Morning Leaders. “The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.”
– Frederick Buechner
#Baaam
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Morning Leaders – A Throne
Morning Leaders. “Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.” – Aberjhani
#Recovery
Morning Leaders – Faith
Morning Leaders. “Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” – Martin Luther
Day 12 – The Prayer Cafe “31 Day Challenge”
Day 12
Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. – Hebrews 4:16
“The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it. The time given to prayer by the average preacher scarcely counts in the sum of the daily aggregate. Not infrequently the preacher’s only praying is by his bedside in his nightdress, ready for bed and soon in it, with, perchance the addition of a few hasty snatches of prayer ere he is dressed in the morning. How feeble, vain, and little is such praying compared with the time and energy devoted to praying by holy men in and out of the Bible! How poor and mean our petty, childish praying is beside the habits of the true men of God in all ages! To men who think praying their main business and devote time to it according to this high estimate of its importance does God commit the keys of his kingdom, and by them does he work his spiritual wonders in this world. Great praying is the sign and seal of God’s great leaders and the earnest of the conquering forces with which God will crown their labors.” – Oswald Chambers
Let us pray:
Father forgive me. I am guilty as charged. Help me establish prayer as my main business.
#Wonderful #Grace #DeepCallingDeep #Embrace
Why Don’t I…
Why don’t I write more often?
Writing was an escape for me as I was growing up. It was a place for me to be in my head. In my world of imagination. Where I lived. Where I survived. Where I thrived. No one could reach me there. It was the perfect hiding space.
And now I am before people. There are various platforms for me which have been designed by my writing. This grace God has given me with the pen is my destiny. Dare I share my hiding space with the world? That is a tall order to ask.
How do you take your private domain and make it public? What safe space would there be left? I don’t know but I’m going to experiment with it in boldness.
Day 10 – The Prayer Cafe “31 Day Challenge”
Day 10
Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. – Jeremiah 29:12
A Prayer for the Grace of Devotion
O Lord, my God, you are my all and every good. And what am I, that I should presume to address you? I am the poorest of your servants and a wretched worm, far more poor and worthless than I can ever realize or express. Yet, Lord, remember that I am nothing: I have nothing, and can do nothing. You alone are good, just and holy; you can do all things, fill all things, bestow all things, leaving only the wicked empty-handed. Remember your mercies, Lord, and fill my heart with your grace, since it is your will that none of your works should be worthless. How can I endure this life of sorrows, unless you strengthen me with your mercy and grace? Do not turn your face from me; do not delay your coming, nor withdraw your consolation from me, lest my soul become like a waterless desert. Teach me, O Lord, to do your will; teach me to live worthily and humbly in your sight; for you are my wisdom, who know me truly, and who knew me before the world was made, and before I had my being.
Amen.
– Thomas Kempis
Let us pray:
Share with God what is in your heart.
#Honesty #Grateful #Mercy #Grace
Morning Leaders – That Grace
Morning Leaders. I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” – Anne Lamott
Morning Leaders – Grace
Morning Leaders. “What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.” – Rick Warren
Morning Leaders – My Trust
Morning Leaders. “My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I’m sick or in good health, whether I’m in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.” – Brennan Manning
#Grace
Morning Leaders – His Grace
Morning Leaders. “What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.” – Rick Warren