The Lord appeared to Solomon. II Chronicles 8:12
Men who knew the sea sailed to Ophir (India). II Chronicles 8:17
Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Matthew 6:8
Lord, show me how asking for what you placed on my heart leads me to know you better. Please appear to me today. You know me. Help me to know you. Amen.
If my people will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their Wicked Ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive. II Chronicles 7:14
Fear the Lord, shun evil. This will bring health to your body. Proverbs 3:7-8
Lord, please helm me to remain humble and teachable. Help me to pray to you, seek only you. Help me to turn from my Wicked Ways and shun evil. Help me to hear you. Please forgive me of my sins. Amen
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him. He will have the Spirit of Wisdom, Discernment, Counsel, Power, Knowledge, and Fear of the Lord. He will delight in the Fear of the Lord. ~ Isaiah 11:2-3
My Father, may I have your Spirit of Wisdom, Discernment, Counsel, Power, Knowledge, and Fear of the Lord. May your Righteousness be my belt. May Faithfulness be the sash around my waist.
My Father will honor the one who serves me. John 12:26
Lord, I don’t seek honor, but I do seek work in your kingdom. Refresh my spirit, give me an advisory team and staff who understands your vision in this work. May your work and word prevail.
God foreknew … he predestined some to be conformed to the likeness of his Son. God then called and justified (marked for a good and legitimate reason). He glorified. Will God not also graciously give us all things? Romans 8:29 & 32
Lord, you called; I answered. Please give me the resources, help, and vision to do this work. Transform me into the image of your Son.
Teresa would love to feel better and not have to struggle to pay her electricity bill. She faces the choice of remaining cold or trying to scrape together enough money to keep the lights and heat on. She thanks you for all she has. I ask that you bless her with the funds necessary to stay warm – in your arms, but also in her home.
Father, Erin became extremely ill during the summer of 2015. Her body was damaged and still has not completely healed. Please heal and comfort Erin. You are in the restoration business. Please restore Erin.
Lord, Kathryn is bed bound, but you are with her. Please help Kathryn spend more time with you. Allow her world to expand in your presence.
Lord, please care for Annie’s old little dog, Jessi. Jessi is not doing to well. Annie doesn’t want Jessi to suffer. Please healAnnie’s dog or comfort her as she struggles with this tough decision. Lord, help Wendy’s neighbor, Iona, who had a stroke last weekend. She’s 49 and is the single mom of two special needs children (one new adult, one tween). Doctors say she has a 50/50 chance of surviving the stroke, and if she does, she will be paralyzed. She is comatose in the hospital and on life support. I know that Iona believes in you, but Wendy is unsure of her salvation. You are a BIG God. Wendy asks for a BIG miracle for Iona and her family!
Please care and comfort Ann, who is 82, and in the hospital with pneumonia.
Nothing is impossible with God. ~ Luke 1:37 (NIV)
In 1890 Bishop Wright preached on the impending return of Christ. He said everything God had sent man to do on earth was done. A member of the congregation jumped to his feet and predicted that some day man would fly. The bishop responded with the infamous line: “If God had intended man to fly, he would have given him wings.”
When we view the whole of creation, we realize God’s work was indeed good—and incomplete. He did not give us wings with which to fly, replacement parts for failing organs, or antibodies for deadly diseases. His creative work is a beginning; our job is to continue His work by subduing, improving, and imagining what can be from what is not—yet.
Prayer is the way we recognize potential in others. ~ Mark Batterson
When Mary learned she would become pregnant God’s anointed one, she asked, “How will this be?” The angel of God replied, “Nothing is impossible with God.”
You may not see yourself as a prophet, but you are one. ~ Mark Batterson
When we follow God wholeheartedly, we no longer bemoan what was or what isn’t—we anticipate what will be. “The call of God is like the call of the sea,” wrote Oswald Chambers. “No one hears it except the person who has the nature of the sea in him.” This call begins with the transforming work of Christ’s Spirit within us. When we allow Him to lead, possibilities abound.
Thirteen years after Bishop Wright preached on the impending return of Christ, his two sons, Orville and Wilbur, made the first powered flight by man at Kitty Hawk. What impossible task lies ahead of you? Sometimes all that is necessary is to respond with confidence to the task God places before us.
Prayer is the way we write the future. ~ Mark Batterson
(Portions of this post excerpted from My Father’s Business.)