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Sign Guestbook \| View Guestbook Comments? Questions? [email protected]	Prayer topics The Cross - The Crux, The Core of the Gospel Failing as a Mom... Forgive Me, Lord Surrendered Prayer - Your Leading, Your Answers Conversing Fasting From Reading All But Your Word The Cross - The Crux, The Core of the Gospel Date: May 24, 2005 Yesterday I went through my hymnals, and the hymns that truly stood out to me were those that emphasized the cross. The cross – the crux, the core of the gospel. Without the cross: no resurrection, no life, no Saviour. Thank You, my precious Lord Jesus, for Your great unbelievable, incomprehensible sacrifice for me. May I be willing to sacrifice always my all for You! In Jesus’ name, Amen! Thank You, Lord God! Hallelujah! “Our Savior and Redeemer is not satisfied to leave us in the state we are in… He wants to draw us closer to Him…. He exposes our sins to bring us to repentance and lead us on to holiness… There is always more that God wants to do in your life to conform you to the likeness of Christ…. ‘Oh Lord, I yield my life to you. I allow you to work in me so that Christ will be formed in me. Lord, this is also my prayer for my children. Please give me wisdom to lead them on in your ways. Save me from ruining their lives by allowing sin and negative behavior to continue. Amen.’” (Nancy Campbell, “True Love”) Return to the top Failings as a Mom... Forgive Me, Lord Date: May 24, 2005 Lord, that prayer is my prayer. For myself, yes. But also for my children and my dealings with them. I am realizing more and more that I am not doing them a favor when I “help” them with their homework by doing most of it myself, or when I do not give them guidance about their relationships with their boyfriends, and so on. Indeed, I am ruining their lives. They are getting to an age where as they become adults I have even less opportunity to “tell” them these things. Lord, You know I’ve been afraid to be too “preachy” or “too harsh” because of my own reaction to my dad’s parenting (and in the end You’ve had to do some pretty strong “parenting” on me as a result). And as the years have gone by I have also sometimes feared the kids’ reactions (anger/violence, withdrawl, resentment – all toward or from “me”). And I have just become way too tired to fight or argue. I have waited for my husband to step in and take over. But I have failed to ask You to step into the situations. And far too often I have relied on my own “self-sufficiency” and personal control and desires and agenda. I have been a very self-centered person, Lord, and I freely admit it. I also ask, beg, Your pardon. Please forgive me, wash and cleanse me with Your blood, I pray, in Jesus’ name. “Pull out all the plugs” Lord. Do Your work, I pray! May 26, 2005 Lord, there are so many things I could totally worry about regarding my children – their relationships, their education, their finances, their activities. But worrying just would not do any good at all – it is bad, it only makes things worse. So please, please take control and care of it all, Lord. Love my children the right way, Lord, because somehow I just can’t seem to get myself objective enough. You know. Lord, I keep thinking about the whole school-teaching thing. I do struggle with the “school” approach. I wonder if You might be pointing me elsewhere? Lord, please take control. Work out everything to Your purposes. You are my Mighty God! I love You, worship You, adore You, bow before You! Thank You! Return to the top Surrendered Prayer: Your Leading, Your Answers May 29, 2005 Dear Lord, You know all about _____ and her room-mate situation. We asked You to work things out to Your plan, purpose, and glory, and it has worked out. And yes, it is an “unexpected” solution. So it certainly has Your hand-mark on it! And of course, whether it is hard or easy, the main thing is that You are in charge, You are dependable, You love us, and You are there to carry us through and made us over-comers, no matter what happens, if only we turn it all over to You. “Take My yoke upon you, rest in Me, For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” How true I am finally finding that to be. I am learning to rest and relax in You, and I just don’t get so worked up about things at all. One of my children commented yesterday about how I don’t talk, talk, talk all the time, and how amazing it is to see me just sit quietly for a time. Oh, thank You, Lord. Help me to explain it to her, in terms of You of course! Lord, from time to time I still think about this coming summer, but I’m not fussing about it now, because I know it is all in Your hands. Thank You for Your great love and care, Lord. What a wonderful, glorious, loving, Almighty God – the One God – we serve! Praise Your Holy Name! Lord, I think this is really it. Conversing with You by allowing You to begin and guide the conversation, by Your word, and through Your Spirit. Learning from You. Praying for that which You desire me to pray for. Making Your desires my desires. Right desires both in the present context and for Your eternal purposes. That is prayer! That is communion with You. That is Your purposes being played out through Your relationship with Your children. Like Adam and Eve walking with You in the cool of the evening in the garden. Thank You! It just struck me this moment – no! You just taught me this moment! – that when we bring our requests to You, rather than listing them, with suggestions on how to deal with them (please heal my body and take away my pain; please solve my finances with a better job; please fix this problem this way…), we should instead be saying: Lord, I have some situations here that seem to me to be a problem. I have a sore back so I can’t do my work, and I am in constant pain. My job doesn’t seem to pay enough to cover my needs…. Lord, to me these are huge problems. I see them as bad things in my life and I just want to fix them right now. I have lots of ideas of my own about how I can fix some of them, and I have some ideas about how You can fix the ones I feel I can’t manage. I have my own ideas about what would be (what seems to me) the perfect solution and the perfect result. But Lord, Your ways are not my ways, Your thoughts are not my thoughts. You have the big picture, while I am mired in the very short-sighted here and now. You know the end from the beginning. You are in total control of all Your creation. You have set out Your eternal purposes, and You are ensuring that they are even now being worked out completely and perfectly. You have allowed us, in Your great love, the freedom to choose – or not – to love You and respond to You and to be in perfect relationship with You, from a heart of love, not by force. You have created us as free, responsive beings rather than robots, and in that decision, You have opened Yourself – and us – to the surety of great pain, disappointment, and sorrow, if we choose to reject You. Yes simultaneously, You have allowed the opportunity for joy unspeakable, abundant life, in an eternal love relationship together, You and Your children. This is a great and awesome and amazing truth, reality, opportunity. So Lord, here are my needs, as I perceive them. Lord, I want You to take them now, and work them out in the way that will work out Your perfect purposes and plans. I thank You now for doing this. I thank You that I can give my earthly desires over to You, and in turn take on Your perfect eternal desires and make them mine. I thank You for the absolutely incredible, wholly undeserved opportunity to actually be a part, by choice, of Your eternal workings. That is just so incredible, Lord. To think that a weak, vile, unworthy vessel like myself could be used in a positive way by the Almighty God, Creator, King and eternal Ruler of the universe, is truly beyond imagination or comprehension. Yes, Lord, please take my desires, my little requests that seem so big and important to me, and do with them as You will. For Your solutions and purposes are best always, not only for Your eternal purposes, but also for me. For Your great love ensures that whatever You allow to come into my life, if I only turn it back to You and accept Your will in it, those things, whether good or bad from my short-sighted viewpoint, will turn out always for ultimate good. Thank You for the many, many answers You give, indeed, for the unnumbered blessings You provide that I don’t even ask for, and far too often don’t even notice; blessings which even to my earthly eyes seem very good and pleasant. Thank You, too, for those things which seem, in my worldly eyes, to be decidedly unpleasant, even disastrous, but which You will always use for my own best good if I only hand them over to You. And – oh, yes, Lord – thank You for the many wonderful surprise answers and solutions You provide which are far beyond my imaginations, ideas, thoughts, and solutions. Thank You for the continuous great adventure You lay before me every moment. Thank You for every bend in the road, every seemingly treacherous twist in the path, that leads inevitably to the joy of throwing myself into Your loving arms, of bowing forever before You in the worship and adoration of which You are so incredibly worthy. Glory to You, Jesus, Father, Spirit! One God, now and forever! Hallelujah! Lord God, as I turn to Your word each day, and read the very words of Your heart, speak to me, Lord. Soften my heart, Lord. Open my eyes that I may truly see, and my ears that I may truly hear. Take me beyond the surface meaning of the written words, and help me, by the precious work of Your Holy Spirit in my heart and spirit, to truly perceive that which You wish to speak to me. Show me Your desires, Your plans and purposes, that my prayers may be in correspondence and communion with the desires of Your heart, not only for myself, but for all Your creation. Use me, Lord, for Your eternal purposes. “Open my eyes that I may see visions of truth You have for me.” Illumine my heart, Lord. Swallow up my earthly self, and transform me into the person, Your child, You created me to be. Speak to me, Lord. Let all my thoughts and desires be Your thoughts and desires. Renew my mind, transform it, Lord, that I may know and live Your great and perfect will, the will of God. Help me to trust and obey You every moment. Help me respond to Your love, with the love of “Christ in me, the hope of my salvation.” This is Your will, Lord. This is the purpose for which You created me, to bring all the glory back to be focused on You. Oh, dear God, change my heart, transform my mind and spirit and flesh, that I might truly love You, the Lord my God, with all my heart and soul and might, and that I might love my neighbour as myself; that I might have the boldness and love to go out into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that You have commanded; giving them, too, the eternal, unspeakably wonderful opportunity to also come into relationship with You, rather than ending up spending eternity in the unspeakably dreadful hell of total separation from You, their Creator, God, and Purpose. Thank You that You are with me always, even to the end of the world. And then begins the real story, the real beginning, the eternal life, the true adventure that only gets greater and wider forever. “Farther up and farther in!” Oh, thank You, Lord! Hallelujah! You are worthy of all honour and glory and power! Praise Your Holy Name! Amen! “…using God’s lovingkindness in your lives as a tool, give your whole selves back to Him. What else is there for us to do, knowing what He’s done for us? Don’t let the world system squeeze you into its plastic mold. Instead, bust out of it by letting God’s Spirit give you a brand new mind. Then you’ll be able to live and enjoy the good and perfect life that God wants you to have.” (from Romans, in Letters to Street Christians, p 30-31). Return to the top Conversing Date: May 29,2005 (What do You want to say to me, Father?) Don’t “react” to _______. Use My lovingkindness. Don’t complain about her, or gossip. Instead, love her. Be kind to her. Don’t fall into the “world’s mold.” You see she does things in the way of her “culture”, which is really the world’s way, the way encouraged by the “prince of this world”. But if you “react,” how are you being any different than her? You must choose to “turn the other cheek,” then get on with praying for her salvation, forgiving her, loving her, being kind to her. Act like Jesus! Don’t react according to the ways and responses of the flesh. (Ohhh, yes, Lord. I am sorry Lord. Help me, Jesus. Make me kind. Keep my eyes on Your eternal purposes. Help me be kind to ____ and encourage her, help her in constructive ways, even share the gospel with her. It’s hard for me to say that, Lord, but it must be done. Forgive me and help me, Lord. Forgive me for my thoughts, attitudes, words toward her. And my worry and frustrations. Oh, dear God, please cleanse my heart. Make me like You, Lord. Please. Your will be done. Thank You.) Give your whole self back to Me. Don’t be squeezed by the world’s mold. Let My Holy Spirit give you a brand new mind. Bust out of the old. Do you think that the “free school” you observed is such a great concept? So much ‘freedom’ to learn and grow and develop? So much better than the ‘traditional’ school concept where I have placed you right now? Why not let Me show you an even better way? Why not wait patiently, and see what I show you and where I lead you, moment by moment, until My plan for you “comes together”? Can You do that for Me? (Yes. Forgive my rush and anxiety, Lord. Do Your work, Your will, purpose, time, place. Oh, Lord, I long for a truly Godly educational alternative. I long for an out-breaking of Your Holy Spirit, that hearts may be opened, cleansed, prepared, excited. For without that, any new approach is simply another “system” – isn’t it? Oh dear God, please put all Your people everywhere on one footing, one focus, one agenda, trusting and obeying You, longing to be filled with You, in continual exponentially growing relationship with You, longing only to contribute to fulfilling Your purposes, for Your glory. Period! Thank You, Lord.) I want you to live and enjoy the perfect life I have planned for you, child. But it can’t happen until you truly, totally, completely “bust out” of the world’s mold, and out of your own mold that you’ve created for yourself. Take My hand, child, and let Me take you “farther in and farther up.” My way only. Never yours. Can you, will you, do that, child? For Me? (Yes, Father. Amen.) Return to the top Fasting from Reading All But Your Word Date: June 3, 2005 I have got to stop reading all the papers, etc, that come into our house. It has been weighing upon me, as You know. Lord, this is hard for me to write, think, and say, but I want to completely fast from them for this month, and through camp. Please help me, dear Jesus. You know I am a read-aholic! Oh, dear God, help me to give it up completely for You! I want to use the time I have been wasting to meditate on Your Word, to pray, to come to know You intimately, and to experience Your manifest presence! In Jesus’ name! Return to the top
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Sign Guestbook \| View Guestbook Comments? Questions? [email protected]	Prayer topics The Cross - The Crux, The Core of the Gospel Failing as a Mom... Forgive Me, Lord Surrendered Prayer - Your Leading, Your Answers Conversing Fasting From Reading All But Your Word The Cross - The Crux, The Core of the Gospel Date: May 24, 2005 Yesterday I went through my hymnals, and the hymns that truly stood out to me were those that emphasized the cross. The cross – the crux, the core of the gospel. Without the cross: no resurrection, no life, no Saviour. Thank You, my precious Lord Jesus, for Your great unbelievable, incomprehensible sacrifice for me. May I be willing to sacrifice always my all for You! In Jesus’ name, Amen! Thank You, Lord God! Hallelujah! “Our Savior and Redeemer is not satisfied to leave us in the state we are in… He wants to draw us closer to Him…. He exposes our sins to bring us to repentance and lead us on to holiness… There is always more that God wants to do in your life to conform you to the likeness of Christ…. ‘Oh Lord, I yield my life to you. I allow you to work in me so that Christ will be formed in me. Lord, this is also my prayer for my children. Please give me wisdom to lead them on in your ways. Save me from ruining their lives by allowing sin and negative behavior to continue. Amen.’” (Nancy Campbell, “True Love”) Return to the top Failings as a Mom... Forgive Me, Lord Date: May 24, 2005 Lord, that prayer is my prayer. For myself, yes. But also for my children and my dealings with them. I am realizing more and more that I am not doing them a favor when I “help” them with their homework by doing most of it myself, or when I do not give them guidance about their relationships with their boyfriends, and so on. Indeed, I am ruining their lives. They are getting to an age where as they become adults I have even less opportunity to “tell” them these things. Lord, You know I’ve been afraid to be too “preachy” or “too harsh” because of my own reaction to my dad’s parenting (and in the end You’ve had to do some pretty strong “parenting” on me as a result). And as the years have gone by I have also sometimes feared the kids’ reactions (anger/violence, withdrawl, resentment – all toward or from “me”). And I have just become way too tired to fight or argue. I have waited for my husband to step in and take over. But I have failed to ask You to step into the situations. And far too often I have relied on my own “self-sufficiency” and personal control and desires and agenda. I have been a very self-centered person, Lord, and I freely admit it. I also ask, beg, Your pardon. Please forgive me, wash and cleanse me with Your blood, I pray, in Jesus’ name. “Pull out all the plugs” Lord. Do Your work, I pray! May 26, 2005 Lord, there are so many things I could totally worry about regarding my children – their relationships, their education, their finances, their activities. But worrying just would not do any good at all – it is bad, it only makes things worse. So please, please take control and care of it all, Lord. Love my children the right way, Lord, because somehow I just can’t seem to get myself objective enough. You know. Lord, I keep thinking about the whole school-teaching thing. I do struggle with the “school” approach. I wonder if You might be pointing me elsewhere? Lord, please take control. Work out everything to Your purposes. You are my Mighty God! I love You, worship You, adore You, bow before You! Thank You! Return to the top Surrendered Prayer: Your Leading, Your Answers May 29, 2005 Dear Lord, You know all about _____ and her room-mate situation. We asked You to work things out to Your plan, purpose, and glory, and it has worked out. And yes, it is an “unexpected” solution. So it certainly has Your hand-mark on it! And of course, whether it is hard or easy, the main thing is that You are in charge, You are dependable, You love us, and You are there to carry us through and made us over-comers, no matter what happens, if only we turn it all over to You. “Take My yoke upon you, rest in Me, For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” How true I am finally finding that to be. I am learning to rest and relax in You, and I just don’t get so worked up about things at all. One of my children commented yesterday about how I don’t talk, talk, talk all the time, and how amazing it is to see me just sit quietly for a time. Oh, thank You, Lord. Help me to explain it to her, in terms of You of course! Lord, from time to time I still think about this coming summer, but I’m not fussing about it now, because I know it is all in Your hands. Thank You for Your great love and care, Lord. What a wonderful, glorious, loving, Almighty God – the One God – we serve! Praise Your Holy Name! Lord, I think this is really it. Conversing with You by allowing You to begin and guide the conversation, by Your word, and through Your Spirit. Learning from You. Praying for that which You desire me to pray for. Making Your desires my desires. Right desires both in the present context and for Your eternal purposes. That is prayer! That is communion with You. That is Your purposes being played out through Your relationship with Your children. Like Adam and Eve walking with You in the cool of the evening in the garden. Thank You! It just struck me this moment – no! You just taught me this moment! – that when we bring our requests to You, rather than listing them, with suggestions on how to deal with them (please heal my body and take away my pain; please solve my finances with a better job; please fix this problem this way…), we should instead be saying: Lord, I have some situations here that seem to me to be a problem. I have a sore back so I can’t do my work, and I am in constant pain. My job doesn’t seem to pay enough to cover my needs…. Lord, to me these are huge problems. I see them as bad things in my life and I just want to fix them right now. I have lots of ideas of my own about how I can fix some of them, and I have some ideas about how You can fix the ones I feel I can’t manage. I have my own ideas about what would be (what seems to me) the perfect solution and the perfect result. But Lord, Your ways are not my ways, Your thoughts are not my thoughts. You have the big picture, while I am mired in the very short-sighted here and now. You know the end from the beginning. You are in total control of all Your creation. You have set out Your eternal purposes, and You are ensuring that they are even now being worked out completely and perfectly. You have allowed us, in Your great love, the freedom to choose – or not – to love You and respond to You and to be in perfect relationship with You, from a heart of love, not by force. You have created us as free, responsive beings rather than robots, and in that decision, You have opened Yourself – and us – to the surety of great pain, disappointment, and sorrow, if we choose to reject You. Yes simultaneously, You have allowed the opportunity for joy unspeakable, abundant life, in an eternal love relationship together, You and Your children. This is a great and awesome and amazing truth, reality, opportunity. So Lord, here are my needs, as I perceive them. Lord, I want You to take them now, and work them out in the way that will work out Your perfect purposes and plans. I thank You now for doing this. I thank You that I can give my earthly desires over to You, and in turn take on Your perfect eternal desires and make them mine. I thank You for the absolutely incredible, wholly undeserved opportunity to actually be a part, by choice, of Your eternal workings. That is just so incredible, Lord. To think that a weak, vile, unworthy vessel like myself could be used in a positive way by the Almighty God, Creator, King and eternal Ruler of the universe, is truly beyond imagination or comprehension. Yes, Lord, please take my desires, my little requests that seem so big and important to me, and do with them as You will. For Your solutions and purposes are best always, not only for Your eternal purposes, but also for me. For Your great love ensures that whatever You allow to come into my life, if I only turn it back to You and accept Your will in it, those things, whether good or bad from my short-sighted viewpoint, will turn out always for ultimate good. Thank You for the many, many answers You give, indeed, for the unnumbered blessings You provide that I don’t even ask for, and far too often don’t even notice; blessings which even to my earthly eyes seem very good and pleasant. Thank You, too, for those things which seem, in my worldly eyes, to be decidedly unpleasant, even disastrous, but which You will always use for my own best good if I only hand them over to You. And – oh, yes, Lord – thank You for the many wonderful surprise answers and solutions You provide which are far beyond my imaginations, ideas, thoughts, and solutions. Thank You for the continuous great adventure You lay before me every moment. Thank You for every bend in the road, every seemingly treacherous twist in the path, that leads inevitably to the joy of throwing myself into Your loving arms, of bowing forever before You in the worship and adoration of which You are so incredibly worthy. Glory to You, Jesus, Father, Spirit! One God, now and forever! Hallelujah! Lord God, as I turn to Your word each day, and read the very words of Your heart, speak to me, Lord. Soften my heart, Lord. Open my eyes that I may truly see, and my ears that I may truly hear. Take me beyond the surface meaning of the written words, and help me, by the precious work of Your Holy Spirit in my heart and spirit, to truly perceive that which You wish to speak to me. Show me Your desires, Your plans and purposes, that my prayers may be in correspondence and communion with the desires of Your heart, not only for myself, but for all Your creation. Use me, Lord, for Your eternal purposes. “Open my eyes that I may see visions of truth You have for me.” Illumine my heart, Lord. Swallow up my earthly self, and transform me into the person, Your child, You created me to be. Speak to me, Lord. Let all my thoughts and desires be Your thoughts and desires. Renew my mind, transform it, Lord, that I may know and live Your great and perfect will, the will of God. Help me to trust and obey You every moment. Help me respond to Your love, with the love of “Christ in me, the hope of my salvation.” This is Your will, Lord. This is the purpose for which You created me, to bring all the glory back to be focused on You. Oh, dear God, change my heart, transform my mind and spirit and flesh, that I might truly love You, the Lord my God, with all my heart and soul and might, and that I might love my neighbour as myself; that I might have the boldness and love to go out into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that You have commanded; giving them, too, the eternal, unspeakably wonderful opportunity to also come into relationship with You, rather than ending up spending eternity in the unspeakably dreadful hell of total separation from You, their Creator, God, and Purpose. Thank You that You are with me always, even to the end of the world. And then begins the real story, the real beginning, the eternal life, the true adventure that only gets greater and wider forever. “Farther up and farther in!” Oh, thank You, Lord! Hallelujah! You are worthy of all honour and glory and power! Praise Your Holy Name! Amen! “…using God’s lovingkindness in your lives as a tool, give your whole selves back to Him. What else is there for us to do, knowing what He’s done for us? Don’t let the world system squeeze you into its plastic mold. Instead, bust out of it by letting God’s Spirit give you a brand new mind. Then you’ll be able to live and enjoy the good and perfect life that God wants you to have.” (from Romans, in Letters to Street Christians, p 30-31). Return to the top Conversing Date: May 29,2005 (What do You want to say to me, Father?) Don’t “react” to _______. Use My lovingkindness. Don’t complain about her, or gossip. Instead, love her. Be kind to her. Don’t fall into the “world’s mold.” You see she does things in the way of her “culture”, which is really the world’s way, the way encouraged by the “prince of this world”. But if you “react,” how are you being any different than her? You must choose to “turn the other cheek,” then get on with praying for her salvation, forgiving her, loving her, being kind to her. Act like Jesus! Don’t react according to the ways and responses of the flesh. (Ohhh, yes, Lord. I am sorry Lord. Help me, Jesus. Make me kind. Keep my eyes on Your eternal purposes. Help me be kind to ____ and encourage her, help her in constructive ways, even share the gospel with her. It’s hard for me to say that, Lord, but it must be done. Forgive me and help me, Lord. Forgive me for my thoughts, attitudes, words toward her. And my worry and frustrations. Oh, dear God, please cleanse my heart. Make me like You, Lord. Please. Your will be done. Thank You.) Give your whole self back to Me. Don’t be squeezed by the world’s mold. Let My Holy Spirit give you a brand new mind. Bust out of the old. Do you think that the “free school” you observed is such a great concept? So much ‘freedom’ to learn and grow and develop? So much better than the ‘traditional’ school concept where I have placed you right now? Why not let Me show you an even better way? Why not wait patiently, and see what I show you and where I lead you, moment by moment, until My plan for you “comes together”? Can You do that for Me? (Yes. Forgive my rush and anxiety, Lord. Do Your work, Your will, purpose, time, place. Oh, Lord, I long for a truly Godly educational alternative. I long for an out-breaking of Your Holy Spirit, that hearts may be opened, cleansed, prepared, excited. For without that, any new approach is simply another “system” – isn’t it? Oh dear God, please put all Your people everywhere on one footing, one focus, one agenda, trusting and obeying You, longing to be filled with You, in continual exponentially growing relationship with You, longing only to contribute to fulfilling Your purposes, for Your glory. Period! Thank You, Lord.) I want you to live and enjoy the perfect life I have planned for you, child. But it can’t happen until you truly, totally, completely “bust out” of the world’s mold, and out of your own mold that you’ve created for yourself. Take My hand, child, and let Me take you “farther in and farther up.” My way only. Never yours. Can you, will you, do that, child? For Me? (Yes, Father. Amen.) Return to the top Fasting from Reading All But Your Word Date: June 3, 2005 I have got to stop reading all the papers, etc, that come into our house. It has been weighing upon me, as You know. Lord, this is hard for me to write, think, and say, but I want to completely fast from them for this month, and through camp. Please help me, dear Jesus. You know I am a read-aholic! Oh, dear God, help me to give it up completely for You! I want to use the time I have been wasting to meditate on Your Word, to pray, to come to know You intimately, and to experience Your manifest presence! In Jesus’ name! Return to the top
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