Just a short prayer

Dear Father

There are a lot of things to be thankful for today like the computer working when the weather is so cold outside. I have never enjoyed even a little cold weather it’s not my cup of tea that’s for sure. I am thankful that I can be indoors doing something constructive until I can get back to doing some much needed yard work. Just wanted to take some time with You Father to pray for our nation. Praying for our leaders and those who’s voice rule this world. I feel a deep sadness for our country as things are taking place that I know You will not honor. Our values Father are being trampled, our savings are going out the window and our trust in just about anything is being trampled. I am just putting faith in You as You have told us to endure all things. I have been spending a lot of study in the book of Revelations and I must tell You I am fearful for our children, for our young adults and the older people who face illness and suffering. I am frightened for all people right now because I can read these words and they are prophecy… other things have happened but it has never been what was written in the bible to happen. I just asked Father that you be with us and protect Your children from whatever happens in this life. Let us walk the valley of death with a calmness in us that only comes from YOU.

Father this wont be a long prayer today as my headaches have returned so be with the list that stays on my heart always, be with my family, be with Alma McCaghren today. Hold all of us in Your victory until You come or call us home let our hearts and mind be with You. "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." (2 Cor 12:9) Amen

Monday Morning Prayers.....

Dear Sovereign Lord

Our prayers are going out daily to You for all the love that is shown in the walk we face in our daily lives. I want to thank you Lord for blessed days on Sat and Sunday of this week. I want to give you praise and glory for the wisdom You have implanted in the hearts of young men like Lans Martin who Father is taking his voice out on the road from church to church to share with others the power of Your saving grace. Leading the lost to springs of living water in Your name for Your ability to save us from ourselves, bless the efforts Father and let it continue to do good in the lives of those who expose themselves to it.

Father, each day I want to extend to you praise for the glory and wisdom You share with Your children. Thank you for patient endurance that makes all things possible. Your kindness rains down from heaven and we are so blessed to have it fall upon us. Father, future generations will be told about the Lamb and the King and the ways You can wipe away the tears from their eyes and it’s never going to change so thank you because it will strengthen what remains. I pray Father to be in and with those of the fifth seal. I always wonder how long Sovereign Lord until You judge the people of this earth but I know there is a plan in place so I give those thoughts over to You with power and strength to God for Your will must always be honored no matter what my eyes might see or my mind might think.

Father, hold the hand of Lois Allen keep her safe and calm as she faces hospital care and problems with her heart. Renee Ballard has been blessed with a return to work after some illness thank you for her recovery. Nell Cooke is facing a battle with cancer it seems to have taken its hold on this family Father so let her be strong in her walk as she faces this illness. Give her and Don strength and endurance. Watch over Alma McCaghren and just met her every need Father because she is dear to all of us and we want so much for her to have comfort and peace in this season of her life. Be with Pam Wagnon as she laid her mother Flossie Fritsch to rest, with Robert and Merle as they give her comfort. Father, bless the birth from Erica Rodriquez in her new son Emanuel. Father, I ask a blessing on Roland, Debra and Robbie for we are working toward goals that seems impossible to reach hold us up Father and make a way for us to find the right things to do in our home.
Father, also be with the joyful moments as there are birthdays this week, Marianna Hammel, Bo and Shirley Cox, Pam Wagnon, Stephen Fall, let them have a wonderful experience in celebrating life.

Father, Our Lord be with our eldership as they lead our church to the forefront of service to You and to others that are in need. Be with Peggy and Glen and with Lexi. Keep them safe in the storms of life. Give comfort as only you can and some understanding as to why things happen as they do.

There is a day dawning Father and it is in Your hand to guide us to deliverance from the evil things in this world. Prepared for us is a place so keep Your children whole until the day of reckoning comes. For daily prayers are said in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Power and Strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen.

Aggie's For Christ Week-End Happenings....

Dear Father, Master, King

Today our church host a special event “Aggie’s for Christ” it starts with a men’s prayer breakfast to call on You for blessing of the day. A lunch is served and a devo with a skit is planned for tonight. Father much work goes into events of this nature so as to honor You and Your place in our lives so bless the efforts of those involved and give us a good turn out for this event. Keep all safe who are working and let good ideas arise from the basic use of this tool to touch Your people.

I got an e-mail this morning Father and it had these words in it so I copied them because I thought for this day it would be a blessing to ask these things in Christ name for our church, our elders and our people. Prayer is perceived sometimes in odd ways but Lord honor these words and help us to understand the need for us to pray for family and friends.


“May today be all you need it to be. May the peace of God and the freshness of the Holy Spirit rest in your thoughts, rule in your dreams at night, and conquer all your fears. May God manifest himself today in ways you have never experienced. May your joys be fulfilled, your dreams be closer, and your prayers be answered. I pray that faith enters a new height for you; I pray that your territory is enlarged and that you have all the blessing of this life. I pray for peace, healing, health, happiness, prosperity, joy, true and undying love for God.”

Father that’s a prayer I would like to extend to my friends and to my family everyday. It would be so peaceful and calming to know that each day those things were prayed into Your hands and Your will. All of the inventory of names could share in that prayer that comes to You today on bended knees because we know in You there is hope. It will directly affect someone today to know they were prayed for and it will help to clean up some of the messes of this life. Keep us busy with the long-term clean up measures. We as Your body have a lot of work to do let us not grow weary in the efforts. Keep us full of the rewards that are in this work now so that the rewards later will make it worth every moment it took. Breath the Holy Spirit into us today and make it known that we belong to You. Show us the way Father and do not let harm come to Your children.

Father, be with the hammered communities in Haiti, those who stand bare in the streets with nothing hold them up. Send help to them Father and give relief quickly to those that are in great need. There is a tragic environmental image being seen here Father and Your help is needed to calm this collective natural disaster. What happens sometimes is sinister, streets are littered with the dead the only word is heartbreaking as we can on watch the coverage on television. Rescue, heal and be with those who mourn and hurt and those that are helping during this tragic earthquake. Father, when anything like this happens there are always ripple effects so touch people hearts and let them not do harm to each other in the name of desperation and fear. Be with the governments that are in charge to make sure that things are done that will be a blessing to that area. Give men who have power a clear mind to act quickly and rightly in all matters of concern.
Father, also be with our country and our leadership. Governing bodies don’t always make the right choices but there is a reason for them to be in place that is under Your will and under Your control. What should be will be and there is no stopping a plan already put into place so we honor that and keep working for the good of those who love God. Help us be proactive Father in making sure we do what we can. Help us to help You in all matters. Let us be Your voice, don’t make us to meek in speaking out if it’s Your will. Give us knowledge and power to be strong in the face of defeated values. Keep us all whole and intact as we go about our daily lives. Stock markets may take all our savings and illness take our health so we hold true to the one thing that mankind and life can not take away and that is our hope in the blood of Christ and in our coming salvation. Let our hearts be still and know that God is still God and that will never change.

Father, I pray it to You daily for the answers of this life, for the consoling spirit that I need to go about my day. Hope for my family and hope for the church, Your body here. Let it all go to the feet of Jesus let Him work daily to be our focus and cross. Let us pick it up and do whatever is needed for it is in His name that it is prayed. Forever more. Amen.

Early Morning Prayers

Dear Father

I woke up early this morning with thoughts of prayer on my mind the minute I woke, I was grateful for clean water and a freshly brewed cup of coffee. For a husband that was leaving to go to work to support this family I was deeply grateful. I was thankful for the sounds of a heater clicking on and off. I was comforted by the protection of the walls of my home around me. Seems this morning was filled with some pretty simple things but then I realized not so simple, clean dishes, sheets on the bed, a few dollars in my wallet. No not simple things at all really. I am grateful for the everyday life I have Lord and I thank you for being the focus of that simple but not so simple life. I think today about all of those who don’t have even the basics of life’s needs. It is a hollow feeling to know that some while we have our comforts are in desolation while we have an abundance. When I flip on the TV the footage is surreal it’s not a broadcast from another planet and the images are graphic. The new reports are so cold in the matter of fact accounts they give. Father, they don’t spare us the graphic details or the gore. Somber voiced reporter just tell it like it is without the intensity that must truly be there. Father, be with those people that are out there in the world, I can’t even think about what it must be like. I am sure many have had this experience but Father I have been blessed and have not so I listen and pray for relief as Your love has blessed my life with.

Father, many changes are coming and choices are being made daily that will affect this coming year. Let us confidently ask that Your will be involved in all of those choices. From our own family to our churches family let us be mindful that a day is coming that we will need every drop of faith we can have to be devoted to You. We are going to walk in a time when calling upon You is our hope and our only hope. We can read it in Your word and know that it’s coming. Your bible Your inspired word tells us be ready to hold strong so help us to do that with Your ever mindful watch over Your children. Keep us whole in all of our dealing and our daily walk with You. Let us be focused on You. We can see the fear building Father, so calm us and make these days come as Your word says they will but let us all who love You be with You as it does come to pass. Be with the leadership of our church, be with the men that serve You and give their lives to You. They draw a stronger account Father so help them on this earth to be the men You would have them to be. Keep us all in prayer for these men and their wives. Keep the task they deal with under Your control and let us honor Your choices in all matters of faith.

Forgive Father when things fall short, when there isn’t enough, when the work just doesn’t get done. Forgive the shortfalls I have. Forgive the days when the prayers don’t come. Forgive when repentance doesn’t seem necessary. Forgive when things seem to keep coming up short. I try Father but I know that I lack the skills to do what I should. I lack the ability to stay on task like I should. There is so much more I could do but the body is weak and the mind soft in willingness to do it. Can You forgive me Father for being such a very weak vessel. I pray that You will keep me in Your training for I know Father I have a long way to go. I should be seeking more help with these matters I am not skilled in and I should be more on task seeing things get done so be with me Father and help me, provide knowledge, provide help, provide the right contacts to make the right choices. Only in You is there a way to do these things and do them right. I ask daily for Your help in all things that concern my life and those that I deal with daily. Be with my family Father as they have to put up with me as well. Forgive my slow learning Father and guide me to a better way.

Father, there are people who need You to touch them today. The people at our church the ones who have doubts. The ones who have health problems, money problems, family problems look on them today and spare the heartaches they are having. Give them relief from the burdens of worry. Walk with them and remind them that in You all things come to the good of those that work for the Lord. Lay it upon all of our hearts when we worry about the things over which we have no control.

Names I would like to bring before you Father, are Robbie and Sandy, Debra, Roland, Peggy, Glen, Lexi, the Shoemakers, the Wagnon’s, Donna and Eddie, Bubba and Dorothy, Our Elders, Bo, Shirley, Bill and Jane, Harold and Linda, Mike and Liz, David, Kim and Darla’s family, Judy Foster, Blanch Rieck, Flossie Fritsch, Mark Goode, Lisa Mahan, Bubba Rouse, Lucy and Daniel, James Spears, Alma, Laura Gomez, Carol Fabian and Eddie Bridwell, Staci Bailey, Stan and Nancy Dolecki, Mark and Janet. Bonnie’s mom, Sonny Goode, Candis Newton. The list is long Father but I think it’s important to list the names even though You know them these are the ones that came on my heart today so look down and bless their lives Father give what only You can give…Peace.

It is in the name of the savior Jesus Christ that I pray all these things into Your hands for deliberation and love. Be with us Father and do not let harm come our way for it is in You we are safe. Amen

Make this Life worth Living........

Dear Father

Everyday I want to make some time to pray because in Your will there is power and in You there is a way to live that will make this life worth living. I can only test those waters with prayer so setting aside this time for You I come to worship, to pray to be still which is never easy for me to do. A million things run threw my mind and I think it’s more important to take this time in prayer than to go about any other thing I might do so Father bless these prayers and keep me focused on you while I think over my day and restore my faith in this life.

I am blessed to have gotten news that Roland’s job is secure and that no one in his department was laid off. Thank you Lord for our financial security. It is a blessing to know we can now move forward with Debra’s needs as well as some of my own. Medical and dental appointments will be planned out and we are grateful for the funds to pay for these needs as they arise. It’s is so good to know that You provide for us and make sure our needs are met. I would like for things to go faster and be under my choice more but Father I know Your will and timing are the right things for us and I will go in prayer for Your guidance in all matters of concern. Be with Debra and help her to be accepting of this as well. Sometimes Father it’s a real test for me to deal with her and the attitudes she displays in matters that are of deep concern. It’s not easy to know what to do when dealing with her and I do get so angry with her and some of her comments. Father, let me be the adult figure here and keep me calmer in dealing with her. She says I take the things she says wrong and maybe I really do. I know she seeks to get better and get back in the game of life and I sometimes think keeping her under wraps is better because it feels better to know she is safe under this roof in our home. Out in the world it might be a much different story for us to deal with. Lord, I ask that you let me see both sides of this matter and don’t let me think controlling is always the best way to go. Each of us has a job to do in this life that is unto Your will so whatever should be let it be. Give me comfort in accepting that. There are some things I just can’t do Father so when I can’t do them I just can’t. My hands are tided when it comes to some things and some thoughts so I give it to You and I trust in You to make the way right for us. Carve a new depth in my heart so I can become a little less Pollyanna-ish and a little less naïve about being invincible and in control. Let me become a person who is a lot more attuned to others people’s pain and troubles. Manifest in me a tender heart and give me better knowledge of how to deal with people.

Father, walk with the troubles that are in the lives of some of our friends, be with Glen and Peggy. Be with the elders of our church, the Wagnon’s and Miss Merle. Touch the hearts of those who are bitter about matters they can’t control. Give the financial security to those who are in need of it. Keep our temper tantrums in check and our rambunctious fireballs in line. Help us all to walk the thin line that we must to do Your will and not our own.
Everybody is looking for a better way to deal with matters of this life so let them look to You. Keep Darla and Amber safe and working together for the good of that family, be with the Hart’s, and the service men of our country, be with Mark Goode, watch over him Father and bring him home safe. There is no substitute for Your plans in our lives Father so as I pray let me hear my prayers as well and honor what I ask of You myself so I help and not hinder the will You have for me.

It is in the blessed name of Your son Jesus that I pray until You come or call us home Father I lay every need and every care at Your feet because in You there is always hope. A better day is dawning and because of Your love we will see that day….Amen

Only God can Know if it's right or wrong.......

Dear Heavenly Father

Each and everyday is a test to stay devoted to You and I try to take time each morning to spend it with You in prayer so I can face the days work with You at my side. Father, thank You for a secure place in a crazy world. You bless our moments here with the shadow of hope, the treasured gift of friends and the ever present guidance of the Holy Spirit and I am thankful for it Father.

Father, today Roland will know if he’ll still have his job. We have gone threw this before and it puts such stress on him as he thinks he is responsible for so much. Let him know Father you are the controlling force in our lives and no matter if a job comes or goes we still walk in Your ways and find a path in this world. It’s not about a job or a place to live or a car it’s about staying focused on You and letting that be our strong hold. Place that in Roland’s heart today as he faces possible changes to his normal routine.

Last night Father we gave Peggy Hemmingway our old truck to drive while she is having some difficulty in her life. We can’t know if it was the right or the wrong thing to do but You laid that on our hearts Father and we pray the situation into Your hands. It would be nice to know what results your actions have before you do them but that’s not the case. We are trusting in You to help Peggy make the right choices, hold her steady and give her mind the ability to focus. Father, I fear that life’s pressures may cloud her judgments and make it difficult to make the right choices so guide her and do not let the burdens conquer. We can not know the whole truth in this matter and sometimes and effort to help can hurt. Please Father I beg that is not the case for we are praying also for Glen and his health issues, for him to recover this difficult and devastating problem with his health. It is not for us to take sides in any matter only to offer help where we can to ease the burdens. A marriage is a difficult place when there are problems with money and health. Give them rest Father and watch over all of them while they face this. Be with little Lexi and make a way for her Father as I know she sees all the fighting and the bitterness. Protect her and keep her safe. Keep her where she needs to be for whatever is best for her.

Father please watch over the Wagon’s, the problems they face with travel, health matters, and heartaches. It is never easy to watch as members of our families suffer. Be with Pam’s mother give her strength and rest.

Each day I ask You with great need to watch the eldership at our church. Be with the choices that are made the men that make them and the people that it affects. Give them guidance, hope and support in all matters that they must deal with. We are so thankful Father that they have accepted the task, have the qualities that are needed and will do it. Fewer and fewer people are willing to take that on and to do it for year after year. It’s a heavy burden to their families and their marriages so support their work and give them clear vision to know Your will. Father, also work with the mindset of our congregation so they will pull together and fight for our church to grow. Let us support these men so the work is not all on them but spread out among many so they don’t get weighed down and worn down. Keep them, claim them in the name of Jesus to remain steadfast for Your work and cause. Let nothing stand in the way of progress for this eldership.

Father, thank you for the recovery of Sue Pratt, Joy Avery that was a much needed blessing and these ladies are very happy to be up and walking again and in Your service. Thank you for helping them get better and back to a more normal life style.

Father, be with Debra today as we start a new medication and with it maybe she will be able to go back out in public without fear of falling. Let this give her some relief and let it also make her testing be more effective in the future testing she has to face. Hold us all up as we try to find an answer to the troubles that she has. Let the finances be available to pay for these medical bills that come upon us with no insurance to help with them just make a way for us to continue to do the best we can in that area.

The prayers will never stop and the request will never stop Father I ask in the name of Jesus everyday because he dies for me and gave me this way so I honor it in prayers because with You all things are possible. In the name of Jesus I claim that hope by these prayers and I lay it all at the foot of the cross for Your consideration. Amen

Our Deepest Fear

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

----from A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson

Sometimes you get little hints along the way that it's not the time to stand down. It's not the time to rest. I don't really know why but all along life has shown me keep putting one foot in front of the other. No matter what just keep moving forward. Never look back. Forgetting the past and moving on is one of the best blessing in this life. For a long time I prayed on this blog but stopped or marked them private but someone said do what you did in the beginning. Well now doesn't that make sense? It was working great. Why did you stop? I think prayer not only bonds our hearts to God's will but seals our own minds as to what we should do and hope for. God isn't the only one who hears our prayers we hear them, too. Our deepest needs are opened in prayers, our hopes are brought to the surface, our dreams are laid out in detail. We pray it and the Holy Spirit can help us have the strength to move on it, guide it and make it possible. What hold us back is us. So today I am going back to the start. I am going to start praying here because it takes some time it gives me a place to reflect and it holds me accountable to do it. Short prayers, oral prayers, all good as well but here I dig in deep, sit still and stay calm. It's really hard for me to sit still, to focus, to not let my mind wonder to different subjects. So lets get started today Jan, 18, 2010 at 9:30 a.m.

Dear Heavenly Father

My Master, Leader and King I am here to worship, to start a life a prayer, to bow down, to lay all that I have at Your feet. I know that there are times when the unspeakable will happen the heartaches will come and the down falls of depression will mask the glory that You want for all your children. When it seems a bit dim I am thankful that the cloud do part and the sun does shine again for those who just keep loving You. I have very little understanding of the word "why". I see pain most everyday in things I have no ability to change, or even deal with rationally. I take a deep breath and slow down but it doesn't change the heartaches. Only in You can I make any reason out of it. I understand this is a walk a journey back to You and I have to cling everyday to that thought. I had to realize that even in the Church there lies a danger when we take our eyes off of you to see the problems that surround us. Father, keep my eyes on You and Your will for my life. I can be so easily distracted. Programs and projects all have a place but it is You and Your will that should hold us firm in everyday of our life. Not what we are doing, or what we are about doing. Those things shall all pass away, in a heartbeat anything that a man's hands have done can be snapped away without a second thought, a storm, a car wreck, a fire. We are weak vessels with limited ability but You calm our hearts and let us know that in You there is still hope no matter what happens and dark days will not rule us. Our work here is for hope, to spread it to share it and to live in it. Blessed be the provider of that hope, those who can stay on task when it's hard, when it's not easy and those who hold the life line out to others when they fall away.

Each and everyday there is a list of concerns, Father my name falls to that list. I have petty concerns that have kept me in a state of limbo. Clear my head Father I know my task here. I know my work let me go about doing it Father without concern. You have given to me a strong heart, a passion for others and a caring will do not let me hold those at bay when I could be helping someone in need just because I am not so sure of myself. Others that need You and Your watch are Aubree and Ayden Fall for respiratory problems, Mark Goode as he serves our country, Blanch Rieck and Flossie Fritsch as old age befalls them and the problems that go with that. Be with our expecting mothers, our young parents, those that tend to the sick. Watch over Glen and Peggy, Lexi and those involved with them at this time. Soften the heartaches for them and let a more positive outcome come into their lives. Be with Glen's surgeries and keep Peggy strong for her husband and be with their marriage. Be with Judy Foster and the needs she has. Keep us all in the body of Christ under Your watch and care.

A deeper request goes for our elders and their wives. The task they have is overwhelming. They are only men and in such making choices men might make so give them answers Father for they pray these matters of the church into Your hands. They are gifted men and among our choice as a church. We have as a body said these men were the best to represent us, we chose them to be our foundation so help them to help us. Give them the bold voice they need to lead, let them not grow weary with dealing with our slowness to respond to a new path. Keep them strong in faith and spirit and bless the work they do. It is never easy to deal with the problems that face a church so give them extra concern for their thoughts and needs that affect all of the body. These men and their wives: David Ellis, Kim Ellis, Harold and Linda Allen, Bo and Shirley Cox, Bill and Jane Hana, Mike and Liz Miller they have committed to watch after my soul to be my guide and to keep me in Your light. So with that task of me and the many others that's lives they touch please let them press on to the goal with Your backing and Your support for the things that they do whether good or bad it affects many souls that are in Your attendance and should be kept in Your attendance. The job is not easy so always an extra portion for the work that is at hand for these men. Also Father guide them to find a Youth Minister that is worthy to lead. Give us a person who will guide us and not let harm come to the youth of our church. We ask boldly in the name of Jesus for a name who is a cut above the rest to give some foundation that is much needed at this time. Trust worthy and strong to rebuild our youth group.

Lord, I ask that you watch over matters and concerns with Darla,
Steven, Amber and Big Mike. Let the problems be resolved, help Amber find work and let school be a refreshing experience for Micheal. Give them everything needed to be on solid ground. Help them to not be stressed with each other, help them to be kind and focused on the needs they have to be a better and stronger family unit. All of us Lord need Your watch as we help our children and grandchildren find a firm foundation in life.

Father, Roland and I are stepping out of our comfort zone to help someone. It could be a very productive thing but then again it could cause harm. You can never really know what results your actions will have so bless our efforts and keep those who are in harms way safe. Let us do the right thing and choose the right motives. Work hand in hand with us Father because only you can see and know the hearts of those involved. We can only do what you lay upon our hearts to do and we hope we can do it without reservation or fear.

We pray it all into the working knowlege You have for us. Keep us safe, Father for it is in the Glory of Your son's name that we pray. To the victory that is in Chirst Jesus for the love of all mankind. Amen 10:33 a.m.