"In everything, enable me to bear the good fruit that you delight in so that I may be a channel of your new life in this world of death and despair; through Christ the Lord. Amen.” (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
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Prayer Note #243: Broken by Sin–Redeemed to Serve
"May I also—broken and remade—be an instrument of your redemption; for the glory of your Name. Amen.” (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #242: Speaking the Truth Lovingly and Humbly
" Grant me wisdom and self-control so that I might bear witness to the truth only in ways that build up love and unity in your church." (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #241: Christlike Relationships
"Lord, my God, kind and faithful: Keep me reverent in my dealings with every human being, whether friend or ‘foe’, by reminding me that they bear your image and likeness." (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #258: God’s Presence in the Raging Storm
"God comes specifically and gladly into the midst of disasters and the sphere of death." H. Thielicke (For full quote, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #256: God on His Terms, Not Ours
". . . a way of life open and responsive to what God is doing rather than one in which we plot strategies to get God involved in what we are doing." E. Peterson (For the complete quote, click the link below."
Prayer Note #240: Christ the Victor
"I am a mess. But in your will, I am not meant to be a mess. I am made by you with the intent that I should shine with the glorious goodness of your image. Your purpose for me is that I should bear the light of your likeness into this darkened world." (To see the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #239: Healing Among the Thorns
"Lord Jesus, the thorns and thistles of the fallen and troubled life are everywhere I turn my eyes. Some days that’s all that I can see, all that I can feel. Their sharp spines tear at me. They steal all my attention." (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #251: Jesus our All in All
"For then God wills to be all things to us--home and friend, mother hand and food for the coming day, the place where we can lay our heads, the heart in which we can find rest and can be like the fowls of the air and the lilies of the field, and say, 'I have nothing, and now Thy hand must be all things.'" H. Thielicke (For the complete quote, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #238: A Prayer on an Easter Morning
"In my own body, in my own life, may I have an in-breaking of your Easter Victory over death? You are risen! May I also be raised with you! Amen."
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