Month: February 2020

Prayer for Wednesday 2/12

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0-Cover-MediumI praise you, mighty God ~ mighty in truth, in love, in life. Above all lies and hatred and annihilations. You are the strongest, the highest, the greatest. You are above all, in all and through all. You are brighter than the sun you formed, deeper than the oceans you brought forth, higher than the stars you sprinkled throughout the heavens. You are holy and filled with majestic greatness. My soul soars to you, then bows low to honor you.

Thank you, my Lord, for giving me your Bible so I can understand your stubborn love and mighty truth. For sending a part of you in Jesus’ body so we could see your Word in action. For sending a part of yourself in your Spirit of Truth so I can read your Word for help in my earthly struggles. Sometimes I just do not know which way to go. I would be completely lost without your guidance. Thank you for the winter snow and icy wind, and time of rest for nature. A calm and serene time for me when nothing much is going on outside in the cold, leaving more time to read of you, meditate about you, pray to you.

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00-Cover-ThumbnailFUN WITH BIBLE NUMBERS has 525 math questions from both the Old and New Testament.  Some easy adding or subtracting, some more complicated multiplication.  Did you know there was over three trillion American dollars worth of gold in Solomon’s temple’s holy of holies?  Did you know Jesus walked on water 3-1/2 miles?  Full of surprises. Great for private relaxation, homeschoolers, church bulletins, party contests.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/37rfl3z

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Prayer for Tuesday 2/11

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0-Titus-Cover-Lg ThumbI praise you, Lord God, for your marvelous Plan for the universe and for mankind. Though Satan is always around trying to thwart your Plan, he is not strong enough. He thinks he is because his ego is so large. But, even with his most masterful plan to destroy, you laugh at him and say, “Do your best. You will lose.”  Your Plan to save mankind from him is firmly in place. May more and more people realize they are in danger from Satan who is always lurking in the shadows of everything they do.  May they open their eyes and understand your Plan.  May they draw close to you and your great light of safety. May they happily bow at your throne of majesty. It is not cowardice to run to you; it is wisdom.

Thank you, my Lord, for putting your Words in flesh so we could see you, hear you and walk with you a while, just as you did in the Garden of Eden at the beginning.  When you spoke, that was God speaking.  When you entered a home, that was God entering the home.  When you laughed and cried, that was God laughing and crying.  Though not now, someday you will let me once again walk with you in the garden of heaven. How I long for that day. Keep the door open for me, Lord. Keep it open. I’m walking your way. Do you see me?  I’m headed home.

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0-Titus-Cover-Lg ThumbTITUS: THE ARISTOCRAT is the last novel in the INTREPID MEN OF GOD SERIES.  Titus was raised in Antioch where the elite lived. Everyone spoke pristine Latin, not the sluggish Greek of the commoners. Titus and his father, become estranged at the sudden death of his mother.  When grown, he married his ice queen from Nordlands and becomes a famous lawyer solving unsolvable crimes.  Then he meets Paul, becomes a Christian, and Paul sends him to congregations with problems as an arbitrator. But when Paul sends him north to barbarian territory, the unexpected happens.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….https://amzn.to/3bwh4Yk

 

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Prayer for Monday 2/10

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00-Stephen-Cover-Kindle-ThumbnailGod of Glory, Truth, Life, Love. You made the world with all its wonders.  Satan tried to take it from you. He tried to take over the world you made. You said, “Just try it and I’ll destroy your destructions.”  You are so strong. You destroy darkness with light. You destroy evil with good. You destroy nothingness with creativeness.  You destroy death with life. Such a warrior. Nothing stops you!

It is morning.  The night dew has fallen and cleansed your world. Fresh. Newborn. Full of exciting unknowns for the rest of the day. Ups and downs like a bird hopping on the snow.  What shall today bring?  You are the God of second chances. Of starting over. Of being reborn. Yes, come sweet morning. Oh, and thank you for the church, my family, the Bible, friends, Christian radio and TV and films and music. And yes, the songs. The wonderful, glorious songs too. I am so happy there will be singing in heaven. Somewhere in your Word, you admitted you sing.  Oh, glorious thought. Powerful anthems and gentle strains. Thank you for all this and for you being you ~ my loving God.

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00-Stephen-Cover-Kindle-ThumbnailSTEPHEN: UNLIKELY MARTYR is biblical historical novel #7 in the INTREPID MEN OF GOD series.  It begins with Stephen being 17 years old, his best friend, Abraham, being crucified and running to save his own life.  It ends when he is 28 years old with a wife and two children.  What happened those eleven years to turn him from a teenage coward to a selfless, mature, and lofty young man willing the give up the rest of his life here on earth voluntarily.  Heroes are not born.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/37gDrh8

 

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Prayer for Sunday 2/9

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0-Michel-COVER-Kindle-ThumbnailAh, my Lord God, First Cause of all things, I praise you for being and for willing me into existence so you can love me. And for your Spirit that animates my soul and keeps me eternally alive, making me your forever child.  And for your Son,  ~ you in flesh ~ who came to me out of eternity to show me how to live.  Speaking holy Words aloud ~ Words ethereal. Words wonderful. Words down to earth so I do not need to guess who and what you are. I long to know you more, but with my finite mind, I cannot. I live in wonder of you and worship you with my puny glimpse of your indescribable holiness.

Thank you, my God, for giving me your love letter, the Bible, and telling me all that you are constantly doing ~ both the easy and the hard. Thank you for pouring your heart out to me with all the laughter and tears that flow from you to the world. For sharing yourself. For baring your own joys and sorrows as I do right and wrong.  I never tire of your letter.  Thank you for giving yourself. And, by the way, Lord, thank you for books and computers and radios and all things electronic, and time to use them to magnify you to the world.

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0-Michel-COVER-Kindle-ThumbnailMICHEL: THE FOURTH WISE MAN is biblical historical novel #6 in the series INTREPID MEN OF GOD.  Michel, a descendant of Daniel, has a dream: Restore the Garden of Eden so God will once again walk among men.  He buys the land where the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers meet and loses his estate, his wife, and his father. Then he is interrupted by a star. King Phraates demands he and nine other wise men search the world for the meaning of the star.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/2w3kIJ7

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Prayer for Saturday 2/8

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0-Joseph-Cover-ThumbnailAh, my God and my Creator.  What a wonderous artist you are. You delight my senses with the gentle touch of a snowflake and the crunch of my feet as I walk among your whited wonder. The wind is cold, but inside I am warm. Oh, look at that Woodpecker. How much fun he is having with that tree. And that squirrel scampering across the snow with something in its mouth; I’ll bet it’s some morsel it buried during the fall.  Oh, my, that child has made snow angels, and those children over there are making snowmen. How beautiful and enchanting you made everything on earth, my home.

Thank you, dear Lord, for loving me with a love so powerful, nothing holds it back. When I sin, you ache, then call me to you. When I ~ with your help ~ convince someone to become a Christian and be saved from Satan, you notify the angels, and we all rejoice together. When I feel lonely, all I have to do is call one of the many friends you have given me. Oh, and thank you for children that remind me of innocent wonder. Even in winter, you are the sunshine of my soul.

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0-Joseph-Cover-ThumbnailJOSEPH: THE OTHER FATHER is biblical historical novel #5 in the INTREPID MEN OF GOD series.  The opening scene shows young Joseph lunging forward, carrying a tree to his carpenter shop, being too poor to buy an ox and wagon.  That’s the stuff the other father must be made of and Joseph is God’s choice.  From the time of Jesus’ birth, Joseph does everything possible to keep him safe in a violent world until he is grown.  And when sometimes Jesus is in danger and Joseph cannot get to him in time, he calls out, “God!  Help me save our son!”  No step-father could have loved his son more than Joseph did Jesus. To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/378LJYj

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Prayer for Friday 2/7

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0-Mefiboset-KINDLE ThumbnailYou, oh, Lord, are my heart, my soul, my spirit, my being. You are my sun in dark places, my courage in scary places, my gentleness in rough places. When I need you to defend me, you roar. When I need you to give me strength, you send me work to do. When I cry, you wipe away my tears and share with me your smile. You know my heart.

Thank you for the beautiful earth you prepared for me. Oh, how I delight to hear the birds in the summertime as they warble and sing their songs to me and flutter from flower to flower like my soul does among the stars when I think of you. How I wonder when I see the ocean and imagine its depths teeming with life great and small, dreary and colorful happily existing together there.  How I gasp when I feel the wind always turning and swirling like a top and playing tag with my hair.  It rushes in like a lion, then just as suddenly purrs like a kitten. Such a delightful Father you are to me.

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0-Mefiboset-KINDLE ThumbnailMEFIBOSET: CRIPPLED PRINCE is biblical historical novel #4 in the INTREPID MEN OF GOD series.  What if he inherited Grandfather King Saul’s height and good looks?  What if he inherited Father Crown Prince Jonathan’s ability to get along even with his enemies?  Though denied the throne and crippled for life at age 5, he woos a wife, has a son and then grandsons.  Though sometimes hunted by his grandfather’s enemies, he spends his life turning enemies into friends, skeptics into believers, underdogs into winners.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/31EpBEi

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Prayer for Thursday 2/5

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00-LUKE-KINDLE Cover-ThumbnailI am thrilled with you, my Always-Present One. You are most powerful, yet gentle, most gigantic, yet minute. You are the roar and silence, the silk and sackcloth, the laughter and tears. You are light but never dark, life but never death,  love but never hatred. You are all that is good and right. You are my all and I worship you.

Thank you for being my Warrior King and conqueror of Satan. Thank you for attacking Satan in that hidden realm where I cannot go and driving him away from me. For fighting so many of my battles for me. For standing over me protectively and being strong for me when I am weak. I cannot imagine life without you. Thank you for my loving spouse, the church, the Bible, and your amazing grace.

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00-LUKE-KINDLE Cover-ThumbnailLUKE: SLAVE & PHYSICIAN is orphaned in a battle and becomes the slave of the Most Excellent Theophilus, Tribune of the 8th Roman Legion, who raises him, educates him, and loves him.  Then they meet the apostle Paul, become Christians, and Theophilus frees Luke. For the rest of Paul’s life, Luke is there to doctor his numerous wounds inflicted by the many who hate Paul. When Paul dies, Luke heads out to find all Jesus’ original Twelve, now scattered around the world, and interviews them. In between all this, Luke falls in love and encounters many challenges in his travels.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this………   https://amzn.to/2ugNPrY

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Prayer for Wednesday 2/5

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00-PAUL COVER-Thumbnail-I praise you all mighty God. Oh, how you have spoiled me. You placed diamonds in mountain-top snow, rubies in the flowers, emeralds in the meadows, and delight in the birds that daily sing to me. As I climb the mountain of my life I think back of all the enormous opportunities I had as a youth. As I grow older and climb higher, my choices are narrowing and I am glad. My focus is more and more on you. Someday I will reach the mountain top, and you will be there. You will smile and say, “Welcome home.”

Ah, thank you, my Lord, for all you have done for us through the history of mankind. I, along with everyone else, travel a wilderness, often not making good choices. The frustrations you must feel when I don’t pay attention to you but they do not stop you from loving me. You have been too patient. But you also give me your Word map in my wilderness to show me just where I am. And give me work to do in order to make sense of life. Thank you for entrusting me with that work. I will do the best I know how. I know you smile and reply, “That’s all I ask: Do your very best.” I will always thank you for this.

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00-PAUL COVER-Thumbnail-PAUL: THE UNSTOPPABLE tells of a stubborn, strong-willed, out-of-control man who charged right into the middle of the unbreakable and broke it.  Over and over, Paul was beaten for teaching the gospel, then got up and did it again.  He faced angry pagan and Jewish priests trying to protect their power and income. Why?  An unstoppable love.  He could never do enough to make up for torturing and killing Christians in his youth.  Each time he was whiplashed, he called out, “Jesus!  This is for you!”  This is biblical historical novel #2 in the INTREPID MEN OF GOD series.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….    https://amzn.to/36UhPag

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Remarkable. Look at the numbers.

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GENEALOGY ~ Genesis 11:10-26; 12:4:

Noah was 502 years old when Shem was born
Shem was 100 years old when Arphaxad was born
Arphaxad was 35 years old when Selah was born
Selah was 30 years old when Eber was born
Eber was 34 years old when Peleg was born
Peleg was 30 years old when Reu was born
Reu was 32 years old when Serug was born
Serug was 30 years old when Nahor was born
Nahor was 29 years old when Terah was born
Terah was 70 years old when Abraham was born

                 892 years – Noah’s age when Abraham was born

Since Noah died at age 950, Abraham was 58 years old when Noah died.

[I wonder if it was Noah’s death that precipitated God telling Abraham it’s time to move.]

He was born and raised in Ur of Chaldea/Babylon.  He did move to Haran.  He moved from Ur to Haran probably between age 60-70.  He left Haran at age 75 and went to Canaan (later called Israel).

Regardless, Abraham did know Noah for 58 years.  Hmmm.

Prayer for Tuesday 2/4

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000-COVER-KINDLE-ThumbnailYou alone are worthy of all praise, honor, and exaltation above all others. You are the God of gods, King of kings, Lord of lords. You are the Truth of truths, the Life of lives, the Love of loves.  And you actually love me. You are so large, I can only see a pinpoint of you. You are so minuscule, I can only see a small speck of you. You are everywhere.  I rejoice in the journey, the adventure, the challenge of encountering more and more of you. One small step at a time, I am drawing nearer to you, my God.  Steadily nearer.

I thank you for your Bible. You disclose yourself to me, you pour out your heart with me, you reveal your dreams for me. You share your ups and downs as we love and then turn against you. But most of all, your Bible shows how you have stuck with us even to sending a part of you to live with us, show us what it is like to be sinless, then show us how to die while taking the blame and punishment for our sins. Not only mine but that of the most deviant degenerate sinner. Did that part of you descend to hell for us so you could break out for us? How can I thank you for all this and then writing it down so we can know about it? How I love your Word.  I am so blest.

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000-COVER-KINDLE-ThumbnailLAZARUS: THE SAMARITAN is book one in the INTREPID MEN OF GOD SERIES.  Lazarus lives through all of Jesus’ parables over a period of 45 years.  The adventure begins when he is 19 and on a crew to build the Roman road to and from Sychar. He meets the beautiful Jewess daughter of a copper-mine owner and they end up marrying.  But the town isn’t in favor of mixed marriages and do not attend.  Her father sends to the highways and byways to bring in people to fill the wedding hall.  And so it goes for 45 years when he is old.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/36U4OgV

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