Week Ending Friday, April 7, 2023
{blessings}
Sky’s the Limit
The possibilities of jumping for joy are as endless as the sky above us. May God lift you off your feet with numerous blessings today.
Feel Safe
Being scared is okay, but don’t let your fears control you. May God bless you with a sense of ease and confidence to help you feel safe, knowing God is your protector.
7 Blessings
Tonight, the Jewish people celebrate the holiday of Passover. It’s a good time to remember the seven universal blessings the Israelites received from God when they fled slavery in Egypt and began their journey to freedom. 1. God will assign an angel to you. 2. God will be an enemy to your enemies. 3. God will give you prosperity. 4. God will take sickness away from you. 5. God will give you a long life. 6. God will increase in your life. 7. God will give you a special year’s blessings.
Let Your Dreams Live
Some people would try to step on your big dreams if you gave them a chance. Don’t allow it. God is ready for you to make your dreams come true. Watch and wait for big blessings coming your way very soon.
Expect Less
Expect little from others and graciously accept the little you get. Sometimes it helps to lower expectations in order to be delighted by the outcomes. But when it comes from God, there is no limit to the blessings you will receive.
{prayers}
Lead Me to Learning
Dear God, Nobody likes a know-it-all, especially me. Yet, I find myself wandering recklessly into conversational territory I know nothing about. Help me hold my tongue when it wants to wag. Instead, move me to the safety zone, asking good questions that lead to learning. Praise to You, beloved teacher, who enables me to be Your devoted student.
Tomorrows Filled with Joy
Dear God in heaven, Hear my prayer. Heal what ails her. Fix what’s broken. Make her whole and healthy again. Permeate her being with Your goodness. Refresh a withered soul. May her today be the turning point and her tomorrows be filled with joy. amen
Sweet Fruit
Dear God, let me taste the sweet fruits of my labor. The work is hard, the reward meager, and my soul is eager for refreshment. Bring bounty to my life, Oh Lord!
Fill My Space
God almighty, Fill my every space with Your spirit. Strengthen me with faith over fear, and hope over despair. May my soul absorb the goodness You project, and may I always be kind to this body You protect.
Help Me
Help me, when trouble comes my way, help me when I start to stray. Help me, God, when it’s You I need, help me to always believe. For it’s faith that brings me to my center, and through those doors, I must enter. To find myself, and find You too, to be by Your side in all I do.
{bible affirmations}
1 Chronicles 4:10
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that You would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let Your hand be with me and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request.
Psalm 145:15-16
The eyes of all look to You expectantly, and You give them their food when it is due. You give it openhandedly, feeding every creature to its heart’s content.
Nehemiah 1:5
Then I prayed this prayer. Lord, God of heaven, You are the great and powerful God. You are the God who keeps His agreement of love with the people who love You and obey Your commandments.
Ezekiel 36:26
A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you.
Exodus 1:20-21
And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
{quotes}
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran Lebowitz
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Mother is her son’s first god. She must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love.
T. F. Hodge
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
Friendship outstays the hurrying flight of years, and aye abides through laughter and through tears.
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna
{stories, features, videos}
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We’ve Got Mail: Hump Day Results – Keep the Camel
Feature: How a Doctor and a Paramedic Saved Each Others Life Thirty Years Apart
Holy Humor: Best Way to Pray