My Monday Prayer: A Prayer for Guidance

Our Monday postings are presently focused on prayer. Not teachings or meditations on prayer, but actual prayers based upon God’s Word. We encourage you to pray each prayer by faith for your own life, and for the life of a loved one or friend...It could be just the prayer they need this coming week...it could be just the prayer WE need. 
-Marina and Roy

My Monday Prayer: A Prayer for Guidance 

Heavenly Father, You have promised to guide me, instruct me, and direct my steps. I need to hear Your voice, know Your will, sense Your guidance. I acknowledge You as the One who is wholly and uniquely able and qualified to lead and direct my life. I thank You that You have not asked me to try and figure everything out, to trust in my own reasoning, or to rely upon my understanding of what is best for me.

Father, I receive Your wisdom, knowing that every decision You make is the right decision and the one that is always the best that can be made. You do all things well! I trust in Your timing to bring into my life the right things at the right time, and to keep from me anything I am not ready to receive, no matter how good it may appear.

I believe that as You guide me I will find strength in Your grace, power in Your Spirit, assurance in Your Word, contentment in Your provision, fulfillment in Your purpose. I ask that You will open every door that needs to be opened and close every door that needs to be closed. Lead me and bring me into Your desired place. I want to walk each day with Your peace in my heart. Thank You, Father, that no matter what, I can put my complete trust in You.

Scriptures: Psalm 23:1, Psalm 25:5, Psalm 32:8, Psalm 51:6, Psalm 119:133, Proverbs 3:5-6, Ecclesiastics 3:11, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Acts 1:8, 1 Timothy 6:6, Colossians 3:15, 4:3, Revelation 3:8

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©2021 Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow. Photo by Marina Bromley. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

Fret-Free Friday: Fret Buster 6

Fret-Free Friday: Fret Buster 6
Roy Lessin

How is it possible to live free from worry? Living free from worry doesn't mean that our needs will disappear. It means our needs will be met by God, who is our Provider. When we stay focused on what our needs are, we open our hearts to worry; when we stay focused on who God is, we open our hearts to peace.

Thankfully, we have a Master who not only gives us rest from our labor, but He also gives us rest in our labor. We have a Master who is our rest.

Jesus said, "Let's go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile." (Mark 6:31 NLT). 

Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28 NLT).

Rest in the LORD (Psalm 37:7).
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God said, I am here with you.
All that I am is here...
All My love is here.
All My goodness is here.
All My righteousness is here.
All My grace is here.
All My strength is here.
All My ways, My works, My wisdom,
My wonders are here!
Is there anything too hard for Me?
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#fretfreefriday #fretbusters #meetinginthemeadow #noworries

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This post originally appeared in Roy Lessin's book "Fret Busters" published by Harvest House Publishers. The book is exclusively available through Blessings Marketplace at a discounted price of $7.99 each +shipping. You can contact them by text any time, or call 318-323-7440 Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-6 pm. They are located at 110 Splane Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291.

The e-book is available through your favorite e-book online retailer.

©2015, 2021 Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow. All rights reserved.

My Anchor Holds

My Anchor Holds
-Roy Lessin

 

This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary. Hebrews 6:19 NLT

God has provided an anchor for you as you sail upon the rough seas of the times in which we live. The purpose of an anchor is to keep a craft safe and secure by preventing it from drifting into unwanted waters due to powerful winds or strong currents.

 

What is the anchor God has given you for your journey? Hebrews 6:19 says your anchor is HOPE. 

What makes your anchor an anchor of hope? It is the Rock to which it holds. 

 

Your Rock is Jesus! Your hope is anchored to a Rock that will never go away or change. In the midst of the stormy sea around us, the Spirit wants you to know, “Your anchor holds!”...and so it does...upon the solid Rock.

 

If someone today should ask you how you are doing, may I suggest the following reply...

“My anchor holds!”
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©2021 Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow. Photo by Marina Bromley, used with permission. All rights reserved.

My Monday Prayer: A Prayer of Hope

Our Monday postings are presently focused on prayer. Not teachings or meditations on prayer, but actual prayers based upon God’s Word. We encourage you to pray each prayer by faith for your own life, and for the life of a loved one or friend...It could be just the prayer they need this coming week...it could be just the prayer WE need. 
-Marina and Roy
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A Prayer of Hope

Father, thank You for being the God of hope and my hope. You alone are the source and the reason for my hope. Because of You, I can pray in hope; walk in hope; believe in hope; endure in hope; overcome in hope; live in hope.

When I look to the future I have hope because You are already in the future. I have a future that is secure because You are my future. Father, it is Your hope that frees me from the despair of hopelessness and the insecurity of false hope.

When I look ahead, I do not see the details clearly, but I see You, the One who is in all the details of what is ahead. I believe in Your plan and purpose for my life. You have assured me that I will never be disappointed as I trust in You.

Thank You for the confidence Your hope gives me to be faithful today and to move forward in the pathway You have for my tomorrows.  I put my expectations, not in others, but in You. I am confident that all Your desires for me are good. The hope You give me brings happiness and rejoicing to my heart.

Thank You, Father, for being the Author of all the chapters of my life that are yet to come. Thank You that my life will have a happy ending because I will be with You forever, in the place that You have prepared for me and for all those who have put their trust in Your salvation through Jesus Christ.
Amen.

Scriptures: Psalm 31:24, 39:7, 71:5, 14, 130:5,7, 146:5; Romans 5:5, 8:24-25, 12:12, 15:13; 1 Corinthians 13:13; Galatians 5:5; Colossians 1:5; Titus 1:2, 2:13

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©2021 Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow. Photo by Marina Bromley, used with permission. All rights reserved.

Fret-Free Friday: Fret Buster 5

Fret-Free Friday: Fret Buster 5
-Roy Lessin, Fret Busters

Confidence is not based on you having all the resources needed to take care of yourself. True confidence is based on the truth that God is faithful.

A Benediction

I pray that you may prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep well, even as [I know] your soul keeps well and prospers (3 John 1:2 AMP, brackets in original).

May all things be well with you. 
May you do well, 
choose well,
think well,
love well,
serve well,
feel well,
and stay well
as you continue to trust
in the only One
who does all things well.

#fretfreefriday #fretbusters #meetinginthemeadow #benediction

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This post originally appeared in Roy Lessin's book "Fret Busters" published by Harvest House Publishers. The book is exclusively available through Blessings Marketplace at a discounted price of $7.99 each +shipping. You can contact them by text any time, or call 318-323-7440 Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-6 pm. They are located at 110 Splane Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291.

The e-book is available through your favorite e-book online retailer.

©2015, 2021 Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow. All rights reserved.