And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him. - I John 5:14-15
June 30, 2017 DAILY WORDS OF WISDOMMy soul waits silently for God alone. For my expectation is from Him.-Psalm 62: 5. What do you expect from God? Great things? Good things? How much faith supports your prayers? Remember God's will for every one of us is the best plan for our lives. So today as you pray, do so with joy and thanksgiving, doubting only your doubts and cl...
Keep ReadingJune 29, 2017 Whoever offers praise glorifies me. -Psalm 1:23.We have so many reasons to praise God! His goodness, His mercy, His grace and salvation are reasons enough for us all to spend our lives in gratitude. Besides His general attributes and universal gift, He's done specific things for each of us and blessed us all mightily in unique ways. Today, before you l...
Keep ReadingContinue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving. Colossians 4:2.Ever wonder why our prayers don't always get an immediate response? The simple answer is that they do. It's just that sometimes God's answer is "wait." We are by nature an impatient species. Patience is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, not the human spirit. And, bam! Right there we get some i...
Keep ReadingTUESDAY, June 27, 2017 Lest Satan should take advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices. -II Corinthians 2:11Our Lord clearly warns us in His Word that Satan has evil intentions for our lives. The devil wants to keep us weak, worried and ineffective. That's why he hates it when God's people pray. Satan knows that time spent in prayer positions us to be ...
Keep ReadingMONDAY June 26 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. -Colossians 3: 16.Knowing what God has to say about life on Earth helps us triumph over so much---including worry, fear, and wrong-thinking about who God is and who we are in His Kingdom. That's why it's a good idea to spend time reading the Bible every day, learning as much of it "by heart" as ...
Keep ReadingSUNDAY, June 25, 2017 "Ask of Me, and I will give you the nations for Your inheritance."-Psalm 2: 8. Considering that God can always find the solution to every problem and has the best provision for every need, it's astonishing that we don't spend more time asking Him to help us. No request is too small for His compassionate heart. No challenge is too great for H...
Keep ReadingSATURDAY, June 24 WORDS OF WISDOM Let Your work appear to Your servants, and Your glory to their children -Psalm 90: 16.Our relationship with God is a blessing to our lives. When we share the good things He has done and tell others about our faith in what Hewill do, webless their lives as well. This is especially true when it comes to kids and teens. It's good to...
Keep ReadingFriday, June 23, 2017 "I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry."-Psalm 40:1There is great progress is patience. If we are wise, waiting for God can cause us to learn more about our Master and Maker and His own infinite patience with us. Patiently persevering is always a path to spiritual growth. Embrace it! PRAYER REQUESTS: ...
Keep ReadingThursday, June 22, 2017 Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses. Psalm 107: 6. Deep distress remain a constant human experience. Our God's provision is just as invariable. He is always able to rescue us and also use our pain and sorrow for our benefit. Today, be confident. God already knows the end of all these s...
Keep ReadingJune 21 Words of Wisdom And continues in supplications and prayers night and day. I Timothy 5: 5. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Isaiah 62: 6,7. This year marks the centennial of Andrew Murray's death. Yet, the insight of the humble Scotsman who preached throughout ...
Keep ReadingTUESDAY, June 20, 2017 WORDS OF WISDOM The next day Moses said unto the people, you have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin. Exodus 32: 30.God's people have a long tradition of using the power of intercessory prayer to help each other. Just as Moses was willing to stand before God on behalf of a sinfu...
Keep ReadingMonday, June 19, 2017 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Psalm 19:14 How do we know if our prayers are acceptable to our Lord? Jesus tells us that if we ask in keeping with His nature He will act. Consider what His nature produces in our world. The Bible calls the evidence of...
Keep ReadingJune 18, 2017 . . . Then Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel; and the Lord answered him . . .The Lord thundered with a great thunder upon the Philistines that day and so confused them that they were overcome before Israel. And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines and drove them back as far as below Beth Car. I Samuel 7: 9-11.Som...
Keep ReadingJune 17, 2017 "Evening and morning, and at noon, I will pray, and cry aloud; and He shall hear my voice." Psalm 55: 17.How comforting to know that whenever we cry out to our Father in Heaven He hears us. Even better, He moves on our behalf. His plans are perfect, His ways trustworthy. There is no better prayer for these needs or any others than "Thy will be done." ...
Keep ReadingJune 16, 2017 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. -Psalm 91:1 PRAYER REQUESTS Pray for Alisha. She is engaged and is moving in with her fianc. Her parents' hearts cry out for her to make different choices and to walk in God's truth. Pray that she will see that God's ways are the best ways. Please p...
Keep ReadingTHURSDAY June 15 Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, O King, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his servant. II Samuel 14: 22.It's so great to have the assurance that our Father, the King of Heaven, always welcomes us into His presence. We always find favor in His sight. Today, as you lift up these prayer requests r...
Keep ReadingWEDNESDAY, June 14, 2017 But to You I have cried out, O Lord, and in the morning my prayer comes before You. - Psalm 85:13 PRAYER REQUESTS Wanda's husband Jay has dangerously high PSA numbers. Pray that he will not get full-blown prostate cancer. Ask too that he will be healed of his chronic tinnitus and that God will be glorified in the situation. ...
Keep ReadingJune 13, 2017 In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6.There is no request too insignificant, no problem too great for our God to address. He is as compassionate as He is powerful and He delights in helping us all find our way into the center of His perfect will. So thank Him in advance; ...
Keep ReadingJune 12, 2017 He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.-Matthew 3:11.As children of the King of Heaven we have access to all the power of God's own Spirit, and are capable of soliciting His intervention in all the workings of our world. Therefore we have great assurance that God has the perfect answer to every question, the ideal provision for every n...
Keep ReadingSunday, June 11, 2017 "My soul thirsts for God, for the living God."- Psalm 42:2There's something in all of us that longs for our Creator. How wonderful is the gift of prayer? It makes it possible for us to talk to Him whenever, wherever. So, enjoy your soul-satisfying time with the Lord today as you pray for the following: PRAYER REQUESTS Update on Huntley in S...
Keep ReadingJune 10, 2017 Words of Wisdom "I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day nor night: You who make mention of the Lord do not keep silent."-Isaiah 62:6.We'd all be wise to keep watch over our hearts and minds--taking every opportunity to glorify God by the power of the Holy Spirit and never allowing ourselves to be overwhelme...
Keep ReadingJune 9 "Without Me you can do nothing."-John 15:5.How true those words. How often do we fume and fuss in frustration because things aren't going our way? Life is so much easier when we remember that even though we can't accomplish anything of lasting value on our own, "with God nothing is impossible." Our Lord is the God who makes a way where there is no way. He parts s...
Keep ReadingTHURSDAY JUNE 8 Casting all your care upon Him; for He cares for you -I Peter 5:7 Nuff' said. Give Him everything. Lay it down. Leave it alone. He's got you. He loves you. He is able to handle our church, the needs of our church family and so much more. Prayer Requests Please continue to pray for Jason. A while back he asked us to pray that his fianc...
Keep ReadingWednesday June 7 I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them. Exodus 3:7-8The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses is our God, too. He heard them. He hears us. Our sorrows are His opportunities to reveal His power, goodness and might. So, pray in confidence. He does not change. Trust Him. He ...
Keep ReadingTUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 WORDS OF WISDOM For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought.-Romans 8: 26.The good news about that reality is that our God always knows best. Even when all we can do is wordlessly groan, God understands our hearts. He knows the root of the problem and He has the solution - - - the master key to unlock every door, and solve every probl...
Keep ReadingMONDAY, JUNE 5 Then Jacob said, 'O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac; the Lord who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your family, and I will deal well with you. I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth that You have showed to Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff and now I have be...
Keep ReadingJune 4 O You who hear prayer, to You all flesh will come. Psalm 65: 2. We arespiritual beings so it's natural that all human hearts long to communicate on a spiritual plane. It's only when we are born again by the power of Christ's Spirit that we begin to understand the power of conversing with our Creator. The more we talk to God, the deeper our understanding,...
Keep ReadingPraying always.-Ephesians 6:18. PRAYER REQUESTS: UPDATE ON JUDAH BROWN:Praise God our prayers have been answered thus far and Judah is home! His aunt posted the following on her Facebook page. It bears repeating: "My nephew sat in a hospital for a week continuing to get sick. Doctors went back and forth between saying it was a bacterial infection, then saying i...
Keep ReadingJune 2, 2017 Then, the priest said, 'Let us draw near to God here.' So Saul asked counsel of God, 'Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You deliver them into the hand of Israel?' But He did not answer him that day. - I Samuel 14: 36, 37. It isn't easy to wait for God's answer. We are often consumed with the notion that life is fleeting and time is flying b...
Keep ReadingBut at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.-Acts 16:25The small details of our lives bear witness to our relationship with God. When prayer is a regular part of daily life it speaks volumes about the nature of our faith and the power of our God. PRAYER REQUESTS Pray for Jude who has many health probl...
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