tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9370672884380983982024-03-12T18:47:14.025-07:00Ask, Seek, and Find"And so it is with prayer - keep on asking and you will keep on getting; keep on looking and you will keep on finding; knock and the door will be opened."(Luke 11:9-10)....Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how his ways will really satisfy you.(Romans 12:2)We2arePrayingforYou.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368946550701407426noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937067288438098398.post-88160925609763751302012-02-22T04:23:00.000-08:002012-02-22T04:23:09.833-08:00Keep Asking and Keep Receiving<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif";">Jesus Teaches about Prayer:</span></strong><span style="color: #4d4c2e; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif";"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #993300; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Suppose you went to a friend’s house at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread. You would shout up to him, ‘A friend of mine has just arrived for a visit and I’ve nothing to give him to eat.’ He would call down from his bedroom, ‘Please don’t ask me to get up. The door is locked for the night and we are all in bed. I just can’t help you this time.’<br />
“But I’ll tell you this-though he won’t do it as a friend, if you keep knocking long enough he will get up and give you everything you want-just because of your persistence. And so it is with prayer-keep on asking and you will keep on getting; keep on looking and you will keep on finding; knock and the door will be opened. Everyone who asks, receives; all who seek, find; and the door is opened to everyone who knocks."</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUY0cMkS8lsjX7ruUfvRUbEZMKrS5ydzdVc4mtpTuSicVxPZWBv_U6Vlcu3IG6CQcFZHlvMzSy0j6pKfDbipm9Q63BHzLB4i48fXGwyDlYYU1t5vapjmVTcVei0MaSHjyhHC0KAEUL7tM/s1600/min-jesus-knocking-on-door.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" lda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUY0cMkS8lsjX7ruUfvRUbEZMKrS5ydzdVc4mtpTuSicVxPZWBv_U6Vlcu3IG6CQcFZHlvMzSy0j6pKfDbipm9Q63BHzLB4i48fXGwyDlYYU1t5vapjmVTcVei0MaSHjyhHC0KAEUL7tM/s1600/min-jesus-knocking-on-door.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: #993300; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">"You men who are fathers-if your boy asks for bread, do you give him a stone? If he asks for fish, do you give him a snake? If he asks for an egg, do you give him a scorpion?" (Of course not!)<br />
"And if even sinful persons like yourselves give children what they need, don't you realize that your heavenly Father will do at least as much, and give the Holy Spirit to those who ask for Him?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #993300; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span>"And so it is with prayer - keep on asking and you will keep on getting; keep on looking and you will keep on finding; knock and the door will be opened." </span><span>"Everyone who asks, receives; all who seek, find; and the door is opened to everyone who knocks."<strong> </strong><span>Ask, Seek, Find <span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Luke 11: 9-10 </span></span></span><br />
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</span></span>We2arePrayingforYou.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368946550701407426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937067288438098398.post-39022911917849737572012-01-30T05:13:00.000-08:002012-01-30T05:13:45.131-08:00Gifts and Talents - How do we repay?<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What</span> do we think about the gifts and talents that God has given? Are you using them, or did you use them only once upon a time? See what God has to say about doing nothing with what has been given. </em></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><em>(</em>King James Bible – Luke: 19, 12-27)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And Jesus said, “A nobleman living in a certain province was called away to the distant capital of the empire to be crowned king of his province. Before he left he called together ten assistants and gave them each $2,000 to invest while he was gone. But some of his people hated him and sent him their declaration of independence, stating that they had rebelled and would not acknowledge him as their king.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Upon his return he called in the men to whom he had given the money, to find out what they had done with it, and what their profits were.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The first man reported a tremendous gain-ten times as much as the original amount!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Fine! the king exclaimed. ‘You are a good man. You have been faithful with the little I entrusted to you, and as your reward, you shall be governor of ten cities.’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“ ‘All right! His master said. ‘You can governor over five cities.’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“But the third man brought back only the money he had started with. ‘I’ve kept it safe,’ he said, ‘because I was afraid (you would demand my profits), for you are a hard man to deal with, taking what isn’t yours and even confiscating the crops that other plant.’ ‘You vile, and wicked slave,’ the king roared. ‘Hard, am I? That’s exactly how I’ll be toward you! If you knew so much about me and how tough I am, then why didn’t you deposit the money in the bank so that I could at least get some interest on it?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Then turning to the others standing by he ordered, ‘Take the money away from him and give it to the man who earned the most.’</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“ ‘Yes,’ the king replied, ‘but it is always true that those who have, get more, and those who have little, soon lose even that. And now about these enemies of mine who revolted-bring them in and execute them before me.’ “</span></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</div>We2arePrayingforYou.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368946550701407426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937067288438098398.post-80220126717812801422011-12-29T05:46:00.000-08:002011-12-29T06:37:53.020-08:00Do We Reap What We Sowe?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Are you a sower or are you a reaper? Do you help others find their way or are you benefiting from what was done for you of which you have not worked for? Did you know that all of the hard part was already done for you? Then ask your self, what’s next? Are you returning by helping others? Read what Jesus has to say about sowing and reaping: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jesus said, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” Then his disciples said to each other. “Could someone have brought him food?” </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.” (John 4:32) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VPOjuxPxlK4/TvxtLwFd3NI/AAAAAAAAAFU/AQz5YLtlV14/s1600/Jesus+Helping.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VPOjuxPxlK4/TvxtLwFd3NI/AAAAAAAAAFU/AQz5YLtlV14/s1600/Jesus+Helping.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ask yourself, how will you make a difference today? Now go and live it!</span></div>For More Reading and Prayer Request, go to We2ArePrayingForYou.com<br />
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As you spiral down, don’t allow yourself to fall to the bottom where it is deep with emptiness. Don’t denounce but instead, cry out in your loudest voice to God. Call on the “one” true God for all other gods are only self filling for the short moment. Alcohol will numb the pain; food will give gratification; drugs as good as they make us feel; are all short lived with no depth, but God is every lasting, and he is here to see us through if we are willing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord Jesus, help push through the pain. Help not to listen to Satan’s lies. Help with faith to endure. Help as the bible declares you will to those who ask. Hear my loud cries with doubt filled words. Wash away my ugliness so that I can see your glory. Help to grab the wall of truth as I thrust down into despair. Help to cushion my fall. Grab me from the clutches of pain’s despair. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em>H</em></span>elp</span> with becoming the person you see in me. Help with being a testimony to your glory so that others to will put their trust in you. Lead through my thoughts. Show the way to overcome. Help not to be afraid, and help with understanding myself, but more importantly, help with understanding others. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em>H</em></span>elp</span> not to judge when it comes so easy and seems so right. Help to stay away from damming others and help keeping me focused on your love for them. Allow me to know your grace and in doing so, allow me to give your grace to others.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em>H</em></span>elp</span> to become the person you’d have me be not the person screaming inside of me. I turn to you Lord for your grace has stood the test of time by those that have lived before me. I claim your promises, and I live by them even when my body screams otherwise. I love you, and I give you all the praise.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Luke 18:27</strong><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All things are possible – I believe!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Prov 20:24</strong><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’ll direct your steps – I believe!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Phil 4:19</strong><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’ll supply all your need – I believe!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>2 Tim 1:7</strong><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’ve not given you a spirit of fear - I believe!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1 Pet 5:7</strong><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cast all your care one me – I am and I will!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>1 Cor 1:30</strong><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I give you wisdom – I believe</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Heb 13:5</strong><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’ll never leave you are forsake you – I believe!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>PRAISE BE TO GOD! – I BELIEVE</strong>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
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</div>We2arePrayingforYou.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368946550701407426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937067288438098398.post-87936262209930784612011-08-29T02:52:00.000-07:002011-08-29T02:58:44.428-07:00Jesus Teaches about Prayer<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus Teaches about Prayer:</span></b><span style="color: #4d4c2e; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Luke 11: 1-13</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #993300; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Suppose you went to a friend’s house at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread. You would shout up to him, ‘A friend of mine has just arrived for a visit and I’ve nothing to give him to eat.’ He would call down from his bedroom, ‘Please don’t ask me to get up. The door is locked for the night and we are all in bed. I just can’t help you this time.’<br />
“But I’ll tell you this-though he won’t do it as a friend, if you keep knocking long enough he will get up and give you everything you want-just because of your persistence. And so it is with prayer-keep on asking and you will keep on getting; keep on looking and you will keep on finding; knock and the door will be opened. Everyone who asks, receives; all who see, find; and the door is opened to everyone who knocks."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #993300; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">"You men who are fathers-if your boy asks for bread, do you give him a stone? If he asks for fish, do you give him a snake? If he asks for an egg, do you give him a scorpion?" (Of course not!)<br />
"And if even sinful persons like yourselves give children what they need, don't you realize that your heavenly Father will do at least as much, and give the Holy Spirit to those who ask for Him?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">Allow Him to give you victory by directing your steps and revealing His wisdom. Ask Him for help in managing your day and accept His gift of faith to lead you through. Ask, seek and keep praying for Christ has instructed us to be persistence with our prayer not giving up. (</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Luke11:9-10)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">A suggested Bible story about following God when the world is against you can be found in <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">Genesis 37-46. </span></em><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">This</span></em> is a story of a young man named Joseph who was betrayed by his jealous, half brothers and sold into human trafficking. Then as a slave, he was thrown into prison based on false charges and he never lost his faith even when the storms kept coming. Learn to be your best in the worst of times just as Joseph did. Allow God to bless you and to see you through. Don't listen when the world tells you to quit for in <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Romans 12:2)</span><em> </em>we are instructed, <strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">"Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how His ways will really satisfy you."</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">Remember to keep asking in prayer and to follow God for Jesus tells us</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">, </span><strong><span style="color: #993300; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif";">"You can get anything--anything you ask for in prayer--if you believe."</span></strong><span style="color: #993300; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Matthew 21: 22</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">Suggest Bible Reading: <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">Genesis 37-46</span></em> - Joseph into the pit by his jealous half brothers; sold into slavery; slave now in charge; thrown in prison; the prisoner and the king; the new Prime Minister; the missing cup; family reunion. God’s promises: </span><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Ask, seek, find (Luke 11:9); I give you wisdom (1 Cor 1:30); I will direct your steps. ( Prov 20:24); I will supply all your need. (Phil 4:13) I’ll never leave you or forsake you. ( Heb 13:11)</span></strong><br />
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As hard as it is, don’t follow negativity; instead, turn to God by reading the Bible and by serving others. Surround yourself with the Lord. Remain strong for the enemy will attack often delivering bombs of confusion while you’re trying to move forward by doing what is right. The enemy defense is to jostle, getting you off your game, and to lead with anger fueled by fear; however, your counter attack is to remember God hasn’t given you a spirit of fear</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=937067288438098398#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> but of sound mind allowing you to follow His way; therefore, it is important not to let the battle field of your mind become a quagmire of confusion delivered by the enemy. Be strong in God.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2PjgYiVWA1wBNbsGgQhpXV5DZU1Mi-JdsrS4gAZKa68aLqr0DL6YsKxzrUoSO5cvHFOcQcnpE5twl3uDYJqXhWRX8Uwhn0437GbfAf3APnqNvYnr24xSX5XrRbZB81aqeq_sFdMaeXDE/s1600/min-jesus-knocking-on-door.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2PjgYiVWA1wBNbsGgQhpXV5DZU1Mi-JdsrS4gAZKa68aLqr0DL6YsKxzrUoSO5cvHFOcQcnpE5twl3uDYJqXhWRX8Uwhn0437GbfAf3APnqNvYnr24xSX5XrRbZB81aqeq_sFdMaeXDE/s1600/min-jesus-knocking-on-door.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Read the Bible often as part of your life and then, read it as many times daily as needed to stay close to God. Pray and continue to pray for Christ has told us to be persistence in our prayer and to keep knocking for all that ask, receive and all that seek, find and all who knock, the door is open</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=937067288438098398#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. So it is with prayer that we are led through the battle field of the mind.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t allow the enemy’s weapon of confusion to lead your thoughts. Go in prayer and read the Bible. Learn from the Bible the mistakes of many. Read their stories and learn what not to do in similar life situations for God tells us not to copy the customs of this world but be different and set apart</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=937067288438098398#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. Follow Him and He will reveal your path. No one gets to peer ahead into tomorrow‘s vista before time is prepared to reveal itself. Don’t run ahead in your tomorrow thoughts for again this will be how the enemy will enter through your mind. Live this day and only this day for it has enough concerns all of its own.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Turn to God and He will direct your steps</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=937067288438098398#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><a href="http://we2areprayingforyou.com/">We2ArePrayingForYou.com</a> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0OMmb4ed6KRbfrS4iMJMMDlPuLiPF9Omx_c43bgr72GN3wz0heYsEhOb1r3SKmEbmInX2g56GwleBFq6gZOTY8MRBSBq9GNMeUvGCwF0ZQCt556cUgnAVAR55yYVZeVe63tv6Nu1SEwM/s1600/thy-will-be-done.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0OMmb4ed6KRbfrS4iMJMMDlPuLiPF9Omx_c43bgr72GN3wz0heYsEhOb1r3SKmEbmInX2g56GwleBFq6gZOTY8MRBSBq9GNMeUvGCwF0ZQCt556cUgnAVAR55yYVZeVe63tv6Nu1SEwM/s200/thy-will-be-done.jpg" width="158" /></a></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br />
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(Matthew 11: 28-30)</span></div></div><div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=937067288438098398#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> I will supply all your need. (Phil. 4:19)</span></div></div><div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=937067288438098398#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> I have not given you a spirit of fear. (2 Tim. 1:7)</span></div></div><div id="ftn4" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=937067288438098398#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> And so it is with prayer – keep on asking and you will keep on getting; keep on looking and you will keep on finding; knock and the door will be opened. (Luke 11 9-10)</span></div></div><div id="ftn5" style="mso-element: footnote;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=937067288438098398#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how His ways will really satisfy you.(</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Romans 12: 2)</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div><div id="ftn6" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=937067288438098398#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> I will direct your steps. (Proverbs 20:24)</span></div></div><br />
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /></div>We2arePrayingforYou.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18368946550701407426noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937067288438098398.post-7063671173132729852010-12-09T05:23:00.000-08:002011-06-15T19:47:19.444-07:00God has not given us a Sprit of Fear<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0sIo_7Dy_UhDXo9DHZ_VOAQWfACnPT19aunD6sH04cLaLWiCMIyqys5PYLgDTUCcnrqXQXhRHvUenOyuJTyLors6bmme2UiZ2i0_B6kSAzcQ5qEXC6cQN1Y90QqCnhfHMO2RXnCDEtXc/s1600/Jesus+Tempted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0sIo_7Dy_UhDXo9DHZ_VOAQWfACnPT19aunD6sH04cLaLWiCMIyqys5PYLgDTUCcnrqXQXhRHvUenOyuJTyLors6bmme2UiZ2i0_B6kSAzcQ5qEXC6cQN1Y90QqCnhfHMO2RXnCDEtXc/s200/Jesus+Tempted.jpg" t8="true" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">God tells us,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> “I have not given you a spirit of fear.” <span style="font-size: small;"> 2 Timothy 1:7</span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> In visits with my dying friend who was almost eighty years old, I would read the <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bible</span></em> to him and we would enjoyed long talks. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> Near the end of his life he said something that surprised me. With a look of fear, he said, “I did nothing in my life, and I know I could've done so much more." I stopped my friend from continuing once I realized what was happening. Satan was attacking him in his weakest moment with doubt and fear by telling him he wasn't good enough for heaven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> Satan will attack anyone, anywhere, and if we listen, we will become confused. We must push away from our mind thoughts of doubt or fear and take our concerns to God for the Bible tells us “To cast all of our care on Him." (</span><span style="font-family: "Times", "serif";">1st Peter 5:7) </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">I told my friend that he had lived a good life, and that I was very proud of him. I reminded him of his many accomplishments:</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> Satan will come at us during our weakest hour telling us we are not good enough and that no one loves us. He will lie telling us we are alone when Jesus said, “I will be with you to the end of the world.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">(Matthew 28: 20). <span style="font-size: small;">God loves us so much that He has made our way through Jesus Christ.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> We must not listen to the lies of Satan but remember the truth. The <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">Bible</span></em> reads, </span><span style="font-family: "Times", "serif";">(John 3:16)</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> “ For God so love the world that he gave his one and only son and that anyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.” </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">Never allow yourself to listen to Satan's lies and when they come, say a pray. Say another prayer and another if needed, for we know from the <em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";">Bible</span></em> that “God will never leave us or forsake us." (</span><span style="font-family: "Times", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Hebrew 13: 5).</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> He will hear and answer our prayers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> I prayed with my friend and we asked for God to strengthen his faith. I reminded him that God hears and answers our prayers and that Jesus tells us in</span><span style="font-family: "Times", "serif";"> (Luke: 9-11)</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> to keep asking in prayer with persistence. I told my friend that God loves him, and that I'm very thankful out of all of the millions and millions of people in our world that I'm so thankful for knowing and loving him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> My friend went to be with the Lord shortly after our last visit. I'm blessed with knowing that the Lord used me to give my friend comfort during his last days and that my friend is in the House of the Lord.</span><br />
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