Today’s Verse:
"For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." – Exodus 20:11
Prayer for Today :
Heavenly Father,
Life is tough. Life is crazy! Everyday seems to be getting harder to go through and we seem to run into more and more troubles. Our dream list gets shorter and shorter as more and more of them become "impossible to fulfill" and our to-do list gets longer and longer as people around us become more and more demanding.
Father! And this is why we need Sabbath! You made the world into 6 days and You rested on the 7th day. If Father, You needed to rest, so do we?! As He has commanded us to rest for our own good, then we should really make use of the Sabbath to rest in Him and to regain our energy.
Father, other than rest, what should we do on the Sabbath Day? It might be valuable to spend time in fellowship with other believers. It might be valuable to spend time learning and growing in your relationship with You. It might be valuable to spend time to serve at the church!
Father, Thank you for teaching us, as we are all ordinary people without infinite wisdom like You. Sometimes, we are just too "dumb" to spend all our time working and working and working for "the everlasting" and forget about the important people surrounding use, including family, friends and love ones. In Your divine design, Father, You have created us to rest from the daily activities of lives once every week, so Father, help us to find complete REST in You and You alone and be restored physically, spiritually, relationally at the end of every Sabbath day.
In Christ's glorious Name we pray, Amen.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
2011-08-31
Today’s Verse:
For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. - Matthew 6:14-15
Prayer for Today :
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for sending Jesus to teach us how to pray. Sometimes, when we tried to pray, our mind just went blank and didn't know where to start, either our lives are exceptionally smooth or extremely rocky...
The Lord's prayer contains 6 petitions and the last three is related to our own concerns, both temporal and spiritual. Today's verse is an important promise which guides us, to a better future. Father, it is written that "If we forgive our brothers and sisters, You will also forgive us, the way we forgive our brothers and sisters." Father, it also echoed with Jesus' characteristics - He came into the world as the great Peace-maker, not only to reconcile us to God, but to each other as well.
Father, this is the day that You have made, we pray that we will rejoice and be glad in it, today and the days ahead.
Father, we pray that You will renew desires of our souls toward You, so that our spirits, souls and also our bodies are refreshed.
Father, we live on spiritual food as well, for this reason, we cannot go a day without food, as without prayer.
Father, have mercy on us, forgiveness is a very challenging gift, help us to master it, as Jesus did.
In Christ's glorious Name we pray, Amen.
For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. - Matthew 6:14-15
Prayer for Today :
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for sending Jesus to teach us how to pray. Sometimes, when we tried to pray, our mind just went blank and didn't know where to start, either our lives are exceptionally smooth or extremely rocky...
The Lord's prayer contains 6 petitions and the last three is related to our own concerns, both temporal and spiritual. Today's verse is an important promise which guides us, to a better future. Father, it is written that "If we forgive our brothers and sisters, You will also forgive us, the way we forgive our brothers and sisters." Father, it also echoed with Jesus' characteristics - He came into the world as the great Peace-maker, not only to reconcile us to God, but to each other as well.
Father, this is the day that You have made, we pray that we will rejoice and be glad in it, today and the days ahead.
Father, we pray that You will renew desires of our souls toward You, so that our spirits, souls and also our bodies are refreshed.
Father, we live on spiritual food as well, for this reason, we cannot go a day without food, as without prayer.
Father, have mercy on us, forgiveness is a very challenging gift, help us to master it, as Jesus did.
In Christ's glorious Name we pray, Amen.
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