by Joanne | Jul 13, 2014 | Prayer
Abba, Meet me here. Break open my secrets; help me to tell you what you’re longing to hear. Help me to be what you want your disciples to be. Help me to hurt when I hurt you, to feel shame. Help me to stand along with you and be utterly content. To know the joy...
by Joanne | Jul 6, 2014 | Prayer
Lately I am discovering how much I need quiet, to just still myself before Him … In quietness we come, Father, asking for the sweet communion of heaven. Direct us on how to remove the noise from our lives so that we might more readily hear from you. Thank you...
by Joanne | Jun 29, 2014 | Prayer
There are lots of reasons to give up, but there are greater reasons to finish strong. (Sheri Rose Shepherd) A prayer for endurance ….. Don’t be afraid when your faith is tested. When you feel as if you’re in the middle of a raging fire, you may fear...
by Joanne | Jun 22, 2014 | Prayer
When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Now go out where it is deeper, and let down your nets to catch some fish.” (Luke 5:4, NLT) Dear Master, Help me to be faithful in little things like cleaning nets, knowing that they could be your way of...
by Joanne | Jun 8, 2014 | Prayer
It is always hard to think of suffering as having a purpose. Yet we know everything which happens in our lives is for a purpose. Therefore, if suffering is a part of life’s journey, then it also must have a purpose in our lives. Henry Cloud and John Townsend put...
by Joanne | May 18, 2014 | Prayer
Father God, I come into your presence so aware of my human frailty and yet overwhelmed by your love for me. I thank you that there is no human experience that I might walk through where your love cannot reach me. If I climb the highest mountain you are there and yet...