Will They Hear You?

He said to them,

"Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
Mark 16:15

Heavenly Father,

I am so thankful that I know you, that I have made a decision to follow you. Thank you for not giving up on me. I wondered around, trying to do things my way. I didn't want to give things up. What I know now is that the things were not worth holding onto. I was seeking pleasure and finding pain. I was seeking security and finding constant fear. I was seeking love and finding out that people do not have it to give. I was holding on to what seemed safe to me. At the same time, I was sacrificing the very peace, joy and security I was looking for.

Sometimes when I am in a church service where people are really worshipping and you are really moving, I think of people who have not come to know you in a relationship. It makes me all the more grateful that I have, because as D.L. Moody once said as he stared at a man lying in a gutter..."But for the grace of God...there lies D.L. Moody." If you had not guided my every step to bring me where I am... if you had not been patient with me...if you had not loved me and died for me...there lies L.M. Nivens.

For those who surround me who have not found what they are looking for...I pray that you would reveal yourself to them. Show them how you not only can but want to meet their every need. Help them to run to you like a rabbit running to it's hole for safety, like a baby taking his first steps and falling into his mother's arms, firmly believing that she will catch him.

I know that you will catch them. I know that they will find everything they need and much more. I know that you love them and desire a relationship with them. I know that I know that I know...how do I tell them? Please teach me for you have commanded us to "Go".

In Jesus Name,
Amen

From the Heart

Heavenly Father,

How Great is our God! I know that you are amazing. I know that you are able. I know that your love is a constant for me. I know that you will never leave or forsake me. I know that I will see you face to face some day. I pray that you would continue to reveal yourself to me until that day.

My aunt lays right now in a bed unable to move her right side, unable to speak words. She has at least five tumors in her brain. Her loss of mobility and speech happened over a period of about two weeks. They are not treating her, only making her comfortable. They have given her days or maybe weeks. I am thankful that we have been able to communicate with her enough to know that she has made things right with you. Thankyou for giving us the opportunity and the boldness to ask the questions. Forgive us for waiting until now to ask.

We are not promised tomorrow. Help us, Lord, to make sure that we tell our friends and loved ones about your great
salvation. Go before us and prepare their hearts to hear the good news. Help us to be persuasive with love - your love. Help them to see that we bring the message because we love them - not because we are trying to change them or take away their fun or show them that we are better. Help us, Lord to have your heart of compassion at all times but especially when we approach someone with the powerful and wonderful saving blood of Jesus.

"He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb before the shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
Who can speak of his descendants?
For his life was taken from the earth."
Isaiah 53:7-8

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:7-8

I pray for healing for my aunt. I know you are able to bring her up out of that bed and restore her completely. You created her in her mother's womb - every detail that we can see and not see.

For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Psalm 139:13-14

It is nothing for you. If you just say the words then cancer has to go. Adiction has to go. Chains have to fall off. Jesus shed his blood for our healing.

"He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:3-5

Give her a chance, Lord, to serve you. Touch her this day. Give her a chance to be tell her son about you. Give her a chance to tell Michael and Hobert about you. Heal her body, Lord. Only you can, and you are able!

I love you and praise you no matter what you choose to do, because I know that you are sovereign. I have made my will known to you, but I submit my will to you. Thankyou for your thoughts toward me.

In Jesus Name, Jesus Jesus Jesus
Amen