Dear God,
Thank you for the watercolors that are desaturated in the sky, indicating your art work of the weather to be quite the cold one. I am still thankful despite it is indeed cold.
Despite this cold, You have brought warmth into my life.
Thank you for the warmth You bring into not only my life, but others surrounding all of Your beautiful creation.
I have come to find that more and more everyday I live for You, it does become more of the challenge. The challenge that I was so determined to take on. Now, that I am back at Concordia surrounded by a campus that is completely wonderful, filled with amazing people...I am afraid that I'll fall short of accomplishing what I should for You.
Lord, I am afraid, I will not fulfill my life for You and bring glory to Your name. I say this simply to You because I have fallen into temptation to feel haste once again in my heart that is a heart that should be all about love, compassion, wisdom, faith, and strength for the One who has given me life to live...which is You.
My Father, please do not let myself, nor anyone else feel this way of Your people. We are Your people who need the strength to find and understand what love is. Love is about showing compassion, having understanding with wisdom, having patience to understand faith and to accept something so much more than what is unseen, strength is not about physical, but emotional strength. Strength to love unconditionally with the faith of knowing God will provide that wisdom and faith of sharing love that is His and about Him, with one another, to not fear love. Love should not be feared, nor should wisdom of acceptance nor giving. It's a cycle, a cycle to trust. God is the trust we hunger for, but are afraid of because the love is unconditional...are we humans the same way with our relationships with one another no matter the type of relationship?
Father, I pray that you grant us strength to stay strong in You. Temptation to fall...is evident. Protect us from the darkness of this world in all situations...even when hardships in the storm while we ride the ship in the oceans arising, help us to bring glory to You, Father. Let us do all that we do in the glorification of You and the love You have for us. Grant us peace knowing it is alright to share wisdom in faith, wisdom of an unconditional love, and the Bright Morningstar who brought light to all the darkness of this world. Praises be to You.
Praise Him for all that He has done and continues to do for you. Don't linger away from what is truly a blessing in your life, it is not only God that is a true blessing in your life...but the blessings to love, wisdom, faith, and strength are also blessings that are from Heaven above. May God continue to bless your lives.
God...
Grant us the peace in knowing we do not have to live in fear of anyone nor anything. For You are with us in our pathways. Grant us straight pathways that lead us to the life that is with You.
Thank you for the gift of life. It is truly precious. I can not express how much I love the gift of life..and how much I would love to share it with everyone I know and meet.
Life isn't just living in a human body, life...is about being full of faith, wisdom, compassion, patience, love, and the willingness to show the fruit of the spirit...life in Christ...life is about having life in Christ. That's what life truly is...until then...no one knows what life is about. I hope to continue my search for Life and live Life all for You, Lord.
Father, I pray that people learn to live their lives for the life of You. Life is only granted by You and for You. Forgive us for not living lives that are all about You and the glorification of You and Your Son. I pray that us as a people will find Life in a fruit of the spirit kind of way, and Your spirit will grant us wisdom and guidance in finding the true meaning of life and living the lives You want us to live.
O' Praise Him!
I love You, Lord...Thank You...I don't thank You enough.
(To be continued) May our God be with you in our journeys together through the faith of both light and dark. You're not alone. Jesus Loves You and I am learning to love you the very same as He does...I pray we share the love Jesus has for us through Him and one another. Take care my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, I bid you well.
<3 Mak
I will agree- It has been harder coming back then I thought it would be too. We just need to keep praying for strength, and praying for those around us to have strength as well.
ReplyDeleteI find it a challenge everyday to even just pray about certain things. Last night, I couldn't take it anymore and broke down crying.
ReplyDeleteIt's not often I just "break down", but I did break down crying and praying before God....because I knew it was the best thing I could do for myself spiritually. I didn't just pray for myself, but I prayed for His people..not just like naming people, but I said people because we all matter being that we are His creation, His children that He loves so dearly.
We do indeed need to keep praying. I would really like to do daily devotionals. I get emails where they give me daily devotionals and I find it hard to keep up with. I want to keep up with them, but how can I when this world of so much darkness pulls me away like the wind pulling away a leaf so easily...I am simply a leaf that is fragile being swept away when I need to get that life again. I need the feeling of life in certain areas. It takes time, because healing is in time of God's hands, never anyone else's, nor my own.
Keep praying. It's what we can and ought to do.
I know what you mean.... I broke down last week and just cried and prayed for a while as well. No one said it would be easy, and I think that sometimes I forget that. Like for some reason it should be eaiser just because I am Marissa. It's never going to be that way, so I just need to trust God and move forward.
ReplyDeleteI got an AMAZING devotional for Christmas. I do it every morning. If you want, we could get together and do it every morning.
I will be praying for you. Keep fighting. It is worth it :)
Aww...
ReplyDeleteExactly, to fight the good fight isn't easy, but with God anything is possible..we have a promise we can hold close and dear to.
I think it's easy to forget that a lot, especially when there is so many responsibilities and priorities to take in hand...but yet....shouldn't God be those as well? Yes. It's a hard balance..but finding the finer balance is what needs done. I'll pray that for you and others, we all as God's people can find that finer balance in life, to make time for Him and other things alike.
Agreed! I love your attitude. ^^
Really?? What is it? You'll have to show it to me sometime. Hmm, I could probably take you up on that offer!! Just let me know and we'll work it out.
I'll be praying for you, too. You, too, my friend. :)
It is called "Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence" by Sarah Young. I absolutely love it. it is the first devotional that I have not missed a day. I will bring it to Psych today and you can look at it :)
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome. I look forward to viewing it! :D Thank you, Marissa!
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