Shine

 

Energy

"If you find that Christianity exhausts you, draining you of your energy, then you are practicing religion rather than enjoying a relationship with Jesus Christ. Your walk with the Lord will not make you weary; it will invigorate you, restore your strength, and energize your life”                                                             Matthew 11:28–29 The Message

Ordinary Glory

"We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing— that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life."

~ Oswald Chambers

Father and Son. Good times.

 

A Prayer For Wisdom

Father, I need You; I need Your wisdom as I walk through this day—at home and at work—in all my relationships. You caused Jesus to be made wisdom unto me. Holy Spirit, remind me that the fear of the Lord is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. I reverence You, my Lord, and depart from evil. Thank You for Your gift of wisdom that is from above. Help me remember that it is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. Amen

A Prayer, By Trevor Hudson

 

Prayer Postures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be Kind...

 

Prayer - Being Real

May The God Of Hope...

 

Worship - Proclaim God's Greatness

“I will proclaim your greatness, my God and king; I will thank you forever and ever. Every day I will thank you; I will praise you forever and ever. The Lord is great and is to be highly praised; his greatness is beyond understanding.”

‭‭Psalm‬ ‭145:1-3‬ ‭GNT‬‬

Love

 

Your will be done...

 

Bowing Before The Lord

"Hallowed be Your name.."

Realizing the holiness, power, glory, and reign of God will cause us to pause and bow our heads and hearts in veritable awe and wonder.

Leave Room For God

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January 25

Leave Room For God

But when it pleased God. . . — Galatians 1:15

As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God - to give God "elbow room." We calculate and estimate, and say that this and that will happen, and we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses. Would we be surprised if God came into our meeting or into our preaching in a way we had never looked for Him to come? Do not look for God to come in any particular way, but look for Him. That is the way to make room for Him. Expect Him to come, but do not expect Him only in a certain way. However much we may know God, the great lesson to learn is that at any minute He may break in. We are apt to over look this element of surprise, yet God never works in any other way. All of a sudden God meets the life - "When it was the good pleasure of God. . ."

Keep your life so constant in its contact with God that His surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as He likes.

Copyright © 1992 by Oswald Chambers Publications Association, Ltd. All rights reserved.

Praying and Living

Heavenly Father,

Strengthen our inner man, and our faith and trust in you. May we hunger and thirst after You. Draw us closer to You and fill us to overflowing with Your Spirit to do those things You have called us to do.  Give us wisdom and Your words of hope and peace so that we can minister and be Your servants. Guide our steps so that we will always be encountering those with whom we have Divine appointments. Let us run and not be weary, walk and not be faint. Allow our sleep to be restful and sweet. Protect us from that which would distract us or lead us away from Your will. May all that we think, speak and do bring glory and honor to You and Your Kingdom. 

Find A Certain Place

 

Make Disciples

 

I Am The Lord Your God

"I AM the Lord your God! Please, don’t forget this one important truth. I have promised to never leave you nor forsake you. Even when you are far from Me, I am drawing you close, so that you might remember what it feels like to be in My arms of security and peace. Don’t let the troubles of this world pull you away. I have already told you, “In this world you WILL have trouble, but take heart, for I have overcome this world.” Don’t allow the darkness of this world to cause you to stray. I AM the Light of the world and in Me there is no darkness at all. Don’t be deceived by the evil that is in this world and conclude that I don’t care. I gave My best so that you might find victory over evil despite its wicked work in this world. 

I AM the Lord your God! The One who loves you more than your mind can even comprehend. Nothing can change this great truth. The world will change; your circumstances will change; the rulers of this world will change! But I will NEVER change. I AM the same yesterday, today and forever. I do not grow tired and I do not sleep. I know when the smallest of birds fall from their nests, when the flowers of the field wither away and die. Don’t you know that I see you too and care for you even more than these? Remember, I will NOT leave you, I will NOT forsake you. Though your world is crumbling all around you, though your heart is shattering into a million pieces—I am right there with you, and I understand your pain. When you weep—I weep. When you are weak—I am strong. When you are all alone and don’t know what to do—I cradle you in My arms and give you peace and rest.

I AM the Lord your God! Don’t allow the weight of this world to press you down and keep you from your calling. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me. For My yoke is easy and my burden is light. Don’t forget, you are fearfully and wonderfully made. Before I began to weave you in your mother womb—I knew you and prepared your life with meaning, value and purpose. Don’t forget to fulfill that purpose.  It is for that purpose that I have given you life. Life is a blessing—but time is fleeting. So, make the most of this life while there is still life to be lived. I AM the Lord your God!"

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ADPD and WMD - What?

A few simple hints that will help us overcome Attention Deficit Prayer Disorder (ADPD) and Weapons of Mass Distraction (WMD).


Focused Prayer. Prayer Time. God Speaking - These seem to be oxymoron's, and yet they are not. We can experience a time of speaking to God and hearing from God during focused prayer. In order to help you overcome ADPD and WMD and experience a more fruitful time of prayer try the following:

1. Make the time and find a place for prayer. Carve out some time during a day and in the week to spend time with God. Find a place or places that allow you some silence and stillness in your life.

2. Start short. Five minutes is a great place to start. If you go over five minutes that is fine. Just start. A good way to start is stat short.

3. Develop a system. You use systems everyday. You have a system for waking in the morning, preparing for the day, progressing through the day, ending the day, etc. You may realize you are using systems, but you are. Developing a system or plan for your prayer life will help you stay focused. Develop a pattern or patterns that help guide you. You can use the acrostic of ACTS = Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication. You can focus on your family, including you, then move to your friends, and then begin to speak to God and hear from God about your daily and weekly schedule. A system I use during the day to help me stay in tune with God is STP = Stop, think, Pray. During the day when I am transitioning from one event to another I will take just a few seconds to stop (pause), think (reflect), and pray (a whisper to God or just seek to listen). STP happens in a matter of seconds and is a simple system.

4. Keep in mind that prayer is about a relationship. Prayer is conversation God. Prayer is communicating with God. God desires to relate to you. He takes pleasure in your time with Him. You do not need any magical words or have to know any big churchey words in order to pray. Just begin to speak to God and He will listen and answer.

5. CHANGE. Change will occur in you life as you begin to pray. Be open to God and allow Him to work in your life as you grow in your relationship with Him and others through prayer.

6. Stay at it. If you fall short of a desired goal or time that you had planned for prayer take a "do over" and give prayer another effort. Ask God to strengthen you. He will and you  will begin with a fresh start.

7. Find a partner, a prayer partner, that you can call on a weekly basis and spend time praying a few minutes over the phone. This does not take long, is fairly simple to begin, and yet the "pay off" of praying weekly with a friend will be encouraging to you and the prayer partner.

Fix Your Eyes On Jesus

Fix your eyes on the Lord! Do it once, Do it daily, Do it ten thousand times. Do it constantly. When your schedule presses, when your prospects thin, when your hope burns low, when people disappoint you, when events turn against you, when dreams die, when the walls close in, when the prognosis seems grim, when your heart breaks, look at the Lord and keep on looking at Him.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. Hebrews 12:2 NIV

Written by Charles Swindoll. Sent to me by Tyrone Lawton.

My Life A Prayer

Lord, grant me a joyful heart and a holy sense of humor. Please give me the gift of faith to be renewed and shared with others each day. Teach me to live this moment only, looking neither to the past with regret, nor the future with apprehension. Let love be my aim and my life a prayer. Holy Humor, Cal and Rose Samra

Do Not Be Afaid

 

A Call From Jesus

Pray - Quotes

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness. - Richard C. Trench.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it. - John Wesley.

Prayer requires more of the heart than the tongue. - Adam Clarke.

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. - Guy H. King.

Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but do not neglect Him. - Oswald Chambers

I am so busy. How can I find time to pray? Ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of all the sin of having no time to pray. - Corrie ten Boom

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending His will to ours, but it is the main way of submitting our will to His. - John Stott

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. - E.M. Bounds

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach. - Charles Spurgeon

The man who mobilizes the Christian Church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history. - Andrew Murray

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, and despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. - Sidlow Baxter

Prayer is where the action is. - John Wesley

The greatest tragedy in life Is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer. - F.B. Meyer

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence and secures His aid. - E.M. Bounds

If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they soon would have nothing to grumble about. - Anonymous

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I do not, they don’t. - William Temple

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit which may be the only hindrance to the gift for which you ask. - D.L. Moody

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. - Martin Luther

Whatever else prayer may be, it is intended to be a sharing and taking counsel with God on mattes of importance to Him and His Kingdom. God has called you to attend a celestial board meeting to deliberate with Him on matters of Divine destiny. - John White

There is only one limit to what prayer can do; that is what God can do. R.A. Torrey

When a Christian  shuns fellowship with other Christians the devil smiles. When he stops reading the Bible the devils laughs, but when he stops praying the devil shouts for joy. - Corrie ten Boom

Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness. - Phillip Brooks

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving one another. - Jean Paul Ritcher

Prayer does not lead to greater works, it is the greater work. - Oswald Chambers

Trouble and perplexity drive us to prayer, and prayer drives away trouble and perplexity. - Phillip Melanchthon

Hurry is the death of prayer. - Samuel Chadwick

Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all, pray. - R.A. Torrey

Dear Lord, never let me be afraid to pray for the impossible - Dorothy Shellenberger

Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer. - D. Martin Lloyd Jones

We are too busy to pray, and so we are to be to have power. R. A. Torrey

Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, and the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray then my dear brother; pray, pray, pray. - Edward Payson

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. - D.L. Moody

God is looking for a people through whom He can do the impossible - what a pity we plan only the things we can do. - A.W. Tozer

Renewal! It's A Beautiful Thing!

 

Goals In God

We were created to glorify the Lord and be fruitful in His service. Imagine the impact our lives could have if we asked God to guide our goals. Pray, “What do You want to change about my life? What do You want to accomplish through me?” Let Him determine on what and on whom you focus.

From In Touch, Dr. Charles Stanley

2017 - This Year Do This

 

You Choose

 

Wow! New Year, Everyday Focus

Shut out every other consideration and keep yourself before God for this one thing only - My Utmost for His Highest. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and for Him alone.

My Utmost For His Highest, Jan., 1

A Good Start For 2017

“Oh give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples. Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; Speak of all His wonders. Glory in His holy name; Let the heart of those who seek the LORD be glad. Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face continually.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭105:1-4‬ ‭NASB‬‬

2017