Please pray with me and help me identify the right name for my Daily Devotion book I am currently writing. I need God's, wisdom and insight and most of all understanding. I want to ask that you will pray with me, asking God to reveal to me What the name of my book should be and also that it will be words of wisdom, that God wants to reveal through me to you and other people.
Prayer
Abba Father, Lord God, You know my hearts desires and Lord You know what is best for me, I pray and with friends on Blogger I am asking You, Lord please guide me and show me what the name of my Daily Devotion should be. This I pray humbly in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
"May the best day of your past Be the worst day of your future." My Dad always wished me this Irish Blessing and I want it to matter today and every other day in my life.
Sunday 22 November 2015
Lord! Help me not to sit with scornful people!
“If you love someone, you will … always
believe in him.” 1 Corinthians 13: 7
David
a young shepherded boy came to see his brothers who were in battle against the Philistines. David believed in God and I felt so sure that
God would help him stand up against Goliath.
Now
David’s brother Eliab was upset that this youngster came along, being full of
himself he must have thought. Telling
everybody that he (David) was going to get this Philistine, and Eliab confronted
David saying “Why have you come down? And
with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your insolence and the wickedness of your
heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle.’
Eliab’s
name actually means “God is my Father” so in actual fact I believe Eliab has
great authority over the Philistine, he just didn’t believe that it was the
case. David on the other had felt he was
circumcised and because of the covenant with God, David knew that God would be
on David’s side.
This
whole episode reminds us of knowing who we are in Christ, we should make it our
business to find out what it means to be a true Christian. We should study God’s Word. We could sit around like Eliab and know that
we are Christians but not act on it because we struggle with cynicisms, believing
that most people are generally selfish and dishonest. The problem with cynics is that once one person’s
chimes off the rest will follow suit.
Turning
a positive situation quickly into a negative which ends badly, now be careful
you don’t become the cynic.
Prayer
Abba
Father, Lord we pray that You will strengthen us as we face a new day, guiding
us and teaching us. Most of all Lord
God, take our lives and renew our minds to become true Christians. Help us not to sit in the seats with scornful
people but to be courageous as David and to stand on Your Word, the Bible. We pray in Jesus Name, Amen.
"Thorn in my side"
As I sit here today I am thinking about a famous person
someone you also know, perhaps even better than I do. The Apostle Paul, and as I think about this
man who done so many wonderful things and wonders in the name of the Lord Jesus
I am reminded of something he had to deal with on a daily basis. “The thorn in his side”, we do not know what
the so called “thorn” was, but we do know it kept Paul on his knees. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+12%3A+9&version=TLB
Each person’s life is different and we do not know the
journey we need to take in getting to our destination. My journey right now is really not that easy,
I seem to embark on the most difficult of tasks and so many times very humbling
too.
My “thorn” right now is really a part time job I have taken
to supplement my income. I have seen and
it is really funny how God has been working miracles for me each day. The one thing I am sure of is that God keeps
His eye on me. Some days I find that
this job really tests my patience and other days I stand amazed at how things
move around to accommodate me.
If you pray for patience, be sure God is going to take you
on a trip you will never forget and you will learn patience. If you pray for humility, hmmmm be sure God
is going to teach you to become humble.
My weakest link right now is my humility and patience and I
am learning to deal with these to issue and as time goes I find I am able to
work through each one of these lessons.
Well in facing all the difficulty, humbling situations I
find myself in and the constant waiting on people that disregard me. I want to say thank You Lord, I will praise
You for I believe that You will open the right doors at the right time.
It is my desire to say as the Apostle Paul said ‘I will
boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest
on me.’
Prayer
Abba Father, Lord each one of us has a ‘thorn’ in our sides,
we all have difficulties that we need to deal with. Give each one of us the courage and strength
to face it each day, let us never forget to humble ourselves before You and
know that You are still in control. Lord
we will praise and worshop at Your feet.
We know that You will open the right doors at the right time. In the Holy and wonderful Name of Jesus
Christ. Amen
Sunday 11 October 2015
Pray like Hannah
1 Samuel 1:11 Amplified Bible (AMP)
11 She vowed, saying, O
Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your handmaid and
[earnestly] remember, and not forget Your handmaid but will give me a son, I
will give him to the Lord all his life; no razor shall touch his head.
How serious are your prayers? How desperately do you want the Father God
Almighty to answer your prayers? We who
are blessed with children would not know the anguish and pain that Hannah had
when she prayed for a child. It was her
heart’s desire to have a child; a son of her own. She was prepared to give her child back to
the Lord to serve Him so sincere and desperately she wanted a son.
The real truth I believe is that the Lord God sees
each and every persons heart and intention, He knows what your motives
are. Are you able to pray sincerely and
believe that God answers prayers? Will
you pray for the things you desperately want?
I pray that the Lord God will give you the wisdom and understanding and
knowledge to pray earnestly for your needs in the Holy Name of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
You are a
Blessing!
Do Not Grieve the Holy Spirit of God
Ephesians 4: 30 - 32
"And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption, get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as Christ God forgave you."
In life we all experience different kinds of pains, while living and growing up in your parents house it is normal things that takes place. Then you start your own adult life and people start to disappoint you. You find that people tend to lie and gossip and they are saying hurtful things about you.
Before you know it you are tending a garden filled with bitterness, growing your rage and anger, and out of these couple of fruits brawling and slander obviously sneaks in. Its not long before there are signs of all kinds of malice growing too.
The first signs of becoming bitter is when you cannot drop something, a friend, husband or relative has done. You just cannot believe these things can happen, now it starts to take root and you keep feeding on it. Going back to the day something happened, you keep nursing it and before long you have grown a tree of bitterness, the best part is the rest follows suit as it all started with that little seed.
It is my hearts desire to get rid of any bitterness I may have in my own life and I pray the Holy Spirit of God will come and show me what I should be confessing. Do yourself a favor and do some in-depth soul searching and see what you need to confess to become Holy and pure before the Lord today.
Holy Spirit I pray that each person reading this devotional today will look into their own hearts and find the seeds and trees that are clouding their minds. Praying and confessing it aloud and asking for forgiveness in the most wonderful name in this world, Jesus Christ. Amen
You are a blessing to me, may the Lord Jesus Bless You today!
"And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption, get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as Christ God forgave you."
In life we all experience different kinds of pains, while living and growing up in your parents house it is normal things that takes place. Then you start your own adult life and people start to disappoint you. You find that people tend to lie and gossip and they are saying hurtful things about you.
Before you know it you are tending a garden filled with bitterness, growing your rage and anger, and out of these couple of fruits brawling and slander obviously sneaks in. Its not long before there are signs of all kinds of malice growing too.
The first signs of becoming bitter is when you cannot drop something, a friend, husband or relative has done. You just cannot believe these things can happen, now it starts to take root and you keep feeding on it. Going back to the day something happened, you keep nursing it and before long you have grown a tree of bitterness, the best part is the rest follows suit as it all started with that little seed.
It is my hearts desire to get rid of any bitterness I may have in my own life and I pray the Holy Spirit of God will come and show me what I should be confessing. Do yourself a favor and do some in-depth soul searching and see what you need to confess to become Holy and pure before the Lord today.
Holy Spirit I pray that each person reading this devotional today will look into their own hearts and find the seeds and trees that are clouding their minds. Praying and confessing it aloud and asking for forgiveness in the most wonderful name in this world, Jesus Christ. Amen
You are a blessing to me, may the Lord Jesus Bless You today!
Wednesday 7 October 2015
Pray for your Pastor
Ephesians 6: 19 (AMP)
19 And [pray] also for me, that [freedom of]
utterance may be given me, that I may open my mouth to proclaim boldly the
mystery of the good news (the Gospel),
Paul
asks the believers in Ephesus to “Pray
for me, that freedom of utterance may be given me, that I may open my mouth to
proclaim boldly the mystery of the good news ~ the Gospel.”
Do
you ever think of praying for your Pastor?
I never thought about it until our Pastor asked the congregation to
please pray for him.
As
time went by a couple of old people were praying for our Pastor. He mentioned that he felt his preaching was
made a little easier. The Pastor then
asked that the congregation come to church during the week and pray for our
church as well as for the Pastor.
Prayer Father God we pray that
our Pastors will have the freedom of utterance to open their mouths in
proclaiming boldly the mysteries of the good news to us and the world. In Jesus Name we pray, Amen!
Tuesday 6 October 2015
The Secret of the Lord
Psalm 25:14 (AMP)
14 The secret [of
the sweet, satisfying companionship] of the Lord have they who fear (revere and
worship) Him, and He will show them His covenant and reveal to them its [deep, inner] meaning.
My BFF (Best Friend Forever) normally is in on all my
secrets, how I feel, if I’m sad and when I’m really happy. The thing to think about is do you only go to
the LORD your God with all your sad secrets?
Or do you take the good things that happen to you, and share them with
the LORD?
Can you too come to the Lord Jesus in prayer and say
“Lord Jesus; Your will be done.” Yes, you can when you have a relationship with
the Lord. By trusting that the Lord
Jesus will help you in everything you do.
Prayer Thank You Lord, it amazes me when You
answer so many of my little desires, without my even asking. Lord thank You for You loving kindness and
companionship in my life. In the Holy
Name of Jesus, Amen!
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