PRAISE

Thank You, Lord, for the people who have been and are a blessing to me

• My parents
• Cerwin’s parents
• My step-mother
• Cerwin
• sons – sons-in-law
• daughters – daughters-in-law
• grandsons – granddaughters
• grandsons-in-law
• great-grandson
• brothers – sisters – brothers-in-law – sisters-in-law
• step brothers – step sisters – step family
• aunts – uncles – nieces – nephews – extended family
• friends – neighbors
• colleagues – ministry partners
• blog – Facebook friends
• pastors – teachers
• Church family
• doctor – nurses – medical technicians
• dentist – dental assistants
• postal workers – store clerks
• firemen – policemen
• computer and software technicians

Thank You for the many ways you use these people to meet my needs

• brighten my path
• lighten my load
• enrich my knowledge of You
• counsel
• correct
• nourish
• build up my faith.

But most of all I thank You

• for being my best friend
• for meeting needs that nobody else can meet
• because people at their best cannot meet my deepest needs.

PRAYER

The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. James 5:16 The Message

• Lord, I want my prayers to be something powerful to be reckoned with.

I need Your help today to stay focused on You.

• Empower me as I begin another day of active duty in spiritual warfare.
• Stay in my face – intrude in my life
• Keep me from stupid sins, from thinking I can take over your work.

Because You are my shepherd – I have everything I need.

• You WILL provide.

Remind me that:

• Love is kind.
• Love does not give up.
• If I want to embrace life and see this day fill up with good. I must cultivate good. I must run after peace for all I am worth. 1 Peter 3:10-2 (The Message)

I love remembering that You are as close to me as the clothes I wear.

• (Romans 13:14 CEV)

I love setting my heart to serve you at the beginning of each day.

Today 

• I want to be a vessel of Your powerful Spirit
• Part of the “bride of Christ”.
• Remind me to give up my own desires,
  • to not plan my own rescue strategy.
  • our children’s rescue strategy
  • our grandchildren’s rescue strategy

I want to lay down my desires and let them go.   

I want to be a “Resurrection Person.

• Surrendered to Your will
• One who believes that hope rises from dead places
• That impossible stones can be rolled away.

Amen