Middle of the Week Thoughts

Whatever I do, I must do for my King. Our church is starting community groups tonight. One is at our home, I will have seventeen people here this evening. I pray I can be gracious and a pleasant hostess for all of my church family. May God bless this evening of pray and fellowship. Lord help me to clean my home and time to bake cookies, help me to have a good attitude with my leg hurting me so much, my attitude has not been the greatest.

I ask you to stop the pain at least for this evening so I can move around for our guest. Lord when the time is right with money and time to go to the doctors please help me to find the right doctor to go to. I have already been to the foot doctor, and chiropractor. Lord give me wisdom and direction to find the right doctor for my pain.

Thank you for this day, be with the people in Haiti and be with my family and my husband at work.
In Jesus Name,
AMEN

Faith

Dear Lord, I pray for Faith today, Faith that James will feel better for his rugby tournament this weekend. Faith that our money situation will get better and we will be able to pay bills. May I have wisdom to use our money in the way you would want me to use it. Lord I do not want to hold any resentment or bitterness towards others, please take away any bitterness I may have. Give me strength to eat good food and no sugar! Help me to be a good wife, mother and homemaker for our family.
Be with James as he is sick, be with Laura Beth as she battles with her own issues, and be with John that he is the light for others at work. Lord I lift my heart to you for courage and understanding and wisdom. I thank you Lord for allowing me to be alive today. May I shine for you. May I bloom for my KING!
QB

PS My verse for the week I'm going to type without looking.
Matthew 5:3-6 Blessed are the poor in spirit for they shall see the kingdom of heaven, Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

Tuesday

My thoughts turn towards my eldest son. My prayers are lifted up for God to bring him closer to Jesus. May the Lords protect him from harm, and keep him safe wherever he goes. Lord may he choose wisdom to be his girlfriend and not folly. Please give him peace as he sleeps tonight.

Heaven's Promised Treasure

I was looking on the Hope in God site and found their newsletter, talking about prayer being Heaven's Promised Treasure. I want to share and believe what Calvin wrote. I have many things to pray about, my adult son is on the tip of my heart to pray for. He is on his own, he needs to be with Jesus, to handle his life with his Savior. I intend to pray more each day. Here is what I found in the newsletter.
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Calvin introduced prayer by pointing out first that in ourselves we are “destitute of all good” and “devoid of every means of gaining our own salvation.” But he goes on, saying that in prayer ... “the Lord kindly and spontaneously manifests himself in Christ, in whom he offers all happiness for our misery, all abundance for our want, opening up the treasures of heaven to us, so that we may turn with full faith to his beloved Son, depend on him with full expectation, rest in him, and cleave to him with full hope.”
With another metaphor, Christ is called an “inexhaustible fountain” in whom all the fullness of God dwells whom we are compelled to seek in prayer, especially because God both invites and commands us to present our requests to him:
»»“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” (Philippians 4:6)
»»“Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” (Psalm 50:15)

Calvin ridiculed the neglect of prayer, comparing it to being told where to find a fabulously rich buried treasure, yet foolishly allowing it to remain buried in the ground. In contrast, he said that real faith and relentless prayer fit together: “Call upon him in whom you have believed” (Romans 10:14). Such “calling” is thought of as the most profitable kind of “spiritual prospecting” imaginable because, as Calvin put it, “Prayer digs up those treasures which the Gospel of our Lord discovers to the eye of faith.”
Consider Jesus’ parable of the hidden treasure ...
“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” (Matthew 13:44)
At the outset of Prayer Week, look at the bounty that lies within our grasp! Calvin’s call is to get on our knees and dig up promised treasures, the treasures of …

Great God,
In public and private, in sanctuary and home,
May my life be steeped in prayer,
Filled with the spirit of grace and supplication,
Each prayer perfumed
with incense of atoning blood.
Help me, defend me,
until from praying ground
I pass to the realm of unceasing praise

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Dear Heavenly Father, Through my praying please may I find relief, peace, and my heart not to hurt anymore, nor my back with pulsing pain. God please bring my sons, my daughter, and myself and my husband to Jesus in a closer relationship than ever before this coming new year. May I pray more and find the Heaven's Promised Treasure with a joyful heart.

Thank you for this Christmas season of being with family and loving my family through meals I have prepared and my home open to them, may I please keep my home to be able to continue to do my gift of hospitality.

Guide me God, to love my husband in the way you want me to. Teach me to guide my adult children through memorizing verses, with prayer and with my actions. May they see you through me.

Give me strength to continue my day with my hurt foot, and sore muscles, I am so tired of being a limping lady.

I feel you there thank you, In Jesus Name Amen

I'm feeling a little better

There is power in prayer, and power in seeing God's face. Turn your eyes upon Jesus look full in His wonderful face and the things of this earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His wonderful face. Yes, that is what I did, and prayer is what you did.
God is good, no matter what we go through. Sometimes it's just hard to tune out the pain and the hurts and the sad things going on around us, but we have to tune them out and see His face that is what counts.
Just the same we have to do with Christmas so many Santa's so many pretty decorations and lights and food and presents, but we have to tune them out and see His face that is what counts.
Jesus is the reason for Christmas, God gave Him to us to bear all our sins now and our future sins, and He gave us the Holy Spirit to help us each day to focus on Him.
The trinity is what I believe in.
Which reminds me of the word Believe. I've been hearing it a lot from our pastor too. We are studying in the book of Romans.
I would like a sign that says Believe, and maybe someone will say; "Oh you believe in Santa?" and I will say; " I believe in Jesus, His Father our God, and the Holy Spirit lives right in my heart."

I'm feeling better, much better.
QB

Women on Their Knees

I was cleaning and organizing some paperwork and I found something very dear to my heart. During my first year of marriage, my sweet and precious Mother, gave to me, a small notebook on, "How to pray for your Husband in 31 days", by Peggy Nyquist.

I'm trying to eliminate paper around the house, so I thought I would put this on my blog to save, for you, and for my daughter, Laura Beth. I'll write a day at a time, at the same time while typing, I will pray for my darling husband, and for my boys, Daniel, 23 years old, and James, 16 years old.

Praying according to God's Word is praying according to His will, and then we can ask with confidence.
Day 1 & 16

"Just as water is turned into irrigation ditches, so the Lord directs the king's thoughts. He turns them wherever He wants them to go." Proverbs 21:1

"And I will give them one heart and mind to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good for all their descendants." Jeremiah 32:39

" I will give them hearts that respond to me. They shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with great joy." Jeremiah 24:5

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Regarding God:

Ask God to give _______________a strong, unsatisfiable desire.....
... to know and learn about God.
... to know what the Bible says.

Ask God to give_______________
... a good heart toward God so he will want to obey Him- II Chron. 29:19
... a deep desire to become a Godly man

Ask God to reveal Himself in all His wonder and power and glory to __________________________

Ask God to give _______________________a heart that responds. Deuteronomy 30:6

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Regarding the family:

Ask God to give____________________________...
...A desire o be a good husband and father
...A desire to be an active example to his family of a Godly man

Ask God to make ____________________willing to make any sacrifices necessary to become this kind of example

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These requests are so important so I try to always pray this page along with the corresponding page that goes with the day of the month.

Peace

There is something about this word, that brings me to a soft spot in time. Just saying the word brings a calm and serine feeling. I do not know if anyone reads my blog, but just in case. "Peace be with You"
Love,
Debbie AKA Queen Bee the BusyBee

Praying for my Children with Scripture

Watch over Daniel, Laura Beth and James' life. Do not slumber or sleep, but keep them from all harm. Watch over their lives, coming and going, both now and forevermore. (PS 121:3-8) Do not let anything separate Daniel, Laura Beth and James from your love. When trouble, hardship, persecution, danger or any need arises, let them remember that we are "more than conquerors," and that nothing can separate them from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 8:35-39) Cause my children oh Lord, to offer their bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to you, Lord. Let them see themselves as a temple of the Holy Spirit, belonging to you, that they might flee from sexual immorality and honor you with their body. (Rom 12:1; 1 Cor 6: 18-20) Do not let my children be led astray by drugs and alcohol. (Prov. 20:1) Hem my darlings in behind and before; place your hand upon them so that wherever they go, and whatever they do, they will be accompanied by your presence. (Ps 139:5-10) Put a new spirit in them. Remove the heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Cause them to follow your decrees and deep your laws. Let they know that they belong to You oh my Jesus, and that you are their God (Ezk 11:19) I pray that my gifts from you will put their trust in You and never be shaken (Ps 125:1) Open my three children's eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Christ. (Acts 26:18) Put people in all three lives, who will gently instruct them; and grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth. Cause them to come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil who has taken them captive to do their own will. (2 Tim 2:25-26) Remove the veil from their eyes so that they can see the light of the gospel. Shine your light in their hearts to give them the light of knowledge of Your glory in the face of Christ (2 Cor 4:4-6)
In Jesus Name Amen.