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(To The Benefactors Of Gods Good Graces)🙏🏿

9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,🙏🏿

2 Timothy 1:9🙏🏿

16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.🙏🏿

Hebrews 4:16🙏🏿

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Loving Father, You have loved me when I was unlovable. I am so amazingly grateful that I know You and I can experience Your wonderful presence in my life. Give me this day Your grace in how I live my life today. Give me wisdom and gentleness in how I interact with others. Make me pure then peaceable and gentle. May I have a mind that is open to reason and shows mercy. In all of today’s tasks, grant me the wisdom and grace to be sincere and meek. Thank You that You pour out Your grace to me. Amen.🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

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(Every Time We See The Sun Shining Equals Another Blessed Day)🙏🏿

7 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.

Jeremiah 17:7🙏🏿

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change🙏🏿James 1:17🙏🏿

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.🙏🏿

Numbers 6:24-26🙏🏿

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Thank you, God, for the life you have blessed me with. Thank you for the opportunities that I have been given and for the strength to make the most of them. Thank you for guiding me through difficult times and for giving me the courage to face whatever comes my way. Most of all, thank you for your unconditional love and support, which has seen me through every challenge and kept me going. You are an ever-present source of comfort and hope, and I am deeply grateful for all that you have done for me.🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

Christian at large

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(I Know The Lord)🙏🏿

17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.🙏🏿

Proverbs 8:17🙏🏿

12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.🙏🏿

Hebrews 4:12🙏🏿

6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.🙏🏿

1 John 3:6🙏🏿

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Creator God, thank you that there is nowhere I can go that is beyond your presence. In your presence, I am blessed beyond measure. You have said that you will never leave me or forsake me, you are always with me. May I live a life of thanksgiving in your presence. Hear my prayer and fill my heart and my mouth with praise to you for your good gifts. May your love be the passion in my heart. May your joy be my strength when times are hard. May your presence be my peace that overflows. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

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(A Desperate Soul In Need Of Grace and Mercy)🙏🏿

13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”🙏🏿

Matthew 9:13🙏🏿

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.🙏🏿

1 John 1:9🙏🏿

22 Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. 

23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.🙏🏿

Lamentations 3:22-23🙏🏿

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Dear God, I come to you as a sinner who is undeserving of your grace and presence. I repent all my sins and ask you to forgive me so that my request may be heard by you. Lord, have mercy on me and fill me with your grace. Wash me with the blood of your son Jesus Christ that I may shine and walk unashamed. I ask for your favor from this moment to the end of the day. I thank you, for 

you are faithful. 🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

Christian at Large

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(Have Faith In The Lord Above)🙏🏿

For we walk by faith, not by sight.🙏🏿

2 Corinthians 5:7 🙏🏿

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.🙏🏿

Hebrews 11:1🙏🏿

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.🙏🏿

Hebrews 11:6🙏🏿

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Dear Lord help me  every single morning to find faith amid the chaos. Give me the desire and ability to see You hear You talk to You, and give thanks to You. And as I do I pray that I will draw nearer and nearer to You, and that my faith will multiply exponentially as I understand in new, deeper ways that You are everything I ever hoped You would be. And so much more. Father, even the disciples that walked with Jesus needed to strengthen their faith. Jesus told them if their faith was only the size of a mustard seed, they could uproot trees and crumble mountains. Lord, I need more faith like the disciples. Increase my faith and make me a mover of mountains. Grow my belief in You alone so that I would be strong in the Lord and ready to battle against the doubts planted by the enemy. Lord increase my faith🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

Christian at Large

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(God Is Good God Is Great and Always On Time)🙏🏿

25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; 

26 it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.🙏🏿Lamentations 3:25-26🙏🏿28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.🙏🏿

Romans 8:28🙏🏿

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Lord God,I am spent from weeping and waiting for You to resolve this situation. But I trust You and Your perfect timing. I know You will test me with seasons of trials to grow my faith in You. I am utterly dependent on You, Lord. Please increase my wisdom and dependence on You as You mold me more and more into the image of Christ, the Author and Perfecter of my faith. I know You won’t stop until You complete Your good work in me. I long for that day—that I may rejoice and proclaim Your goodness as I tell others I am so glad I waited on the Lord.🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

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(We Are Present And Ready To Serve)🙏🏿

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me. Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me🙏🏿

Matthew 25:35-40🙏🏿

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord."🙏🏿

1 Peter 4:10-11🙏🏿

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”🙏🏿

Joshua 24:15🙏🏿

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Lord Jesus,Teach us to be the servants you have called us to be. Father, our little becomes great as You show us how to do good works in Your name. We choose not to be crippled by our limited abilities, wisdom, or lack of creativity. We don’t give to others according to that which we don’t have, but we give to others from the abundance You pour into our lives. May it overflow into those around us as we seek to be a blessing. Direct our footsteps according to Your Word as You give us opportunity for divine encounters this day as we reach out to others in the name of Christ Jesus. It is in His name we pray. Amen.🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

Christian at large

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Sunday Morning 7/16/23

(God Is Alive)🙏🏿

11 For the scripture says, "As surely as I am the living God, says the Lord, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God."🙏🏿

Romans 14:11🙏🏿

Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.🙏🏿

Hebrews 3:12🙏🏿

As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.🙏🏿

John 6:57🙏🏿

✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️

Each breath I take belongs to you

My heart entwined with yours

I thank you Lord for your great love

And praise you evermore

You keep me safe inside your plan

And guide each step I take.

Although I know not where I go,

I trust your love and grace 

So Joyfully I thank you Lord

For blessings undeserved

And humbly serve you 

With my life

And all you lead me through

Through pain and suffering

You have held

My small and fragile hand

And as my Father, moved the stones

That blocked the path ahead.

So my sweet Jesus

With great joy

I praise you in each day

 And know you listen with great love 

To every prayer I pray.🙏🏿

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(Loving Your Neighbor Is Required)🙏🏿

You shall love your neighbor as 

yourself.🙏🏿

Leviticus 19:18🙏🏿

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.🙏🏿

Matthew 22:37-40🙏🏿

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.🙏🏿

John 13:34-35🙏🏿

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Dear Lord, Thank you, Lord, that you love me despite all of my faults and issues. Lord, I ask that you help me to love my neighbors with that same kind of love that you extend towards me. Lord help me to see my neighbors through your eyes. Show me practical ways that I can help them, and through that help, then be able to show them the love of Jesus. Help me to put aside my agenda Lord to simply love them, to meet them where they are and to love them as You love them. In Your name, I pray, and ask it all..Amen🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

Christian at Large

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Sunday Morning (7/9/23)

(There Is No Greater Love)🙏🏿

9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.  11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.🙏🏿

1 John 4:9-11🙏🏿

9 Know therefore that the Lordyour God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.🙏🏿

Deuteronomy 7:9🙏🏿

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God of Goodness, I come into your presence so aware of my human frailty and yet overwhelmed by your love for me. 

I thank you that there is no human experience that I might walk through where your love cannot reach me.  If I climb the highest mountain you are there and yet if I find myself in the darkest valley of my life, you are there.  Teach me today to love you more.  Help me to rest in that love that asks nothing more than the simple trusting heart of a child. Lord, you love me more than I could ever understand. Thank you that you are a loving, gracious God. Thank you that you’ve offered us forgiveness and the gift of new life in you. Thank you that your love is perfect, it never fails, and that nothing can separate us from your love.🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

Christian at large

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Sunday Morning (7/9/23)

(There Is No Greater Love)🙏🏿

9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.  11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.🙏🏿

1 John 4:9-11🙏🏿

9 Know therefore that the Lordyour God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.🙏🏿

Deuteronomy 7:9🙏🏿

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God of Goodness, I come into your presence so aware of my human frailty and yet overwhelmed by your love for me. 

I thank you that there is no human experience that I might walk through where your love cannot reach me.  If I climb the highest mountain you are there and yet if I find myself in the darkest valley of my life, you are there.  Teach me today to love you more.  Help me to rest in that love that asks nothing more than the simple trusting heart of a child. Lord, you love me more than I could ever understand. Thank you that you are a loving, gracious God. Thank you that you’ve offered us forgiveness and the gift of new life in you. Thank you that your love is perfect, it never fails, and that nothing can separate us from your love.🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

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(Victory Is Given Through God)🙏🏿

For the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory. For the Lord your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.🙏🏿

Deuteronomy 20:4🙏🏿

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.🙏🏿

1 John 5:4🙏🏿

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.🙏🏿2 Corinthians 10:4🙏🏿

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Father God,I know that Your grace is sufficient and that You are my ever-present help in time of need, but sometimes my actions do not reflect these truths. It’s much easier for me to either complain about my stressful and difficult circumstances or try to take matters into my own hands to try to fix or change what seems to be causing me to feel so overwhelmed. But I know that I need to come to You and ask for grace when I have reached my limit. You are faithful to provide all things that I need because You are a gracious Father who cares deeply for Your children. I come to You as Your child today, boldly and humbling asking for Your sustaining and powerful grace carry me through each challenging moment. You are faithful in every season, and I thank You for reminding me to come to You first and foremost and pray without ceasing. In Jesus’ name, amen🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

Christian at large

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(Please Forgive Me For My Sins)🙏🏿

7 Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.🙏🏿

Isaiah 55:7🙏🏿

34 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

Jeremiah 31:34🙏🏿

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Dear Heavenly Father, Let the words of Psalm 51 be my heart’s cry today, “Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.” When I feel weighed down by sin in my life, I will find freedom by seeking your forgiveness.Forgive me for allowing sin to take hold. Thank you for the promise that you will “not reject a broken and repentant heart.” You sent your son Jesus to die on the cross for my sins, so that I may be forgiven. Praise you for that incredible gift! Lord, please accept this prayer of repentance as I turn away from sin and bring my brokenness to you. Thank you for making me whole again.🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

Christian at large

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(All Of My Help Comes From The Lord)🙏🏿

10 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.🙏🏿

Isaiah 41:10🙏🏿

8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”🙏🏿Deuteronomy 31:8🙏🏿

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.🙏🏿

Psalms 32:8🙏🏿

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God of Victory, I thank You because I know that I can do all things through You. It is You who strengthens me and You are my greatest weapon against the adversary. Therefore, I will prosper, and I will be of good cheer because You have overcome the world. For this reason, I pray to You for what You will do through me in the future. Lord, I lean not on myself and I trust solely in You. Amen.🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

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(Gods Love Is Witnessed By The New Day)🙏🏿

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.🙏🏿

Lamentations 3:22-23🙏🏿

This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it”🙏🏿Colossians 3:12🙏🏿

Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”🙏🏿Psalm 51:10🙏🏿

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Lord, may nothing separate me from You today. Teach me how to choose only Your way today so each step will lead me closer to You. Help me walk by the Word and not my feelings. Help me to keep my heart pure and undivided. Protect me from my own careless thoughts, words, and actions. And keep me from being distracted by MY wants, MY desires, MY thoughts on how things should be. Help me to embrace what comes my way as an opportunity... rather than a personal inconvenience. And finally, help me to rest in the truth of Psalm 86:13, 'Great is your love toward me.'🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

Christian at large

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Sunday Morning 7/2/23

(God Is Good God Is 

Great)🙏🏿

17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.🙏🏿

James 1:17🙏🏿

28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.🙏🏿

Romans 8:28🙏🏿

19 How abundant are the good things that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you bestow in the sight of all, on those who take refuge in you.🙏🏿

Psalms 31:19🙏🏿

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Thank you for your amazing power and work in our lives, thank you for your goodness and for your blessings over us. Thank you that you are Able to bring hope through even the toughest of times, strengthening us for your purposes. Thank you for your great love and care. Thank you for your mercy and grace. Thank you that you are always with us and will never leave us. Thank you for your incredible sacrifice so that we might have freedom and life. Forgive us for when we don't thank you enough, for who you are, for all that you do, for all that you've given. Help us to set our eyes and our hearts on you afresh. Renew our spirits, fill us with your peace and joy. We love you and we need you, this day and every day. We give you praise and thanks, for You alone are worthy! In Jesus' Name, Amen.”🙏🏿

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Christian at Large

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(A Witness To The Transformation of Your Soul)🙏🏿

2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.🙏🏿

Romans 12:2🙏🏿

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!🙏🏿

2 Corinthians 5:17🙏🏿

38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.🙏🏿

Acts 2:38🙏🏿

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Lord, I thank you for all you've done for me. I just pray that you would change me, oh God. Please guide my heart, and help me to grow into the person you want me to be. Rather than me following my own ways, please purify my heart and make me more like you. Please guide my path and help me take steps that will guide me toward your plan for my life and not my own whims. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.🙏🏿

Riondo S Jackson 

Christian at large