1-31-2025 🕊️ Morning Prayers

Good morning Father!

Thank you for this day!

Thank you for my life!

🕊️ Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. 🕊️

Ephesians 4:31, 32

🕊️ Trust Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge. 🕊️

Psalms 62:8

Lord, I give you the concerns of my heart today, you know the burdens I am carrying right now. They weigh on my mind and turn my waking moments into chances to worry. I believe You are my refuge. I do, I just have not allowed You to play that role when it comes to this particular worry. Why do I hold back so much?

I want to trust You with everything in my life. Help me lighten my grip on matters of insignificance. And in matters of great importance and spiritual weight, let me be free to turn them over to You, my Provider, my Lord, my Rock., in Jesus’ name, Amen!

🕊️ Blessings on your day…and along your life journey!

1-30-2025 🕊️ Morning Prayers

🕊️ The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 🕊️

Genesis 2:7

Your hand is responsible for forming the physical shape of mankind.

Lord, Your breath entered a form and turned it into a living being.

Help me, Oh Lord, to embrace this breath of life…this living spirit that resides within me.

You created wonderful, active beings as Your children. You could have insisted that we all look the same, act the same, and follow one path…but you didn’t.

Instead, You formed each of us as an individual. You breathed life into our lungs and souls, and we became our unique selves.

Lord, thank you for letting me be myself!

🕊️ Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. For when you have been approved, you will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 🕊️

James 1:2, 3, 4, 12

1-29-2025 🕊️ Morning Prayers

🕊️ In the morning, Oh Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my request before you and wait in expectation.

Psalms 5:3

I love the morning, Lord! Thank you for allowing me to experience a new beginning each day of my life. While it is yet early, and I am still waking up, I lift my hands up to you, I praise you for the new day, for my life and my family, and a safe home to live and rest.

Before my mind and body moves and flows with the days activities, I pray Lord, Your Spirit brings me back to this place, where I find myself reaching towards You and Your blessing on my life.

May all the meditations of my heart, mind, and soul, be focused on You Lord, and may all I say and do be a blessing to others and bring glory to Your Holy Name this day, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 🕊️

1-28-2025 🕊️ Morning Prayers

🕊️ Seeing then we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. 🕊️

Hebrews 4:14-16

🕊️ Father God, thank you for this day!

Thank you for my life!

Thank you for my sweet bride and our beautiful daughter.

Thank you for all the many blessings we have and for keeping us safe.

We are witnesses of so much suffering here at home, in our community, and outwardly in the many communities in our state and all around the world. I cannot begin my day without first lifting up my hands and voice in praise!

Help us Lord, to live our lives simply and peacefully, looking for even the smallest opportunity to share what we have with those in need around us.

May the light You shine in our hearts reflect outwardly, in all we say and do, not in pride or boasting, without sinning, but in our actions or walk by faith and as You lead us. As we grow in faith and by Your grace, may Your Spirit fill us with words of wisdom and truth to live by, and share with others as is appropriate and in love, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 🕊️

1-27-2025 🕊️ Morning Prayers

🕊️ For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

But wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gently, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and hypocrisy.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.🕊️

James 3:16-18

Good morning Father!

Thank you for this day!

Thank you for my life!

Thank you for all the blessings you rain on me and my family each day. Thank you for watching over us and keeping us safe! May your light shine in and through me and my family this day, in all we say and do!

Lord, as I go about my day, help me to be watching for those who need a healing word. Help me to listen to the needs being expressed around me. At work or in leisure, guide me to listen to what individuals are saying beneath the conversation. Is their life difficult right now? Are they excited about a recent joyful event?

Every conversation I have with another person is important! Help me oh Lord, to speak words of encouragement and love, in the exchange of friendly banter or deep discussion about faith and life…they all matter, because these connect me with other beings created in Your image.

Remind me oh Lord, to be an encourager, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

1-26-2025 🕊️ Morning Prayers

🕊️ A New Covenant with God: “…I will put my law in their minds, and write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” says the Lord. “For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” 🕊️

Jeremiah 31:34

🕊️ “Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest, by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living Way which he consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies wash with pure water.

Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope, without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 🕊️

Hebrews 10:19-23

Thank you Father, for your love and your sacrifice for my life and to help free me from the chains of guilt and shame, I was shackled by my sin and seen as an outcast, but then, through your mercy and grace, you accepted me as I was, full of hatred, anger and bitterness, and You delivered me!

Your Holy Spirit has filled me and set my feet on solid ground. Through the years, with the seed of your Word, now deeply rooted in my heart and mind, may I always and forever radiate with Your light in all I say and do. May I hear your Word echoing in my mind, leading me, directing my every step, causing my way to be sure and true, and steady. Thank you Lord, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

1-25-2025 🕊️ Morning Prayers

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 🕊️

Romans 8:1

🕊️ Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we shall pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered. 🕊️

Romans 8:26

🕊️ A sick man, who is rich, cannot buy life, when he is dying. With such a short time left brings one to thoughts on all the memories before him. Where has my focus on life taken me? How will I be remembered? Did I make a difference?

So many thoughts to consider, I say live each day as if it were your last! Tell those important to you that you love them, while you still can! Speak words of hope and peace to those around you! Give to someone in need and extend a hand of friendship to the stranger before you. The epicurean seeks joy in what pleasurable things he has or does in his short life, but the spiritual man finds happiness in life daily, because he sees the riches of an everlasting joy, and love, and peace that awaits him. 👀

We all are on a mission, a journey, which has many paths. I pray the life I choose, each step I take, leads me along the path of righteousness, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 🕊️

1-24-2025 🕊️ Morning Prayers

🕊️ “Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Whoever of you lives life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies. 🕊️

Psalms 34:11-13

With so much debauchery and imprudent messages coming from those who are supposed to lead and protect the people they serve, I am reluctant to join their band or sing their song.

Today, I find myself digging deeper into God’s Holy Word and meditate on His messages of hope and inspiration.

How will I lead my loved ones if my heart is bitter and cold, my hands wringing as I watch the news and hearing more negativity and playing the same hopeless song?

This day I choose to rejoice in the good news of Jesus Christ! I will read from His Words of the hope and comfort which brings me peace and calms my spirit.

Today, I make plans to walk along a path I know will lead me to truth and righteousness. Each step I take brings me ever closer to a deeper relationship with the One who brings me joy and love for life, strengthening my walk as I enter into the light of His presence.

Bless me this day Oh Lord, that I might keep my eyes on you alone, and may I walk in the light, as You lead me, by faith, and filled with Your Spirit in my life and as I journey towards truth.

Thank you Father, for your Love, and sacrificing your son, Jesus Christ, so I might find grace, mercy and peace, for myself, my family, and all those I come across, searching for the answers, in Jesus’ name, Amen 🕊️

1-23-2025 “Hush of Humility”

(from: One minute Prayers for Men)

🕊️ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that on one can boast. 🕊️

(Ephesians 2:8-9)

God, everything I have is from you.

The faith I hold onto tightly is a gift of Your Grace.

If people see the peace and wholeness of my life, may I never claim responsibility for such things.

I will share about Your mercy.

I will share how Your love transformed me at a time when I could do nothing to help myself.

My dependence on You should shine far brighter than my self-sufficiency.

Let everything I do, say, accomplish, or receive praise for be a reflection of Your gift.

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🕊️ Good morning Father!

Thank you for this day!

Thank you for my life!

These words I pray, the words I write down in my journaling, and share online with others, they are from my heart and it’s a purposeful endeavor driving me.

🕊️ Thank you Lord! 🕊️

1-21-2025 🕊️ Morning Prayers

…For it is God’s will, that by doing ‘good’, you should silence the ignorance of foolish men. 1 Peter 2:15

The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools. Ecclesiastes 9:17

🕊️ Good morning Father!

Thank you for this day!

Thank you for my life!

Thank you for my sweet bride and our beautiful daughter!

All that we possess and all that we are, they are all blessings from you.

Help me this day Lord. Fill me with your Spirit, and guide me with your unfailing Love, to share words of ‘hope’ and ‘strength’ to those struggling in the dark beside me. May your light shine in and through me this day, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 🕊️

1-20-2025 Morning prayers

🕊️”Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angel nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love ❤️ of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.🕊️

Palestinian suffering

Reading a post from my cousin, Robert Corsini

After reading a post by my cousin Robert Corsini, I asked for a response, for his thoughts, what can I do to help make a difference in providing relief for the Palestinian people.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FTNVCQuy9/?mibextid=wwXIfr

We all can sit in our homes, reading or watching the suffering. We live in peace, without all the noise of war and suffering. I pray daily for God’s intervention in the suffering and I pray for peace. After that, I keep asking myself, “How can I make a difference?“

Two weeks out…

6-3-2024

Sitting in my car just before 8:00 am, in front of my dentist office. While I wait for the doors to be unlocked so I can arrive for my appointment, I’m contemplating all the necessary preparations for our upcoming journey through Turkey and Greece.

I’ve put over $700 in my separate savings, with a goal of having $1,000 cash, in small bills, ($20’s) to bring with me on the trip.

I have purchased some new but selected almost all the clothes I’ll bring on the trip. I’ve contemplated how to present several identification documents for my personal security and how I will carry them.

~~~ Now it is 7 months past our return home from our trip, and still the images are fresh in my mind. The excitement of our life is an ongoing wave of joy and calm. Each new journey is well planned, and each family member considered. My sweet bride is always right beside me, beside our family, always looking for new experiences to grow and witness that joy of life revealed in “Us” as a family. She is selfless and pure in thought, a peaceful calm in the face of the raging sea of life before us, knowing, believing, trusting God will protect us and provide us with a safe path forward each day.

🕊️ Thank you Father, for my lovely bride. May your Spirit continue to bless her daily! May you bless her with wisdom and the comforting words to give each family which comes through the doors of her work, to prepare and providing a memorable and well planned memorial experience. May I always appreciate her and make her feel loved and cared for. May your Spirit continue to guide my steps and fulfill the list of duties expected of me. May I learn to act in unison with our family goals and each well planned activity. It’s a celebration each time she returns home from a days work. We are so blessed with hearing Amy’s voice, as she sings in the band at church each Sunday. Always cheerful, always so positive. What a wonderful life we have together. Thank you Lord!, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 🕊️

The Ark Placed in the Tabernacle

1 Chronicles 16:1-36

So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before GJeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, and Obed-Edom: Jeiel with stringed instruments and harps, but Asaph made musJeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, and Obed-Edom: Jeiel with stringed instruments and harps, but Asaph made music with cymbals; 6 Benaiah and Jahazielites to minister before the ark of the LORD, to commemorate, to thank, and to praise the LORD God of Israel: 5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, and Obed-Edom: Jeiel with stringed instruments and harps, but Asaph made music with cymbals; 6 Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests regularly blew the trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God.