Week End June 15, 2018
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We find God in prayer, God finds us in the silence.
Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire to commune with God.
I rise to greet the morn and know that love will warm me today.
Stop worrying about the things you left in God’s hands.
If there’s a Goliath in front of you, that means there’s a David inside of you.
If you’re waiting on God, do what waiters do – serve.
{blessings}
People Who Don’t Pray
Praying for people who don’t pray may seem like a lost cause. Yet, the people who don’t pray are an opportunity for you to do the ultimate good with your prayers. May you be blessed with a heart full of prayer for the people you know who don’t take time for their spiritual life. Pray on!
Spiritual Fulfillment
You want success. You want financial reward. You want to achieve your goals. All well and good except when it interferes with your spiritual fulfillment. May you be blessed to have a relationship with God that is central to your goals, financially rewarding and a key driver to your worldly success.
Little Gifts of Joy
Loosen up. Let life surprise you. It pays to plan ahead for the most part – but God likes to give pleasant little gifts of joy when least expected. May you be blessed to be the recipient.
Rush
Rush, rush, rush, you are in such a rush. You’re in a rush to get on with things. A rush to get over things. A rush to be where you think you are supposed to be. But, know this: stuff happens when it’s supposed to – according to God’s timing not yours. Slow down and savor each blessed minute.
Strong Against Wrong
The more you allow your heart to expand in love, and the more you deeply appreciate your surroundings – the more likely you will be to defend the people and things you value. May God bless you to stand strong against wrong and to defeat it with love.
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Pray, Praise, Trust
Dear God, Something good is about to happen to me this week. I pray, praise, trust, and wait and for the outcome. Thank You.
Sightless Among Miracles
Days pass and the years vanish and we walk sightless among miracles. Lord, fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing. Let there be moments when your Presence like lightning, illumines the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see wherever we gaze that the bush burns, unconsumed. And we, clay touched by God, will reach out for holiness and exclaim in wonder, “How filled with awe is this place and we did not know it.”
Chaim Stern
Want-to-Bees
I want to be loved for who I am, not for who they want me to be. I want to be appreciated for the spirit within my soul, not for my outer appearances. I want to be known as a person who cares deeply and I want to be deeply cared for. I pray for my “want-to-bees” to become my “re-al-itees”.
Hope to My Heart
God, I need you now more than ever. Bring clarity to my confusion, joy to my sadness and hope to my heart. Amen
Content to Be
God I know my prayers are always heard, I believe in You, I trust Your word. Answered prayers may be delayed I am not anxious, I’m not afraid. You God, knows what’s best for me, I wait, no worries, I’m content to be. Amen
{features, video, stories}
Story: You Are My Sunshine
Book Excerpt: Come Matter Here
Hannah Brenchner
Video: Soothing Psalms
Feature: Deep Diving
Joan Paddock Maxwell
Comedy Video: John Crist on Pre-Meal Prayer
Feature: Atheists are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians
{bible affirmations}
Psalm 46:10
Be still and know that I am God
In difficult situations, When I can’t find the right words to pray with, I will sit quietly and simply acknowledge God’s being.
Isaiah 30:15
In returning and rest you shall be saved, in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.
I sit in quiet reflection with my God.
Romans 11:18
Remember, it is not you supporting the root, but the roots supporting you.
I give thanks to my ancestors who are my roots which help me grow.
Isaiah 43
This is what the Lord says: I am making a way.
The Lord my God will show me the way, make way, and be with me on my way.
Leviticus 19:32
Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly.
I learn at the feet of my elders.