Saturday afternoon...{D}

Prayer...

One of the wonderful things about blogging is the people you meet.  I am still amazed at how God can weave people into our lives that we would otherwise have never known if we were not living in this computer age. 

This is our time...both the good and bad...it is where we have been exiled to...it is our Babylon...this is where our generation was placed to bring the God of heaven to earth. 

One of the ways that happens is through praying for others.   As I read blogs, in the midst of the beautiful ways God has blessed these creative women...
I find life happening... 
health problems, wayward children, financial difficulties, military families, death, personal struggles,
and yes, joyful praise...

I've started adding prayer requests to the inside back cover of my bible.  I want to be sure and spend time in prayer for people that I have said I would pray for or that God has put on my heart to pray for and this almost 50 year old brain can sometimes (most always) be forgetful of names and specifics.  Then at least a couple of times a week, I will flip back there and spend some time with my hand over these names in prayer.

Please know that I don't share this to say, "Hey watch me pray," but just as an offering of what one person can do...I'm sure there are many of you out there who have methods that work for you...this one just happens to work for me.

While the habit of spending specific time in prayer and commune with God is essential...so is unceasing prayer.  The prayer that comes from intimately knowing God as your lifeline...your very pulse and heartbeat.

Oswald Chambers says in My Utmost for His Highest, "If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly, we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He alway is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life."

"I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message.  I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one-as you are in me, Father, and I am in you.  And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.

I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one.  I am in them and you are in me.  May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me."       John 17:20-23

Have a blessed Memorial Day weekend and pray for our military men and women.

Patty

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