today ----- Beth Moore is a praying for me and us....She posted this on her blog yesterday and YEP..I cut and pasted it here...
It was too good not to read, say , and believe again.....I know it will bless you too!
Amen.
My faithful, most holy Father and my God,With tremendous love I lift my sister to you. You know what stirs in her heart, what awakens her at night, what causes her to shudder, and what seeks to devour her. You have seen her in the secret place and you know her longings and her questions and her dreams and her hopes. You know the very place that doubt seeks to swallow her and deceit desires to seed in her. Spring her eyes open to cleansing, delivering Truth. Minister to her in such a personal way throughout the coming days that she is floored once again by Your all-knowingness and complete attentiveness. Sprout signs of harvest in a field where she has sown so faithfully and seen so little. Help her to see that her labor is not in vain. Soak the fleece in such a way that she’ll know You are with her. Send someone to encourage her in such a specific area that she’ll know You alone could have prompted it.Grant her a heart to love You with an abounding affection that could only be supernatural and cause her to feel her heart teeming with love toward someone who is loveless toward her. Protect her heart and heal her mind where it may be bent or twisted. Take all shame off of her and cast out her self-loathing once and for all and lift her chin to see her redemption drawing near. Give her faith enough to believe that she has truly been forgiven and that You who began a good work in her will most assuredly complete it. Put a new relationship in her life that brings much joy to her in You and revives her faith-walk and makes her laugh. Healthy friendships, Lord! Help her to finally release a relationship that You have clearly brought to an end and to do so without resentment or bitterness, trusting You entirely with the future. Be radiant upon her face. Tell her forthrightly how lovely she is to You and how significant. Quiet that part of her that seeks to perform for acceptance. Give her joy in a more honest version of herself. Reveal Your gorgeous self to her, Lord Jesus. Let every false Christ in her life bow to the One and Only True so that she can see it is You. Make every competing voice hush to Yours.In Your beautiful, saving, redeeming Name, Jesus, I bring these earnest requests.Amen
This prayer could pertain to many in this world, and it could pertain to me, as well. For so long (21 years this coming May) that I have so longed for someone to come into my life, honest, loving, caring, and loving the Lord in a Christian manner. Yet, I am still alone, and I still wait. It seems like no one really cares in our human world, they don't understand the lonely world of the "only one" lives. They think that being single is a "fun time" a "time when one can do what THEY want to do, not have to answer to no one," they don't understand just to have someone to talk with, with a human voice, to have a companion, to enjoy all the things that God has for all those who have found another, yet I am still alone. I wonder why God has chosen to let live alone here on earth, HE must know how I feel...HE must see how alone I am. HE must know how I miss Bud and all the little (and big) things that we shared.
ReplyDelete(Take all shame off of her and cast out her self-loathing once and for all and lift her chin to see her redemption drawing near. Give her faith enough to believe that she has truly been forgiven and that You who began a good work in her will most assuredly complete it. Put a new relationship in her life that brings much joy to her in You and revives her faith-walk and makes her laugh. ) These words could speak to me.
God does know Aunt Bonnie. HE does. HE does. One day you will know 'why'....hang in there and allow God to be the man ....the only man....amen!
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