Nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you;
But the LORD will be to you an everlasting light,
And your God your glory.
Your sun shall no longer go down,
Nor shall your moon withdraw itself;
For the LORD will be your everlasting light,
And the days of your mourning shall be ended.
Also your people shall all be righteous;
They shall inherit the land forever,
The branch of My planting,
The work of My hands,
That I may be glorified. 🕊️
Isaiah 60:19-21
Good morning Father!
Thank you for this day!
Thank you for my life!
Thank you for my sweet bride!
Thank you for our beautiful child!
Lord You are the source of all our blessings and all good things. We work to hold our head up high, not with pride, but with honor that comes with a life and walk of faith.
Keep me O Lord, in line with Your will for my life. Push, tug and lead me on my life journey, that I may always walk in Your light which directs my path, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
🕊️He who ignores discipline, despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor. 🕊️
Proverbs 15:32-33
🕊️Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord! 🕊️
Psalms 27:14
🕊️ Be of good courage, And He will strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the Lord. 🕊️
Psalms 31:24
I believe deeply, that the Lord hears all my prayers. And as insignificant as I may feel at times, when I see all the world around me is on fire, when nothing makes sense, when the words of truth from our leaders is a lie, I still have hope.
I pray for His strength, and for His Spirit to fill my heart with “Courage” to face the day in front of me. Help me O Lord, to wait on You and the answer to my prayers to be revealed. May I walk in patience and may I hold my tongue, allowing God’s Spirit to work in me, so then I can see clearly in the day.
May I meet the challenge of waiting for my hope in the night, to bring forth the fruit of my prayers coming forth into the light. Help me to wait on You O Lord, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 🕊️
🕊️ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.🕊️
Philippians 4:6, 13
🕊️ Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 🕊️
Deuteronomy 11:18-19
Thank you for this day Father!
Thank you for my life!
Thank you for my sweet bride!
Thank you for our baby girl!
Bless our children this day Lord! May Your light shine upon them, in and through all they say and do.
May they find your Words and examples of faith, love, and kindness towards others, and may your angels guard over them and keep them safe, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
🕊️ May the Lord God be with us as He was with our fathers; may He never leave us nor forsake us.
May He turn our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways and to keep the commands, decrees, and regulations He gave our fathers. 🕊️
1 Kings 8:57-58
🕊️ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulations, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.🕊️
II Corinthians 1:3, 4
You are the God of my Fathers and those men which never knew you Lord, nor followed your ways. But there were a few men in my life, some of which I count as mentors.
I thank you for the gift of salvation that ties me to the generations of your followers before me. I know it is not the blood of my family lineage that makes me who I am, but the blood of Christ.
God, You gave me a heart that beats so strong, hoping and praying daily for my children, that Your love in my heart for You, resounds in them. Let my legacy be one of faith. Hear my prayers Oh Lord, may your Spirit rest in them, that they will experience your pure love for them and show them how they are special in Your eyes. May my children come to know You Lord, and put You first in their lives always, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
🕊️ Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 🕊️
Luke 6:37-38
🕊️ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 🕊️
Philippians 4:6-7
🕊️ Therefore, putting away lying, Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil. Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitter 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 4:25-32
I find myself often, remembering these passage in scripture, holding them true in my heart, like an anchor, holding me fast, convicting me and reminding me daily, of my struggle not to stray from the path set before me, standing on and leaning on the promises of my God, who freely gives to those who love Him and follow His Word.
Lord, I pray this day, for your forgiveness of my sin and for my weakness, pride and arrogance. When I feel righteous indignation, help me Lord to turn that to Love and forgiveness instead, so that I might stand before you cleansed and ready to serve, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the LORD Forever. 🕊️
Psalms 23:1-6
🕊️ Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; Never will I forsake you.” 🕊️
Hebrews 1:3-5
Good morning Father!
Thank You for this day!
Thank You for my life!
Thank You for my sweet bride!
Thank you for our daughter!
All that I have and all that I am Lord, I feel I have been richly blessed. May Your Spirit guide me this day, and may Your light shine upon me and my family, in all we say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
🕊️ The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Though an army may camp against me, my heart shall not fear;
Though war may rise against me, in this I will be confident. 🕊️
Psalms 27:1, 3
🕊️ Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need; rescue me from those who pursue me, for they are too strong for me.
Set me free from my prison, that I might praise Your name. 🕊️
Psalms 142:6-7
My enemies might not resemble those faced by biblical warriors, but I do have enemies. There are attackers of my time, my well-being, my happiness.
The quest for money, jealousy, blind ambition, reckless talk…these enemies stalk my spirit and wear it down. I feel the oppression in my gut.
Some of these enemies were as familiar as friends and family, so it was hard to turn from them. I realize I have not moved far enough away and I’m vulnerable.
Help me O Lord, use Your strength to fight these lurking foes. Arm me with Your Word, Your truth, and Your peace.
🕊️ For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His son, that He might be the firstborn of many brethren.
What then shall we say to these things?
If God is for us, who can be against us?
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written: “For your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Yet in all things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, 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. 🕊️
Romans:8:29, 31, 35-39
Thank you Father, for your love for me, for my family and everyone else on this planet, for you have given us grace and forgiveness through Your son Jesus Christ. Forgive me Father, where I fall short, and may Your Spirit guide my steps this day, and may Your light shine, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
🕊️ I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.” 🕊️
Psalms 91:2
🕊️ Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. 🕊️
Psalms 91:9-11
Thank You for this day Lord!
Thank You for my life!
Thank You Lord, for my sweet bride!
Thank You Father, for our beautiful daughter.
All that we have and all that we are, it’s because of Your blessings in our lives, Your grace when we need healing, and Your mercy daily in keeping us from all harm.
🕊️ So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. 🕊️
1 Corinthians 3:7-9
Thank you for this day Lord!
Thank you for my Life!
May the fruit of my labor be acceptable in your eyes Lord!
May You give me purpose in growing in knowledge of your Word and may I share the reward of what I harvest with my loved ones and my fellow man, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
🕊️ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bond servant, and coming in the likeness of men.
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death of the cross.
Philippians 2:5-8
Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes all of you be submissive, to one another, and be clothed with humility,
for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.
1 Peter 5:5, 6
When I was young I was let down by my father, always abused by him, and I was severely bullied by many when in my primary development years in school.
Then when I was 12, I began attending junior high school, which was a fresh start where no one knew me. I was determined not to be bullied ever again, so the first kid who said something mean to me or acted tough, I punched so hard in his nose, it began to bleed everywhere!
I was taken to the principal’s office, I was told I would be suspended for three days, then he opened a drawer where he kept a large paddle with holes in it. When he pulled it out, he told me I was going to receive my punishment of three swats.
I was not afraid of the pain, especially since my father regularly pulled off his thick heavy belt and hit me with it many times almost daily. I was conditioned to it!
From that point on, the whole school heard what I did and no one ever spoke mean to me or tried to bully me, ever, without receiving my punishment on them.
This carried on into my high school years, where it became my mission not to be bullied but more so, not to allow others to be bullied. I began to challenge bullies and I would pick fights with anyone who bullied others who were smaller or timid or weak.
The scriptures I wrote above hit me hard when I first read them, because when I was young, I had become so hard, a fighter, a drunkard and a blasphemer of the proud. I was on a path of self-destruction.
In reading the Word of God I figured, if Jesus had mighty powers to defend himself, or have His angels fight for Him, yet instead, He suffered insults, verbal abuse, beatings and torture, in order to make a way for me to truly be free and live, then I was all in! 👀
I began reading His Word with a passion, hungry for guidance and direction on how to use these new tools provided. I found the more I followed His word and the path of “Faith,” the more I felt humbled and my spirit fed. My whole world had changed quickly, once my eyes were opened. Thank you Lord!
I found encouragement and strength, by reading the Word, helped me to make a choice, to do the right thing, where I once rebelled and lashed out, I began learning how humility was a good thing, and it has blessed me, beyond measure ever since.
My trials and challenges were always met with the forces of strength and patience and peace, which my Heavenly Father and my God provides. I feel He is with me in and through all my days, as a choice, to follow in darkness, or to walk in the light, to guide my way.
Although I am still challenged daily, in my reading God’s Word, helps me to be disciplined to remain that way, always.
🕊️ Show me, Oh Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life. You have made my days a mere hand breath; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man’s life is but a breath.
Psalms 39:4-5
But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine.” 🕊️
Isaiah 43:1
Thank you for my life Lord!
I am old and although I feel young, as I look through the memories of the challenges I have experienced, they are many.
As I see and hear the stories of so many nations and people, like me, created in God’s image, and all the accomplishments man has achieved and left behind. Not one of God’s creation has ever been forgotten by Him, by our God!
I love my life and All my children and grandchildren, however brief a time I had experienced with / without them.
I will never forget their names or my love for them. And yet, they all may have forgotten me altogether, as I never hear from them or read any email or text message from them. Regardless, every morning in my morning prayers, I mention each of them by name. I hold them up before my Heavenly Father, asking for His Spirit to watch over them and keep them safe. I ask for the light of His Spirit shine in and through all they say and do.
I do this because I know and really believe my Father loves me too and I am special to Him. He tells me in His Word, which never changes, that He will never leave me or forsake me, that brings me pure peace, always. Although I may be insignificant in my world and no one will remember me, and although my life is so short and my time on this rock may be but a breath, I breath it in faith and belief, according to His Word: Hebrews 12:1 says, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Thus I am filled with Joy daily, focused not on what I was or leave behind, who will remember me, but rather I’m looking to the day of my redemption, standing in the presence of my Savior and my Redeemer, Jesus Christ!
🕊️ Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. 🕊️
James 1:12-13
If we are a kind of first fruit of His labor, boy it’s taken Him a lot of patience and love, to care for that garden. I can imaging what He means about having “weeds” sown amongst the good seed. We see this daily amongst our children and even more so amongst adults in and around us on every side!
Our challenge, is not always straight forward and may yet await us at any moment. Our Father has seen the plight of His creation, and our only desire is to please ‘Self’, and how we are a stiff-necked people.
So, given now that He put His Laws in our hearts and minds to follow, we should know better, yet we still have fallen short of being His firstfruit 🍎 or best effort.
I’ve lost 2 sons now and I know grief!
I can only imagine how our Father and our Creator grieved, giving up His only son, so we might find adoption as His children, and we might seek and find Him in and amongst the weeds, and live.
Thank you Lord, for Your sacrifice to give us hope, and Your patience and Your Love, paving a path for us back to paradise with you. May we shine Your light this day, in and through all we say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
🕊️ My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 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.
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. 🕊️
James 2:1-8
I have read this many times and each time I remember was at a time in my life where I experience a challenge where the only difference is either trust Him who said He loves me and will never leave me or doubt and give in to my flesh and the behavior that will drive me to a life of passion for self-satisfaction and pride. I choose God every time. I really believe it is not me doing it, rather the Spirit of Hime within me driving me and strengthening me to make the right choices. Thank you Father, God, for Your Love, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
🕊️ This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Genesis 5:1
Father? What is it you see in me that reflects you as my creator? As I go about my day, I believe, and I hope there are moments when You shine through. I pray this day Father, that You steer my actions and my words towards Your ways and keep me on track Oh Lord. I am challenged on all sides, trying to be more like You. May your patience and understanding be with me this day. I feel Your Love and light leading my path, may I never stray from it. Your many blessings are beyond measure, on me and my family. Guard over them this day and keep them safe. May Your light shine upon them in and through all they say and do. Thank you for loving me and sharing Your son and His example to model manhood and godliness, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
You have blessed me and my family beyond measure, in every way. Thank you Lord!
🕊️ Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Amaziah ha done. He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. As long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success.
2 Chronicles 26:3-5
Father, I pray to understand the importance of being a man of God. I turn to You Lord, with my needs, my praises, my thanksgiving. I seek to turn away from all ungodly examples of manhood, and at times I fail. There are so many images and idols that distract me from my good intentions from Your will. Help my Father, to surround myself with godly men, and give me discernment as I weigh the choices in my life. I pray for Your leading so I can read words written by men of God, listen to the lessons of these men and emulate those who live a righteous, holy life. I will always seek to be the man You created me to be, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
All that we are and possess, we give thanks to you Lord!
🕊️ “The Greatest Gift”
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face.
Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE. 🕊️
1 Corinthians 13
🕊️ “Submit to God, Resist the Devil”
Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for
“God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.”
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.
But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. 🕊️
1 Peter 5:5-8
As I travel away from my loved ones, I prepare my heart, mind and spirit, for I don’t know what I will face along my journey.
In my morning routine, on this day, I include in my prayers, my family’s experience and my spiritual wellbeing, I reminding myself I need God’s Spirit to be with my family, to keep them safe and strong while I am away. For myself, I ask God for His Spirit of Love, to reign in me on my journey this day and all the time I am away.
I hope to accomplish all my work well, sure, and I ask God to keep me safe, sure, but in addition I ask God to bless me with His Spirit of “Love” to guide my way, my words as I greet others, and that my behavior in all I do, so I will bring God glory and praise Him for every step I take, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
🕊️ For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
For we are not writing any other things to you than what you read or understand. Now I trust you will understand, even to the end. 🕊️
2 Corinthians 1:12-13
🕊️ Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in his commandments.
A good man deals graciously and lends; He will guide his affairs with discretion.
Surely he will never be shaken; The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.
He will not be afraid of evil tidings; His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD. 🕊️
Psalms 112:1, 5-7
Father, God, I begin my day, raising my hands up to you in praise, thankful for another day, being present in the lives of my loved ones, the light of your Spirit shines in me and removes the darkness around me.
I walk with great confidence my feet are planted on solid ground, my surroundings will not dissuade me, for I know you walk beside me, and the path before me is clear.
I pray the words I speak are true, always pure, with purpose and discretion, with encouragement and strength, lifting up and filled with hope, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
🕊️ 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!
🕊️ 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. 🕊️
🕊️ 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! 🕊️
🕊️ 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! 🕊️
🕊️ 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!
🕊️ 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!
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! 🕊️
🕊️ “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 🕊️
🕊️ 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.
…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! 🕊️
🕊️”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.🕊️
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.
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?“
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