Surrender
November 25th, 2009Wednesday’s Reflection
TAKE, LORD, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will — all that I have and call my own. You have given it all to me, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace. This is enough for me.
- Norman Shawchuck and Rueben P. Job
A Guide to Prayer for All Who Seek God
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Today’s Question
What prayer is in your heart? Share your prayers.
Today’s Scripture Reading
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
- Luke 21:33, NIV
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November 25th, 2009 at 4:12 am
…Your love and Your grace…this is enough for me. Father – I can say this, I DO say this, and yet my heart wanders. Thanks for holding the string to my heart and never letting go. Father – forgive me when I seek satisfaction elsewhere. Seek out my heart and show me what I am trying to keep hidden from You. Father – Your grace and mercy amaze me.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:43 am
The word “Surrender” has a lot of meaning to my life. After years of drug addiction and being ‘out in the world’, I woke up one morning, feeling lower than I ever have….and I surrendered, and the Lord gave me the strength to check into a rehab facility that afternoon. It’s only by His grace that I’m where I am today in my recovery.
After many ups and down over this past year, I have again, surrendered. I have given my life to my Savior Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for this new life and for the peace He has given me.
My heart and soul belong to Him. And even though I’m not exactly where I want to be in my life, thank God I’m not where I was.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:34 am
My prayer is that my beloved wife get some relief from the pain she is feeling. We have been to several doctors and each gives us a different diagnosis. One says rheumaoid arthritis, one says fibromyalgia and another says lupus. All I know is she hurts and is really feeling down. It’s a simple prayer that I want her to have a few days without pain this holiday season.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:15 am
My prayer is that parents will make their children feel as special as they are with their daily actions and words.They are precious beings that God has given to them. I see too many situations where the child feels unloved and unwanted.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I know that all I have, am and ever will be is His grace. And yet I want to “help” Him by trying to do it my way, in my time and in my strength.
Foolish woman!
So I daily ask forgiveness for my stubborn self centeredness and for His grace to begin again.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
My prayer is that everyone that is suffering, may they be healed by God and the ones that don’t know christ, let him come in their hearts. I pray for our guys fighting for our country. I pray for my Family and the world…….Amen!
November 26th, 2009 at 3:55 am
You are enough for me, Lord.