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Sign Guestbook \| View Guestbook Comments? Questions? [email protected]	Prayer topics Continuous Prayer, Presence, Action My Effort vs Your Working... And Other Details of the Journey High Love Indexes... Low Love Action ... Make Our - Your - Church Truly Loving, Lord Continuous Prayer, Presence, Action Date: December 13, 2006 Thank You for our study group again. The study was good. And especially, thank You for answering my prayer, and really being present and leading us during the prayer time! I really felt led by Your Spirit in prayer, really sensed Your Presence in our midst - just as I do right now! Oh thank You, Lord! (Maybe I was just not receptive before, or maybe I just didn't ask! As Pastor Sid was teaching, "Ask... keep on asking... and it shall be given.... keep on seeking and you shall find.... keep on knocking and the door shall be opened." Continuous present! Continuous action! I still am having those head pains, Lord. Please help! Please heal! Thank You, Jesus! (and I do sense that You are protecting! Thank You!) Return to the top My Effort vs Your Working... And Other Details of the Journey Date: December 13-14, 2006 My husband just came in and prayed for me, prayed that I wouldn't come down with flu or whatever, but just get better right away. Will You answer his prayer? I sure hope so! Thank You! Thank You for his love, and for reminding him to pray! ..... Well, my tummy still feels a bit "off" - but no head pain, just tired eyes still a bit, since my husband prayed! So thank You, Lord, for that! :-) Lord, I was wondering if this was some kind of "attack"? But then after my husband thought to pray, I thought maybe it was just You giving him an opportunity. I also wondered if it was a "serious" illness. And he said he thought I was just stressed - but what would I be stressed about? Probably it is "none of the above" - Your ways are different than ours, and You are in control - but I always want to figure things out. Sometimes it feels like an "obsession" - where there's something I don't "get" (and its something I want to get, because of course there are some things I don't care to figure out at all!). I just feel like I have to solve some things. Is that part of me still wanting to be "in control"? I always just assumed it is the way my brain is wired. It's not the same as when I am just enjoying learning for the sheer joy of it - that's different and I think is probably good as long as it doesn't distract me from more important things - like You, Lord! But some things, I do get obsessed with; I just can't stand that feeling of helplessness and being out of control. So maybe in that sense I am "stressing myself" and not trusting Your control! Oh Lord, please forgive my "self-control" and please help me to truly trust You. I told my husband last night how much we have over-spent, and he said, "Okay, we'll stop spending." So that's up to You, Lord. I look around my room and house and it is so cluttered. Maybe time for a garage sale? Oh Lord, I do want to simplify. I don't want a lot of Christmas presents (but my kids don't understand that...). I'd really like an "old-fashioned" Christmas just once, with anything we do have, home-made and simple! And if we have money to spend, give it away in Jesus' name! Have I been "trying to trust" instead of just "trusting"? Trying to do it (and other things) on my own power instead of relying on You? I want to rely on You, trust in You, obey You - but I can't seem to find the line where "my effort" ends and "Your working" begins. It's not so hard to preach it or think it, but a lot harder to do it. Time for Your Word - and prayers, supplications. .... I went back to sleep from 645 to 915 am. And napped in the afternoon, too. Been really tired - but did manage to get gifts wrapped and do some emails, etc. Thank You for making me feel a lot better, Lord! Other than still tired, I'm feeling much better! Thank You for answering my husband's prayer (and mine)! December 18, 2006 Thank You again for my wonderful husband who has become so loving and helpful in so many ways! Thank You, Lord! And thank You for my daughter starting to go to church again, too! Amen! December 19, 2006 Oh, thank You for the prayer time at ___'s last night. Thank You for focusing my mind on You and on the prayer time purpose. Thank You for giving me words to pray instead of me just praying (stumbling over) my own words! Thank You for Your Spirit praying quietly through me in words not known/expressed by man but expressed by Your own Spirit, the Holy Spirit of Christ! through me! Thank You for ____ being encouraged! Return to the top High Love Indexes... Low Love Action ...Make Our - Your - Church Truly Loving, Lord Date: December 20, 2006 Lord, I want to thank You for our ladies' Bible study yesterday. It went so - well, so directed of You, I believe. We really talked honestly about our hearts' desire to "step out" to put love into action. ____ talked about how on the church survey the "love index" was so high - but how could we be such a "loving church" (as we always record ourselves) and yet be so low on the indexes that prove love? We talked about how we define love, and about whether it is truly the servant-love, the love that willingly turns the other chek, the love that cares for the unlovely, the love that reaches out to the world with the gospel of Jesus in practical caring ways - the love that Jesus Himself modeled for us, here on earth, and that God has always demonstrated through His kindness, mercy, grace, forgiveness, protection, salvation, etc, all through the history of mankind, despite our endless rebellion and self-will - His love that brought Jesus, His Son - God Himself - down to earth as a helpless, "low-born" infant, birthed in a cow shed, and from there through a ministry mingling miracles and personal sacrifice, to the cross of Calvary - and the resurrection, ascension, and the gift of the Holy Spirit! "Amazing love! how can it be, that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?" Oh dear God, please show us how we can be like Jesus. Please help us to see and obey all the opportunities You present to us to "wash each others' feet." Dear God, please, work out Your plans for the New Years Eve service. Dear God, we love You! I love You! Oh, Father God, please make us a truly loving people, a truly loving church - where the loving doesn't end as people walk out the doors following the service. Return to the top
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	Main Page \| My Articles for The Life Connection \| Prayers and Meditations \| Poetry Haida Gwaii Reflections \| Education & Home-School \| Family
Sign Guestbook \| View Guestbook Comments? Questions? [email protected]	Prayer topics Continuous Prayer, Presence, Action My Effort vs Your Working... And Other Details of the Journey High Love Indexes... Low Love Action ... Make Our - Your - Church Truly Loving, Lord Continuous Prayer, Presence, Action Date: December 13, 2006 Thank You for our study group again. The study was good. And especially, thank You for answering my prayer, and really being present and leading us during the prayer time! I really felt led by Your Spirit in prayer, really sensed Your Presence in our midst - just as I do right now! Oh thank You, Lord! (Maybe I was just not receptive before, or maybe I just didn't ask! As Pastor Sid was teaching, "Ask... keep on asking... and it shall be given.... keep on seeking and you shall find.... keep on knocking and the door shall be opened." Continuous present! Continuous action! I still am having those head pains, Lord. Please help! Please heal! Thank You, Jesus! (and I do sense that You are protecting! Thank You!) Return to the top My Effort vs Your Working... And Other Details of the Journey Date: December 13-14, 2006 My husband just came in and prayed for me, prayed that I wouldn't come down with flu or whatever, but just get better right away. Will You answer his prayer? I sure hope so! Thank You! Thank You for his love, and for reminding him to pray! ..... Well, my tummy still feels a bit "off" - but no head pain, just tired eyes still a bit, since my husband prayed! So thank You, Lord, for that! :-) Lord, I was wondering if this was some kind of "attack"? But then after my husband thought to pray, I thought maybe it was just You giving him an opportunity. I also wondered if it was a "serious" illness. And he said he thought I was just stressed - but what would I be stressed about? Probably it is "none of the above" - Your ways are different than ours, and You are in control - but I always want to figure things out. Sometimes it feels like an "obsession" - where there's something I don't "get" (and its something I want to get, because of course there are some things I don't care to figure out at all!). I just feel like I have to solve some things. Is that part of me still wanting to be "in control"? I always just assumed it is the way my brain is wired. It's not the same as when I am just enjoying learning for the sheer joy of it - that's different and I think is probably good as long as it doesn't distract me from more important things - like You, Lord! But some things, I do get obsessed with; I just can't stand that feeling of helplessness and being out of control. So maybe in that sense I am "stressing myself" and not trusting Your control! Oh Lord, please forgive my "self-control" and please help me to truly trust You. I told my husband last night how much we have over-spent, and he said, "Okay, we'll stop spending." So that's up to You, Lord. I look around my room and house and it is so cluttered. Maybe time for a garage sale? Oh Lord, I do want to simplify. I don't want a lot of Christmas presents (but my kids don't understand that...). I'd really like an "old-fashioned" Christmas just once, with anything we do have, home-made and simple! And if we have money to spend, give it away in Jesus' name! Have I been "trying to trust" instead of just "trusting"? Trying to do it (and other things) on my own power instead of relying on You? I want to rely on You, trust in You, obey You - but I can't seem to find the line where "my effort" ends and "Your working" begins. It's not so hard to preach it or think it, but a lot harder to do it. Time for Your Word - and prayers, supplications. .... I went back to sleep from 645 to 915 am. And napped in the afternoon, too. Been really tired - but did manage to get gifts wrapped and do some emails, etc. Thank You for making me feel a lot better, Lord! Other than still tired, I'm feeling much better! Thank You for answering my husband's prayer (and mine)! December 18, 2006 Thank You again for my wonderful husband who has become so loving and helpful in so many ways! Thank You, Lord! And thank You for my daughter starting to go to church again, too! Amen! December 19, 2006 Oh, thank You for the prayer time at ___'s last night. Thank You for focusing my mind on You and on the prayer time purpose. Thank You for giving me words to pray instead of me just praying (stumbling over) my own words! Thank You for Your Spirit praying quietly through me in words not known/expressed by man but expressed by Your own Spirit, the Holy Spirit of Christ! through me! Thank You for ____ being encouraged! Return to the top High Love Indexes... Low Love Action ...Make Our - Your - Church Truly Loving, Lord Date: December 20, 2006 Lord, I want to thank You for our ladies' Bible study yesterday. It went so - well, so directed of You, I believe. We really talked honestly about our hearts' desire to "step out" to put love into action. ____ talked about how on the church survey the "love index" was so high - but how could we be such a "loving church" (as we always record ourselves) and yet be so low on the indexes that prove love? We talked about how we define love, and about whether it is truly the servant-love, the love that willingly turns the other chek, the love that cares for the unlovely, the love that reaches out to the world with the gospel of Jesus in practical caring ways - the love that Jesus Himself modeled for us, here on earth, and that God has always demonstrated through His kindness, mercy, grace, forgiveness, protection, salvation, etc, all through the history of mankind, despite our endless rebellion and self-will - His love that brought Jesus, His Son - God Himself - down to earth as a helpless, "low-born" infant, birthed in a cow shed, and from there through a ministry mingling miracles and personal sacrifice, to the cross of Calvary - and the resurrection, ascension, and the gift of the Holy Spirit! "Amazing love! how can it be, that Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?" Oh dear God, please show us how we can be like Jesus. Please help us to see and obey all the opportunities You present to us to "wash each others' feet." Dear God, please, work out Your plans for the New Years Eve service. Dear God, we love You! I love You! Oh, Father God, please make us a truly loving people, a truly loving church - where the loving doesn't end as people walk out the doors following the service. Return to the top
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