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4 Prayers for Your Child | The Power of a Mom on Her Knees {with free prayer cards}
“Please, Lord, help him sleep through the night. Keep him safe and healthy. Amen” This is the end of the prayer I pray for my son before I lay him down to sleep. I’ve prayed this prayer every single day since he was born. Mostly, I emphasize the “sleep through the night” part and sometimes this is the first of the prayers for the night. Many nights I’d pray this particular part four, five, six times as he’d wake screaming through his first year of life. “Please, Lord, help him sleep through the night. Please, God. I’m so tired.” And yet, this particular night, with his warm body snuggled close,…
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The Jabez Journey: Part III | His Fingerprints
“Lord, bless me indeed. Do something so big in my life, that it is obviously from you. Lord, increase my influence and opportunities for you. Please give me the awareness of Your continual presence and direction. Protect me and keep me from Satan’s traps. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.” – The Jabez Prayer based on 1 Chronicles 4:10 – Reflections Days 8-15 “The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in Truth.” – Psalm 145:18 I’m overwhelmed. I’m overwhelmed by His goodness. He meets you right where you are. He doesn’t say “Get better first.” He doesn’t ignore. He sees exactly where you…
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Week 9: Big Things!
May has been a month of changes. Some exciting, some overwhelming, some just new. Sunday- May 5th A couple of weeks ago, I had reached my desperate point. While in church the song “I Surrender All” played and I just gave it all up. I gave up my worries about finding a “career job” that I had been looking so hard for. I gave up the constant mental battle of loneliness dealing with this deployment. I just gave up trying to make it all work. I reached the end of me. It was going to have to be God. Because Heaven knows I had done everything in “my” power to…
