Week Ending Friday October 11, 2019
{quotes}
If your path is more difficult, it is because you have been chosen to a higher calling.
When angels are busy…God uses you.
Don’t fight the battles that don’t really matter.
Take the risk or lose the chance.
Supporting the fighter, admiring the survivors, honoring the taken, and never giving up hope.
October is breast cancer awareness month, be a blessing to the cause.
You can go forty days without food. Three days without water. Eight minutes without air. But you can’t go a single second without God.
{blessings}
Success With Joy
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. It’s easier to take small actions to move toward your success than to wait for it to come to you. May God bless you with success. Go forth in joy and confidence knowing God is with you as you achieve your dreams.
Love Them
Most people don’t believe what you believe and they don’t feel what you feel. But it doesn’t mean you have to convince them, or change them. There’s only one thing you have to do – love them. May God bless you with the understanding of differences and the good sense to know when it’s okay to just let things be.
Do Something Spirit
You’ve got it backwards. Taking action isn’t a consequence of confidence and courage, you gain confidence and courage when you take action. May God bless you with a “do something” spirit to work for the underserved, to take a stand on heinous issues, and to do what it takes to lift yourself higher in the eyes of God and humankind. Doing nothing is not an option.
Whimsy and Fun
Start your day in a colorful way with whimsy and fun. May God bless you to take on the world with a sense of humor and a positive perspective that reflects your unique goodness.
New Cool
Happiness is the new rich. Inner peace is the new success. Health is the new wealth. Kindness is the new cool. May God bless you with an abundance of assets both old and new.
{prayers}
Grace Upon Me
Grace be upon me. May understanding and a clear vision come to me. I am devoted to You, my God, in need of Your gentle touch of light. Let me see a better way to serve You. Help me live rightly in Your house.
Waves of Healing
Tired of worrying, tired of hurrying, tired of being buried by stress. Stress over finances, stress in the work I do, causing holes in my calm and pushing me farther from peace. And yet, when I lean into this exhaustion and make time for prayer, when I let the waves of holy healing wash over me, I am cleansed. Fresh with hope, filled with gratitude and ready to overcome.
Constancy
Help me. I seem to say that a lot. You must be tired of my constant pleas. Yet You remain as close as my shadow as constant as breathing. You spoil me with your constancy. How good of You to favor each one of us as though we are an only child, Your ear tuned to the particular pitch of each of our cries. God, I thank You for Your love.
Having Faith
Having faith is choosing hope over despair. Having faith is quarreling with your skeptic self, and winning the argument. Having faith is being brave in the face of fear. Having faith is moving from worry to wonder. Having faith is what happens when you receive God with a trusting heart. Praise to You, holy God, who strengthens my faith with loving devotion.
Accepting the Season
I am ready for this season. I accept the challenge. I embrace the changes. I believe there are blessings and favor to come. Father, I stand before You, humbled by the undertaking, honored with Your trust, delighting in the majesty of the world You created. Amen
{stories, features, video}
Story: Most Precious Thing in the World by Aaron Shepard
Feature: The Value of Prayer
Feature: Holy Humor – Kids on Angels
Feature: Remembering Wendy + Video
Feature: Getting to Truth by Seth Godin
Feature: Circuit Preachers
{bible affirmations}
James 1:22
Don’t only listen to the Word of God, do something about it.
2 Timothy 4:17
The Lord stands with me and gives me strength
Leviticus 23:26-28
Then the Lord said to Moses, Be careful to celebrate the Day of Atonement on the tenth day of that same month—nine days after the Festival of Trumpets. You must observe it as an official day for holy assembly, a day to deny yourselves and present special gifts to the Lord. Do no work during that entire day because it is the Day of Atonement, when offerings of purification are made for you, making you right with the Lord your God.
Matthew 11:28-29
Lord, I come to You, weary and burdened, asking for rest, asking to learn from You, asking for relief. In Your holiness there is gentility and humility. Let my soul know Your peace.
Romans 12:14
I bless and pray for those who persecute me. I leave it to God to handle what comes next.