Evening Prayers
Lord, as I look back across this day that I have just lived through, I recognize that I have sinned against you by not loving you with my whole heart, by not loving my neighbor as myself, by not dying to my self and living all in for you. Lord, forgive my sin and cleanse […]
Morning Prayer
Lord for a new day I give you thanks – for who you are I give you praise – for you are the one true God and there is no other and in you do I trust and rest and hope – Amen – Father, as I go through this day may I walk with […]
GOD DECLARES YOU GREAT IF
Matthew 5:19 (ESV) 19Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. I was a little tricky there because if you look […]
Be Contrary All The Time
Romans 12:20 (ESV) 20To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” People make statements like, “He’s a really contrary fellow.” Rejoice when they make that statement because if we are living and […]
Evening Prayers
As this day has rested and it is now the night, I am glad, and I rejoice to know that the same God who carried me through the day is also my help and my protection in the darkness of the night and even the night is not dark when my hope is in you […]
Morning Prayer
Morning has broken like the first morning and I rejoice O Lord in your creation – for it is you who has created all and in you do I live and move and have my being – help me / all to see that you O Lord are everything and only in you do we […]
Jesus Finishes All Things Completely & Perfectly
Matthew 5:18 (ESV) 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. The law was never meant to save us – the law served the purpose of pointing us toward the One who would save us […]
Not a ‘Do It Yourself’ Project
Romans 12:19 (ESV)19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”A claim of belonging to Jesus Christ is undermined by any effort on our part to seek to avenge ourselves of wrongs, real or imagined. The mark of […]
Evening Prayers
Lord, you are so faithful, so beautiful, so powerful, so merciful and gracious – thank you for all of your blessings and your gifts in Christ Jesus. I rest in the fact that you will, as I sleep, be as you were in my waking hours – ever present, ever faithful, ever loving, and ever […]
Jesus did what we could never do!
““Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” (Matthew 5:17, ESV) Jesus did not take away the commandments of God in the Old Testament. The commandments were never given as a means of giving life but rather to […]