Week Ending Friday, September 9, 2022
{quotes}
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
Eskimo Proverb
The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow.
Robert Tew
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
Robert Schuller
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Mary Stuart
{blessings}
Work that Provides
May God bless you with meaningful work that provides you with dignity, purpose, and financial reward. May your struggles be few and accomplishments many, always remembering that God is with you in all your labors.
Prayer Legion
You have a legion of prayer warriors who have your back, and you have the holy leader of them all giving you blessings today and evermore.
Best Efforts
The best intentions only count a little. The best efforts count so much more. May God bless you to do, not just think, and may your positive actions spread joy and blessings to yourself and others.
Answered Prayers
Hope says God can, Faith says God will. May God bless you with hope, faith, and answered prayers.
Making Good Choices
You can only make decisions about what’s happening in the present. Stop re-living your bad choices and start making good ones. May God bless you with wisdom, discernment, and the will to follow through on the good choices you make today.
{prayers}
Workers Prayer
Lord, we pray that you surround all the workers of the world with the shadow of your protection. Guard them and their families against all harm as they work. Give to them assurance of income and provide for them all the resources, strength, and support that they need. Gracious God, You bless all of us in so many wonderful ways.
Fearless in Faith
Dear God. Take away this fear and replace it with courage and determination. Remind me of who I am and from Whom I come. Praise to You, fearless and faithful leader of humankind.
Love Those…
Dear God, While I don’t expect to save the world, I do think it’s not asking too much for us to love those with whom we sleep, share the happiness of those whom we call friend, engage those among us who are visionary, and remove from our lives those who offer depression, despair, and disrespect.
Nikki Giovanni (adapted)
To Love and Cherish
Dear God, You made Adam and You made Eve. You know of my loneliness and need for companionship, friendship, and love. Make me a partner to love and cherish. To laugh with and share with. One who loves You, and one who loves me. With all my gratitude, I thank Thee.
Gratitude for Direction
In subtle winds and blinding sunlight, I learn Your secrets dear God. Nature provides the cues I use to get back on the path, to stand straight, and to walk with purpose. I praise and raise my eyes to You, my Maker, with gratitude for Your direction.
{bible affirmations}
Deuteronomy 24:14-15
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns. You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.
Psalm 103:19
Praise the Lord, my soul, you God’s angels, you mighty ones who do God’s bidding, and obey God’s word.
Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you; life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life; that you and your children may live.
Isaiah 41:13
When God holds your hand God doesn’t let go.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
{stories, features, videos}
Story: Sunday Sermon: Labor Day Rev. Dr. Derrick McQueen
Feature: 7 Stories that Celebrate the Workers of the World
Music Video: God Must Hate Me Catie Turner
Feature: I Will Be With You Hannah Brenchner
Story: Where to Speak to God