Soul Prospering

“ For My thoughts are not your thoughts, 
nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55: 8-9

Lord, we come to you today with all our plans held in abeyance. We look to you to guide us through the day your way without following our habitual practices and plans. We trust you to navigate us in the way we should go because your ways are not our ways just as your thoughts are dissimilar to ours.

Lord, be with our head and our understanding. Be with our heart so that love abounds. May our souls prosper today and always. In Jesus name, accomplish your purpose in our lives according to your timetable. Amen.

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PRAYCATION

Join us early Thursday morning for our Praycation Conference call at 6 AM CDT/7 AM EDT. Just call 1-218-936-2800, access code 812713. There will be prayer, praise, study, testimony and more. The Praycation conference call is the first Thursday in every month.

Requirements

What does the Lord require of you?"

Micah 6:8

The demands upon our time and tempers keep us distracted from doing what you require. Empower us, Lord God of all, to do what is required of us - to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly before you.

As we seek mercy for ourselves, help us to extend mercy to each other. As we seek justice for ourselves, help us to seek justice for those who cannot help themselves. As we stand boldly before our adversaries, we strive to walk in humble obedience to your will.

In Jesus name, help us to fulfill all that is required of us this day and all the days of our lives. Amen.

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Guiding Light

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;

I will counsel you and watch over you.”

Psalm 32:8

Lord, we come to you today asking you to show us the way to go when it is hard to see the road ahead. Help us to know when you are guiding us and when we are holding on too long to wrong assumptions and answers. Show us the best way to follow your voice, how to wait until the time you choose to answer our prayers and how to move forward with confidence when the answer arrives.

Help us to be more like You. Help us in the midst of this uncertain season to be quick to love and slow to anger. Help us to love each other better beyond what we speak to what we do. In Jesus name, help us to choose wisely our actions today whether it is deciding to work or play, shop or study, sleep or start a project, leave or go, pray or procrastinate. Amen.

YOUR MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT PRAYER ASSIGNMENT: Today pray for all houses of worship and where the Word of God is preached and taught. As this is the AME Church Connectional Day of Prayer, pray for our Zion.

PRAYCATION LENT 2011 CONFERENCE CALL

Remember to call tomorrow, Thursday morning at 6 AM Central/ 7 AM Eastern for prayer, study and testimony for the Praycation Lent Prayer Conference Call. Just call 1-218-936-2800, access code 812713 and invite others to do the same!

Dreams

God of promise and possibilities, help us to drag our dreams out of the closet today and hold them in palms of love and sacrifice. Open our eyes to our gifts buried or suspended by daily challenges or responsibilities. Show us the appropriate risks to take. Guide us with your Word and wisdom.

O God, you who gave us Jesus, help us in those moments when our unbelief overshadows our potential and your promise - there is nothing impossible with you!

In Jesus name, grant us the vision to be faithful witnesses of your enabling power.
Amen and Amen

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Day Break

Good morning Lord, we come to you committing this day to your hand. Guide us through the day, show us what we need to see, point us in the direction you want us to go teaching us what we need to learn and use us in your service so that others may see your good works and glorify the Father which is in heaven. In Your name, Amen.

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Lead Me, Guide Me

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.” —Psalm 32:8

Sometimes, Lord, it’s so hard to see. We squint and struggle to make sense of what you’re showing us. Help us know when you are guiding us, Lord, and when we are clutching at the wrong answers. Help us know, as this peace process unfolds, how to best follow your voice, how to love each other with your perfect love, and how to continue to turn to you and, when it’s your will, to wait until the time you choose to answer our prayers. Thank you for teaching us how to live in your care and respond to your voice.

Help us today not be too quick with our human judgments. When we’re deciding whether to go to the store or stay home, work or play, study or sleep, be diligent or procrastinate lead us to ask God what God wants us to do. We can ask God what God thinks, and then listen.

Beloved, remember that the more we turn to the Lord for the small stuff in life, the more clearly we will hear him in the midst of big stuff.

Prayer Requests

Let us touch and agree:

Pray mightily! My wife is in IUC.
K

My 7 yr. old granddaughter is ill today. She is out of school with temperature. She has allergies and gets sincus infection. Please pray God to heal her little body and to deliver her from allergy and sinus problems.
In Jesus Name. Amen.


Please pray for my sister who is sick

ANSWERED PRAYER

I prayed to God, to guide me and give me direction about a relationship. God answered my prayer and removed me out of that relationship.
S.

Order My Steps

Let's pray together:

Gracious God, how excellent is Your name in all the earth. Thank you Lord for today, for another opportunity to come before Your throne of grace, to magnify Your most holy Name. Thank you Lord that You aroused me from sleep on this morning and that new grace and mercy greeted me as I opened my eyes.

Father God, I am grateful that You sent Jesus to die on the cross for my sins that I can come directly to You and make my petitions known. You sacrificed Your best for me, so I want to give You my best on this day. I want to show You that I love You through my obedience.

Lord this day is Yours. I lay it before the foot of Your throne. Have Your way. You are the one who orders my steps and I put my trust in You. You are sovereign. You know Lord what I will face today and You have already made provision for all my needs. To that end, I trust You with my schedule, my time, and my life on this day.

Help me to sense Your guidance and give me strength to obey. I thank You for guiding me beside still waters; there is no need for me to fret because You are always with me.

Lord, I am overjoyed that assurance is mine because I submit this day to You. My plans will succeed as I allow your Holy Spirit to take full control. My life is in Your hands.


Rev. Angela Tate
West Side MB Church
St Louis, MO

Dear God,

Let us pray together:

Dear God,
It's a special season of prayer again. Because I have tried and failed to keep my commitment to the practice of spiritual disciplines, I am seeking your guidance. This is a time when I want to be more spiritually in tune with you and your Son, Jesus Christ. I ask that you remove the veil from my eyes so I might see him more clearly. Implant in me a holy resolve to be like him. Teach me to take up my cross each day and follow him. When this time of Lent is ended, I want to know that I have drawn closer to Christ.

In Jesus name, Amen.

Dr. Jessica Ingram
Episcopal Supervisor
10th Episcopal District
Preacher, Author, Teacher