Praying for the Generations

Hello precious friends. It is a beautiful Monday here and I hope it's beautiful wherever you are.

Here on the blog on Mondays we devote ourselves to praying for those who come after us.  What a wonderful privilege it is to pray for them.

I encourage you to pray your own prayer but if you would like, I have provided one for you--

Prayer for April 4, 2016

I will extol the LORD at all times; his praise will always be on my lips
I will glory in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Glorify the LORD with me; let us exalt his name together.

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted 

   and saves those who are crushed in spirit.  verses taken from Ps. 34 NIV

Good morning, Lord.  

Here I am again asking, seeking, knocking for my children, my grandchildren, my seed, for others on my prayer list. 

Lord, you see those I am praying for who are brokenhearted and crushed in spirit.  

Only You can soothe the hurt, the heartache, the gut-wrenching pain that racks our minds and souls at times.  

Oh, Father, I pray that You would do this for those I am burdened for today.  

You know their names before a word is even on my lips. 

Through the pain of this experience, I pray that they will learn to trust and extol You more than ever, Father.  

Let Your praise be continually on their lips. 

Help us to know how to glory in our present circumstances even though they bring us sadness and tears at times.  

We know that all things (Romans 8:28) are working for our good when we love You and are called to Your purpose. 

Our highest calling in life, O God, is to fulfill Your purpose for our lives. 

I don't want me or my seed to have lived in vain.  

So I would humbly ask that You show us our purposes for living and help us to live out that high calling even if it looks menial to the world. 

Father, I believe from the study of Your Word, that our very highest calling is that of praising and magnifying, honoring and bringing Glory to Your Name.  

I ask that You will show us how to magnify You in the highest way, to extol You to a position of praise and honor and glory that would make angels yearn to join us. 

I choose the sacrifice of praise today and I extol You, O God.  I extol You with all my heart. 

In the Name of Jesus I pray.  Amen

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A Post In Remembrance

This post is for all the victims' families and friends. I want each of you to know that there are people who really care --people whose hearts are breaking for what you are going through--people who are praying for you.

We, seemingly, are living in a world gone mad.

Our hearts grieve for the fallen--

For those who were in their prime--

For those of the older generation--

and especially for those who never made it to full bloom--

A single life snatched from a family

changes the course of history forevermore--

Though our words are weak;

We pray that our supplications will be strong--

That the God of all peace will comfort you in His loving arms

and in due time bring you deep and abiding joy--

The joy that only He can bring.

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A Spacious Place

Bbecause of His great love for us, He made a way for each of us to be brought into a spacious place. It is a gift from Him. We must choose to accept or reject this gift--the greatest offering in the history of mankind--

I pray today that you will choose to make Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of your life.

Have a wonderful weekend--Holy Week is coming up--a few more days to prepare our hearts for the meeting of all meetings--where the greatest cataclysmic (cataclysmic for SIN) event of all time took place and created that spacious place for us--judgement met love and Love won!

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Here is your link for today's lenten reading--

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Spiritual DNA

What does it mean to 'bear witness?'

The online Free Dictionary says this:

Verb

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bear witness - provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father" This really made me start thinking! If there were such a thing and I were to have it--a Spiritual DNA test, what would it show?  Would it prove that God is truly my Father?  That I have come to Him through belief in His only Son, Jesus Christ. From John 14:6:  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. God made sure that John would know who Jesus Christ was--He spoke to John and told him that the Holy Spirt in the form of a dove would alight on the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. from John 1 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!  This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’  I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”           And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it      remained on him.  I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’   And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.” Who does your heart tell you that Jesus is? That is what Jesus wants to know. Who do you say that He is? "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Messiah."  Mark 8:29 If you have one grain of faith that is enough and God gives us even that! Choose to use that one mustard see of faith today and tell Jesus, like Peter did, that He is the Messiah. I may not be able to prove my identity through a Spiritual DNA test but the whole world will see and know who I am on that day when He says-- Well done my good and faithful servant. God will say this to me because I believe and because He sees me through Jesus-- Not because of my own integrity-- I choose the sinless blood of Jesus to cover me-- His Spiritual DNA shows only the markers of God Himself! And because of that, my Spiritual DNA is perfect! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Worship Is Not A Place But A Person

My precious, unsophisticated (by society's standards) mom got on a plane one time in her lifetime and flew to Israel.

There, with likeminded friends, she got to experience the places where her master had walked during His earthly life.

Hearing her tell about it and watching her expressions made me want to visit there also.

I have never made it to Israel and doubt that I will get to since international traveling has become difficult for me--BUT,

this I know--

Worship is not about a place but a person--

This quote is taken from today's Lenten reading at Redeemer.com--

"When the temple curtain split at the death of Christ (Mark 15:38), the barrier between God and humanity came down for everyone. Jesus became the “house of prayer for all nations.” Today there is no need to travel to the temple in Jerusalem to worship. Nor is there any distinction between Jewish and Gentile worshippers. Worship is no longer attached to a place, but a person. Jesus is the temple. He is where we meet God."

Jesus is the temple.

He is where we meet God. 

This is not to say that we shouldn't go to Jerusalem to experience what my mom did--but only to say that we can experience all of that and more right where we are!

Sitting right here on the left hand side of my sofa in my living room, I meet with the Master of the Universe, I experience his presence and bask in His love.

I pray today that you, too, meet with God through our savior and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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And a gentle reminder, Wednesdays are when we pray especially for the peace of Jerusalem!

Father,
We come before you today to ask your blessings on Jerusalem and all of Israel.
We pray that in the days ahead you will burden our hearts more and more for Israel and teach us how to pray.
In your Word we are told to pray for the peace of Jerusalem and we know that you are peace--the only true peace comes from you--
We pray that you would protect Israel from those who would want to destroy her, who would want this country wiped from the face of the map.
When her enemies stretch forth their bows, may their arrows fall short--Psalm 58:7b
And not only that, Lord, but we pray that her enemies would have miraculous encounters with you--we pray that You would make Yourself real to them in visions and dreams, in encounters that we cannot even imagine.
Thank you so much for the readers of this blog from that part of the world. Be gracious and compassionate towards them, Lord, and enrich their lives abundantly with the knowledge of You.
Thank you for the power of prayer.
All things we ask in the name of Jesus,
Amen

Here is your link to the daily Lenten devotional from Redeemer Presbyterian. It is another really good one!

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