Lord, There is beauty in exhaustion, when surrender is an only option, and Your arms stand ready to receive. And so I fall into Your love and find my rest. I can bear the prospect of the next set of trials and endless duties knowing that Your eyes watch over me. I can breathe again [...]
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Psalm 121:1 A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
Psalm 121:2 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
Psalm 121:4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will [...]
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Father,
We who love You,
count it joy to know suffering for the sake of Your Kingdom come within our own spirits. Jesus knew suffering even to death on the cross. But His suffering was seeing the condition of His beloved creation fallen into the grip of Satan’s folly of exalting himself above You. Misery [...]
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Mathew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, Do not be anxious for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Mathew 6:26 Behold the birds of the air; for they sow not, [...]
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Psalm 106:1 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
New Prayer Requests
Linda Lynch- Please pray for me and my family, For happiness and peace, And pray for my oldest sister that had a stroke that she will walk again and be able to use her right side again. Please pray [...]
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Jesus,
You are the fragrance of joy. You keep the lambs in the palm of Your hand. We love Your presence.
Carry us over the crevices that plague our souls. Regenerate our thoughts toward heaven’s throne where You sit. Cast our failures from Your sight. Build our stamina to finish the race to Your everlasting love. Anchor [...]
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Ephesians 5:19 – “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,”
The importance of worship is easy to overlook or replace with service. However, I believe real effective service comes out of a life that is in real worship of the Living God.
Let’s [...]
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“Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is [...]
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Philemon 2
Is there a Church in this house? Are parents, children, friends, servants, all members of it? or are some still unconverted? Let us pause here and let the question go round—Am I a member of the Church in this house? How would father’s heart leap for joy, and mother’s eyes fill with [...]
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