Prayer Verses/Encouragement

[Easyrider]

A Sincere Desire to Please GOD will result in an Alignment of your
Desires with GOD’s Desires. You will Love what GOD Loves and
Hate what GOD Hates. If you Love the LORD, you will Hate Evil.

If you do not despise the actions of people who take advantage of
others, if you admire people who only look out for themselves, or
if you envy those who get ahead using any means to accomplish
their ends, then your Primary Desire in life is not to please GOD.

Learn to Love GOD’s Ways and Hate Evil in every Form-
not only the obvious sins but also the Socially Acceptable Ones !!!

 

[irenemcg]

Col 2:6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him,
Col 2:7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Col 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
Col 2:9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
Col 2:10 and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.

 

[Easyrider]

Christians should live in Peace !!! This does not eliminate all differences
in opinion, but Loving Christians will Work Together despite their differences.

Such Love is not a feeling, but a Decision to Meet Others’ Needs (1 Corinthians 13).
This Commitment to others leads to Peace between individuals
and among the members of the Body of Believers.

Do problems in your relationships with other Christians cause
open conflicts or mutual silence? Consider what you can do
to Heal those Relationships with Love....

 

[irenemcg]

TAKE ME BACK TO THE CROSS

Father, take me back to the cross that I might see,
More of what it cost for my Lord to die for me,
From heaven’s glory He came to a lowly birth,
Born in Bethlehem as Micah had prophesied this.

One among the twelve betrayed Him with a kiss,
Giving His master up for thirty pieces of silver no less,
What anguish of heart the Lord Jesus must have felt at this?
For Judas saw Him as Master, but He was never His Lord.

In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus sweat drops of blood,
As he contemplated the bitter cup he must drink,
He must go as a lamb to the slaughter as prophesied in the Word,
The mental anguish of this must been horrific I think.

The agonising scourging He took was that I might be healed,
For by His Stripes my sicknesses and diseases are healed,
It was my sins that took my Lord to the cross on that day,
He died that his blood might wash my sins all away.

And what excruciating pain he bore for one such as me,
The scourging alone would remove layers of skin.
His nerves would be exposed and damaged can’t you see?
Oh the agony, that my Lord endured and He did it all for me.

Pilate asked the crowds who to release, would it be Jesus Son of Man?
But the crowds wanted release of the thief Barabbas the son of a man.
So Pilate gave Jesus up to the crowd, washing his hands of this dreadful deed,
The King of the Jews wearing a crown of thorns, this would be agony indeed.

Beaten, bleeding and in excruciating pain Jesus must go up Mount Calvary,
The cross on His back He must bear, so God sent Simon His cross to bear,
And all around the crowds did jeer as Jesus proceeded, their sins to bear,
A bitter cup of gall they offered Him to drink at Golgotha on Mount Calvary.

But the bitterest cup of all was that which He swallowed on the cross,
When He took your sins and mine on His body on the cross,
They nailed Him to the cross piercing His hands and his feet,
And they made His grave with the wicked, He who knew no deceit.

My Saviours words to You Father were “Forgive them for they know not what they do,”
Then as He was taking the sins of the whole world on Himself, He cried “It is finished.”
And now I gaze upon that cross and get an inkling of what He suffered for me and you,
I’m so thankful that He has forgiven me for it was for me His blood was shed.

The temple veil to the Holy of Holies was rent in two making way for me to enter in,
A once for all sacrifice by the precious Lamb of God, Messiah, had been paid for my sin,
The grave couldn’t hold Him and on the third day the King of Kings rose again,
Now He sits at the Father’s right hand on His heavenly throne, and soon He’s coming again

Irene McGough © 2007

 

[CindyisHis]

"Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;
wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons;
he sets up kings and deposes them.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning.
He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him.
I thank and praise you, O God of my fathers:
You have given me wisdom and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you,
you have made known to us the dream of the king."
Daniel 2:20-23

 

[pilgrimgal]

"Do not fear, for I am with you, do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. " (Isaiah 41:10 (NASB)