Prayers for a better day, we are promised and I believe!!!

   


      Good morning from chilly Utah, there is a bit of a wind this morning making our 59 degrees feel much cooler, sitting outside is just a titch uncomfortable for me, even in sweats and my "Betty blankie" My hands got cold trying to type so I decided to give in and come back inside into the warmth of the house! I have now thrown open my window shades and am allowing the sun to shine in, I have a nice view of the sky, nothing but blue there, not even one little cloud drifting by. Indeed it is a beautiful morning:)
     I have several special prayers this day, to go along with my every morning prayers. I would be so honored to have you pray with me! First it was requested that I pray over an adoption situation, a wonderful couple has been praying for a baby for so long, finally the day has arrived and now the adoptive mother and father both are having second thoughts! Please ask God with me to impress upon each of the adult hearts that what matters is the baby, which ever the decision, let us pray that this baby will be loved and tended, will be given the teachings of the gospel and will be raised in a home that provides for all of its earthly needs. Second, I have a little friend who is being blessed with a new baby in a little less than two months, the baby has decided she would like to make an early appearance, please join me in lifting both baby and mommy in prayer, I ask God to lay his calming hand upon the baby to ensure she rest inside until the day comes that she is stronger, that he lay comfort and peace in the mommy's heart that this baby will be born healthy, that she will be strong both in body and in spirit. Third I pray for a young man in Nigeria, he is feeling the calling to be in a musical ministry to share with the world, he is in need of assistance to get the band started, I pray that his value and talent will be recognized that he will obtain what is needed so that he can share his talent with the world, fourth, I have a friend who for the last eight years has struggled with her husband being in a nursing home due to a car accident, their children and herself have faced such struggles even as bad as losing a home in fire. She is feeling really lost in the shuffle right now, she is being both mommy and daddy to 3 children and is struggling with health issues of her own, the finances are no where to be found and she is feeling very defeated, I pray that something makes her smile today, that a grain of hope will spark a wildfire within and that she will recognize that satan likes nothing more than for us to wallow in our own pity! God please give her strength to pull out of the dark and recognize the light! fifth, I was told of a family who lost their teenage daughter after a long battle with cancer, please join me in prayer that they know the truth that one day they will be reunited and she will be whole, cancer free and that their reunion will be amazing, ask with me for God to calm, comfort and give them peace in their hearts, and lastly I ask special prayers for a friend who is having difficulty with a child, he is rebellious and seems to have no regard for anything or one as of late, my friend is at her wits end and is feeling overwhelmed and so very tired! I ask God to give her a new insight today, to give her the ability to communicate with this child on a level that he will understand and see what he needs to do to avoid trouble. And please let us never forget to pray for one another, for our friends and families, for understanding, for strength to carry on and for a never ending source of faith and love. Pray for our soldiers both on local and foreign soil that they feel the love and respect we have for them in the sacrifices they make each day so that we have freedoms. Pray with me for our country, that it might turn for the better, that God will be allowed back into governmental offices, ceremonies, schools and in all places that we might know he is standing as a shield keeping us safe from harm. I continue to pray for those suffering illness, rehabilitation, depression, financial woes, addictions, undefined anger, for those who are stumbling around in the darkness feeling they will never again see the light and for those who have waned if not lost faith! There is a better day coming my friends, it is promised to us if only we believe and accept Jesus Christ as our savior.
     May this day be filled with hope for you, if you are facing a struggle, awaiting an answer, feeling lost and alone, there is a solution....join me "on bended knees" give it over to God and know that he will handle it for you...the one thing to remember..once you give it...DON'T take it back!!! Have faith in all that you do and know that he is the beginning, the end and all things in between...what a gift that is in itself, knowing that someone always has our back if we believe! God bless you with grins and giggles this day, know that you are loved and that you are very special:) I love you!!!

I prayed for you this morning! May you receive great blessings:)

     Good morning and happy Saturday, I pray each of you is having a great weekend that it will be filled with lots of love, grins and giggles:)  The morning is beautiful, you know me, I love sitting out in the yard in the morning. This morning the birds are chirping, there is a wonderful cool breeze, 64 degrees, a big cup of steamy hot coffee in hand and peace in my heart!
     This morning in prayer, as I sat with my face toward the heavens chatting with Father God, I prayed for each of you, I asked God to bless you this day, to take a problem that has been smoldering  in your life and solve it for you. I asked him to allow you the peace and knowledge in your hearts that with him all things are possible! I prayed for the families that suffered loss this week, that they might be awakened today with rational thoughts, with a better understanding of what has taken place, with a renewed faith and a knowledge that this is not the end, that their loved one has crossed over to heaven and will be healed of any maladies. I asked God to touch each of them with his healing hands, to lay them upon their hearts to take the intense pain from them. I prayed for our country, asking Father to come back and take over, it seems since he has been put on the back burner that we get deeper and deeper in the mud pit, I asked that he bless our children old and new with strength and faith. I asked that he bless you with rain and cooler weather in the regions that are drought ridden. I asked him to bless me with health, with no pain and with better kidney function. I pray that you will chat with him today and relieve the ails of your heart in the name of Jesus, that you will give your problems and concerns to him and allow him to bless you!
     I think in this day and time that many have given up on prayer, that they feel it is in vain, please never give up on God, he is in all that we do if we allow him, he is the comforter we need in times of sadness and woe, he is the strength we need in our weak times, he is the healer we need when we are sick and he is the love we need when we are lost and confused. How can we turn away when perfection is right there in front of us??? I love each of you and hold you close in my heart! Have a beautiful day, live, laugh and love for you never know if there will be a tomorrow! God bless you abundantly:)

"our father is the strongest"

     A beautiful Sunday morning here in Utah, 60 degrees, birds chirp, chirp, chirping, blue skies speckled with cotton ball clouds and no doubt the sun will soon peak over the mountain to warm my skin and my heart:) I love the summer time, thanking him for finally giving us a taste of it:) It is fast approaching my time to come to Texas, I am filled with such excitement, to see all of my family and laughing with the Ashley clan will be amazing, to see my nephew take his forever partner will be thrilling and to get to visit with some of my favorite friends will be the icing on the cake, makes the long drive seem not so long! 
     On facebook this morning, I see several posts from friends who are feeling alone, feeling like nothing is going right for them, feeling let down, feeling depressed, anxious, afraid...I know this very feeling all to well but I also know that it is but a moment in time, that all of these feelings are satan's way of trying to get close to us, when things start to falter in our lives we tend to fall back from God, when we fall back from God we are vulnerable and weak...the exact way that satan wants us to be, he can work his deeds on us when we are like this. I know it is hard to hear "snap out of it" I know it is hard to hear, "I'll pray for you" I know it is hard to hear, "just lay it on God's shoulders" but I also know that when you relent and you do decide that you cannot go it alone, when you do sit down and have a toe to toe with our Father in Heaven and you really do give it to him, things begin to change, the aloneness lifts, things begin to shape up and start working in harmony, the highs begin to outweigh the lows, the depression turns to joy, the anxiety turns to hope and being afraid is vanished! Some ask, how do you know he is real, how do you know he is there? I answer to that, look around you, look at the beauty, look at the times in life that you did not know how something was going to work out and all of a sudden something miraculous happened and it was even better than you thought it would be, look at the times when someone was very ill, and you did not see how they would come out of it then all of a sudden they took a turn for the better and were healed, look at the wrecks you have seen when you thought to yourself...there is no way anyone survived only to find that they sustained barely a scratch! Coincidence??? I think not, these things are proof positive to me that God is in all things, that Jesus Christ and God work 24/7 without rest. Today I pray you quit wondering if he is real, confess to Jesus Christ that you do believe, pray to our Father in Heaven with all your might and have faith that even though you are climbing an awful steep mountain, the top will be so worth it when you get there. Don't tell God how strong your troubles are, tell your troubles how strong your God is:) He is mighty, he is the light of the lighthouse, he is the calm of the ocean, he is the answer to all prayers.  May this day bring peace to you, may you take time to sit and praise his holy name, may he allow you truth with his compassionate hand, may you see his work and thank him, may the good things out number the bad and in all things may you know that with God on your side it will get better. Fill that tank of yours with his spirit and revel in the knowledge that you have enough "gas" to get you down the road and away from satan for yet another week! Love in Christ to each of you!

O Lord, our Heavenly Father, at the beginning of another week we come to You for help and light.

Grant, we ask You, that we make this a sacred day of rest to Your service. May we consecrate this day to find all peace and strength in You.

Make our hearts beat with devotion so that we may serve You in spirit and in truth. May we live this day laying a good foundation for our coming work.

Be with us in the worship services of Your day so that your saints may join in heart and soul. Be with us so that we may receive the blessing promised to all who sincerely pray to You and faithfully hear Your Word.

This we ask for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Don't doubt!!!!!

  

  Happy Friday, another beautiful morning, 71 degrees and sunny, we had our first "summer like" day yesterday, we hit 90 degrees and it felt glorious:) I went for a late night drive and was thrilled to have the top and windows all opened up, feeling the night air tossing my hair around and playing some old time rock and roll took me back to a younger day, stopping in at sonic for an ice cream cone filled me with grins and giggles:)  I love to chance on a memory of happy times," the take me back" is so much fun! I pray today that you have "take me back" that something in your life sparks a "grin from ear to ear" "belly laugh" moment that releases you from the stress of the day and allows you back to times of youth, freedom, and zaniness! 
     In prayer this morning I prayed so fervently for the two that I prayed for last night, I hate it when people I know suffer, I feel so inadequate and sometimes I think..."I wish I could do more, but all I can do is pray and ask God for a healing" in thinking on this, I am filled with shame, I am filled with who are you that you could do more than the great healer, the master of all things, who are you to shrug prayer off as a fraction of the process? Then I am forced to look at all the times in my life alone, that there seemed to be no way, there seemed to be no answer, no way of mending the broken fence, no way of reversing a deed done wrong, no way of digging out of the dark hole...when BOOM, something happens that changes the entire situation, something happens that can only be mercy from the hands of God, something happens that fills my heart with hope and renews the faith I have. So right this very moment, after being smacked on the back of the head to wake up my brain, I am no longer feeling inadequate, I am feeling like each time I pray I am giving the gift of God, I am "on bended knees" praying for him to do what needs to be done to bring them back to health, I am praying for a doctor who will listen to God and follow his guidance on what needs to be done to bring them out of their illness. I know how powerful prayer is, I am witness to many miracles in my life, I know that through Jesus Christ all prayers are answered, I believe, oh boy do I believe and I have faith. I will not lie, my faith waivers from time to time, but ALWAYS, ALWAYS something happens that makes me kick myself for allowing it to wane! Today I stand in the knowledge that his will be done, I stand in the love of him, knowing that he will answer my prayers and I stand in comfort that he will heal these two, and that he will continue to bless those who are lifted in prayer, he will proceed in laying peace on hearts that are shaking and will lay the mercy of strength on each of us as we trudge through troubled waters! I do not doubt, I will not devalue his power and I will cling fast to the rod! I love you guys, and am so thankful that you come to this page and pray with me, I have seen such changes just in the short time it has been up and running! God bless you all with love, and joy! Be safe this weekend, allow a smile to be upon your face and love to be oozing out of your hearts:) 


Matthew 7:7-11
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.     For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. "Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Calling for share in prayer!!! Will you join me???

         Some days!!!!!! some day!!!!!!some days, I think why do we even get out of bed, nothing goes the way we want it to go, nothing seems to favor us, nothing is nice...but we still get out of bed, we still put one foot in front of the other, we still have faith and we still believe that it is all for a reason and it will get better! Okay enough of my boobing, I don't do it often, and I don't cling to it, I have just sat and had a peaceful conversation with our Heavenly Father and I know that things will get better, I know that all things are in his time and not mine. I am accepting that I lived through the day and that although I am not promised tomorrow I can still look forward to it, I can still believe that it will be better in the new light of day:)
          I ask tonight that you join  me in prayer, some are continued prayers but no less important than the new ones, a great healing is taking place in my friend, he is doing very well but still needs prayer for a complete healing, he is such a strong warrior in God's army, he has suffered much pain in his life and has found his strength in our Lord, please pray with me for the ones who have lost loved ones this week,  we all have suffered loss and can sorely remember the pain of heart when it is so fresh, please join me in asking God to hold them in his loving, consoling arms, to wipe their tears and to carry them until they are strong enough to stand again. Join me in prayer for a new request this day, a critically ill father and brother, asking God to have mercy on both, if it be his will for them to prosper and continue on this earthly journey that he lay hands on both and heal them, that he remain by their sides and give them comfort, calm and peace. Stand in agreement that we need to continue to pray for all of the ones who are struggling with the loss of their possessions due to the tornados, and floods. And never ever should we neglect to pray for the ones who are standing on the front lines keeping us save and free, praying constantly for peace in all countries and for our soldiers to come home safely asking mercy for them physically, mentally and spiritually.  God is so merciful, he knows the desires of each of our hearts he has our lives written, he is the keeper of our books and is willing for us to be obedient, for us to remain filled with faith even in the hardest of times so that one day we will return home to reside in his loving arms. Prayer is powerful, our numbers are growing here in the circle of prayer, I appreciate each of you who take time to pray over the ones in need, who have faith that prayer is instrumental in our lives and that one of the greatest blessing we are given is prayer and one of the most valuable gifts we can give is prayer. Love in Christ to each of you and thanks again for being my friends! I love you all!