PRAYER EACH TODAY - AUGUST

[MajestyJo]

Let us pray:

Lord, we give you thanks
for the assurance
that the past
can be left to your mercy,
the present to your love,
and the future to your providence.
Help us to grow more aware
of your loving presence,
that we may live more authentically
and proclaim
by our words and actions
the good news
of the fullness of your love.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.





Prayer for Dave's Mom

[MajestyJo]

Let us pray:

Lord Jesus,
in the world that you love so much
we are surrounded with advertising
on the streets, in magazines,
on TV and on the Internet
- all trying to convince us
of ways of enjoying ourselves
and becoming likeable and popular.
Keep our vision clear
and show us how to distinguish
between what is shallow
and what is of lasting value.
Inspire us
to choose ways of deeper happiness
that lead to fullness of life.
We ask this of you who said:
“I am the way, the truth and the life”.
Amen.

[MajestyJo]

Let us pray:

Lord, I ask
for the power of your Spirit in my life
that I may live in such a way
that I show kindness
in another’s trouble,
and courage in my own.
Amen.

[MajestyJo]

To God be the Glory. It is the God of your understanding, not the God everyone told you about. I had to go on a spiritual quest, to find out who my God was to me. Whether it is a religious God, good orderly direction, a group of drunks and drug addicts, make your God personal. For me, God was an old tape. I was raised in the Gospel Halls, and it didn`t stop me from becoming an alcoholic or an addict. I was put on Valium at 16. I stole a glass of wine at 10 years old and remember trying to make a gulp look like a sip. The more I used, the farther away I got from God.

I came back to my God with a new awareness and a new understanding.

[MajestyJo]

Faith ~ Hope ~ Love


May the kingdom of justice prevail!
May the believers be united in love!
May the hearts of the believers be humble, high on their wisdom,
And may they be guided in their wisdom by the Lord.
Glory be to God!
Entrust unto the Lord what thou wishest to be accomplished.
The Lord will bring all matters to fulfillment.
Know this as truth evidenced by Himself.

--Guru Nanak, early sixteenth -century Sikh prophet

[MajestyJo]

The God of love my shepherd is,
And he that doth me feed:
While he is mine, and I am his,
What can I want or need?

He leads me to the tender grass,
Where I both feed and rest;
Then to the streams that gently pass:
In both I have the best.

Surely Thy sweet and wondrous love
Shall measure all my days:
And as it never shall remove,
So neither shall my praise.

The Yearbook of Love and Wisdom: - Celia Haddon

[MajestyJo]

God Knows How

"But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them,
With men this is impossible; but with God all things
are possible." - - Matt.19:26

God knows how to become blossoms and fruit on the tree.
I don't But God knows.

God knows how to keep the stars and the planets secure in their
courses, to regulate the tides and seasons in a perfect plan.

God knows how to produce unlimited power out of the rocks of
the earth as oil and atomic power: and out of the heavens as
electricity and solar power. No man can fathom God's work. Only
the Infinite understands.

God knows how to join two cells and produce a beautiful little
body complete to the last detail. No man can reproduce Life;
but, God creates and maintains His creation according to a plan
so magnificent that it is beyond the vision of man to behold the
glory of it. God knows how to turn food into blood and flesh and
bones, how to constantly create new body cells and supply the
muscles with strength. We know this happens but we cannot
understand this miracle.

I now release all my problems to Him who knows how to solve
them and say with Jesus, "of myself I can do nothing, the
Father within me doeth the works." Oh how beautifully He
does them. I surrender my life completely to God, the only Power
and the only Presence.

And so it is.

[MajestyJo]

Peace of Mind

THE LORD IS MY SHEPERD, I SHALL NOT WANT.
I am secure and at peace because of the Divine Law of Love
protects, guides, and leads me.

HE MAKETH ME TO LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES:
HE LEADTH ME BESIDE THE STILL WATERS.
I am centered in Peace. I am calm. The inner awareness
of Divine Peace gives me a quiet mind.

HE RESTORETH MY SOUL.
I am free from guilt or fear and my mind is renewed
through God's inner peace. His peace is my peace.

HE LEADETH ME IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
FOR HIS NAME'S SAKE.
I trust God's guidance in and through me. His nature is
good and all thet He does through me is good.

YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE
SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL; FOR THY ROD
AND THY STAFF COMFORT ME.
My heart is at peace. God is the only Reality, and He is
always with me.

THOU PREPAREST A TABLE BEFORE ME IN THE
PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES: THOU ANNOINTEST
MY HEAD WITH OIL: MY CUP RUNNETH OVER.
I am at peace with my own thoughts and unified with all
of life. I am secure in God's abundance.

SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME
ALL OF THE DAYS OF MY LIFE AND I WILL DWELL IN
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER.
I rest in continual awareness of the Presence of God
within me.

And so it is.

(23rd Psalm)

From the book: Your Needs Met
by Jack & Cornelia Addington.