My Morning Prayer: Prayer

My Morning Prayer: Prayer
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow
 
Jesus lived prayer and taught prayer. He prayed at different times and for various amounts of time. He prayed in secret and He prayed in public. He prayed about personal matters and matters concerning others. He prayed for His friends and for His enemies. Through prayer He sought the Father’s will and His glory, stood against Satan, forgave His enemies, and released the Holy Spirit’s ministry. Through prayer He gave thanks, blessed, interceded, praised, petitioned, made supplication, and travailed. He prayed as a man dependent upon His Father, seeking to please Him and glorify Him in all things. Through prayer He drew near to His Father so that He could draw us nearer to His heart…He knelt in humility so that He could raise us up to new heights…He poured out His soul so that He could comfort us in every situation. As our High Priest He prayed for our unity, our sanctification, our joy, our love, our keeping, our ministry, and our destiny.
 
He taught us to pray in simplicity and in sincerity…in confidence and in clarity…in expectation and in faith. He taught us to pray in all things and at all times. He taught us to pray with a clean heart, with a single mindedness, with a forgiving spirit, and with a grateful heart. When His disciples came to Him asking for instruction in prayer, Jesus gave them a pattern. He told them that prayer starts from a relationship with the Father, and that the beginning and end of prayer is for His glory. It is the Father’s will we seek in prayer, it is His heart we touch in prayer, it is His hand we move through prayer, it is His goodness we receive through prayer, and it is His ways we learn through prayer.  Through prayer we can see His Kingdom move in the earth, and experience His Kingdom moving in our lives—in righteousness, peace, joy, and everything good. Through prayer we can bring to God every big thing and every small thing we face in life. We can receive from Him the covering we need to shelter us, and the food we need to sustain us. Through prayer we receive the cleansing we need to have a pure heart, the renewing we need to have a right spirit, and the grace we need to walk in a way that pleases Him. Prayer is our doorway into victory, our gateway into praise, and our walkway into holiness.
 
Today, Jesus lives for you, and as your great High Priest He is interceding for you everyday. Think of it as you get up in the morning, as you go through your day, as you face your enemies, as you walk through your problems, as you return to your home, and as you rest in your bed—Jesus, the One who knows you best and loves you most, is praying for you. 
 
Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them (Hebrews 7:25 NKJV).
 
My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you (John 17:9 NLT).

My Monday Prayer
-Marina Bromley

Jesus, as we come to You, help us to remember all that You demonstrated and explained to us about prayer. Help us to pray like You pray. Help us to pray hard prayers—prayers for people we have conflict with, people who don't follow You, and circumstances we don't understand. We only have a vision for tomorrow...but You know all of our tomorrows. Please answer our prayers according to Your will for our life. We love You and ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Timely Tidbits of Truth 4

Timely Tidbits of Truth 4
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow
 
God wants your obedience, but He doesn’t need your help!
 
To obey is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22).

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God Provides

God Provides
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow
 
Wherever Jesus traveled, the Kingdom of God was being demonstrated before men. The more He did, the more people wanted to see. From day to day, people’s curiosity grew, and His popularity increased. Many times great crowds followed Him, or gathered to hear Him. On one occasion, toward evening, the people were in an isolated place. They grew hungry, but there was no place to shop and no food on hand. Jesus’ disciples looked at the situation and saw a great need, but a small provision—a few loaves of bread and two fishes. They reasoned that a natural need could only be met by a natural solution. Jesus saw something else. He knew that a natural need can be met in a supernatural way. Jesus took the small amount of food that could only feed one, blessed it and multiplied it to feed a multitude.
 
From the beginning it has been in the heart of God to meet the needs of people. One of God’s names is “The Lord Provides.” He provides because He cares, because He loves, and because He is faithful. Redemption was God’s plan to meet our greatest need, the need to be saved and forgiven. God is also concerned about meeting our personal, physical, and practical needs, as well as our spiritual needs. When Jesus lived among us He clearly taught and expressed what was in the heart of His Father. Jesus told us that when we see Him—His actions, His attitudes, His acts—we have seen the Father. He told us that He and the Father are one, and that He did only those things which He saw His Father doing.
 
When Jesus met peoples' needs He was teaching us important lessons about His kingdom, and showing us important things about His ways. He wants us to know that when we face a need we don’t need to reason it out, but let God work it out. He was helping us to understand that there are no limits with God, and no limitation to His power. Jesus worked in ways that would build our faith, increase our trust, and strengthen our confidence in Him. He wants us to live a life free of worry and anxiety, fear and doubt, confusion and uncertainty. He wants us to be contented, totally resting within the arms of His loving care.
 
Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread (Psalm 37:25 NLT).
 
And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19 NLT).

“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you (Matthew 6:31-33 NKJV).

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Home

Home
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow
 
“Home” is an extra-special word. There are many ways of describing it and defining it. Simply said, home is the place where we belong. 
 
Thirteen years ago, we bought a house with a floor plan we liked. The sellers had lived in the house for ten years. When we walked through the house for the first time there were many things about the way the house was furnished and decorated that we didn’t like. It wasn’t us! 
 
On moving day we immediately began the process of making the house our home instead of someone else’s. Today, the house has been fully transformed into our home. It’s the place where we belong.
 
In John 14:23 Jesus makes an amazing statement about those who love Him. He tells us that He, His Father, and the Holy Spirit will come and make their home with us. How is that possible? Why would God feel at home in your heart or mine? Actually, it’s as simple as this…God is at home in you because that is where He belongs!  
 
The next time the enemy tells you that you don’t matter, that you are worthless and without value or purpose, turn your faith to this one affirming truth—God made you for Himself, and when you received His Son, God moved in and made Himself at home in your heart because that’s where He belongs.
 
 All things were created by Him and for Him.

 Colossians 1:16 KJV

Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them..." (John 14:23 NLT).

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7 Prayers to Your Father, Part 7

7 Prayers to Your Father, Part 7
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

#7  The prayer of praise and thankfulness

"For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."

Father, You are my almighty, unfailing heavenly Father! I am secure in Your authority, in Your watch-care, and in Your covering. In Your power I find courage and strength; in Your kingdom I find my appointed place and purpose; in Your glory I find my true worship and discover the wonders of who You are.

In Jesus' name, amen.

In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen (Matthew 6:9-13 NKJV).
 
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