Category: faith

Prayer for Saturday 3/21

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00-Hero Alone-COVER-KINDLE-ThumbnailGod of heaven and earth, you are far above anything and anyone else.  You are our Creator.  You are perfection. I am so far below you in all things. But you are the lover of my soul, my protector, my comforter, my betrothed. Thank you. You deserve all earth’s praise and honor and glory.  All heaven praises you and my soul, enveloped in the ethereal, adores you.

Lord, I have been neglecting the lost. Why do I do that? Help me be alone with them and ask them about their relationship with God. Instead, I surround myself by my Christian friends. I need them, but the lost need me more. Forgive me when I become too comfortable. Oh, Lord, give me souls or else I die.

Thank you, God of my heart and soul, for loving me so. You stopped at nothing to save me from hell, despite my rebellious ego that does sinful things you say will hurt me.  You are so good, and though I offend you every day, you keep coming back and loving me all the more. No human is able to forgive as often as you do ~ hundreds of times just in one year and sometimes in one month. How can I truly thank you? I fall at your feet unworthy and worship you.

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00-Hero Alone-COVER-KINDLE-ThumbnailYOU CAN  BE A HERO ALONE: SURVIVAL STORIES FOR THE COURAGEOUS ISOLATED CHRISTIAN is a must-read for Christians around the world where churches have been shut down.  For perhaps the first time, you are feeling isolated from your Christian friends and mutual encouragement. For perhaps the first time you are beginning to feel what isolated Christians have felt for years who have no other Christians to worship with.  Read this book and answer for yourself thought questions at the end of each story.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this………. https://amzn.to/2U7OFkC …..Marked down to .99c & 5.95

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Prayer for Monday 3/9

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn blessings, Daily, discouragement, ego, faith, forgiveness, governments, patience, praise, prayer, Saved from hell, ThanksgivingLeave a comment

Golden Cover-KINDLE-thumbnailI praise you, God of my life. I praise you in song and word and time. I do not know how else to praise you. You are worthy of it all and so much more.  Break through the barriers people have put up between them and you. Break through with your powerful love that will not let them go. May I be your instrument somehow in my puny way. You are holy. Every place people step is holy ground, for you have already been there. You made it all. Shine through black hearts, bring your light into their lives and let their souls live again.

Lord, forgive me when I try too hard. Help me let go sometimes and step back so you can do your work. Sometimes I worry about politics, sometimes about the environment, sometimes about crime and immorality and people trying to turn false gods into you. Help me take a deep breath sometimes so you can move in and penetrate o heart. Forgive me when I think it all depends on me. It does not. You are in charge of all. Everything will ultimately work out to somehow glorify you. Everything and everyone will somehow bow to their Creator.

Thank you for modern computers where I can type words so much faster than handwriting as we did before, and talk to multitudes instead of licking a stamp and putting it on an envelope to just one person. How amazing all this technology.  May the forces of good outdo the forces of evil who try to use the same means to penetrate people’s hearts. And thank you for my family, my neighbors, the school teachers of the children, the medical providers, our government, and mostly for you, the lover of my soul. How I adore you, my Lord and my God.

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Golden Cover-KINDLE-thumbnail365 GOLDEN BIBLE THOUGHTS: GOD’S HEART TO YOURS is meditation book one in the TOUCHING GOD trilogy.  Also a beautiful gift book with original art on the cover by famed watercolorist Betsy Kemp Thompson, and classical Egyptian papyrus font on the inside.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/3cINWOf

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Prayer for Sunday 3/8

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn blessings, Death of Jesus Christ, faith, Inspirational, joy, love, praise, prayer, Thanksgiving, things, victory, worshipLeave a comment

Supper-Front Cover-ThumbnailLord God, you are worthy of all praise. The mountains tremble at your presence. The seas swallow up torrents at the mention of your name. The whirlwinds roar at the thought of their Creator.  The stars zoom through the cosmos at seeing your glory.  The tiny baby coos with your gentleness, young men stretch their muscles with your toughness, the ladies sing with the strains of your effervescence. The whole universe praises you. My heart, my soul, my being reaches out for you.

My soul soars with the gladness of you, the love of you, the excitement of you. What more do I need? It seems so trite to ask you to help me pass a test, to win a contest, get a promotion or buy an amazing item of clothing. I need none of that. All I need is you. If I am in the chasm of a prison someday, may I remember I am most blessed because I have you. So, I say thank you for everything I have and everything I do not have. I have enough. All I need is lost souls to bring to you.  Give me souls, dear Lord, or else I die.

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Supper-Front Cover-ThumbnailTHE LORD’S SUPER:  52 READINGS WITH PRAYERS can be used by those presiding at the table for Sunday worship. It can also be read by individuals as they wait for the bread and wine and meditate on them.  Finally, it can be used by isolated Christians who remain faithful by keeping the Lord’s Supper though they are alone.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….https://amzn.to/2PZWaIah

 

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Prayer for Saturday 2/29

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn blessings, Daily, eternity, faith, Heaven, Inspirational, joy, Life of Christ, love, praise, prayer, sacrifice, Thanksgiving, victory, weakness, worship1 Comment

03-Naaman'sMaid-ThumbnailCoverAh, my Lord God of heaven and earth.  How I long to see you in all your glory.  I do not know how it is possible since you are larger than the cosmos with its two trillion galaxies and 100 thousand million stars in each one.  But then, you are the God of the impossible.  To behold the One who is Pure Love.  To be enraptured by my Creator.  Oh, to expand the wings of my adoring soul and fly to you.  This is my dream. This is my reason for being.

How can I stop thanking you, my Lord, for so many blessings?  A decent place to live, friends, sufficient food, reasonable health, a way to get around.  Restful evenings when I am enveloped in the arms of sleep and then sunshine that shoos the night away each smiling morning.  Mostly I thank you for materializing your Words in the form of Jesus so we could see you, hear you, touch you.  It was akin to me reducing myself to the form of a cockroach, so great was your sacrifice. I do not understand your love.  Open the eyes of my heart to know you better so I may express an all-consuming gratitude in my lowly way.

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03-Naaman'sMaid-ThumbnailCoverNAAMAN’S MAID is storybook #3 in the A CHILD’S BIBLE KIDS series.  She was just a little girl and whisked away by soldiers attacking her city, never to see her family again.  She could have become bitter and mean.  Instead, she could not help but continue to be the nice girl she had always been.  So, when her big ole master got a terrible, ugly disease called leprosy, she actually told him how God could heal him.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/2TbbsvJ

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Prayer for Thursday 2/27

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn blessings, Daily, faith, forgiveness, Heaven, Inspirational, joy, judging, love, praise, prayer, sin, Thanksgiving, worshipLeave a comment

01-Miriam-ThumbnailCoverMy Creator, my very being praises you. My every breath, my every heartbeat, every blink of my eye praises you. The mighty mountains and roaring seas praise you. The eagles flying high and soaring on the wings of the wind. The fish great and small that thrive somewhere in the deep waters.  The unborn children still snug in their mother’s womb.  The stars dancing through galaxies around the orb of the universe. Touch and sound, motion and stillness praise you. On ethereal wings, all things praise you.

Lord, I was in a hurry and I went way over the speed limit. Most people would call such claim of guilt silly, but I feel it. I endangered others by going a speed the engineers consider dangerous.  I didn’t listen. I paid no heed. I should have left home early enough. I didn’t. I endangered people because I was not prepared enough and was running late. And the place I was rushing to was not worth anyone’s life. What if I had hit someone and caused them to be maimed the rest of their life?  Worse, what if I had killed someone. I am so sorry. But thank you for protecting everyone I drove near.

Ah, thank you, my Lord, for color. How delightful color is. People who have been blind all their lives do not comprehend color. That just reminds me of what is in store in your world. What will heaven be like? I cannot begin to imagine. And for sound. Thank you for the sound of music, whether it be on the lips of a chorus, a child, a songbird, or the wind dancing among the leaves of a tree. How much fun it must have been for you to create the world. A little dab of blue here, a little brushstroke of red there. The warble of a bird, the enchantment of a bubbling creek.  Teach my eyes to see and my ears to hear it all. I love and worship you.

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01-Miriam-ThumbnailCoverMIRIAM is storybook #1 in A CHILD’S BIBLE KIDS series.  Miriam was big sister to  Aaron and had to watch him and other slave children when she and her parents went to work every day to make bricks.  When her mother gave birth to little brother, Moses, she had to hide him in a basket when the family went to work. But his cries became stronger as he grew, so her father made excuses to the taskmaster why his daughter had to stay home each day.  Then one day her father lined the basket with pitch.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this………. https://amzn.to/2I1nQbi

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Prayer for Wednesday 2/26

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn Daily, faith, forgiveness, healing, love, praise, prayer, Saved from hell, sin, Thanksgiving, worshipLeave a comment

(My decision is that I will include prayers of repentance sometimes.)

 

00-Front Cover-New-BK 2- KINDLE-THUMBNAILJehovah, you love me so. You made me and loved me even before I came into being. And when I lost my innocence with my first sin as they did in Eden, you loved me still.  You only walk away from me when I reject you over and over. Even then you turn and follow me around begging me to come back to you where I am safe from Satan. When I shun you, you weep in agony.  Finally, I turn around and let you embrace me and we are one again. Then I sin again and run from you, and you run after me once again in tears, once again saying, “Return to my arms”. Such love. Over and over through my life this happens. You never give up on me. Your love is so amazing. It is greater than the unending cosmos. It is greater than my heart. I bow before you, so unworthy.

I bragged about something yesterday. Why do I do that? Help me forget myself and enter the hearts and lives of others. Help me bury my ego and let you live in me.

Thank you for Jesus who is the reason for my life here. Jesus, you did so much for me. More than I can ever understand. Why did you? I am sinful. I will tell others what you did in such a way that they realize all you suffered was for them too.  In every way I know how, I will tell others because of my gratitude. How can I thank you enough for saving my soul from Satan and opening the door to heaven for me? I will try to live a life of gratitude so that, in some way, you will know the depths of the happiness you bring to me.

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00-Front Cover-New-BK 1-KINDLE-THUMBNAILGENEALOGY: HOW TO CLIMB YOUR FAMILY TREE WITHOUT FALLING OUT ~ COLONIAL TO MEDIEVAL.  I think tracing your family provides a sense of lifetimes and what our ancestors did with theirs. It also provides a sense of brevity by recording born, married, died.  This book tells how to find ship passenger lists, land grants, war records.  Also, our language and alphabet of four hundred years ago were so different, we would not be able to understand it or read it without learning the changes.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/2wPzlAa

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Prayer for Wednesday 2/19

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn attitude, Bible, Enemies, faith, humility, Inspirational, joy, judging, love, praise, prayer, worshipLeave a comment

05-Joseph-KindleThumbnailI cannot help but praise you, my Adonai, each day and all day. I cannot keep my thoughts very far from you.  You lift my weary soul and soar with me through the universe and back. You are the life of my body and spirit. You are the love of my being. Your words are absorbed in my heart and treasured in my soul. I sigh with wonder, for the psalmist said you think about me all the time.  Me among untold millions?  How can that be?  Because you are everywhere just as you are in my heart, I am in yours and you are Love.

Thank you, God, for the little birds I see outside my window each morning. There they are, ready to greet me. And the sun. Each morning it rises just to say, “I’m back. Didn’t I promise you I would be?”. The darkness is good because it makes me rest. But how I love the morning and the world waking up with it. And thank you for pouring your heart out to the world in your Bible. Now I can know you and have no doubts. How many in this world are willing to pour out their heart to others as you did?

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05-Joseph-KindleThumbnailJOSEPH is book 5 in the series A CHILD’S BIBLE HEROES.  Joseph thinks well of everyone, even those who are mean to him.  He only thinks good about others ~ his hateful brothers, slave traders, the jailor.  And what a friend: He goes out of his way to find things to do for others.  “Think & Do” at the end of each chapter for a good work.  To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this………. https://amzn.to/2uR5B5o

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Prayer for Sunday 2/16

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn Daily, death, faith, family, healing, Heaven, Inspirational, joy, praise, prayer, Thanksgiving, victoryLeave a comment

02-Noah-KindleThumbnailI praise and adore you, God of all heaven and earth and all existence. You are greater than death, for you are the life-giver. They couldn’t kill you.  They thought they did; but you were just resting for those three days.  Then you tricked them.  You are Life. Life is stronger than death. You are a user.  You turn death into the glorious doorway to life more glorious than imagination. You are Life. You will be there when I die, welcoming me into a realm of joy and beauty and peace that I cannot even begin to imagine. Life here is like living in a cave compared with heaven or being blind and trying to understand color. How I long to leave this cave and to open my blind eyes. How I long to be in your world and before your throne.  I think when I get there, I shall try to sing to you louder than anyone else. Would that be a sin, Lord?

Thank you, God, for being close to me in prayer. No other god has done that. No other god loves because no other god exists. Those so-called gods stay at a distance from mankind with no love, but only instilling fear. You are my Maker and the Lover of my soul. Thank you for your Words in flesh and the pain you willingly endured in my place for my sin. How could you have done it?  Well, it is morning again. Morning when I can greet the day you brought me. Morning when I can once again greet you, though in my sleep, I know you never left me. Morning when I can face my griefs and pain and let you smile and lift my burden so I can walk free, knowing you have everything under control.  With you, it is always morning. 

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02-Noah-KindleThumbnailNOAH is book 2 in A CHILD’S BIBLE HEROES.  God promised he would save Noah and his sons even though they weren’t born yet.  He began work on the big boat by himself. People laughed at him.  As his sons grew up, the kids at school teased them about their crazy father. Eventually, the rains did come. The water rose and fell.  Then the rainbow! To BUY NOW, click a book cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/2SODJqn

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Prayer for Sunday 2/9

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn Bible, discouragement, eternity, faith, family, Holy Spirit, Inspirational, Life of Christ, Loss, praise, prayer, Thanksgiving, worshipLeave a comment

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 2/1

On By Inspirations By KatherynIn blessings, church, faith, Heaven, love, patience, praise, prayer, Thanksgiving, worship1 Comment

My God, you are the self-existent one. I am always overwhelmed with awe when I read Isaiah’s prediction that the Child who will be born someday in Bethlehem will be called both Son and Father and mighty God.  The Son is Father of the Child. You begat each other because you are both the First Cause and the material manifestation of yourself. You are self-existent. You are the great I AM. You are from eternity to eternity. You are so far above my understanding, I ache to comprehend the unfathomable intensity of your being.

Your love washes over my soul and makes me feel wanted and protected and special. Ah, my Lord, I am a friend of the King of the universe, the Maker of heaven and earth, the Lover of my heart and soul. Just think! I am not only your friend, but you have made me your Bride. Sometimes you smile at me, sometimes you take my hand and walk through dark shadows with me, sometimes you run with me through meadows of happy deeds as together we reach out to the rest of the world. I am never alone when I am with you. How blissful and beautiful I feel when I think of you, my Lord.

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Love Letters of Jesus & his Bride, Eccelsia-THUMBNAILLOVE LETTERS OF JESUS & HIS BRIDE, ECCLESIA is a retelling of the Song of Solomon on his wedding day.  Each chapter becomes a letter to “he” or “she”.  It begins with her conversion (betrothal), goes through all the times they run into the street, “Have you seen my beloved?” because Ecclesia (the church) has wandered away, and ends with the world grabbing her and Jesus calling to her, “I am coming quickly.” The book has 500 footnotes. Although it reads like prose, it is a deep study requiring looking up many scriptures to see how their relationship is the relationship the church has with Jesus.  A great gift book or study book for groups.  To BUY NOW, click a cover or paste this……….  https://amzn.to/36OybRw

 

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