Today, I woke up and had an argument with my wife. It was silly. You see, for some reason, I’m a morning person and my wife, well, she’s not a morning person. This is normally a great setup. I’ll end up having some time alone in the morning, while she is catching up on much needed sleep. Sometimes, she has trouble sleeping at night, so the morning is a good time for her to sleep. This morning, as usual, I was up working on my websites. And she was sleeping. I took care not to be noisy on the computer this morning, but she is such a light sleeper that I woke her up. She was upset that I woke her up, and I was upset that I had to go out of the room to let her sleep, so this morning it did not go as planned. I got my feelings hurt and I drove out to the park to get away. At the park, on a Monday morning, it’s very quiet. It’s such a contrast to Sunday evening. On the weekend, there’s so many people here. This morning I have been simply soaking in all of the beautiful scenery of the park and I noticed, for the first time, all of the trash left behind from everyone the day before. In the pond and streams there’s trash. Near the grills and picnic table there’s trash. From a distance the surface of the water is beautiful, but once you look beneath the surface, the water is full of trash left by many people over the years. It’s funny I have been coming to this park for almost 10 years and I never noticed the trash until now.
This is a type of allegory of my life and in some ways it may resemble your life in part, too. From a distance it appears like I’m the perfect example of a good person, but once you go deeper there’s a lot of trash that pollutes my life and the life of others. I’m selfish. I take advantage of others’ love. I’m just in it for myself. I put my desires before the desires of others. This reminds me of how God looks at us and what we should be mindful of. In 1 Samuel 16:7 God tells Samuel, “For the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart”. Let us not be concerned about so much how we appear on the outside, but us go deeper and fulfill God’s purpose for us by being who God wants us to be. I’m not saying that our outward appearance is not important, but that we can become a selfish god unto ourselves if we do not change our heart towards the desires of God’s heart. Just as people abused the blessing of the park by leaving their trash everywhere, that was how I abused the blessing of my wife by taking her for granted and not thinking of her needs before mine. Let us not abuse the blessing that God has given us with people around us and His salvation. Rather, let us be a blessing to others around us, putting them first and ourselves second. Don’t abuse the blessing God has given you.
PRAYER: Jesus, today, I give you all of my life and blessings. Teach me to value and love the people and many blessings you have given me. Teach me to not be concerned about superficial matters but rather let me be concerned with the condition of my spiritual heart. I worship you, Jesus, my savior, and give you my desires for your glory. In your perfect name I pray today, Jesus, Amen.
Dear Lord,
I know I’m not a faithful believer and can be a hypocrite sometimes, but here I am bowing low before you, I pray that you keep my family and I safe.
We’re going to Thailand on 31st Jan for a vacation, and I have a sudden phobia about flying, and this type of fear have not happen to me before.
God, I pray that you preserves us, keep us and the people on the plane safe. I’m sorry if this seems frivolous, but I really really need your protecting, Lord.
And finally…I’m sorry for the cowardice I’ve displayed regarding You in the past.
Please keep me and the people around me strong Lord.
Bless the people on this site. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
Lord jesus please help me build my family again.. my daughters father is in other woman since 4 months.. jesus i really want him back to us.. i don’t want my babies grow up with out a father. lord jesus please please give us another 2nd chance to be together again. Lord i know you are the one who can allow that please jesus i don’t ask for anything except for my husband presence to be with us again. Lord please lead him for the right way please make his mistakes cleared. lead him jesus to do good things to others.
I’ll pray for you, Grace.
Lord, please give Grace the strength to overcome this and please protect her and her babies to have a husband,, a father that will treat them right.
Please led her husband to the right path, let her be filled with your love and blessings. Bless the children.
May her family be filled with your light, Dear Lord.
In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
Thank you Lord for all you have given me even through im not worthy of any thing.Thank you . and i’ll see you soon…
Dear Jesus, Thank you for all the many blessings. Lord I ask you to please help Jason. He is not a bad young man, he just follows bad people. His friends are not nice. He needs to find some good clean caring friends Lord. He needs to be mature in his thinking and responsible with what he does. He has responsibitlies. I help him a lot lord money wise. But I cannot do it anymore. he needs to start saving and be responsible with his money. I believe he gambles which is a no no. drinks Lord Please deliver him from all these nasty habits let him be mature and rational with his life. Lord he needs a nice clean caring young lady in his life that will set him straight. He is also very lonley lord please let him find someone that cares for him. Lord he also went for an interview about a month ago. they are suppost to make a decision on May 6, Lord I ask you please let him be one of the candidates that got the job. This is a job he really wanted it would be so great. Lord I pray with all my heart that he gets this call. Jesus Thank you so much. Amen
Dear Lord, Please help me Lord, I got paid last week. my paycheque is almost gone but not for me for my family. My sister is dire straight she had an empty refridgerator my heart almost fell. I gave her money to shop for groceries, my nephew just started a new job he had not money at all I had to give him the money for bus fares, for him to grocery shop and lunches. My paycheque is almost all gone. Lord I am not complaining about that because they say charity starts at home to give and I do Lord I cannot sit at a dinner table knowing that a member of my family has nothing to eat. Lord I need you to help me with my husband. So far he hasen’t asked about my pay. Please don’t let him ask at all until next week I get paid then and I will put the whole pay cheque into the joint account. If he asks lord I might as well run for my life. Lord I Know we have to be honest, but there are certain things that I cannot say to him because he gets so angry. Lord please forgive me for not telling my husband but he cannot know he because too angry and always on my case. Lord Jesus. I ask you please to help me in this situation that he will not even mention pay from last week at all. Thank you Jesus.
dear heavenly father~
thank you for all the wonderful blessings you have given me in my life. please forgive for my sins and the wrongdoings that you feel i have made. i pray that you will restore my relationship with tem. he feels that he can’t trust me because of a mistake i made. i was not unfaithful to him. he has many demons from his past that he has not dealt with and that holds him back. i know he still loves me and if he could only forgive himself for the past he can move past it and have a wonderful future with me. i know you have already created each of our paths of life and i pray everyday that you will have our paths rejoin again. lord please hear my prayers.
in jesus name
AMEN
pls pray that i dont have to surrender my house due to financial problems.pls pray that god shows us some way out and that i am not homeless again.thankyou.praise the lord.
Dear god, in the name of jesus pls bless my husband vinod with abundant finance.pls bless him with plenty of business work, new projects,travel and finances so that he comes out of his financial problems and depression.thankyou.praise the lord.
I want my happy back!
Jasmine~
I feel the same way. It is a terrbile feeling to have. I will pray for you.
Dear God. Thank you for all of the blessings you have given me. You have given me my health; thank you for giving me a wife who is strong willed & beautiful & morally clear-headed & incredibly hard working and selfless and giving & pure of heart & patient & devoted to our four children; thank you for our four boys, who are healthy & exuberant & respectful & curious & loving of their mother & of one another – their vivacious love of life is an enormous inspiration and charge to me. Thank you for the opportunities and possibilities that abound in our new home. I have struggled for many years to provide for my family with my craft and I have finally gotten some traction and income in or new city doing this thing that I love so much. But our savings are just about gone and bills are beginning to accumulate.
Please tell me the direction you want me to go in order to provide for my family, and please help me to hear your answer. Your voice & direction seem so faint & indecipherable to me among the cacophony of life I beg that you help me hear you.
My wife & children deserve to be taken care of and I am not doing enough.
My skills in my craft are strong – although always in need of improvement and growth – yet my personality can be off-putting & difficult, getting in the way of developing the relationships necessary for my business to thrive. Please help me to soften my heart and my sarcastic skeptical tongue, please help new to choose my words carefully and lovingly. Please help me to open my heart to the friendships that await and that are so important to success. I carry so many resentments around with me, please help me to let go and forgive, please help me to trust and to see only the best in others. Please help me to be more like my wife and my children, who are open and smiling and trusting and likeable. I truly do not deserve a wife as good as the wife you have given me dear God. Please help me to shower her with the respect and assurance and support and love she deserves, but most of all please help me to provide financially for my wife and children. Please help me to know if I should stay with this craft that I have been developing for more than five years and that only in the last 12 months has begun to generate income, now that we have fled the closed society of Utah. Am I going to be able to provide for my family with my craft? Should I rely upon my slowly developed craft, or should I look in another direction in order to pay my bills and provide the basics and many opportuvnities for my children?
My mother is 71 years old and I do not like my step-FATHER. He hates me. My mother and him fights like Cats and Dogs. I want my house back, my job, and God will take care of my health.
Dear Lord: I need your hand now more than ever these days. I worked hard for some 30 years but now I just had my toes amputated on my foot because of infection and I am down to my last few dollars to get by. I am a good man living with my handicapped fiance and trying to provide for her. I am getting truely scared. Hear my prayer Lord, or maybe anyone out there who wants a valued friend, but one in need. Peace to all. Amen
SEÑOR NO ME SUELTES DE TU MANO, PREPARA MI MENTE Y MI CORAZON PARA EL CAMINO QUE DEBO TOMAR, NO ALEJES DE MI TU SANTO ESPIRITU DE AMOR Y PROTEGEME CON TU MANTO DE AMOR…..
Thanks for just keeping me and my family healthy and safe.