"I aspire to make your life the model for my own, but the reality of my life falls short of my aspirations. By your Spirit, grant me your help that my life might more and more reflect your life into this broken and troubled world." (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Tag: witness
Prayer Note #246: Partnering with God in Mission
"Grant me eyes to see your hand at work and wisdom to know how to follow you in this mission, neither lagging behind you nor forging ahead of you." (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #245: The Humble Glory of Serving Like Jesus
"Help me to follow you and, by my way of living, to show you to the world in all your humble glory. Amen.” (For the complete prayer, click on the link below.)
Quote of Note #262: Supplying our Neighbor’s Need
"...our ability to connect the excess in our lives to the lack in our neighbors' lives attests to our new life in Christ." D. Gilliard (For the complete quote, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #244: A Channel of Life in a World of Death
"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.)
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.)
Quote of Note #261: Accountable Policing
"We are being the Christians God called us to be when we remind the state of the limits of its power." E. McCaulley (For complete quote, 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.)
Quote of Note #250: Jesus Knows our Sufferings
"By my own suffering, I understood a fraction of Jesus' suffering. And that gave me strength. Now I could bear my own suffering." Corrie ten Boom (For complete quote, click link below.)
Quote of Note #249: Cultural Influence
"In our attitude toward what is going on in the world around us, we evangelicals often present ourselves with a false choice. Either we try to separate ourselves as much as possible from the larger culture, or we think we have to attempt to dominate it." Richard Mouw (For complete quote, click the link below.)
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