Have you said your prayers today?

9/25/2010
10:24am

Have you said your prayers today?

[Father] God, may I love you as you have loved me. May I hear you when you have heard me. May I know you as you have known me. May I see you as only you can see me. May I feel you as you lay your strong healing hands on me. May I learn of your ways as only you can teach me. May all my days be surrounded by you as I know you are my everything. As I ask in Jesus name, Father may I, let your blessing stand and be yes. Amen.

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Psalm 27:4-5 (my prayer)

The one thing I ask of the Lord—the thing I seek most—is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord's perfections and meditating in his Temple. For he will conceal me there when troubles come; he will hide me in his sanctuary. He will place me out of reach on a high rock.

Do you like to speed

9/21/10

Talking to someone I work with about how silly it is for someone to speed to a red light, had me thinking of my adolescence and how I too, was someone who sped through life.

There's a great childs story about speeding through life and the outcome of such a thought process. It's the "Turtle and the Hare."

Have you ever read or heard of the story of the (turtle and the hare)? Well, throughout the story, the hare was always in a rush yet in the end the turtle won the race. I used to think that this story was nonsense. Speed should win right? Well, I examine my life more and more now and it seems as if fast pace living gets you in trouble. What's my lesson here: Slow and Steady wins the race of LIFE *Consistency over Speed always wins* FOOD FOR THOUGHT

God bless

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Psalm 27:4-5 (my prayer)

The one thing I ask of the Lord―the thing I seek most―is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord's perfections and meditating in his Temple. For he will conceal me there when troubles come; he will hide me in his sanctuary. He will place me out of reach on a high rock.

Passion

10:15pm 9/20/10

I find myself in lots of pain these days. Physical & Emotional. The physical comes from work, and the emotional comes from not being able to see my OME as much. The physical pain has me in spasms and walking very slow at times and the emotional pain has me missing my OME so much I can hardly breathe.

I was reminded today of Jesus' pain. He felt to the extreme all pains, and it was brought on without Him even deserving it, but He endured and continued on. This pain of His is referred to as "Passion."

I know in my pain although miniscule in comparison to Jesus' pain, it brings me closer to Him, as it allows me to know I am ALIVE!

God is indeed good. Thank you Jesus, for what you did. I'm eternally grateful.

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Psalm 27:4-5 (my prayer)

The one thing I ask of the Lord―the thing I seek most―is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord's perfections and meditating in his Temple. For he will conceal me there when troubles come; he will hide me in his sanctuary. He will place me out of reach on a high rock.

Waiting room exercise

9/9/10--11:39am

How many of you have been in the waiting room of a doctor's office or dentist office? 

The wait before you hear your name called can be very long at times, and have you in great anticipation. Even when you have an appointment, you have to wait.

I feel like that at times in my life. I have an appointment (it should be my time to be seen and to be heard), but I still have to wait in a small room (a place of discomfort) with anticipation building up, until I hear my name finally called.

At times I believe my anticipation can be seen as HOPE in what good things are to come, but I pray my anticipation doesn't turn into ANXIOUSNESS.

Being anxious can lead to FRUSTRATION and WORRY, and frustration and worry can lead to DISAPPOINTMENT. 

Disappointment can lead to a feeling of FAILURE, and failure can mask the GOOD thing (or news) to come.

I have experienced this many times, but I pray I will always have this reminder in those moments when they come: DON'T WORRY!

Philippians 4:6-9 (New Living Translation)

 ⁶ Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. ⁷ Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

 ⁸ And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. ⁹ Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.

-I think about the little distractions that I have seen over the years in the many appointments I have been to. I remember reading magazines, watching tv, having a conversation, or just thinking of something as the time passed.

I believe those are great distractions. As I find myself in a waiting room in my life now, and I must decide to pick up and READ my bible (daily divotional, inspirational book). I'll WATCH a great teaching from my church (or an uplifting movie). I'll TALK to others, and reach out to those who may have gone through the same waiting and have know been called.

One thing that I do a lot, and that is remaining in deep THOUGHT with God in my heart and on my mind.

Talk about great distractions (OPPURTUNITIES), to remain calm while you wait...Wow! That awesome!

I definitely need to focus on not worrying, but being THANKFUL. 

I've noticed the more I think about the many things that has happened to me that helped me along the way and brought a smile to my face, the less I worry. 

God bless.

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Psalm 27:4-5 (my prayer) 

The one thing I ask of the Lord—the thing I seek most—is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord's perfections and meditating in his Temple. For he will conceal me there when troubles come; he will hide me in his sanctuary. He will place me out of reach on a high rock.

...in Jesus name

Last night I thought of the words "in Jesus name." So many people close their prayers to God with those words, as I also do.

Since these words are considered to be so powerful, I began to wonder what these words meant to me, and this is what came to me:

...in Jesus name, is a promise that I can trust and hold onto. A statement that brings joy and peace to me. An image of beauty, that surpasses anything my eyes have ever seen.

These words, are like the perfect beginning and ending to a poem, or love story.

As I even think back to my childhood, the car racing games I've played on Nintendo, where you would pass over a power boost spot to go faster, I associate "in Jesus name," with a POWER BOOST, that accelerates me into triumph and victory in my life and all things to do with my life.

In sumation: Jesus is the reason Why I will be propelled forward into a good existence.

What do the words "in Jesus name" mean to you?

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Psalm 27:4-5 (my prayer)

The one thing I ask of the Lord—the thing I seek most—is to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, delighting in the Lord's perfections and meditating in his Temple. For he will conceal me there when troubles come; he will hide me in his sanctuary. He will place me out of reach on a high rock.