April 16, 2018 Monday

I am so tired of this rain and gloomy weather! Guess I need to pull out my S.A.D light. The movie and dinner last night was fun, but not nearly as fun as the bowling outing!  Guess I am just an activity person.

DAILY PRAYERS:
Prayed for 66 members of my family.
Prayed for the Salvation Praying Group to increase to 12 by the end of the year.
Prayed for the Power Hour of Prayer Group to increase to 24 by the end of the year.
Prayed for church average attendance to continue to increase to 150 by the end of the year.
Prayed for 18 prayer warriors by name
Prayed for 40 church members by name
Praying for the lost in our Salvation group later this morning at church.
Prayed for the (5) personal requests that have been confidentially asked of me to pray.
Prayed forgiveness of any sin I may have committed. I pray for wisdom, guidance and ears to hear and for feet to follow.
Pray for our church to be a house of prayer and the prayer life of the congregation to be elevated.

PRAISES AND BLESSINGS:
Blessed with another group of friends that I got to spend the evening with as we watched "I Can Only Imagine" and had dinner at the Skyline.
Blessed that Dee and Cal might want to be part of the Prayer Planning Team.

BIBLE READING:
1 Corinthians 16
Verses I love and we often need to use and hear:
"13 Keep alert, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong.
 14 Let all that you do be done in love."

BOOK READING:
"Listening for God" by Marilyn Hontz
Even if I/you do not hear from God in your listening time, just basking in His presence is an awesome experience. The book also talked about T.A.W.G 'Time Alone With God'. It can also be broken down into HAWG - Hour Alone With God or DAWG Day Alone With God. The church Marilyn, the author attends promotes those times. Even gives some great tips in an index at the end of the book.  I think this would be such a good book for a Book Class at church. A time when we can just read as much as we get to each class and then discuss and put into practice in our lives.

MY CALL TO ACTION TODAY/MY TIME OF SILENCE NOTES:
My thoughts went to the fact that when people call me a prayer warrior, my first instinct is to say I am no more a prayer warrior than you are!  I am not special ... so as I was silent before the Lord today it made me think that maybe I need to share my prayer life story so people know that I am just like them - there are times I don't want to pray and then that is when I pray harder and God answers and draws me closer into Him and to prayer. How even this morning I did not want to pray and then I asked why - that is like saying I would not have wanted to talk to my husband today ... boy oh boy the enemy is clever with his deceitful ways!
I also thought about how people should be encouraged on Sundays to interrupt the service and really share their testimonies from the week ... Oh how the Holy Spirit needs to be welcomed even more into our midst.

Have a blessed day.