37, 4-7, SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS (Scheduled 12/31/2021)
Another year comes to the end. Still there are those who need to mend. Our hope is to send the message that will end their oft felt pain as this world rains down upon us. Again we need Jesus as we look forward, may we be led forward on His path to avoid the world’s wrath.
We need ways of Jesus more than ever and less of the than the ways of the world forever.
As the year 2021 ends let us pray.
Today we have three poems from Living In God’s Rhyme.
CONCLUDING PRAYER (Living In God’s Rhyme, pg 213)
Dear Father in Heaven,
It is not just what you have done,
But what you do every day
Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Lord, I know that in prayer
The words need not rhyme.
You are the rhyme and in me
You have blessed me with your words.
I may not always know what to say,
But I know when I take time to pray
Your Holy Spirit living within me will lead the way
So that through my prayer I will not be led astray.
I thank you Father for my salvation
I thank you for loving me so much
That you sent your Son to die for my sins.
For that I do not know what to say, . . . I love you.
You have taken this wretch of a man
And lifted him up so he may see
All that in you, he can be.
I pray that your presence will never leave.
No, it is not you who will leave.
I pray that it is not me.
Dear Lord, I pray that your word,
The rhymes you have for us,
Will shake this world with your love
So that one day we will all not just see,
But be in Heaven above.
Save us from ourselves.
Take us off the shelves
Where we collect only dust.
Through your Son, Jesus,
I pray that all believe
And receive your grace.
Amen and Amen
Discussion:
PRAY ALWAYS (Living In God’s Rhyme, pg. 170)
I started my day with a prayer
Knowing that I would also receive.
I know that I must always pray for others,
Pray for the needs of my sisters and brothers.
Through my daily prayer I have found
Prayer can be ever mending.
With the many needs that abound
Prayer we should be never ending.
As my thoughts will wander
And my heart does ponder
My first prayer is to Heaven above
That my prayer will reflect his love.
God knows our needs.
Through prayer he feeds
Those in need
As we heed.
We are commanded to pray,
To pray, pray without ceasing.
Asking the Holy Spirit for the words to say
We can experience God’s power releasing.
No, we do not release God’s power.
But through our prayer we do not cower
As we feel the spirit within us,
The compassion that comes from Jesus.
While praying I know that God is with me
As I go through my day, in all I see.
As I prayed for the needs of another
He has blessed me along with the others.
I am in the presence of God
And as he listens I do too.
As I pray I am blessed by God
As all who pray will be too.
Everyone needs a prayer.
Everyone needs to pray.
Reflection on Pray Aways:
Again this is not what I thought I would be writing today. It was two nights before this would be posted, Labor Day evening. It wasn’t a busy day but it wasn’t a wasted day either. I was trying to think...
