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Make Your Own Prayer Box

Friday, April 1st, 2016

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A good friend gave me a prayer box as a gift. She and her daughter decorated an Altoid tin and placed a pad of paper and tiny pencil inside for prayer requests. Doesn’t the prayer box look lovely?

How to Make Your Own Prayer Box

Step 1: First you will need to buy a tin with candy in it. Eat the candy or give it away.

Step 2: Glue some cloth or scrapbook paper to the top of the tin. Tacky glue and hot glue work the best. Keep in mind the favorite colors of the person you will give the prayer box to, or match it to the home decor so that she will be happy to leave it out.

Step 3: Use a black marker to write “Prayer Box” on top, if you used scrapbook paper. If you used cloth, use cloth markers or puff paint.

Step 4: Glue cloth or scrapbook paper to the inside top of the tin. Type “Prayer Requests,” a Scripture verse about prayer, or a short poem on a sheet of paper, cut it out, and glue it on top of the inside lid.

Step 5: Place a pad of paper and a small pencil in the box.

You are now finished making your own prayer box. Either use it yourself or make prayer boxes for your friends. You can keep track of people’s prayer requests by writing one request on each piece of paper. You can also write your worries on the pieces of paper, and give those requests to God.

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Good Friday Poem

Friday, March 25th, 2016

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Faith and Hope in Prayer

Friday, March 18th, 2016

faith-and-hope-in-prayerHow do faith and hope relate to prayer?

Are you in the middle of a trial, something that you’ve been praying for that relies on God working on another human being… and there is nothing you can do about it? You have to commit your way to the Lord. You have to continue seeking Him. When that trial drags on and on and on, how do you keep your faith in God? How do you keep from giving up hope?

We can put our hope in God. Scriptural hope is strong and secure. It’s not a wishful thinking. Hope is solid like cement. I’m talking about spiritual hope in God and in His promises that are ironclad. For example, if you are saved and your life has been transformed by God, you have the hope of heaven. This doesn’t mean you are wishing that you might go to heaven–no–you know for certain because Scripture promises eternal life when we make Jesus Lord of our lives. The hope of eternal life is a certainty. Heaven is something that is secure.

In the promises of God, if we align our will to God’s will, God promises to answer us:

And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will he hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him.  1 John 5:14-15 ESV

Our hope, then, is in God and His Word. If God is not a liar, He will accomplish what He has set out to do, and we know His will through the pages of Scripture. A command in Scripture is the will of God, so if you ask God to help you to obey Him, He will answer. If you ask God to repair your marriage, God’s will is that a husband and wife be one, so He will answer you. The timing is the only thing we have no control over. Otherwise we are to pray without ceasing until the will of God is done in our lives. We have faith that God will do so.

Faith and Hope in Prayer (Video # 11)

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The Importance of Silence in Prayer

Friday, March 11th, 2016

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In our society, there is so much noise. We have saturated our lives with noise from the radio, from TVs blaring, from social media, from endless other streams of noise. The constant noise and running from one place to another has crowded out our lives so much that there is no longer silence. Silence is the place where you can hear God.

If you have no silence in your life, it is not possible for you to hear God. You must reduce your noise pollution. We need to be pro-active in seeking silence and resting in silence before the Lord.

The Importance of Silence in Prayer (Video #10)

When you are praying, make sure you allow time for silence before God, just to be in His presence. This is especially true when you need wisdom from God, or you are meditating on a Scripture that you want to become real in your life. You will not be able to process spiritual things unless you relax in the presence of God in silence, in an un-rushed state. You will maximize your spiritual growth if you allow yourself to abide in silence before the Lord.

God ministers to me through prayer in the midst of silence. Silence is my favorite part of prayer because it is peaceful. I am seeking to connect with the Lord. It is sweet.

Sometimes His presence, just who He is–the fruit of the Spirit–is all you need. You get filled up with God Himself in the silence. More of God in my life is usually the answer to all my prayers. I become who I’m supposed to be. This is why Jesus says that if we ask for a loaf of bread, He will give us what we need, and He later says that what we really need is the Holy Spirit’s fresh filling, which He grants to those who ask (Matthew 7:9-11; Luke 11:11-13).

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