Monday, November 24, 2008

Christmas Prayer



This video is a combination of "A Prayer for Every Year" by Plus One and "My Grown Up Christmas" List by Kelly Clarkson
. Hope you like it!

From Our Daily Bread:
Our Prayer & God's Power
Pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. --James 5:16

When we pray for others, we become partners with God in His work of salvation, healing, comfort, and justice. God can accomplish those things without us, but in His plan He gives us the privilege of being involved with Him through prayer.

When we intercede for a grandson in trouble, a mother having surgery, a neighbor who needs Christ, or a pastor who needs strength, we are asking God to provide for that person what we can't provide. We are acting as go-betweens, asking God to direct His power in a specific direction.

In his classic book titled Prayer, Olan Hallesby described how it works: "This power is so rich and so mobile that all we have to do when we pray is point to the person or thing to which we desire to have [God's] power applied, and He, the Lord of this power, will direct the necessary power to the desired place."

This assumes, of course, that we are praying "according to [God's] will" (1 John 5:14). Prayer is not a magic wand for satisfying our own wishes, but it's an opportunity to work with the Lord in accomplishing His purposes.

James told us that "the effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much" (James 5:16). So let's humbly and earnestly pray for one another. — David C. Egner

As we attempt to live like Christ
In actions, words, and deeds,
We'll follow His design for prayer
And pray for others' needs. —JDB

To give to others what they need,
We show no greater care
Than when we give them to the Lord,
Upholding them in prayer. —D. De Haan

When you can't be there, you can help through prayer.
In prayer, God hears more than just words—He listens to your heart.


How about you? What is your prayers this coming Christmas Season? Is it your Family, Children, Friends, Love Ones, the World, Economy, Politics, Financial, Emotional, Jobs, Problems, Health or any other thing that you want to pray? My Family and I will be with you in prayer, just leave a comment for your prayers, name and hometown and we will include it on our prayer every night.

Please share this and don’t just leave it. Let’s make things change thru prayer!!

I pray that the PEACE, JOY AND LOVE of the LORD this coming Christmas Season be upon you!!


Merry Christmas in advance!!!

Monday, November 10, 2008

Let them be little - Lonestar



Loving Our Grown-Up Children


Comedian Henny Youngman used to say, “I’ve got two wonderful children—and two out of five isn’t bad.”

When children reach adulthood, most parents have an opinion about how their offspring have “turned out.” Some are proud of everything their kids have done, while other parents express misgivings or disappointment about the choices their children have made. How can we continue a positive parenting role after the birds have left our nest?


In 1 Corinthians 13, often called “the love chapter” of the Bible, Paul writes that the greatest gifts of speaking, understanding, and sacrificial service are worthless without love (vv.1-3). Love itself is the foundation of winsome behavior, and its influence never ends. “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails” (vv.4-8).

When our children no longer seek our advice, they still value our love. In every stage of parenting, it’s not only what we say but what we do that counts.
— David C. McCasland


May God in mercy grant to us
A home where Christ holds sway,
Where peace and joy from heaven above
Abide from day to day. —Crane


A parent’s love never ends.