep faith in my Dad above, and after a VERY long conversation this past week, we came to an agreement. Basically, alongside some healing and breakthroughs with Him, we decided I just need to suck it up. And, it’s a good life!

From our conversation, I gathered a few things I need to work on:

1. Don’t let my ego get the best of me. A lot of times, I get hurt or defensive because of people criticizing me.  I found that there are two roots to this problem. The first is linked to bad memories of being rejected and disowned, which led to me thinking it was because I wasn’t enough (something I continue to pray about). The second is linked to my pride. I am my father’s daughter and have been taught since a young age to be proud (even though we should all be humble, right?). When people criticize me, my ego gets hurt, I get defensive, I argue without using wisdom (with Z usually), and my emotions take over. This hurts relationships with my friends, family, husband, and with myself (I talk to myself a lot, so yeah, there is a relationship there). If I don’t let my pride get in the way, I will be a much more carefree and probably rational person.

2. Use the wisdom God gave me. Everyone is wired differently, which is what makes people so fascinating and exhausting. I am wired to react to things based on my ‘gut feelings’ as opposed to thinking things through with wisdom and logic. When I do this, I do not consider all aspects of the situation. I don’t try to understand why my instincts are telling me to feel or act a certain way. This usually gets me into too many tiffs with Z, or it leaves me wondering why I would even feel ‘this way.’ I’m not saying that people shouldn’t trust their instincts. I just think seeking wisdom before responding is a good idea.

3. Keep finding that silver lining. I am usually the friend who can find the silver lining in almost everything. I accredit this mindset to my Grandma Friz. Any time I complained while she was nearby, she would tell me about how I have it better than something/someone else. It kind of stuck with me.

Almost every day, I am in pain (which you already know), and I got really angry about it this past winter. I was tired of hurting no matter what I ate or how I sat or how much I exercised. It never went away. Inside, I became a whiney girl who just wanted to pout and throw a tantrum. However, I happen to be over the age of 4, so that just wouldn’t do. After some prayer, I decided to find the silver lining my situation. So, every morning that I wake up with this pain, it is a reminder to thank God. I thank Him for letting it be pain that isn’t crippling. I thank Him for giving me a body that works somewhat well with the exception of one part. I thank him for food, even though I know without it I wouldn’t have pain (just a lot of hunger and then…well, death). I thank Him that it is me and not one of my family members, because I would gladly take it for them. I find the stinking silver lining, because if I don’t I will stay angry, and I refuse to let anger rule over my life.

I know that I will never perfect these three. I also know that if I work at these, with God, that I will not have such huge funks. I will “become another (better) person, become another person” (Master of Disguise…anyone? No?). I, for one, cannot wait to see who I will become as I continue to work on bettering my life.

It’s a good life!

-S

[purityquest]

reset the clock but who's counting? back in this

I found that going on late night/early morning prayer walks is so refreshing. And it's a way to rely on the Lord's strength instead of my own. To humble myself, admit my weakness, and allow Christ's strength to rest in me. I've been thinking a lot about the scripture where Paul boasts in his weaknesses. And the scriptures about what it takes to pray and receive what you ask for. And when I am feeling most tempted to fantasize, this scripture about Truth: "To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

[smallgroupbiblestudy]

Do you spend time alone with God? Acts 20 verses 13-16

Question: Do you spend time alone with God? ——- Acts 20:13 Then we went ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, there intending to take Paul on board; for so he had given orders, intending himself to go on foot. 14 And when he met us at Assos, we took him…

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