Dear Lord,
I thank you for this day. I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me.
Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to you.
I ask now for Your forgiveness.
Please keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each and every day to clear my mind so that Ican hear from You.
Please broaden my mind that I can accept all things.
Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over.
Let me continue to see sin through God's eyes and acknowledge it as evil. And when I sin, let me repent, and confess with my mouth my wrongdoing, and receive the forgiveness of God.
And when this world closes in on me, let me remember Jesus' example -- to slip away and finda quiet place to Pray.
It's the only response when I'm pushed beyond my limits. I know that when I can't pray, You listen to my heart. Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others... Keep me strong that I may help the weak. Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others.
I pray for those who are lost and can't find their way. I pray for those who are misjudged and misunderstood.
I pray for those who don't know You intimately. I pray for those who don't believe.. But I thank you that I believe.
I believe that God changes people and God changes things.
I pray for all my sisters and brothers. For each and every family member in their households. I pray for peace, love healing and joy in their homes that they are out of debt and all their needs are met.
I pray that everyone realize there is no problem, circumstance, or situation greater than God.Every battle is in His hands for Him to fight.
I pray that these words be received into our hearts forever more, and God Bless You.
Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and Then just put it on a list and said, 'I'll pray for them later'?
Or has anyone ever called you and said, 'I need you to pray for me, I have this need?'
Read the following story that was sent to me and May it change the way that you may think about prayer and also the way you pray.
You will be blessed by this....
A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church in Michigan .
'While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies.
This was a journey of two days and required camping overnight at the halfway point.
On one of these journeys, I arrived in the city where I planned to collect money from a bank, purchase medicine, and supplies, and then begin my two-day journey back to the field hospital.
Upon arrival in the city, I observed two men fighting, one of whom had been seriously injured.
I treated him for his injuries and at the same time talked to him about the Lord..
I then traveled two days, camping overnight, and arrived home without incident..
Two weeks later I repeated my journey. Upon arriving in the city, I was approached by
the young man I had treated.
He told me that he had known I carried money and medicines.
He said, 'Some friends and I followed you in to the jungle, and knowing you would camp overnight, we planned to kill you and take your money and drugs.
But just as we were about to move into your camp, we saw that you were surrounded by 26 armed guards.
At this, I laughed and said that I was certainly all alone in that jungle campsite.
The young man pressed the point, however, and said, 'No, sir, I was not the only person to see the guards.
My friends also saw them, and we all counted them. It was because of those guards that we were afraid and left you alone.'
At this point in the sermon, one of the men in the congregation jumped to his feet and interrupted the missionary and asked if he could tell him the exact day this happened.
The missionary told the congregation the date, and the man who interrupted told him this story:
'On the night of your incident in Africa, it was morning here and I was preparing to go play golf.
I was about to putt when I felt the urge to pray for you. In fact, the urging of the Lord was so strong,
I called men in this church to meet with me here in the sanctuary to pray for you.
Would all of those men who met with me on that day stand up?'
The men who had met together to pray that day stood up. The missionary wasn't concerned with whom they were, he was too busy counting how many men he saw.
I installed the bird feeder and a container for water in my back yard,
I have been seeing a number of doves, black birds, blue jays, a squirrel and 2 small cardinals visiting daily .
I am amazed as I noticed that when they land on the feeder they lift their head up to the sky, with their beak open for a few seconds, as
if giving thanks to God before commencing to eat.
One of the cardinals, small and dark red, whom we have named 'Jerry' visits sometimes 2 to 3 times daily and everytime we put fresh food out he flies to the screen, about 3 ft from where l sit and hangs on to the screen, fluttering his wings and turning from side to side as if to say thanks for the food..Of all the birds that come and go daily, the cardinal is the only one that does this.
His actions remind me of the account, in Luke 17v 17- 19, where Jesus healed ten lepers and only one came back to Jesus to say thanks and Jesus asked ' where are the nine?'
