Dear Beloved, YOU are loved..... Blogged prayer #38

It is important to know and remember that NO matter what -- GOD created you and LOVES you NO MATTER WHAT!  

In these 40 days ...I have seen a bit of a change in you.  I see a smile again.  I still see some frustrations but I believe that there is a shift.  

Knowing that NO matter what -- Your name is in the Lamb's Book of Life ....

Knowing that NO matter what -- Your eternity is secure....

Knowing that NO matter what --- this too shall pass....   

I pray that you won't allow the enemy to get and tell you otherwise.  

You are loved.  

You are important and have worth and value.  

Lord, as this blog is a short one -- I thank you for today and the revelation that indeed....You love us so.  Lord, for my friend who I began to pray for at the beginning of these 4- days.  I thank you for her life, her knowledge, and her willingness to allow me to pray for her.  

Lord, I pray a blessing upon her and over her that as she continues in this 'flummoxed season', she will continue to believe that YOU are right beside her and helping her to move from this season into the next.   .....with confidence that SHE is LOVED.  

Lord, bless her -- In Jesus name.  

Amen

Dear Beloved, some practical advice Blogged prayer #34 - 37

So, Joyce Meyer made a comment at one of her sessions. 

"Be those  people,  be the Christians that do the RIGHT thing in public"....   

She made us all laugh but I thought of a few things.  

1.  How many  put their shopping cart back where it is to be returned?
2. How many liter? 
3. How many post sweet Jesus posts on Facebook and then won't even look at you or speak to you because of an offense? 
4.  How many do you realize delete you on FB because you have said something that does not agree with their views?  
5.  How many take to FB to get their point across and make a comment or reference something that truly hurts another.  



I am going to stop there -- I am guilty of them ALL.... I could name several more but five is the number of grace.  

When God disciplines me, it is ALWAYS with such GRACE -- so I don't need to list anymore pet peeves or things that bother those 'lost ones'....or that give them a reason to complain about us Christians.    Grace.  

I do believe that there are 'Christians' that do things that they shouldn't !  Therefore,  the lost  who are watching --- they think, "well, look at so and so...and they call themselves a Christian - look what she did".


I hear it often.  
I see it.  More than I would like.   And I am guilty of this as well.  

My feelings were hurt just yesterday when someone who is on my news-feed with many Jesus posts purposefully made a very rude and derogatory comment to their child about me - in front of me.  

I was speechless.  It hurt.  I so wanted to text that person, I so wanted to hide and cry.  

The words in my head were, "really God...after ALL I have done for ....??"  

And I prayed and today - came to this when I opened up social media:  

Confidence is SILENT, Insecurities are LOUD.  

   There is was.  

I know that many Christians are not living a good example.  I have been there and I am not going to say that I can't  GO there quickly.  I can get into my flesh within seconds.  Seconds.  

Truly ...if Christians actually DID what God purposed them to do. 
Truly ...if Christians actually acted out WHAT they sing in their songs on Sunday mornings.  
Truly...if Christians LOVED like Jesus did -- mind you, Jesus did not tolerate stuff.  He showed love and spoke in TRUTH.  

Truly...what would our world be like?  


The prayer tonight is not necessarily aimed at my friend who is in a flummoxed season...it is just a prayer that I needed to say this eve. 


 Prayer #34 
Dear Lord -- FORGIVE me... make me more aware and help me to love well...to act better...and to be that one that another WANTS to be like.... In Jesus Name.  Amen.  
And Lord, help me to feel the forgiveness I have extended to that one who hurt my ego and help me to love the entire situation well.  Help me to empty me of me and allow MORE of YOU in there...God I Pray that when I get to heaven, I will hear, "Well done my faithful servant".  In Jesus name, Amen.  

 Prayer #35
And Lord, for my sisters in Christ whose names are right in front of me...one is recovering from surgery and she needs more healing to stop the pain as she is now eating a regular diet.  For the other one, in a loveless marriage who wants more of her husband but he needs Jesus, for the one sitting next to her son this eve as his breath is labored and he has begun to cough up blood...your will be done, and for the other mommy that is sitting bedside with her three month old awaiting answers....  you don't allow these hardships as punishments, but the enemy weighs into their thoughts at times....YOU Lord, are RIGHT there and may they feel your loving touch...

Lord, those mommas and women are holding onto your promises that You will work everything together for good - for those that love and serve you -- may they serve you well this eve as they sit diligent waiting on you ---may we all serve you better as we pray about our decisions as this election draws near and may we all - be better in showing love to the lost -- In Jesus name, Amen. 

Prayer #36
Lord I come to you again for my flummoxed sisters in Christ - as these 40 days come to a close, may they see that prayer does change much and may they begin to pray in a bolder way for your favor and provision.  And may they begin to trust you like they have never trusted before.  IJN Amen.  

Prayer #37  -- this is for me Lord, I want to finish well...  You have already given me a vision for the next blogged series of prayers and I will ONLY be able to keep that in a timely fashion if YOU do all the leg work and writing ...I want to serve you well.  At the conference, several of the speakers had us question what we were doing .....?   Did we need to cut out some stuff?  Did we need to move from one  place of worship to another?  Was it time to get new friends?   Did we need to seriously change something or give up something that has been good in the past....so that you could give us something even better....all those questions I place before you. 

I pray for my sweet circle of friends that read these blogged prayers and remind me to keep writing - bless them, but also I would ask that you would use them to help me...continue to do what YOU want me and need me to do --  may this only be for YOUR glory, IN Jesus name.  Amen.  

Dear Beloved -- whose life are you living? Prayer #33

Whose life are you living? 
 Yours? 
 Your husbands? 
 Your friends?   

God does not call us to be miserable.  God created us to have joy and experience HIS fullness.  
Too many are allowing OTHERS to dictate their lives.  

It comes down to allowing the Holy Spirit to take over and allowing HIM to lead and guide us.  

Simple words right?   Those are the words from Joyce Meyer that I wrote down in my journal the first night of our conference.  

Then she added...

Your life won't change unless you are willing to change.  

I shuddered right then and there as I felt the enemy remind me that one  around me may use those words to justify leaving her husband.  

And then I prayed ... Lord, she is miserable ....but she needs YOU.  May this weekend she see what YOU can do with her when she opens her eyes and heart to YOU Lord ...IN Jesus name  Amen.  

Whether you are coming into this blog with a marriage that is very hard right now or you have a child strung out in addiction and you don't believe he or she will make it out alive.  

Or maybe you just are in a season where the answers are not coming....   I would ask, whose life are you living?  


So we pray 

Lord, for the one reading this tonight -- may she SEEK YOU and answer that question. May she search her heart and know that she is living her life and if it is NOT her best life ...then I pray YOU would show her exactly what to do first.   

Lord for the several women on my prayer list today that are still sitting along side a hospice bed and another trying desperately to wait on You for a miracle within her marriage.... may EACH of them know that they know -- they are living the life that pleases YOU..IN Jesus Name...Amen  

Dear Beloved, Please God ...not man.... Blogged Prayers #31 -32

Friday, October 26

Our conference started and right from the first moment my head was a spinning with what I was seeing.  It is hard to imagine,  unless you have been to one of these types of conferences,  but to stand and worship with about 14,500 others...is it amazing.   Breathtaking.  Remarkable.  Awesome and yet - very personal.  I stood there and just scanned the arena -- many, thousands with hands raised and hearts open.  


Being OPEN to what God has to say instead of listening to what man has to say.... that is a big revelation.  God reminded me that He brought me to the Joyce Meyer Conference to meet with Him in a corporate way and He wowed me over and over.  But the basic truth as the conference began was this..."seek me, not man".     So today's prayer is a reminder -- of WHOM we pray to and WHOM we want attention from!

Dear Beloved, you are loved and your devotion to me is seen!    _ God
Dear Beloved -- wonder no more but seek My Word for the answers.   _God
Dear Beloved,  when you have faith - you please me!  

 Don't be concerned with the day to day  people who seem to demand your obedience and attention -- unless I speak to you or call you to them....  leave them be.  You are not their Savior.  
I am working on them, but today I am working on  YOUR heart - soak me in-- Trust ME - God 




Saturday, October 27

Sometimes we won't realize we were 'right' until we accept that we could be wrong.  Being wrong about something does not make YOU a wrong person.  It was just a wrong decision or action. 
Failing at something does not make you a failure.  The enemy would want to KEEP you bogged down with insecurities and hurts -- that you don't truly accept that many LOVE you.  


Dear Beloved, this is prayer #32. 

 Again, I feel the Holy Spirit is reminding you --that what you see as a failure --  may not be.  And I believe that the Holy God is also pleased when you speak life to those around you and remind them that they are not a failure as well. But most importantly -- when you SPEAK that into yourself, you can see how the enemy is trying to make you feel a stronghold!  

  Dear Beloved, being wrong is not a bad thing -- it does make you stronger and You will see other situations in a very different light.  The Holy Spirit will guide you -- and may those 360 moments when you realize that God just completed covered that whole or concept be ever so daily!   

  Dear Lord, bless the reader this evening and bless the writer -- may we understand this concept that we really can only truly be happy when we are serving Jesus and helping others and may this reader be a true  follower of Jesus Christ .  IJN  Amen.  

Dear Beloved, God is Sovereign. #26 -#30

So, here I am again - behind in posting.  Last weekend and the week before I tried to post and catch up and that didn't work as well.   I was able to catch up but the sequence of posting -- It bothered me.  And yet, I did feel that the Holy Spirit was reminding me that I didn't have to have stuff in order or the prayers  perfected - to post what was needed.  

So the week quickly passed and  I found no time again to blog, but jotted more notes.  

I also asked God again and again, as I do believe HE commissioned me to do these 40 days and yet, still I can't seem to get each one posted each night.  

 To catch you up - I had a wonderful weekend in Tampa with my Mom, sisters, sister-n-love, and nieces and my daughter and God reminded me that....I write these prayers for a purpose and He will use the blog for His.   So, I can push together a few posts and just share my notes...God knows my heart.  God knows I am praying for some special sisters in Christ that need to know HE loves them...and I will trust God's timing and His providence.  



I have been and do continue to pray for my sweet sister in Christ - she was flummoxed and in a bit of a fog but I do  see an awakening and some better days!  She also has a present medical situation that she is fighting with antibiotics and time...which do seem to be getting better.   Awesome - perfect.  That was the intent of these 40 days of prayers.  

And yet, Last Sunday should have been #26 and today - should be #35!!   

And so - I am sharing my notes and catching up----------------


Sunday, October 21 -- God is Sovereign -- period.  So often we make him to be a human or we expect him to have hurts like a human and in reality = HE IS THE God!!!  What will be -- will be.  He is sovereign and He is going to win!

Sovereign means unlimited, unrestricted, supreme, ultimate and boundless!  God is God -- and I am not.

Prayer for  today #26   
 Lord, help us to always know and understand that YOU are not human - YOU are God. THE God, and you are not a man ....thus you can not lie.    IJN  Amen.

Monday, October 22 -- God does not lie.      I would think of this often when my husband and I were estranged.  God had given me a vision and a gut feeling that I was NOT to give up.  I hung on...some nights it was by the hair of a my chiney chin chin!   But, I believed in God's Word that when you were in love with Jesus and surrendered to HIM -- then you would surrender to your family and do what is right.  Therefore, my husband would put aside his earthly dreams and surrender to WHAT God asked him to do. 

Prayer for today #27  
 Lord, so I ask YOU to give strength to the dear one reading this, if she   wants to quit -- remind her that YOU don't lie.  You are still on the throne and You are fighting for her and her situation.  IJN... Amen.  

Tuesday, October 23 --- God created us for His purposes - for companionship and fellowship.  He created a garden of Eden that served Adam and Eve.  However, we allowed the Enemy in to steal the blessing -- thus...we are here and now.


Prayer for today #28 
 Lord, for the one reading this that knows that she knows -- her life is not overflowing with the goodness of God.   Perhaps she has looked at what God has provided for her and ignored it.  Perhaps she has felt guilt because she has not acknowledged WHAT God has done.  Forgive her - but bring her back to the basics and  allow the basic flow of Your living water to refresh her.   I pray she forgives herself as well.   Lord, she continues each day to seek You and for that I am grateful.  IJN ... Amen.

Wednesday, October 24   -- God creates beauty.  Field trip today - driving along the lake  in the school bus watching the birds fly, seeing smoke from the sugar cane fields, and students bouncing in their seats  and playing within a bus seat for an hour or two.  I look around and out the window at this beautiful day and then spot check each bus seat to make sure all were accounted for.     Beauty... I can see it so quickly in these beautiful sunsets we have been having  and the glory of the lake we are driving alongside but I also think of a mother who is shut up in her home - sitting next to a hospice bed as she watches her son slowly  fade away.  Such life in those students on my bus and all this dear woman wants is to see her sun sit up and love her back. 

Prayers for today #29 

 Lord, for those hurting today as they read this LONG post -- may they have the courage to change something that hasn't worked for so long...  and know that You Father God have  given them everything they need to do some of God's Work.  May those hurting really seek You.  And may that one mother watching her son --  may those around her see the need she has  and step up. May she feel your total presence this evening Lord, IJN  Amen.  


Thursday, October 25 -- we are OFF!   

Last one for this blog to catch up on....   Have you every planned a trip, gotten everything packed and then realized  you went past your budgeted time frame and had to go back home?  That can happen with us so often ....we get ahead of God's plans and assume.  
My notes for this day are simply just that -- "Slow down and enjoy the ride. " 

 I believe that we are very quick to try to solve a problem before we have prayed  over  it and allowed God the time to fix it perfectly.    

Getting ahead of God is never quite fun.  His will is needed.    Last Thursday, I was on my way to Tampa for a Conference with Taylor.  As I mentioned at the beginning of this blog.   It is a very long story - but basically -- I ended up running over her luggage and her book/computer bag.  Ya.. THAT was not good.

  I totaled it.  ( The computer that is.)  And, what was really unnerving  was that, in such a quick moment I was not thinking and hit the gas pedal.  Sure, I only totaled her luggage but what if there had been a young child near the other side of my car....  I shudder to think of it ....  I was reminded to show down and not be in such a hurry.  

Prayers for today #30  

 Lord, many times in  crisis we want quick fixes and we want the table to turn or something to transpire so that we don't have to suffer anymore.
  Lord, I pray for the patience you have given this reader to  finish reading all of this to the end, but also I pray that she or he would flourish and  realize the beauty in Your timing.  I pray they would slow down and enjoy the ride.   God has this...if you have given the problem to Him ...let HIM fix it.  IN Jesus Name.  Amen.  

Beloved, when others disappoint you -- blogged prayer #24

Have you ever been disappointed?  I was today.  However, I also knew a little bit about disappointment.  I returned to a previous series of blogs and prayers I wrote a few years ago and here it is:  

Do people disappoint you?  If  NO ONE disappoints you --  well...  I would question  your definition of disappointment or ask, "what are you on?" 

Last year, I made a point of asking God to show me more of what Grace looked like and what Grace meant as well as to give me the extra Grace I needed to walk out this life!

 This year, is half done,  I would say that I have been asking God here and there for something else.   I don't want to get MAD when others disappointment me.  So, I have plenty of circumstances or opportunities to apply that Grace I prayed about.

I am by NO means perfect -- but today, something  struck me and my thoughts began --

Allow me to list:

...they did not respond to my text
...he moved ahead in disobedience to God
...she flaunted her sin and made others pay with consequences
...do they realize how UNGRATEFUL they are being?



STOP.   I began this blog 2 hours ago.  I had SO much in my head that was bothering me that I wanted to vent and GET OUT.

BUT God.   God stopped it.   My husband could even hear my pounding on the keys.   I had started to make that list and I had MANY more to add, but as I typed them, I knew that I knew I had to hit the save button and come back to this blog.   Not tonight.



Then, I enjoyed some Olympics.
Then my sweet brother called me.
Then, I set about to do a bible study/workbook that my ENTIRE family is doing.  Yep... All 5 of us!!  So I did Day #4...and sent a "loving" text message to my children and asked them to post a photo of what DAY they were on.....

Needless to say, Brendan is in the lead, I am in 2nd place and I did not make the kids prove where they were .....but I was not disappointed.   And I stopped and thought -- what happened?
I was JUST so disappointed and ready to VENT a short  time before.


What happened.  You know -- I know -- God happened.   I received more Grace and as I poured into God's word and responded to the prompts and questions -- His presence filled me.   I was different.

Then, I had some other work for God to do and began that.   God has gifted me in some organization skills and planning skills and I may drive several nuts -- but, I must be obedient to WHAT HE has asked me to do.  Within that, the Holy Spirit flooded me with some sweet memories that my daughter had shared with me  -- what God was doing in her life.   And then I messaged a sweet new friend that has moved away and EACH time I speak to her -- whether it is face to face or via Messenger on FB -- Holy Spirit Speaks and I see a bit of heaven.

Holy Spirit reminded me of a vision/impression I had back 24 years ago.  Holy Spirit reminded me of HOW speaking to this one person, lead to this other situation, which lead to this...and then to this... and then to this... and then to my daughter...!!   Full circle -- 360!   God is so Stinking SWEET.  So stinking sweet -- how ON earth could I fuss and blog about being disappointed?


People will disappoint us.  Praise God we only have to deal with ONE day at a time  -- God will not fail us.
People will continue to behave a certain way -- when JESUS is not their Lord.

So anyway -- I have a few prayer requests for our Lord this eve -- some I know have been severely disappointed.   They each are being obedient and waiting on God -- but satan is certainly flaunting sin all around them.  And they are tired...  And they don't 'SEE' anything at this moment -- but my God is able and HE does not fight with toothpicks.  HE has a FULL army battling for them.   I pray they will fall asleep knowing that.  I pray that tomorrow -- their miracle would happen.   But even when a circumstance changes....there is usually MORE work to be done or worked out.  True healing and restoration takes time and it takes a willing and obedient heart.  Lord, for all of them -- may they wait on YOU!    Amen. 

 

Beloved, YOU are LOVED - believe it! Blogged Prayer # 23

Keep walking by Toby Mac plays on my playlist  that I walk or exercise to.

 Today's prayer is ----the lyrics from the song with a little extra added in.

toby mac - Video link - Keep Walking


 Lord, this prayer is going to read today as if the women on the other end of this blog is praying for herself...

Lord, today was Another heartbreak day
Feels like you’re miles away
Don’t even need no shade
When your sun don’t shine, shine  - My sun is not shining today Lord.  I want the sun to shine!

Too many passin’ dreams
Roll by like limousines
It’s hard to keep believin’
When they pass you by and by  - Lord, I have been "at" this struggle for far too long.  Or at least I believe it is far too long.  I want it to end -- I want some closure, I want to see a light in the end of the tunnel, but I also want to be in Your will....so I wait. 

I know your heart been broke again  --  Lord, it seems my heart has stayed broke -
I know your prayers ain’t been answered yet - No Lord, maybe my prayers have been answered -- maybe this is the NEW NORMAL and this has me walking with you so close ----
I know you’re feeling like you got nothing left  - Lord, I do feel so drained!  
Well, lift your head, it ain’t over yet, ain’t over yet so

Move, keep walkin’ soldier keep movin’ on
Move, keep walkin’ until the mornin’ comes
Move, keep walkin’ soldier keep movin’ on
And lift your head, it ain’t over yet, ain’t over yet  - I am moving Lord, I am trying --

Echoin’ inside your head
Are the words that your sweet momma said,
“shoot for the moon, my dear”
So you took aim out of this atmosphere
Between high stakes and pump fakes
You’re feelin’ like you can’t buy a break
I can hold your hand, but I can’t turn your eyes to freedom - I know where my freedom comes from Lord, its from You and You have been holding my hand, but that shoot for the moon comment -- I still want to shoot for the moon -- I want All of Your best for me.   I don't feel this is Your best - yet!

I know your heart been broke again
I know your prayers ain’t been answered yet
I know you’re feeling like you got nothing left
Well, lift your head, it ain’t over yet, ain’t over yet so  - I realize the end is looking closer and closer - his words are few and he does not seem to want me.  God -- help.  Lord, I pray for my marriage and believe You have me sitting here -- reading prayers, writing prayers, and even sharing my heart and yet -- it still seems like there is something yet -- what Lord?   

Lord, help me....

Move, keep walkin’ soldier keep movin’ on

Move, keep walkin’ until the mornin’ comes
Move, keep walkin’ soldier keep movin’ on
And lift your head, it ain’t over yet, ain’t over yet

Hold on, hold on
Lord ain’t finished yet
Hold on, hold on
He’ll get you through this
Hold on, hold on
These are the promises
I never will forget
I never will forget [x2]

I know your heart been broke again
I know your prayers ain’t been answered yet
it ain’t over yet, ain’t over yet so

Move, keep walkin’ soldier keep movin’ on
Move, keep walkin’ until the mornin’ comes
Move, keep walkin’ soldier keep movin’ on
And lift your head, it ain’t over yet, ain’t over yet..

Lord, for the one woman who   will read this -- 
Lord, for the one whom I already prayed for who is still before you and quiet - but still hurting....
.... It has been years Lord..several and she is still waiting..patiently for the mountain she is circling to move ....

And for the new young wife who literally had to call the law this eve -- may she know that as she places her trust in YOU , you will provide!    But remind her and many of us hurting... 

  YOU are RIGHT where You have her and she is loved! 

 In Jesus name, Amen