Tag: prayer

Start Your Day with Prayer: Finding Time for God

Prayer. Sometimes, we feel rushed and don’t always start our day with prayer. We think we don’t have time and we can pray while we’re getting ready to head out the door. While that is good, there are distractions that can draw us away from the intimate time with God. To hear His direction for us. Psalm 143:8 is a great reminder of the peace we will have in our day when we put Him first. Take time to focus on God first, and He will direct your path. God’s blessings pour over you in abundance today. Praying for you.🙏❤️

Transformative Prayer Inspired by Colossians 1:9-14

A Prayer for Everyone – Colossians 1:9-14. As we read Paul’s prayer for the Colossians, we can pray with confidence God’s will for ourselves and others.
Fill us O God with the knowledge of Your will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. That we walk in manner worthy of You, bearing fruit in every good work. May we increase in the knowledge of You through Your Word. Strengthen us with Your power that we remain steadfast. We joyfully give thanks to You always, for all You have done for us.
Imagine the effectiveness of your prayers when you shift the emphasis of your petition on the Lord’s desires. He’ll transform you and the people you  intercede for. 🙏 

Praying with Impact: Overcoming Fear and Uncertainty

My devotional for today was about praying with impact. Which got me thinking about how I pray. It led me to this text message devotional that I sent out a few years ago. When the future seems uncertain, fear can take hold of us and drag us into a downward spiral. Take those who are still struggling to bring some sort of normalcy from the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. I imagine the uncertainty of when things will start to normalize weighs heavily on them. We can’t help it. It is part of who we are. We all experience fear in our lives at times and at different levels.

Praying you are encouraged and blessed by God’s truths over your life.

I Heard A Knock…

These days it seems as though the enemy is running at full strength, attacking everyone any way he can. For the past week I’ve struggled with my writing in both the blog and my text devotionals. I’ve been tired and every time I promised myself that I would go to bed earlier the opposite happened. It took me a moment to realize where my problem lay and it started with the enemy knocking on my door and me unwisely opening the door. How you might ask? It all began…

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The Struggle

the enemy has taken territory; its time to take it back

Oh my gosh! 21 day prayer journey and I have to say that I am failing at keeping territory the enemy snuck in and stole. That’s right, that thieven enemy entered my territory and managed to take a piece of territory that wasn’t his. How you ask? Well, as much as I hate to admit it, he came at me from the subtle check this out isn’t it the new book in that series you have? approach.

You may or may not remember me mentioning in one of my earlier posts that reading is a weakness for me. I mean put me in a library, leave me food and water and I can easily get lost in the world of books. I have hundreds of books on the bookshelves at home and probably two or three hundred easily on my tablet if not more. Yeah, its that bad. In fact it had gotten to the point I quit purchasing google play cards to keep myself from buying more books. And I had started purchasing google play cards to prevent myself from overspending in our checking account. Yep, bookaholic for sure. So of course after about six or seven months of not buying any books I finally broke down and bought a google card so I could buy a book.

Bought a book and I was fine, read it went on about my business. Started the 21 Day Prayer and there he was, my enemy, leaning against the counter tapping on a book that just so happen to be the next in a series I was reading. I leaned over for a closer look as he slid to the side to allow me a good look at this book I’ve been waiting months to read. Listen, when it comes to Christian romance & suspense, I’m there. Love a good mystery to solve as well.

So my enemy flicked the book open to give me a sample of what was inside. I was hooked. I sat down read the book and when I was finished with it I happened upon two more in a different series that I was reading so of course I just had to have those as well. Needless to say, my prayer time suffered, my devotional time suffered and my blogging suffered as well.

John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

He stole my time and I let him do it. Didn’t plan on letting him take it but because I wasn’t diligent with spending my time in the Word he was able to sneak in and take over. He’s cunning, sneaky, and if he can’t get to you by intimidation, he will come at you like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. And once he has you, the mask comes off and he’ll be laughing in your face at the chaos he creates.

Psalms 143:10 Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

May we always make time for the Lord, seeking, searching, praying for His wisdom to guide us on the slippery slope of life. God bless!