Scripture lesson: | Matt 5:1-12 "The Beatitudes" |
Time to reflect: | How are you a blessed person? When you're feeling your worst, how would Jesus Christ say that you're at your best? |
Moving through the day: | Pray for understanding for how you are a blessed child of God |
Saturday, January 29, 2005
PrayerBits for Sunday
Friday, January 28, 2005
PrayerBits for Saturday
Scripture lesson: | 1 Cor. 1:18-31 "God's Power and Wisdom" |
Time to reflect: | What are the human characteristics that God chooses as important, powerful or wise? Are our human standards different from God's standards? |
Moving through the day: | Pray for God to open your heart to accepting Christ as the only all powerful, important and wise one and accepting others as they are. |
Thursday, January 27, 2005
PrayerBits for Friday
Scripture lesson: | Psalm 15 "Who may abide" |
Time to reflect: | Human beings aren't absolutely sinless. But is your life shaped by what you know of God's character, as God is described in the Bible and as you experience God in the world? |
Moving through the day: | Pray to live a more God-like life. |
PrayerBits for Thursday
Scripture lesson: | Micah 6:1-8 "The Acceptable Offering" |
Time to reflect: | How has God blessed your life? Fortunately, God doesn't require one-for-one repayment for all of this goodness. (It would be an impossible task, anyway.) |
Moving through the day: | Deliberately pray that you will be just, loving and kind in everything you do, out of appreciate for how God would have you be. |
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
PrayerBits for Tuesday
Scripture lesson: | Isaiah 29:13-19 "The day of the Lord" |
Time to reflect: | Are there times in our worship of God that we're just going through the motions, rather than worshiping with sincere devotion from our hearts? Have our devotional practices become routine and less meaningful than they could be? |
Moving through the day: | Pray for God to increase your focus during your devotional time, so that you are praying with a depth that honors God's depth of faithfulness to you. |
Monday, January 24, 2005
PrayerBits for Monday
Scripture lesson: | Psalm 37:7-11 "Be still and wait for the Lord" |
Time to reflect: | In what ways can you practice waiting on God and not fretting over things beyond our control? |
Moving through the day: | Pray a silent prayer of patience and calmness. |
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