Father, thank you! I am your child and I delight to do your will. I love you. Thank you for the reminder today of all that you daily give me. Help me to love you and to obey you with my whole heart, soul, mind and strength. Thank you that you are a good Father and that you always provide for all my needs. Deut 11:13-15.
Father, you are sovereign in my life. Thank you. I trust your heart and your intentions. You are always good. As we plan and calculate and think about all the new things going on in our lives, I thank you that your plan will prevail. I surrender my plan to you as you do the work, I will wait on you. Proverbs 19:21
Father, thank you that as You continue to refine me and show me the iniquity in my heart, that You also forgive the iniquity in my heart. I will acknowledge, I will not cover and I will confess. Thank you that You forgive. Psalm 32:5 Thank you
The Lord has been placing a huge burden on my heart for a couple of years now for prayer. It has been for myself to become a woman of prayer but as time has gone on the burden has grown to all followers of Christ, that we would learn to pray and search God with all of our hearts.
The vision of Breathing Prayers isto encourage and equip women in seeking the heart of God through supplication, prayers, intercession and Scripture. That we will know Christ and make Him known and to glorify God in all that we do.
Seek the Lord while He may be found. Isaiah 55.6
Prayer Calendar used for Praying for Your Pastor is from Proverbial Homemaker and can be printed off here.
I just started following a scripture writing plan for the month of February and this was today's passage.
It hit me hard. As I was reading I became so convicted in my lack of love toward my husband and my children.
Last night I lost it. I screamed and disciplined one of my children in anger over a bottle of spilled soap. An entire brand new bottle of soap. On purpose.
Love is patient and kind.
The rest of the list seems to fall under one or the other, at first thought. So I am going to meditate on what those words mean.
I want to let this soak into my heart.
I am so thankful for His mercy and His grace.
Father, thank you for Your great love. Unimaginable, reckless love. You delight in showing mercy and I am broken and humbled that You would love me in my mess. Forgive me for acting impatient and unkind to these children You have placed in my life. Teach me how to love like this. Would You fill me with a great love for my husband and my children to live out Your gospel and Your great example of love.
Help me, Father, to be patient and kind to my children. Thank you for bringing conviction of the ways I fall short. I know Your Holy Spirit is at work in my heart. Soften my heart to love as You love.
Father, would you teach me how to fight for joy. In the middle of the chaos of my life I want to find joy. Following you becomes just a list of things to accomplish it unless I have a love and a joy overflowing out of me.
Give me great joy and make me brave and self controlled to fight the battle of finding joy that can only be found in You.
Father, move me from fear to faith to walk in the calling you have for my life. As a child of God, as a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister and a friend. Thank you Father.
