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LORD
Thanks for dinner last nite with myles' family. I'm glad it went smoothly. Thanks for being with us in our daily lives, LORD.

Today I'm praying for Zella's connect group: Alex, Cat, Jen, Claire. I know Jen's not going as frequently with all her commitments. Please help her in everyday life, LORD, and in her relationship with Chris. Help her to draw near to you so you can draw near to her. She has a great heart LORD and I thank you for her commitment to coming to church so far from her home. Please help her to make wise choices about her future.

I pray for Cat LORD who is very involved in church activities this year. I know she is helping out with the women's retreat and youth group. I think she is another person who needs help with her daily life - with her family and personal relationships. Cat needs your guidance LORD, you spirit of discernment, so she can make right choices for her future too.

I have prayed for Alex and Claire so these prayers are still the same, that they will know you more as their personal Saviour and as their first love. That they will grow in confidence and become the awesome women that you want them to be. That you would bless their relationships and help them to make wise choices.

For the group as a whole LORD, I pray that they grow closer to you and each other. That the group would meet their needs and help them to learn more about who you really are and the truth about you. So they can start to realise who they are in you. Mostly to know that you want them to enjoy their lives and your plans are to prosper them not to harm them, but to give them hope and a future.

I want them to experience the joy of having their God love them and care for them right now as they are. To know that the struggle is not to become perfect and obey lots of rules of christianity. But to experience an incredible gift given to them freely....so they can reach their full potential and discover their individual purposes which will set their hearts on fire and be more amazing then anything they could ever hope for or imagine!

People lead dissatisfied lives because they haven't discovered their purpose, and try to find happiness in other purposes, but always miss the mark. Until we are living the life you have planned for us, we will always be dissatisfied. The girls need your spirit LORD, to guide them and renew their minds so they can see life with you is not a burden but an awesome journey with the love of their lives.

in your precious name Lord.

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LORD,

Thanks for yet another awesome day. Thanks for letting us catch up with a couple of our girl cousins yesterday.

Today I would like to lift up zee's old work colleagues. Her friend Di and her family and Puspa. I pray for the seeds that zee has sowed into their lives, for your protection of them, so they will have the opportunity to grow and reap a harvest for you.

I ask that you guide zee in whatever role you want her to play in their lives, how to love them. I know that Di, especially, looked to her for advice on her children, so if you still want zee to continue to help them, then please provide her with new opportunities.

Help Di and Puspa to see you through Zella, LORD. To see your love and grace. To show them how real and relevant you are to ordinary people with daily life struggles.

Thanks, Holy Spirit for guiding my prayer request. In my Saviour's name, I pray.

love again

i think i have written on this subject before and here it is again!

why is it so easy for the LORD to love us who are so undeserving...we have all lied, we all deceive, most of us are selfish, self-centred, full of ego, self-righteous. Yet the LORD loves us.

Why then is it so hard for us to love????

I think it's because the LORD can put us first. He truly wants what's best for us. He could turn us into robots, and take away our free will so we would always love and obey, but he never has.

But we make love about us. when we describe why we love someone it generally is about us, because of the way they make us feel, and the things they do for us.

I hope one day I will learn to love without thinking 'what about me' because i know that day still hasn't arrived. Sure I might have a moment like that, but it's drowned by all the million other moments of 'what about me'.

I wonder when I have a child will i be able to love him/her like the LORD. Probably, until they develop a will of their own!

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Lord
how perfect is your timing. Yesterday i thought i would check where i left off on the prayer schedule and start again. And yesterday was the last day of the month i prayed for the people in our lives on our blog.

Today i'm focusing on some of the girls at church - Kirsten, Kirsten, Sharon, Chris, and Belinda. I have no idea what's happening in their lives or the struggles and victories they are going through. But I know you know. I ask that you continue to bless them and help them to build awesome relationships with you. They are amazing women and a real asset to our church.

Thank you LORD for the variety in our church as shown by these women alone - thank you that you're such an incredible master planner and you know who to put along side each other.

Lord, I just want to lift up Sharon's dad. I pray that you would give her an opportunity to witness to him, to bring him to you. Give her the strength to cope with whatever happens LORD. I have already asked you for healing for him and i don't know what his current condition is but I pray that you spirit would be in the midst of this situation, that you would fill Sharon with your love and understanding. Also Sharon's Mum, Lord, please help her. You know the condition of her heart and what she needs. It would be awesome if she found comfort in you, if this gave Sharon's parents an opportunity to know who are and how much you love them.

Thank you LORD. Thank you for hearing our prayers and for loving us so much. For giving us your best, LORD. In Jesus' name. amene

Am I reverent enough?

I was driving into work today and drove past a glorious brick Anglican church and then a similar Catholic church with crosses all over it. They seemed so (yes - conservative), respectful and the word that came to my mind was "reverent".

I wondered about our church (held in a public school hall) and how it's really casual etc.

Then I realised that the 'church institution' is not a sign of reverence.

Living day to day life in a godly manner. Simple interactions with people and showing Gods love. Doing what God wants you to do. That is reverence.

Another lesson concluded in my learnings! A small one...but important I think.