Prayer for my husband’s cancer

How disheartening it was to hear that the only way to remove my husband’s liver tumor is not a viable
option! We feel lost and hurt that God is not answering our prayers with hope of a cure. Help us be graceful as we move forward and to remember that God will give us the strength and resources we need while we continue to pray for healing. In Jesus’ name, Amen

Special Birthdays Wishes to Get Back Together

Please truly pray that Walter and I get back together as a couple with one another again. Today is his birthday. Please pray that I’m making the right decision by not contacting him today. Please pray that fate happens and brings us back together again another way. Please pray we work out our issues, still get back together, still get married to one another, still live together and have the most amazing life, relationship and future with one another again. Please pray that Walter has a good birthday, but realizes how much he misses celebrating his birthday with me. Please pray his birthday helps him realize how much he wants me back in his life.

Saint Jude, Saint Anthony and Saint Expedite: Thank you for everything in my life. Please help me. I truly need your help. Please bring the absolute love of my life (Walter) and I back together again as a couple with one another again. Please let us still have our happily ever after together. Please let Walter’s birthday today be the first step in bringing us back together again.
Please let his special day bring us lots of good vibes and positive thoughts for our relationship again. Please let Walter’s birthday helps him open his heart back up to our beautiful relationship again.

Thank you for answering my prayers and making this happen for us. I promise to be forever grateful, thankful and appreciative of this most amazing gift of having Walter back in my life again. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Faith, Strength, Peace

Hello and I thank God for allowing me to have this opportunity to provide my prayer request to others. A you pray for me I will do the same for you. I’m a grandmother living with my grandson and his mom. God has brought us a long way from and now facing the same problem of being homeless. Dear God, Holy Spirit I pray that you please take over and put our lives in your hand, give us hope and strength and a vision to see that we will not fall back to the life of being homeless. My daughter and I have the means to take care of ourselves,, but where we live the rent is too high, so I ‘m begging God to please put in a home that we can afford, have peace and live the happy and comfortable life that we so desire for my grandson age 7 whom is the love of our life, and a very smart student whom is fatherless, doesn’t allow that to keep him from being happy and bringing smiles to me and his mom on a daily basis. Thanks for your prayers

Please restore me please

Called in for a second interview!! Praise God!!! Please please please pray!! This is the job I have been praying for for 5 year!!! Please God open this door. I believe receive and praise In Jesus Name. Amen!!!

Employment and Healing

Please pray that my daughter will get a job and that we will be able to get a place to live. Also for my healing. In Jesus name. Amen.

Healing prayer for my Dad

Please pray for my Dad as he battles a very unexpected bout of throat cancer. He must endure 7 weeks of chemo and radiation with a tracheotomy. Please God, heal him.

Shattered heart

Thanks in advance. My heart is full and broken. I’ve been in a relationship with someone for almost a year. We’ve expressed our feelings and commitment to each other. We had been living together for a few months. Well, he was offered a job in Virginia. Well, I am having a extremely difficult time dealing with him leaving. I cry and cry myself sick. All kinds of what if’s and what not. I’m so afraid that he’s not only leaving the state. But, that he has left me. I try calling him and it goes straight to voicemail. I am have anxiety attacks and it makes me feel like I can’t go on. My siblings tell me that I am making myself sick. He loves me and wants me in his life. That I am worrying for nothing.

Healing

Please pray i do not have cancer in my body will go for a cat scan next week i have had it 2 x no more please lord also pray my son get a wife so i can dance at his wedding and his dentist office open and will be a great one , also pray his house is repaired soon from all the mold lord we need some peace , i believe you will hear my prayers thank you for all my blessing please give me peace no more fear tell the devil to leave.

Special Birthdays Wishes to Get Back Together

Please truly pray that Walter and I get back together as a couple with one another again. Today is his birthday. Please pray that I’m making the right decision by not contacting him today. Please pray that fate happens and brings us back together again another way. Please pray we work out our issues, still get back together, still get married to one another, still live together and have the most amazing life, relationship and future with one another again. Please pray that Walter has a good birthday, but realizes how much he misses celebrating his birthday with me. Please pray his birthday helps him realize how much he wants me back in his life.

Saint Jude, Saint Anthony and Saint Expedite: Thank you for everything in my life. Please help me. I truly need your help. Please bring the absolute love of my life (Walter) and I back together again as a couple with one another again. Please let us still have our happily ever after together. Please let Walter’s birthday today be the first step in bringing us back together again.
Please let his special day bring us lots of good vibes and positive thoughts for our relationship again. Please let Walter’s birthday helps him open his heart back up to our beautiful relationship again.

Thank you for answering my prayers and making this happen for us. I promise to be forever grateful, thankful and appreciative of this most amazing gift of having Walter back in my life again. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Peace

Please I’m asking for prayer for my girlfriend’s family to stop hurting her me and my kids.

Favorable results

I would be having a 6 month follow up biopsy in my left breast this Wednesday the 17th. Please pray that it will be negative and whatever they saw 6 months ago will be gone or remains the same. I ask these in Jesus name! To God be the glory!🙏🏻😇💜
Thank you and thank you God!

Lost in love

Please dear God, please help fix what I messed up, i love this man with all of my heart and soul. He completes me and my love.. We’ve been together for so long and yes we have had good and bad times but our story can’t over yet.

Marriage

Please pray for my wife. We have two very young children together and she’s completely walked away from God. She has some friends that are really bad influences. just pray she will come back. thank you.

Please pray

I am struggling to get out of debt. I work and live paycheck to paycheck. It has been very difficult. I am 61. Raised 2 sons i am tired. I ask God to help me through. Thank you.

Debt

Dear Lord, in your word you say we should not be in debt to anyone , dear Lord Jesus, I am in so much debt, please forgive me & please help me, as only you can, thank you for answering my prayer Lord Jesus Amen

Lost carry on bag

I need a miracle….my carry on bag was lost on a Delta flight…..Asking the Lord for a miracle..of the carry on bags return to me….I’m asking the Lord to protect the important financial information it contains….

Prayer for fun in my life

Thank you so much for today’s devotional on fun. I am 62 years old. I work full time and take care of my five year old grandson Sunday through Friday. This only leaves Friday and Saturday night to do anything with friends. Unfortunately, I am so tired after such a long week, I don’t have the energy or desire to go any place or do anything. There is no outside fun in my life. I enjoy church and Sunday School on Sunday and then I rest on Sunday afternoon in preparation for a new week keeping my grandson. Please pray for a breakthrough in my life so that I can spend a few fun moments each month with friends.

Prayer For My Birthday Celebration

Today is my birthday! I would like a happy fun weekend with my family, friends & neighbors here in Tampa, Florida. Lots of food & gifts with fellowship time as we celebrate all together all weekend, thank you!

Prayer For My Birthday Celebration

Today is my birthday! I would like a happy fun weekend with my family, friends & neighbors here in Tampa, Florida. Lots of food & gifts with fellowship time as we celebrate all together all weekend, thank you!

Prayer for my family

Father, I thank you for reminding me that you are ever present and all knowing. I thank you for the blessings I receive but sometimes fail to notice. I pray that you help me to trust you more and lean less on my own understanding. Help me to have faith in your works and less on my attempts to influence of change the situation. God help me to tell people of your love and patience with me. Help me Lord to stay humble and follow your commands. In Christ’s name I ask these things. Amen

Healing for a friend

Please pray for Trudy and her daughter Elizabeth. Trudy has 2 inoperable brain tumours ( she is in terrific pain and going blind in one eye) and her daughter Elizabeth(19 yrs ) is dying from anorexia. They are believers . Praying for their salvation and the Mighty Healing Hand of God to rescue them from their situation.

Prayer for a management position Job

Prayer request for a new job management position. Financial stability , career progress New house, Admission to medical school. Remove spirit of stagnation, prayer for business. Prayer for wisdom and intelligence and to be innovative.

Healing

I need prayers for my adopted son without getting into too much detail, he suffered a severe trauma and he’s in bad condition and is shaking a lot hes on heavy medications but we’re going to go through all the prayer centers and request for prayer at any churches willing to pray with us across Canada and we are going to see this young boy through. If we could ask you to put his name on a list and pray for him everyday or as much as you want and help us to see him through we would love to get back to you with a praise report on how he is doing down the road.
Please and thank you very much
Your help is appreciated
God bless and have a great day

Please heal me

I have rheumatoid arthritis, with this comes severe fatigue and pain. I have 2 small children that i want to home school. I really need a healing touch from Jesus. I know there is power in numbers and prayer! Please pray for me.

Encouragement

Please pray for healing for my family and for us to walk right with God.

Please hear my prayer

Please let Jared find a job and let us stay in this house with no bad mail this week.

God’s help

Please pray for me. God knows my needs and my heart. He knows my sickness and he can heal me.

I’m jobless and penniless

Please help me Lord to shower his blessing upon me. I am sinner, I drink to fulfill my worldly flesh pleasure. Still, I haven’t done a single work which is desired by Him. Is that why? I’m not able to get his blessing. Please forgive me Lord grant me your blessing show me mercy, blessed with me. I am still penniless and jobless. Here my humble sinner prayer. Please Lord forgive me.

Forgiveness

Dear Heavenly Father I come to you to help me forgive those who have hurt me and treated me badly. Please show me the way to let go and not be angry anymore Amen

Minister Needing Opportunity

Female minister shut out from ministry opportunities due to gender. Asking for open doors within this denomination where I serve for myself and other women with such a calling.

Count Words – Friday, August 2nd, 2019

I am frustrated. I am frustrated at God. I have been banging on my computer keyboard for well over an hour, but I have no reflection to show for it. My day was fine until this point. I started with church, had a nice visit with my sister at my neighborhood pool, went for ice cream with my daughter and even talked with my mom. So I was certain in all this ease that the reflection would be easy to write.

I don’t know why I think God owes me a reflection. He owes me nothing. I owe Him. I owe Him more respect than throwing a hissy fit because the reflection isn’t finished when I want it to be. I owe Him my admiration for putting up with me when I am in this foul mood. I owe Him my gratitude for sending His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world. I owe Him my thanks for letting Christ bear on the cross my burden of sin and death. I owe Him my life, because His Son secured my salvation and redemption with His blood. I owe Him all that, but I can’t pay Him. Instead, He sent Jesus to pay my debt, so I could be reconciled to God through Christ.

Tonight, while I was being a jerk about this reflection, He was loving me, forgiving me and administering His grace to me through the power of the Holy Spirit.

“While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Today I am heading to a baseball game. I grew up playing baseball with my dad, who taught me everything I needed to know about the game. Eventually, I became a pretty good player.

When I became a Christian, God used a baseball analogy to give me my first understanding of the Trinity. I compared the Three Persons working together for the salvation of the world to a baseball organization. At that time, God the Father is the General Manager of the team and responsible for all aspects of the organization. Next, Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, who lived among us, is the manager and involved in the daily decisions of the game and the welfare of the players. Finally, the Holy Spirit, who still resides in the world today, is the third-base coach. He receives directions from the manager and flashes them to the batters, so they know what to do. All three, the GM, the manager and the coach worked together to achieve team victories.

Sure, the analogy is simplistic and might not stand up to theological scrutiny. However, baseball was what God used to get me thinking about the mystery and work of God in Three Persons. All Three Persons worked together at the cross, brought Christ’s victory over sin and death, raised Jesus to life and secured salvation for mankind.

God uses the simple things in our lives to teach us His profound mysteries. Jesus said, “I have spoken to you of earthly things” (John 3:12).
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Luminaries – Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Tonight, we will experience a rare cosmic event: a blue moon. With the weather cooperating in northern Illinois, we will be able to see with little difficulty this second full moon of the month of July. Two full moons in one month will not happen again for three years.

Of course, a blue moon isn’t really blue: The lunar orb will maintain its usual characteristics. It will shine in the reflected light of the sun, still be its normal yellow and white and will trace a path from horizon to horizon across the night sky.

Christians should be like a full moon shining in the world through the reflected light of the Son. We should be filled with the Holy Spirit so that our actions and words reflect the integrity and characteristics of Christ.

Jesus said, “Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds” (Matthew 5:16). When the Holy Spirit reflects Christ’s light through our lives, then we become His luminaries in this dark world. By the power of the Spirit, our light illuminates the darkness and shines on the cross so others will come to know the salvation of God.

When the light of the Lord is reflected in our lives, then the world will see the accomplishments of God in Christ bringing redemption and reconciliation to all mankind. Believers filled with the Holy Spirit light paths in this world so that others can see Christ and know the saving grace of God.
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Butting Heads

Lately, I have been butting heads with some of my gymnasts. They have stubbornly refused to conform to my expectations for the team. They ignore my warnings to work out safely, and, instead, practice unsafe gymnastics. Their resistance to complying with my instructions makes me grouchy. Every day when these athletes arrive at my event, I know I am going to be beating my head against the proverbial wall trying to get them to listen.

This morning I decided to stop trying to change them and let God change me instead.

As Christians, we sometimes butt heads with others because we want them to conform to our expectations. And if a person doesn’t see things our way, well, frankly, we get a little cranky. We tend to insist that people bend to our way of thinking. Not surprisingly, this usually creates walls and resistance from others.

We need to be in the world as Christ was in the world. He said, “I have set an example that you should do as I have done for you” (John 13:15). We shouldn’t want people to think like us; we should pray people will be open to God in Christ.

We can’t change anyone; the process of transforming a life belongs to the Holy Spirit. However, we can let God in Christ transform our own hearts and minds. When we open our lives to the transforming work of the Holy Spirit, then our lives testify to the transforming power of the Spirit.

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This Is Love – Monday, July 29th, 2019

My good friend became engaged today. Her happiness is evident in the words she writes and the pictures she posts on Facebook. My heart, and the hearts of all her friends and family, are overflowing with joy for her and her fiancé. We all want to dance, sing and celebrate the love these two have for each other.

When we find love in the world, we have found God in the world. Where love is, God is. Love is from God, and love is the nature of God. Scripture says, “God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him” (1 John 4:16). If we know love, then we know God. Love is God, and He cannot be separated from it.

When we choose to love one another, we are testifying to God’s love in the world. We can love one another only because God’s love comes to us through Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. And it is through Christ’s strength of love within us that we can love one another. Scripture also says, “This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:10).

God loved us through His Son Jesus Christ, and when we love one another we are revealing Christ’s love for us. “No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us” (1 John 4:12).
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A New Path

I met two cyclists riding in the park this morning who invited me to join them on their ride. They were going to take two laps around the park road before heading back to the bike trail and home. I have biked on the park road for years, but these two fellows took me down a path I had never noticed before. It was a beautiful stretch of trail through the heart of the park. After ten years of riding in the park, I thought I knew every trail. Obviously, I was wrong.

Sometimes I read Scripture without really paying attention to the text. That is true especially when I read familiar passages. I glide over them thinking God has already taught me what I need to know from those passages. I rush over the words, not even pausing, because I am certain I know the lesson God will teach me. However, I have come to realize that even in the familiar texts the Spirit will show me a new path to a deeper understanding of God.

Scripture says, “For the word of God is living and active” (Hebrews 4:12). The risen Christ remains the teacher of His Word, and the Holy Spirit applies His teaching to my heart and mind. Together the Son and Spirit expose my sin, give me new insights into the cross and draw me more deeply into the knowledge and presence of God. These Divine Persons show me God’s beautiful heart and everything He has done for me and the world through Christ.
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Inclusive Language – Thursday, July 25th, 2019

According to someone (the ambiguous they in our country’s leadership), each of us must use words that are politically correct when speaking to others. The same thinking has been adopted by the church, but the church calls it inclusive language.

So, in keeping with the prevailing attitude of our time, I would like to share with you the most inclusive word in the English language and all languages: sinner, which applies to every one of us. Paul wrote in Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” And again in Romans 5:12, “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through One man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.”

I find it interesting that in our quest for inclusive language the word “sinner” is disappearing from our churches.

When the church draws attention to our sinful human condition it proclaims the message of equality and salvation for all. Sinners are all equal in God’s sight, and they are gathered together by the Holy Spirit on the ground of redemption at Jesus’s cross to receive Christ’s grace and salvation.

The church must preach the doctrine of sin and the doctrine of redemption through Jesus Christ so all people can be healed of sin and reconciled to God.

God has given His church the message of equality and inclusion: “Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people” (Hebrews 9:28).
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Many Travel With Us – Wednesday, July 24th, 2019

For the first time in its thirty-eight-year history our gymnastic club had an athlete compete in an elite-level championship meet. This milestone was accomplished through years of dedication not only by this gymnast and coaching staff but also by other coaches and athletes who shared their knowledge and experience with us over the years. In other words, we didn’t do this alone.

As Christians, we are also surrounded by other believers who help us on the journey of faith. Some of our fellow believers are still in our lives; others have gone on to the kingdom, but their work and writings still influence us. Hebrews 12:1 refers to those who have inspired us by their faith as “a great cloud of witnesses.”

The Christian faith is difficult to live in the world. We cannot do it alone. The Father, Son and Spirit are always working in our lives, and God uses believers from the past and the present to enlighten us as we travel on this journey. The Bible is full of people like us, who struggled to live a life of faith in this fallen world. Through Scripture, the Spirit uses their experiences to teach us the deeper things of God. Martyrs, pastors and theologians have also shared their wisdom of and insight into God. Through their stories, we are encouraged and strengthened to “press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14).


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Divine Journey – Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019

The context of John chapter 13 is the Last Supper, when Jesus and His disciples gather for their last meal. As it was being served, Jesus leaves the table, removes His outer garment, wraps a towel around His waist and washes the disciples’ feet. After this John writes, “When He had finished washing their feet, He put on His clothes and returned to His place” (John 13:12).

This particular sentence in John seems to foreshadow coming events in Christ’s life. The final days of His earthly life are coming to an end. The Son of God came to earth wearing the clothing of man, His outer garment of flesh wrapped around His divine nature. Very soon, however, He will be clothed in sin and death on the cross, where God’s Servant will complete God’s work of salvation.

Once His reconciling work was completed, God removed His shroud of death, and by the power of the Holy Spirit raised Him to life.

The shroud of death removed, Christ put on His glorious raiment of the resurrection. “The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power” (1 Corinthians 15:42-43).

After He had risen, He returned to the heavenly kingdom to take His place beside God. “After the Lord Jesus had spoken to [the disciples], He was taken up into heaven and He sat at the right hand of God” (Mark 16:19).
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Lean Time – Monday, July 22nd, 2019

Right now my faith seems a bit thin. What I mean is distractions rule my prayer time; Scripture study yields few insights into God; and my ears seem deaf to the Spirit’s voice. I consider my faith life bland.

Not long ago, the opposite was true. Scripture study was productive; my prayer time was alive; and I could readily tune my ears to God’s voice.

I have experienced living in plenty with the Spirit. However, staying encouraged when faith appears to fall on lean times with the Spirit is difficult.

As I wrestled with this issue of want of Spirit, Paul’s verse in Philippians 4:12 came to mind, “I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.”

Usually this verse is viewed according to physical needs; but it applies to spiritual needs as well. Right now I am living in want of the Holy Spirit. God put this want in my life so I will hunger for Him and desire the abundance of Christ.

Still, I fight God when my faith seems to lack the bounty of the Spirit. Instead I must learn to be content, accepting all things as a gift from God. The Spirit’s work in my life is up to God. Faith means willingly accepting whatever comes to me from the hand of God.
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Obey Without Condition – Friday, July 19th, 2019

Tonight is a night for quiet. Politicians have been speaking incessantly since the Orlando tragedy. Reporters have editorialized every aspect of the investigation. Talk show hosts and radio hosts have asked experts an untold number of questions. Neighbors asked neighbors about the shooter’s motives. Questions are flying everywhere. We talk and talk and talk, trying to find answers, but the answers won’t come to us through human agencies.

So tonight I urge you to sit in quiet and listen to what really matters. Hear the cries of those mourning. Tune your hearts to the sounds of those weeping for their loved ones. Be attentive to the sounds of suffering around you. Listen to the world groan.

And, then, hear God say, “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). Know that God’s Son, Jesus Christ, was One who suffered. Know that the Only Begotten of God agonized on the cross to take away our sin. Know that His mother, Mary, stayed at the foot of that gruesome cross weeping for her son. Listen to God groan for the world.

The Orlando tragedy, like all tragedy, will leave us with more questions than answers. Why does man do what man does? Why did this man do what he did?

And then ask God to answer this question for you: Why did One Man, Jesus Christ, die on a cross? God desires to answer this question for you through the Scriptures and by the power of the Holy Spirit. Listen to God through His word, and you will find the answers to all your questions.
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What We Have Not Yet Realized – Thursday, July 18th, 2019

When we express time in our finite experience, we use words such as sooner, later, yesterday, tomorrow, today, earlier, or after. However, the Scriptures refer to infinite or immeasurable time. Time came to my attention while I was reading a verse in John. Jesus is washing His disciples’ feet but Peter objects to His servitude. Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand” (John 13:7).

Our faith lies between what we “do not realize now” and “but later you will understand.” When something happens in our lives we want to see what God is doing now. We don’t want to have to wait until later to understand. For us, later is like tomorrow; it never comes. So we grow discouraged in our faith. We pray and wait, and still we hear, “You do not realize now what I am doing.” Jesus wants us to be focused on who He is, not what He is doing and when He is going to do it.

Jesus came into measurable time so He could reveal to us immeasurable God. On the night He washed the disciples’ feet, He knew His earthly time was almost over, but His immeasurable life in the eternal kingdom was about to be revealed through the resurrection. His time on earth would end in death on the cross. His life in eternity would continue through the resurrection. Jesus, the Incarnate God, tasted death; Jesus the divine Son of God never dies. Because He lives, Jesus is the object of our faith now and the hope of what we do not yet realize.
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Life Without Fear – Wednesday, July 17th, 2019

Facebook had a story about the rescue of a trapped golden retriever. The scared animal fought being rescued. At one point the rescuer said to the dog, “I’ll come to you.” He came close, scratched her nose and then could free her.

Like the golden retriever, we get scared, especially with all the violence we have heard about lately. This world has us run- ning and hiding. We want a safe place, but we fight being rescued too.

God has come to us in the person of Jesus Christ to deliver us from the fears of this world. Jesus said, “For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of Him who sent me” (John 6:38). Jesus is familiar with the violence of this world. His own disciple, Judas Iscariot, betrayed Him to the Pharisees, who used false testimony to accuse Him of re- bellion against Rome and blasphemy against God. They took Him to Governor Pontius Pilate who turned Him over to be cru- cified on a cross. The violence of this world tried to stop Him from rescuing us, but God conquered sin and death by raising Christ to life.

Still we fight God and want to reject Christ’s cross. But for those who believe, Jesus is our Deliverer and our shelter from this world.

Christ empowers all believers with the Holy Spirit, so they can live in the world without fearing it.
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Christ’s Power – Tuesday, July 16th, 2019

Folding bath towels is one of my least favorite household chores. But today the monotony of the task was interrupted by thoughts of Christ’s wrapping a towel around His waist and washing the feet of His disciples. What struck me about this scene from John chapter 13 was that the author had just commented, “Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under His power” (3). Jesus knew He had power, and He exercised that power by washing the disciples’ feet and drying them with a towel.

Let’s look for a minute at what He didn’t do with His power. He didn’t strike down Judas Iscariot, who was about to betray Him. He didn’t exercise His power to reroute His course to the cross. He didn’t use His power to wipe out the Roman soldiers who would arrest Him. He didn’t throw lightning bolts or whip up a huge storm to send Jerusalem into chaos.

He used His power in the most dramatic and compelling way; He used it to show His disciples the “full extent of his love” (John 13:1).

On the cross, Christ used His power from God to love His disciples. He used His power of love to destroy sin and death. He used His love to bring His disciples forgiveness and unite them to God. He used His power to open the eternal kingdom of God to all who believe in His name.

Christ’s disciples in every age are shown the power of His love.
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How And What To Say – Monday, July 15th, 2019

There are many times I say things I wish I hadn’t. But words trip off my tongue and out of my mouth before I have a chance to stop them. Lately, I have tried to be deliberate about my word choices, speak carefully and think first. I have had minimal success.

Today I came across this verse in John 12:49: Jesus said, “For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it.” Jesus wasn’t just talking about speaking the words the Spirit had given Him; He was talking about the attitude with which He was to deliver His words. Jesus relied on the Spirit for the content of His words and the attitude of delivery.

There were times in His ministry that He delivered His message in a “loud voice” (John 7:37). I would guess that on the day He cleared the temple, His words were shouted over the noise of the chaos. When He spoke with the disciples at the Last Supper, His words were filled with sadness. On the cross, though at times barely audible as He gasped for air, His words were delivered with mercy. And when He was raised to life and stood before the disciples in His risen glory, His voice was full of joy.

As disciples of Christ what we say and how we say it must be given to us through the Spirit.
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Put People First – Friday, July 12th, 2019

I had planned to memorize Scripture on my walk this morning. However, I talked with two friends instead. After church I had planned to write, but had a nice visit with my niece and mom. After that visit, my mom and I ran errands and took an unexpected trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond to pick up a clock radio for my aunt. When we finished the errands, I had some time for lunch and then went to feed my sister’s dogs because she is out of town. After keeping the dogs company, I had two nice phone conversations with friends.

Jesus Christ put people first during His ministry on earth. “A large crowd came to [Jesus], and He began to teach them” (Mark 2:13, see also 1:45, 10:1). As His follower, I am called to put people first in my life.

Everyone I spent time with today taught me something. I was blessed to see the world through the eyes of my 10-year-old niece. My aunt showed me how to struggle with physical afflictions with grace and dignity and humor. And my friends open my eyes to new ideas. And all of them showed me how God was supporting and sustaining them in their day.

We learn about God when we share our days with people, and we learn about people when we share our days with God.
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The Joy Of Relationships – Thursday, July 11th, 2019

I have had such fun today. Before the rains arrived, I walked for two hours, biked for an hour with my sister and then sneaked in another walk with my neighbor. I talked to some friends who were having a garage sale and spoke with a neighbor I hadn’t talked with for several months. I am going to the Starlight Theater with my family to watch my niece in a performance of Mary Poppins. Everything today revolved around relationships, and it was fun.

I thought about the joy and celebration that awaits us in heaven. There will be no hindrances to relationships. We will be free to see Christ in all His glory and the Father in all His fullness. Paul says, “When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory” (Colossians 3:4). The Spirit will wrap us in the eternal essence of love. That calls for dancing and singing and rejoicing.

When we are reunited with God in His eternal kingdom, we will know this unbridled joy. I am looking forward to that glorious day.

“They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away” (Isaiah 35:10). What a glorious day awaits us!
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Do A Job Right The First Time – Wednesday, July 10th, 2019

A few months ago my husband bought new tires for our car. Things were good until recently when the car started to shake and shimmy on the highway. So he returned to the garage where he had purchased the tires. The mechanic did several hundred dollars’ worth of work to the car. It did not fix the problem. My husband has been back three times trying to get the job done right. Instead of fixing the problem, the mechanic has now made the fault ours. Now it seems to me the garage is trying to take advantage of us. I am done with this garage.

I get tired of jobs not getting done right the first time.

I find solace in knowing God did the job of dealing with my sin right the first time. He does not have to go back to redesign His plan for salvation. The work is finished and completed in Jesus’ death on the cross. When Christ died for our sin, He died for the sin of the entire world: all the generations of history have been saved through Jesus.

Paul wrote, “For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives He lives to God” (Romans 6:9-10).

God’s work of salvation, redemption and reconciliation was done right the first time in Jesus Christ.
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