Father God, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours. I rule my mind, and offer it to You. Accept my precious gift, for it is Yours to me. Amen and Amen.
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Father God let this touch someone’s heart today in Jesus Precious Name Amen. Jeremiah 29:11 is a comfort to all people facing challenging situations at any time. It’s important to remember that this isn’t a promise of immediate relief, but rather that God has a plan for our lives, despite our present circumstances. God promises to provide for us in all our situations in life, good or bad. God’s plans are applied as a personal promise. That God has a wonderful and perfect plan for ME. Many take this verse and apply it specifically to them, that God has their life perfectly mapped out, and they only have to walk in obedience to God. “It reads in Jeremiah 29:11“‘”For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” The Lord Jesus is an omnipotent (having unlimited power; able to do anything:). He knows everything that will or won’t happen to us. {Let’s Pray} Father God, You have purposed for all Your children a plan. Increase our vision of You and enable all to trust Your Word of truth through all the circumstances of life, knowing that Your thoughts towards all are only gracious and good continually. I thank You and praise You, that all things work together for good, for those that love You and are fitting into Your plans and purposes. Continue to keep and protect Your people, Israel, and I believe that many would come to trust in Your Precious Name Jesus. Our Messiah, King and I thank You, praise You and give You all the glory Amen.
{Power Verse} But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. Psalm 33:11
Pentecost is the work of salvation is accomplished through Jesus’ birth, life, death, resurrection, and ascension. The Holy Spirit is the empowering presence of God who makes us holy. Through the events on Pentecost, the Holy Spirit now dwells among us. The Holy Spirit is God Himself acting in this world and in our lives. Why it really matters. Pentecost is a special day of worship. The feast marks the end of the Easter season for Christians and commemorates the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the early followers of Jesus. The Church of God, which began on Pentecost which we read about in Acts 2 is given the mission of preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God. The Christian holiday of Pentecost is celebrated on the 50th day (the 7th Sunday) from Easter Sunday. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles. It reads in Acts 2:1–31. “The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost” When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.” “Peter Addresses the Crowd” Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: “‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ “Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. David said about him: “‘I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore, my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope, because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.’ “Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. It reads in Acts 2:32-47 God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said, “‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’ “Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.” When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” 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. The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, for all whom the Lord our God will call.” With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. “The Fellowship of the Believers” They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. {Let’s Pray} Father God, I thank You and praise You for the example of those 120 faithful disciples who obeyed Your Word and were given the privilege of being involved in the actual birth of the Body of Christ, which is the Church, on that special and unique day of Pentecost. Holy Spirit is the empowering presence of God who makes us Holy I believe that like them, I may listen to Your commands, obey and carry them out willingly. I thank You and praise You for the wonderful way that Your Word reveals Your perfect plan of redemption. I thank You and praise You that You showed the future to prophets like king David and apostles like Paul so that those who trust in Christ have an understanding of Your unfolding plan to save Your people from their sin. I thank You and praise You that Your beloved Son was born into the human race so that He could live a sinless life, be raised from the dead, and break the power of death in the lives of all who trust in Him. Thank You that Jesus is the Christ, the eternal Son of the deathless God Who made heaven and earth and Whose perfect plan can never be hindered. You are working in all lives to believe and live in eternity with You In Jesus Precious Name Thank You and bless You Amen.
{Power Verse} This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. John 17:3
Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen. A husband loving his wife as he loves himself is often cited as a proof to endorse male leadership in the home. In this text, wives are instructed to submit to their husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. So loving others as yourself, you wouldn’t commit a evil act against yourself. So you would want to treat others good. Wives respect your husbands. Pray for him. Make him breakfast, give him a backrub and pray blessings over him. A wife is to submit to her own husband is “the husband is the head of the wife.” A husband is responsible for the marriage and family. The wife is also responsible for the marriage and family. Their immediate family living in their home. Submission does not mean that wives are to put up with verbal or physical abusive husbands. It reads in 1 Peter 3:7, ~ Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Some people focus elsewhere than their marriage. Searching for something better than their spouse. Always finding fault in their spouse and not really getting to know who they are married to. So, they go look else where’s and it is called adultery which is against Gods word. It is sin. Women focus on Jesus, not your husband. What woman who has fallen in love with Jesus would not willingly do anything for Him? Never in the Gospels do we find a woman treating Jesus badly or never do we read of a woman speaking against Jesus or do we read of a woman doing anything to harm Jesus. The women of the bible love and honor Jesus. He was everything a man should be. Naturally, most wives aren’t married to Jesus. Your husband is full of sin and selfishness, which makes it often difficult to submit to him. Woman also can be sinful and selfish; this is where we get with God and realize our sins and turn from them. This is where you must change your birds eye view. Your submission to your husband must first be submission to Jesus. Spending time in prayer, Gods word and journaling. In other words, you submit to Jesus Christ by submitting to your husband whether he deserves it or not. It becomes easier and your husband will get to know you as well as you getting to know him. They say life is what you make it. This is true. The choices we make can either encourage us to do better or break us.
It reads in Ephesians 5:21-33, ~ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So, ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one* flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless* let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverences her husband. {Let’s Pray} Father God, I thank You and praise You for the gifts You give us each day. Thank You for my spouse. I thank You and praise You for all the gifts You have given us to be determined, faithful in paying debts and bringing us into Your freedom. I thank You for the home You provide for us and our families. I thank You for the wonderful way that You have designed the different roles of husbands and wives, which bring glory to Your name when applied in our home situation, as You have ordered. Lord, lift up all Christian marriages today. I believe for Your grace of many wives may see the beauty there is in godly submission to their own husbands. I am believing for men that they may reflect the great love for their own wives that Jesus Christ has for the Church. Jesus out of love for us, gave Himself for her and him that they may find Jesus’s freedom and peace in their family in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse} But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity.
Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
“I knew of this lady that her husband was cheating with a married woman.” There was this lady who was wild, and she was cheating on her husband with another person’s husband. The other person knew this and also knew that her husband had a disease from another woman he cheated on his wife with. So, the wife didn’t care to sleep with her husband. She let her abusive husband that cheated and spread this disease do his thing. He shared this disease with this adulteress wild woman and they both ran off in the sunset. As someone put it! This is what evil does. It destroys lives. We need to forgive and move on. God has promised to guide us to discern the good from the bad, so we don’t fall into Satan’s trap. God gave us this powerful mind to heal our bodies and walk in a pure and healthy way. Our bodies can’t heal our minds… Our minds can keep us focusing on God’s goodness, grace, righteousness, love and staying in His word. “This psalm that you are about to read opens up with David’s plea to God to show him mercy. He asks God to blot out his transgressions, wash his iniquities, and cleanse him from sin. He admits his sinning was against God. He also confesses his human sin nature. David asks God to make him as white as snow by purging him with hyssop.” It reads in Psalm 51:1-5 {For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.} Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. Surely, I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. {Let’s Pray} Father God, it says in Your Word, examine Yourself to see it you have the faith. I realize that this is not talking to unbelievers. It is talking to all of us who are Your children in Jesus Christ. Guide me to examine myself, and all that I am learning from You and Your Word. Purify my mind, heart and those things that feed my soul with compassion, faith, peace, goodness, kindness, purity, love so that I truly may say with conviction, “I know in Whom I have believed and am walking in the path on which He has placed me.” I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse} Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness. Psalm 29:2
Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen. So, Solomon loved God and feared Him. Solomon being the son of David. Solomon so prayed to God to for fill the promise that He made David His father. Loving God wholeheartedness and walking right. We know it is better to give than receive. Davids son’s prayer of dedication was towards all those who was doing their best and it is God’s hands that is in everything. I tell you when I was growing up. I thought my dad was the strongest man on earth. Stronger than anyone. When he spoke, I heeded to his command. As I got older, I realized he wasn’t as strong as he seemed. I found myself praying for him more from my heart. Every time I thought of him. Even when he disappointed me. Although I probably disappointed him at times. So not only was Solomon’s prayer for his dad David, but also speaks of the judgement of the wicked and the justification for the righteous. Solomon’s dedication to God’s people was also the way he was raised. So, the two records of this prayer are too long to do them justice but the beauty of the prayer and the evidence of the deep spirituality of the one who is praying will become clear. For this occasion, Solomon has had a platform built which was five cubits wide and five cubits long and three cubits high. The setting of this prayer is the dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem constructed in the reign of King Solomon. It was the first Temple of the Israelites and was a magnificent and splendiferous edifice, unlike any in their subsequent history. Solomon, in all of his glory, never had a more glorious moment than his prayer of dedication of this Temple. David gave us the Psalms, and Solomon gave us the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon (sometimes referred to as Song of Songs). How is it possible that such profound literary works of great wisdom came from those two guys? God is your neighbor first always. God will always be near to rescue, defend and carry us we when we need Him. “Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication” It reads in, 1 Kings 8:22-53, ~ Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven; and he said: “Lord God of Israel, there is no God in heaven above or on earth below like You, who keep Your covenant and mercy with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts. You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day. Therefore, Lord God of Israel, now keep what You promised Your servant David my father, saying, ‘You shall not fail to have a man sit before Me on the throne of Israel, only if your sons take heed to their way, that they walk before Me as you have walked before Me.’ And now I pray, O God of Israel, let Your word come true, which You have spoken to Your servant David my father. “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built! Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O Lord my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today: that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place. And may You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive. “When anyone sins against his neighbor, and is forced to take an oath, and comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this temple, then hear in heaven, and act, and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked, bringing his way on his head, and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness. “When Your people Israel is defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and when they turn back to You and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this temple, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers. “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance. “When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple: then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men), that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers. “Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for Your name’s sake (for they will hear of Your great name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this temple, hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name. “When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name, then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. “When they sin against You (for there is no one who does not sin), and You become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near; yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness’; and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name: then hear in heaven Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You; and grant them compassion before those who took them captive, that they may have compassion on them (for they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Egypt, out of the iron furnace), that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. For You separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by Your servant Moses, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.”
{Prayer} Father God, guide me to stay in Your light and ways. I thank You and praise You for the Word of truth and for the many examples of your goodness, grace, faithfulness and peace to Your people, the nation of Israel and the Body of Christ. I thank You and praise You that Jesus is coming back to sit on the throne of David as Scripture reveals. Guide us as we stay dedicated to You. I thank You, praise You and give You all the glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse} Commit your works to the Lord And your plans will be established.
Proverbs 16:3
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Father God, let this touch someone’s heart today in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
I got this doll at the Good will thrift store. Tell you what happened. I saw this porcelain doll that was missing part of her foot. It was in Goodwill’s trash box they were throwing unsellable away and they couldn’t just give it to me. So I assumed it is alright. I don’t need it. The other lady came over and said. Well it has a broken foot. I said its alright. So she gave it to me for $5.00. First porcelain Doll I ever had. This was like 27 years ago. Now I have a collection of dolls. The mere fact I am telling you this. Is we can long for the good things in life. But they are all not what they are cracked up to be. They are just material things that can be destroyed. On the other hand all the gain that you get in life can be used, given away or used to create something that can help in time of need. Material things can help others who have nothing. Not sure what year it was. My grandchildren bought me a picture of a porcelain doll in a 16X20 frame. Well one of them dropped the picture off my wall one day and behind the picture of the porcelain doll was a picture of Jesus as adolescent. Wow! That spoke volumes to me. It is not material things that we should follow and cherish in this world. It is Jesus all and all. Beautiful things can be destroyed, but having Jesus in our life for eternity. This can never be taken from us.
Reminder of the widows offering. It reads in Mark 12:41-44, ~ Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you; this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything, all she had to live on.” But this widow actually gave her all; Jesus says so in verse 44:” She, out of her poverty, put in everything – all she had to live on.” As a Christian I need to recognize that, so far as possessions and money are concerned, all of it belongs to the Lord. My house, my children, my money, my car these are not mine, but His. People think they can’t go to church cause they have to tithe. What is tithing it is financially building the church home we all live in, worship in and give to the poor and powerless. Have you gone by church’s that people built but there was nobody that wanted to keep giving to that church so it just stayed empty. Someone had a God vision of building a place where people could come, learn, give and love the way Jesus loves. So many people I have seen hurting and the church family of volunteers gave to them and they became apart of the church family and now volunteer to help others just the way they was helped. It takes a Jesus heart to love and heal others to have a heart of Jesus. This is why church’s grow. {Let’s Pray} Father God, Just as breaking that picture, but finding you as a adolescent growing in goodness and perfect showing that You was growing with humanity. I thank You that You have opened my eyes and mind to the truth of Who Jesus is through You was born as Your perfect Son of Man to bring peace and grace for my sins, redeem me from the pit and reconcile me back to You Father God. I want to love You more and more with every area of my life, in mind, body and soul. You Lord are willingly to set aside Your heavenly glory to come to earth to die on the cross to save a sinner like me. I thank You that You rose to give me Your life and thank You that You live in me and I in You. This is a love that will never break.
{Power Verse} He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. Matthew 17:20
Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
“Remember that if someone will gossip with you, they’ll gossip about you.” So, in this case if gossip seems to begin as the topic, within your heart say no this is not for me and pray for that person who gossips and walk on. There is better stuff to do in this life. It reads in Proverbs 16:27-29, ~ A scoundrel plots evil, and on their lips, it is like a scorching fire. A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends. A violent person entices their neighbor and leads them down a path that is not good. (Be aware of those you hang with and beware of your surroundings. People can act nice to you, especially those who have done evil towards you before. People do not change overnight. So, if you are nice to them some will take advantage of your kindness.
It reads in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15, ~ For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
{Let’s Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You for my great salvation through Jesus Christ. I thank You and praise You for Your Word, the truths and promises it contains. I thank You and praise You for Your word on the commandments of obedience and the warnings it gives. Give me wisdom, insight to identify error and keep me from being influenced by those who pretend to be men or women of God, but inwardly are starving wolves. I thank You and praise You that my hope, my strength and faith is in You. When I am weak in my own importance, I am strong in You Lord and in the might of Your power. I will boast in the Cross of Christ in Him alone. I thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse}
Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.
Father God, let this touch someone’s heart today in Jesus Precious Name Amen. You ever moved from one state to another. You were so used to going to the grocery store, laundry mat, church, city clerk’s office, social security for a card or maybe just to get a driver’s license at the DMV. You knew where everything was located. Easy to find and get to. Didn’t feel alone cause everyone knew you. But moving to another state not knowing anybody and starting over brought a sense of fear till you started asking questions. This is one example of feeling alone. Another is this: Imagine sinning all the time and knowing where you are at till one day you get into trouble for your sins. You were comfortable till this happened. Feeling all alone with no one to talk to or you are thinking no one cares. Your stuck behind bars. You stay bottled up inside and alone till you realize you have been throwing around thoughts. Next thing you know you realize. Hey! I am not alone things I was thinking and getting mad at God about, was coming to light. You realize someone is listening to me. The only one I was mad at was God when I should have been mad at my own wrong choices. When you were feeling alone, abandoned, isolated. You realize when you said God. He has finally answer that makes you realize you are not alone. Then you go to court get a verdict and the judge says you are free to go. Don’t let me see you in my courtroom ever again. Wow! God are you there? Did You hear what that judge said? Thank you, God. You end up on the street with no place to go. Someone comes in your path to help you out. Every time you ask God to help you it becomes more evident that He is listening and answering. You start realizing where your blessings have been all along. It reads in James 4:8, ~ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Here is another example: This family going to church for 30 years. You know a church is full of sinners, those who repent and turn to Jesus is the perfect one. Jesus loves the sinner but hates the sin. This family husband and wife are doing so well except the wife don’t go to church each week, but the husband takes the son to church each week. He prays faithfully for his family and for his wife to go to church with him. She does once in a while. One day she gets in an accident and passes on. Even though he is around church family he feels alone. He has a few friends and one that he can confide in. But then she is still in church but is unable to speak with for a few weeks. His son gets a disease which was a long haul. He speaks with his friend he can confide in, and he emails and calls when he needs to talk. Then one day his son passes away. He has talked to people except the one he could confide in. The friend that knew what he was going through because she had gone through a similar experience. That man felt alone and ended his life. (He felt alone.) It was hard on his friend because she wished she had stayed in contact more. Thinking this wouldn’t have happened. No one can predict one day or another. Only God knows. Pray without ceasing they say. We just need to pray from our heart towards others because we never know what they are going through. This third example is real life happenings: We can’t stop it! We can’t see what is happening in the lives of those we love, care for and know they are important to many. All we can do is pray that God will stay close to them. Guide people to encourage them. For God to wrap His loving arms around them and protect their mind, body and soul. The more we stay close to God and offer our gratitude, faithfulness, patience, humility, gentleness, kindness, compassion, blessings and pray Gods promises over others and ourselves. There is not much more we can do. God holds all His children whether here on earth or in Heaven. When we stay close to Him there is no loneliness or regrets. Something wonderful happens when the holy spirit dwells with us and within us. God is here. He will never leave our side. {Let’s Pray} Father God, we thank You and praise You that You are a faithful God and believe that You would lift up Your spirit of Your countenance upon us, O Lord and give us Your peace that pass’s all understanding in our hearts today and for evermore. Thank You and praise You for always being nearby. Guide us to feel Your closeness always. I never want to take Your mercy for granted. I am truly thankful for all that You do in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse} The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
Father God, let this touch someone’s heart in Jesus Precious Name Amen. I know to “focus on doing right and “don’t be swayed”. Don’t blindly do what the world is doing. Forgive and give those who are trying their best encouragement. Treat others as you want to be treated. Be kind and walk in love. I remind myself to do what is right and this new day is God’s and His gift to others and myself. Even though we live in a troubled world our life is in God’s hands. This gift relieves my heart. Practice Humility. Be humble, admit when you’re wrong, say sorry, and try to Give Thanks, even During Life’s Challenges. Here are a few authentic ways to put yourself out there and be a light for Jesus: With a glad and willingly heart, seek to serve others in the name of Jesus. Consider joining a church, ministry and volunteering your time. Remember, in all the work you do, work as unto the Lord and not man. (Colossians 3:23: Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,) Have you ever considered an online outreach? “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lamp stand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. “Matthew 5:14” Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”
Praying together invites the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. In 2 Chronicles 6-7, we see the dedication of Solomon’s Temple. While “the whole assembly of Israel was standing there” (2 Chron. 6:3), Solomon prays a dedicatory prayer in which he invokes the presence of God. A family that prays together stays together, so we were called on in unity with Christ. “they say that the family that prays together stays together and that is very much the case with us. “The family that prays together stays together ” is still a good maxim. I really like this saying because it is true. Your immediate family may not pray with you and may sway from your family. Pray for your family members will become a child of God also. Pray for their unbelief will change to believing in Jesus Christ. When you are in church family, if you notice this. Your church family is closer. Why because you see them each week. You all pray for each other and pray together. So, a church family that prays together! Stays together. Families that go to church together are usually closer and the enemies flees faster. Just saying. If people pray together over an issue, even if people come to prayer thinking they know what the church should do, praying together opens them up to God’s desire. We each of us has a unique way of praying and praying together brings a new voice to the need. God can heal many situations and guide encouragement in the lives we pray for. No one can bring the dead back to life. We can pray that they are saved and ask God to let them into heaven at His way. When we pray, we can watch our prayers that are answered. As we pray in others’ lives that we pray for we can see their prayers be answered and their lives are better. This is a miracle blessing from God. It reads in 2 Chronicles 6:12-42 “Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication” Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. Now he had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had placed it in the center of the outer court. He stood on the platform and then knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven. He said: “Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth, you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way. You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it, as it is today. “Now, Lord, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me according to my law, as you have done.’ And now, Lord, the God of Israel, let your word that you promised your servant David to come true. “But will God really dwell on earth with humans? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! Yet, Lord my God, give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence. May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place. Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.” When anyone wrongs their neighbor and is required to take an oath and they come and swear the oath before your altar in this temple, then hear from heaven and act. Judge between your servants, condemning the guilty and bringing down on their heads what they have done, and vindicating the innocent by treating them in accordance with their innocence. “When your people Israel have been defeated by an enemy because they have sinned against you and when they turn back and give praise to your name, praying and making supplication before you in this temple, then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them back to the land you gave to them and their ancestors. “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance. “When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or when enemies besiege them in any of their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come, and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people Israel, being aware of their afflictions and pains, and spreading out their hands toward this temple, then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive, and deal with everyone according to all they do, since you know their hearts (for you alone know the human heart), so that they will fear you and walk in obedience to you all the time they live in the land you gave our ancestors. “As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this temple, then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name. “When your people go to war against their enemies, wherever you send them, and when they pray to you toward this city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name, then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and uphold their cause. “When they sin against you, for there is no one who does not sin, and you become angry with them and give them over to the enemy, who takes them captive to a land far away or near; and if they have a change of heart in the land where they are held captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity and say, ‘We have sinned, we have done wrong and acted wickedly’; and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their captivity where they were taken, and pray toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and toward the temple I have built for your Name; then from heaven, your dwelling place, hear their prayer and their pleas, and uphold their cause. And forgive your people, who have sinned against you. “Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. “Now arise, Lord God, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of Your might. May your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation, may your faithful people rejoice in your goodness. Lord God do not reject your anointed one. Remember the great love promised to David your servant.” {Let’s Pray} Abba Father, I thank You and praise You that You are a God Who hears, heals and answers prayers of Your children. They pray in faith, believing and trust in Your never-failing faithfulness and love. I thank You and praise You that You are a faithful and righteous God, who extend to each one of us according to our individual ways. Keep my heart pure towards You, for You alone can read the thoughts of every heart and needs. You gave us Your powerful mind so that we can keep in constant contact with You and discern good from evil. May the words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart, the thoughts of my mind, and the motives behind my thoughts, always be acceptable to You. I love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.
{Power Verse} Since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect. Hebrews 11:40
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