Month: May 2022

I can’t help wondering about life without prayer. The thought makes me so fearful that it takes my breath away. Where can we take our troubles. Who will receive our inner thoughts that are too painful to speak. How can we fully release our inner thoughts to a God that hears our hearts desires, our undeveloped passions and heavy burdens. Without prayer, my faith is stripped and my hope dissolved. I cannot live without prayer. For the wings in my life will be unsteady and sink instead of rising above my pain.

I might find constant pain without a means to share it with a God that matters. A God that hears us. A God that reminds us that this life that we see now is the second fold from which we come forth only as babies in bigger bodies and immature spirits. The next unfolding makes us leave this works behind to experience a high Calling that only God knows until we arrive.

Some people live during an immature station in life and are not fully developed. Some people may appear bigger but they are not grown. Sometimes they’re too immature to see beyond the tunnel and through the Light of their own Reflection instead of God’s Reflection of what we are created to be. Just watch the Morning Glory. See what it does to cooperate with God’s plan for our lives. Spirit arrives and freshly opens our eyes and lips like flowers that open and smile at the sun. Spirit invited us to experience a new Day and embrace the Light of God’s presence. The Morning Glorious flowers are open during the day glorifying its Maker. We have options and choices to do the same and to be like the flowers that express Communion with the Holy One.

Prayer reminds us to kiss it up to God. Yes, kiss all our troubles, mistakes, worries, and questions. Listen for the great Amen as a signal that God has spoken. But, are you listening? Amen!

Now, go! Make a move that is your move today. Trust in doing your best. Trust God will do the rest with you and for you. Finally give thanks. Yes! Indeed God has spoken. God had the last word. So, hear God’s call. Say I believe I will receive answers. Then say Amen! Say Amen! Believe in Amen and let God’s will be done in you and through you. Amen

How much O Lord? How much more must we endure? The burden of disappointment and despair weighs heavy on our minds and bodies. We don’t know how much more we can bear. We ask that you continue to be with us and shield us from the enemy. As you gave instructions to the Israelites and guided them with a cloud by day and a fire by night, lead us now so that we may grow and mature in the Christian faith.
“those that wait on the lord shall renew their strength…” (Isaiah 40:31)

Rev. Barbara Smith

Light a candle to remember someone on this day of remembrance
https://gratefulness.org/light-a-candle/view-all

Holy One, we are grateful for You are a source of comfort.

We are saddened by the many lives lost due to the Covid – 19 Pandemic.

We are grateful for the precious memories that we hold close to our hearts.

Help us to celebrate their lives. Give us peace even in the midst our of grief.

Bless us with relief from this devastating pandemic.

Receive our prayers as we light a candle.

In our Savior’s name we park and pray at 1:11 and always. Amen

https://gratefulness.org/light-a-candle/view-all

Almighty God, You call us to “Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or tremble before them, for the Lord your God is the one who is going with you. God will not fail you or abandon you!” ⏤ Deuteronomy 31:6

Merciful God, it’s 1:11 pm! A time for our daily prayer. We enter God’s presence with praise and thanksgiving. You call us to bring our tired, and achy bodies to the throne of Grace and Mercy. We pull over, park, turn off the car engine, and sit behind the wheel. As we get accustomed to silence we listen to our breath. We place a hand over our heart and imagine pledging allegiance to the God of Grace and Mercy.

We pledge allegiance to You God Almighty who rescues us from our troubles.

Thank You! We love You. O God, we receive You. Please receive us.

Thank You for your love, compassion, and guidance.

Thank You for the ways You show up in our lives.

Thank You for watching over us, like Your sheep.

Help us enter Your presence and to draw strength from You.

Sanctify our time together as a rich opportunity to share our love.

We confess our emptiness when we try to live without You.

Merciful God, in the face of all that’s happening in our world, help us remember You.

Loving God we call on You in our days of trouble and You give us peace.

Gracious God, You know every pebble in the sand, every fish in the ocean and every inch of our being. You created even the dust under our shoes for a purpose. You taught us to shake off the dust and keep moving forward.

Almighty God, create in us, a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within each one. Psalm 51:10.

Dear God, hear our cries and comfort all who are grief stricken today.

Strengthen all who are too weak to care for themselves and others.

Satisfy the righteous desires of all who are in need.

Heal the sick, clothe the naked, recover those who are lost and release the captives.

Savior, we pray for deliverance from injustice, evil, wars and destruction.

Help us to respond to Your call to our time of daily prayer at 1:11 pm.

Thank You for being with us. You’re closer than our breath.

You are our Spiritual Bread of Life and more.

Almighty God, feed us and heal all of sickness and disease especially the Viral Pandemic. Fill us with Your love, life lessons, and wisdom.

Give us strength for each day, bright hope, and patience throughout our days.

Help us to confidently walk in the Light of Your Holy presence daily.

As we park and pray at 1:11 pm, we thank YOU for hearing our prayers.

Thank YOU for this new day. Thank you for opening new doors, and windows of opportunities. Praise YOU for those destined to be YOUR children and grow as spiritual siblings. We celebrate Your Gifts of love, abundant life, and confidence to embrace new surroundings, new opportunities, and new ways to glorify You.

We park and pray at 1:11 pm for ourselves, families, friends, neighbors, and strangers.

Gracious God, receive our spoken and unspoken prayers for those who asked for prayer, those we remember, and for all in need of prayer.

We offer our love, our praise, and our thanks.

In our Savior’s Name we pray! Amen.