“If you have only known what would bring you peace. But now it is hidden from your eyes.” Luke 19:42
Lord, help me today to take your yoke upon me and find rest for my soul.
“My house will be a house of prayer.” Luke 19:45
Lord, does my life betray the things I claim I believe? Do I insist on having my way — on receiving respect? Do I stubbornly cling to my own self-will? If so, please change my heart and spirit.
“Some looked down on everybody else.” Luke 18:9
My Father, please help me to accept who I am in you. Destroy the pride that is in my heart.
People were bringing children to Jesus to have him touch them.” Luke 18:15 “Anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Luke 18:17
Lord, please help ____ and ____ to accept you with the innocence of a child.
Who can be saved? “What is impossible with men is possible with God.” Luke 18:27
Lord, you can do all things. I ask that you bring those I love to you.
“No one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age.” Luke 18:29-30
Lord, you know my heart. Bless LPC. Build a funding model that will allow us to shine your light and help Christian authors make a living by sharing your Good News.
If I have cheated anybody out of anything I will pay back four times the amount. Luke 18:1
“Do not worry…” Matthew 6:25
Common sense shouts: “I must consider how I am going to live. I must consider what I am going to eat and drink.” Jesus says you must not. Oswald Chambers
What kind of mean little demons have been looking into your life and saying, “What are your plans for next month or next summer?” Oswald Chambers
“You should always pray and not give up.” Luke 18:1
Lord, thank you that you finally have all our titles’ priced correctly on Amazon.
“Will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night?” Luke 18:6
I continue to ask that you bless ALL of our titles and provide a business succession plan.
“I tell you, he will see that they get justice and quickly.” Luke 18:8
Please give me justice with regards to Harper Collins. Please allow me to grow my writing career. Also allow me to step back and let others step forward to lead LPC.
Reveal a way to have a donor / patron / sponsor plan to fund LPC.
“You are a minister and witness.” Acts 26:16
When we have visions of what Jesus wants us to be, it is important that we learn not to be “disobedient to the heavenly vision.” Do not doubt that it can be attained. ~ Oswald Chambers
Lord, this is my prayer today.
“The Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.” Luke 17:24-27
Lord, may your presence in my life be like lightning flashing across the sky. May it illuminate my life and may your presence shatter my apathy.
Let other people criticize us as they will. Oswald Chambers
“It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.” Luke 17: 26-30, 37
“Do not judge and you will not be judged.” Luke 6:37
Lord, I beg you, PLEASE give me your Spirit of Forgiveness. Help me to resist the urge to judge others.
“The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart.” Luke 6:45
Father, please change my heart to be like that of Your Son. Place good seed in my heart.
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord’ and do not do what I say?” Luke 6:46
May I racal your words today and DO what you call me to do.
Be a “living sacrifice.” You are of no value to God dead. Oswald Chambers
“Woe to you who are rich. You have received your comfort.” Luke 6:24
Lord, thanks for your comfort.
“Woe to you who are well fed. You will go hungry.” Luke 6:25
Lord, thanks for my daily bread.
“Woe to you who laugh now. You will mourn and weep.” Luke 6:25
Lord, thanks that through your Holy Spirit I can laugh at my problems because I know you care for me.
“Be my witness.” Luke 1:18
Testify as to what you have seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted. List the evidence of ways you have seen Christ act in your life and in circumstances. Do that and, “You will be my witnesses.” Luke 1:18
“The Gentiles will mock the Son of Man.” – Mark 10:34
Lord, please help me to stand with you.
“Can you be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?” – Mark 10:38
“You WILL be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.” – Mark 10:39
Lord, thanks for calling me to serve with you.
“My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. And they will have joy.” – Mark 10:17 & Isaiah 56:7
Lord, may this be so. Please fulfill your will. May I live to see you return to your House of Prayer.
Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God’s presence. – Oswald Chambers
Get the issue settled between God and you in the secret places of your soul. – Oswald Chambers
In dealing with other people, our stance should always be to drive them toward making a decision of their will. – Oswald Chambers
Give your utmost for His highest — your best for His glory. – Oswald Chambers