Sharon Sharing God: "FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY

Friday, March 15, 2013

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Prayer

Welcome to "Fan the Flame" Friday.

This is a weekly post that will be "short and sweet" (kinda like me...)

Just a word and a phrase, a sentence or a question...just a little something to "fan the flame" of your creativity!

Today's word: prayer

Why do you think prayer is so important?

What is the biggest impediment to your prayer life?

What is one thing that you are laying before the Lord in prayer at this point in your life?

Let me know what you think!!

"The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results." (James 5:16, NLT)

"The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective."
(James 5:16, NIV)

"The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working."
(James 5:16, ESV)

"This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you…For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." (2 Timothy 1:6-7)

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8 comments:

WandaMarch 15, 2013 at 10:15 AM
Sometimes I'm guilty of attempting to make prayer too complicated. Believing that others do a much better job at than me. But God has given us each access to Him.
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ReneeMarch 15, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Prayer~ talking with God......a way to connect with God. Any time any place!
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Chatty CroneMarch 15, 2013 at 1:26 PM
Prayer is the way to talk with GOD!
Hugs, sandie
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bettyMarch 15, 2013 at 2:54 PM
Prayer is communicating with God :) I think its how his will is done as we lift our prayers up to him. The study I'm doing on prayer has been very fascinating and opening my mind up in new and different ways about it. Hubby's career path is the one thing I'm praying about these days (and son's safety :)

betty
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DeniseMarch 15, 2013 at 4:26 PM
Praying is my sweet time of communication with my Father. My marriage, and my health are things I am praying about right now.
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Janettessage.blogspot.comMarch 16, 2013 at 12:33 PM
My father..age 75, just went through a stroke...through, he is recovering, and he is almost completely deaf..and he looked up at me this past week and said, "Janette, we just don't pray enough. We need to just stop and pray to God about everything, when we do then we see His hand and His answers!" That is prayer...praying for everything, so we see God working and we have a peace that passes all understanding, while we are in situations like my Dad, where He truly doesn't know that the next change in blood pressure won't be the one who takes him home...but he is ready.
My Dad reminded me to pray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mrs. Chrissy TMarch 16, 2013 at 2:41 PM
I just came back from a prayer retreat. I went on my own to have that solitude and time to listen. Prayer is petioning but also listening.

Lovely post.

I am praying for God to help me overcome a bondage of food.
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SharonMarch 20, 2013 at 10:17 PM
Why do you think prayer is so important?

I think prayer is a direct *pipeline* to the Lord. It is a conduit of strength and power. It enables us to tap into the will of God. It's a way for Him to communicate to us. Prayer is proof of a living and loving relationship with the Lord - an intimate conversation between friends.

What is the biggest impediment to your prayer life?

Ahhh, distractions! And sometimes, I just feel like there's so much to pray for that I don't know where to start! Another thing that I battle is this *judging* thing that I do. Instead of just talking to God, sometimes I can think about whether my prayers are faithful enough, or unselfish enough, or long enough.

What is one thing that you are laying before the Lord in prayer at this point in your life?

Probably more than anything, it's my sons. As their adult lives unfold, and as they journey on their own walks of faith, I pray that God will hold them tight. Oh, how I wish I could spare them pain and struggles! But, my prayers reach the ears of God - and that encourages me. He is faithful, and He listens to my cries.

GOD BLESS!
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Anonymous

When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

Emily Freeman

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Friday, March 15, 2013

"FAN THE FLAME" FRIDAY - Prayer

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