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God-Centered Prayer: Week 1- God’s Presence
“The presence of God is hard to define, but His absence is easy to detect.” –Michael Catt Do you ever feel like God is far away? Prayer is often a list of requests, a plea for help and a desire to get an answer. Over the next five weeks, we will we take a journey toward “God-Centered Prayer.” The purpose of this series is to pray to God acknowledging who He is and what He has done in our lives. Prayer is so much more than self-centered requests. Let’s shift our focus from what we need from God and give
31 Days of Prayer – Week 1
This is a follow-up post to “Let God Fill the Shoes.” “As I felt the burden of raising my children, it’s as if God told me to stop stressing over my parenting skills and start praying for them more.” “31 Days of Prayer” began as a simple way to pray for one specific thing in my children’s lives each day. While I know I should pray for my children regularly, I often end up crying out when I am frustrated as a parent or when things start to get bumpy. God convicted my heart that rather than stressing over their
Let God Fill the Shoes
It was just yesterday that I was cuddling a tiny bundle of sweet baby in a soft cushion of preciousness. He cooed, cuddled and admired my every move. He’s still a little one these days, but he walks, talks and makes other noises on purpose that we won’t discuss. He seems to change every day. He came into the kitchen hollering, Mommy! Mommy! Look at me! I turned to give him my split attention between cooking, cleaning up, listening to my oldest practicing the piano and a long list of things that filled my mind in that moment. But when
Childlike Love
Love. Everyone wants to be loved. I often challenge my children to find the good in each other and express their love for one another through words and actions. One morning we began with the simple challenge, “Tell us why you love each member of our family.” As my turn came to receive the love, each child chimed in with their replies about me, Mom. The first one hit me in the deepest part of my heart and helped me remember how important my role as “mom” is in their precious little lives. In her sweet, little voice she said, “Mom, I
Out of the Mouth of Babes: The Wisdom of a 4-year old
While tucking my sweet boy in his bed, we say our prayers, talk about the day and read one of his favorite books. I lean in to give him a goodnight kiss and his words paralyze me. In a sweet whisper, and toddler tone he says, “God speaks quiet to us.” Without a thought I answered, “What does he say?” His innocent face stops, looks up and waits. With precious little answers about things we prayed about he repeats his pattern of looking up, listening, waiting and relaying the answer that he is waiting to hear from God. We repeated
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