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I Timothy 2:1-4 (Pt. 5) Thought/Prayer: Why Pray for State Boards of Education? Topics: 2 at end.
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I Peter 2:2, 3 (Pt. 2) Thought/Prayer: Two Types Tasting. Topics: 2 at end.
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I Peter 2:2, 3 Thought/Prayer: Gulp a Big Glass. Topics: 2 at end.
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A Day for Prayer March 27, 2011
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Scriptures for the Week of March 21 – 25, 2011
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I Peter 2:2 Thought/Prayer: The Sometimes Surprise of Growth. Topics: 2 at end.
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Philemon 1:22 Thought/Prayer: A Room Readied. Topics: 2 at end.
“At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you.†English Standard Version (ESV) Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." (Read this scripture and more at http://prayerpivot.com.)
The apostle Paul writes to his great friend and Christian brother to prepare a guest room. This guest room will be used by Paul when he visits Philemon at some time. It’s apparent here that Paul does not have specific plans to come to see Philemon, but rather he tells this Christian brother that he is hopeful that through the prayers of those with Philemon, he will be able to come and visit, thus needing a guest room in which to sleep.
Planning ahead through prayer. Interesting concept. Paul does not say that Philemon should think about a guest room – Paul tells him to ready it. In essence, “Get it ready for use! I’m prayin’. And I’m hopin’ God will agree with me and send me to use that room that’s already readied for me.â€
So how are we in the pro-life cause trusting that our prayers will be answered? Should we be as confident as Paul, in asking? Should we assume that we can picture in advance how they will be answered?
If we don’t have a mental picture of results in answered prayer (Paul might have in mind what this readied room would look like), perhaps our hearts can do it for us. Hearts of trust. Hearts that trust as a child trusts a good father to answer requests. Hearts that know a father well enough to be able to ask in confidence, knowing that the Heavenly Father is a very good father.
Dear hearts that labor for babies, children, grandparents, centenarians and more, do trust. Don’t hesitate to ask. Don’t hesitate – just picture the prayer answered, and pray. Lord, we ask to be in Your will enough to be able to picture the answers to our prayers like a room readied ahead of time for the guest.
Topics: Pray for a faith that trusts enough to picture ahead the answers to prayer.
40 Days for Life
The apostle Paul writes to his great friend and Christian brother to prepare a guest room. This guest room will be used by Paul when he visits Philemon at some time. It’s apparent here that Paul does not have specific plans to come to see Philemon, but rather he tells this Christian brother that he is hopeful that through the prayers of those with Philemon, he will be able to come and visit, thus needing a guest room in which to sleep.
Planning ahead through prayer. Interesting concept. Paul does not say that Philemon should think about a guest room – Paul tells him to ready it. In essence, “Get it ready for use! I’m prayin’. And I’m hopin’ God will agree with me and send me to use that room that’s already readied for me.â€
So how are we in the pro-life cause trusting that our prayers will be answered? Should we be as confident as Paul, in asking? Should we assume that we can picture in advance how they will be answered?
If we don’t have a mental picture of results in answered prayer (Paul might have in mind what this readied room would look like), perhaps our hearts can do it for us. Hearts of trust. Hearts that trust as a child trusts a good father to answer requests. Hearts that know a father well enough to be able to ask in confidence, knowing that the Heavenly Father is a very good father.
Dear hearts that labor for babies, children, grandparents, centenarians and more, do trust. Don’t hesitate to ask. Don’t hesitate – just picture the prayer answered, and pray. Lord, we ask to be in Your will enough to be able to picture the answers to our prayers like a room readied ahead of time for the guest.
Topics: Pray for a faith that trusts enough to picture ahead the answers to prayer.
40 Days for Life
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2 Corinthians 6:3-10 (Pt. 3) Thought/Prayer: He Has Riches. We are Rich. Topics: 2 at end.
“We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything. English Standard Version (ESV) Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved." (Read this scripture and more at http://prayerpivot.com.)
How can we have nothing and yet possess everything? It seems an incorrect equation: Nothing equals everything. Really? Well, in our natural world, this seems to be such a contradiction. But we know that our God is not confined to this world (If He created it, he cannot be confined to it.). And because He is not confined to Earth, He must have thoughts waaaaay beyond Earth and its confines: waaaaay beyond us. And so we accept as true, His truisms that seem to confound us. So we accept that though we have nothing, we possess everything.
This must be seen in the spiritual realm, with spiritual eyes and understanding. We may have absolutely nothing of material possessions. And yet our possessions as Christians are like pile upon pile, mountain upon mountain of golden coins to the ceiling of a king’s counting-house. The love of the Savior counts totally for everything. We are rich in Him and in His gifts to us.
Out of gratitude, we must use these riches of love, to His glory. We can do so by sharing His love with families undergoing tragedy or extreme problems with pregnancies. We who are rich in Him, while sharing Him with others who feel themselves poor because of difficult circumstances, may turn the tide toward LIFE no matter what the unique and wrenching circumstance.
Lord, help us to be always willing and available to share You and Your riches of love with all with whom we speak. Help us to share Your riches everywhere we go.
Topics: Pray for the right words to families in crisis when we share with them the riches of our Lord.
King for America (Dr. Alveda King)
How can we have nothing and yet possess everything? It seems an incorrect equation: Nothing equals everything. Really? Well, in our natural world, this seems to be such a contradiction. But we know that our God is not confined to this world (If He created it, he cannot be confined to it.). And because He is not confined to Earth, He must have thoughts waaaaay beyond Earth and its confines: waaaaay beyond us. And so we accept as true, His truisms that seem to confound us. So we accept that though we have nothing, we possess everything.
This must be seen in the spiritual realm, with spiritual eyes and understanding. We may have absolutely nothing of material possessions. And yet our possessions as Christians are like pile upon pile, mountain upon mountain of golden coins to the ceiling of a king’s counting-house. The love of the Savior counts totally for everything. We are rich in Him and in His gifts to us.
Out of gratitude, we must use these riches of love, to His glory. We can do so by sharing His love with families undergoing tragedy or extreme problems with pregnancies. We who are rich in Him, while sharing Him with others who feel themselves poor because of difficult circumstances, may turn the tide toward LIFE no matter what the unique and wrenching circumstance.
Lord, help us to be always willing and available to share You and Your riches of love with all with whom we speak. Help us to share Your riches everywhere we go.
Topics: Pray for the right words to families in crisis when we share with them the riches of our Lord.
King for America (Dr. Alveda King)
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2 Corinthians 6:3-10 (P t. 2) Thought/Prayer: On the Right and On the Left. Topics: 2 at end.
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